The region's flagship AI governance summit arrives in Dublin for four days of workshops, training and main conference sessions. With 90+ speakers and 700+ professionals navigating the EU AI Act's implications, this is the room where European AI policy gets shaped.
with Brian Pane (Open Source Developer (ex-Roblox, Pinterest, Dropbox, Facebook), Independent)
Brian Pane — who spent his career leading networking and infrastructure software at Roblox, Pinterest, Dropbox, and Facebook before retiring to open source Rust — brings two technical talks: one on testing unsafe Rust code, one on hardware-aware performance optimization using his work on zlib-rs. Substance from someone who has shipped at scale.
Dublin's favourite product management un-conference: community-driven, participant-led, and genuinely free. The format makes for an unusually high-signal room of practitioners who turn up to contribute, not just consume.
The Dublin MongoDB User Group goes deep on search — Apache Lucene fundamentals to Atlas Search to semantic search with vector embeddings. A structured evening with practitioner war stories and a skill badge you can add to LinkedIn. Good room for backend engineers and anyone building search into their applications.
Dublin's regular data pub meetup: informal, recurring, and exactly the kind of room where practitioners talk shop without jargon. Free, ticketless — just turn up.
Dublin's weekly tech afterwork social — free, recurring, and low-friction. Show up, find the room, meet people building things.