In Frankfurt, Bart Veldhuizen explains why giving your bank account to an AI agent is still a terrible idea

With Bart Veldhuizen · 20 July 2026 · Trip 10 🇩🇪

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DISPATCH 21 · FRANKFURT
Bart Veldhuizen, Community Lead, n8n
FRANKFURT — At No-Code Week 2026, n8n’s community lead explains why handing your bank credentials to an AI agent is still a terrible idea — and how the company is racing to build an AI workflow builder that rivals what users already get from Claude.
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Bart Veldhuizen has been building communities for over 20 years, starting with Blender in the early 2000s. He joined n8n as a user, then became community lead. Now he runs a team of six, with a seventh on the way. His view spans open-source culture, commercial community strategy, and the collision of no-code automation with AI agents.
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