The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the world's leading electronic music conference and the biggest club festival for the many electronic sub-genres on the planet. The event offers a full program of daytime conferences, including interactive workshops, mentoring sessions, technical demonstrations and in-depth round-table discussions, alongside a nighttime music festival featuring more than 220 events over five days in 52 venues around the city. Each year, the ADE attracts over 3,000 business professionals and 140,000 festival visitors – including 30,000 tourists - from 62 countries.

Over the last 17 years, the ADE has grown from a three-day event largely focussed on dance music into a platform for every imaginable kind of electronic music spread over five days. The event kicks off on Wednesday with ADE Playground and ADE University, the Music & Bits conference program, as well as a full daytime conference program at the Felix Meritis and the Dylan Hotel.