A working session on whether Ireland's workforce is growing fast enough for its space-sector ambitions, aimed at turning the recommendations of the Beyond the Horizon report into practical action on skills and training. Organised by the West Regional Skills Forum, bringing together leaders from space companies, higher education, government and enterprise-support agencies. Expect updates on current initiatives across the ecosystem and structured discussion on future collaboration, education and skills investment. 10:30 to 13:30, with a light lunch. Free, at the Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylor's Lane, Dublin 8. Registration is essential and places are limited. Why go: a small, decision-making room for a sector that is real, hiring and short of people. Best for space-company founders and hiring managers, university programme leads and anyone in enterprise support with a stake in deep-tech talent.
Short research showcases and first-hand accounts of assistive technology research across Ireland and Europe, then an open discussion on making research itself accessible: tools researchers use, accessible consent and engagement, and people with lived experience as co-researchers. Run by FreedomTech's CHAT community of practice (a partnership of Enable Ireland and the Disability Federation of Ireland) as part of World Sight Day at TU Dublin and an associated event of Ireland's EU Council presidency. 13:15 to 14:15. Sight and Sound Technology runs an assistive tech exhibition alongside, and a separately registered fireside chat at 17:15 pairs Dr Dympna O'Sullivan (TU Dublin) with Stuart Lawler (Sight and Sound Technology). Free, at the Central Quad, TU Dublin Grangegorman. Request accommodations when you register. Why go: AT users, researchers and developers in one room, with users treated as experts. For accessibility engineers, health-tech founders and researchers.
Online primer for Irish founders on the US visa routes that come up when raising or relocating.
An evening for the people who get paged: incident and reliability practitioners in town for SREcon, gathered in a Grand Canal Dock pub, with an opening talk from John Allspaw. Allspaw is at Adaptive Capacity Labs and was formerly CTO of Etsy. After his talk it is a relaxed social with snacks and drinks. Hosted by Hamed S. for OOPS, the outage ops and incident response group, and sponsored by Uptime Labs, PagerDuty and Elastic. 18:00 to 21:00. Free, at The Ferryman, 35 Sir John Rogerson's Quay. The organisers ask you to RSVP on their Luma page, and warn it may reach capacity. Why go: hearing Allspaw in a pub rather than a keynote hall, the night before SREcon starts, with the incident-response community already in town. For SREs, on-call engineers and engineering managers who own reliability.
An evening for women founders on the two things that decide whether a small business grows: how you fund it in a tough market, and how you use AI tools to save time and scale. Ladies Who Launch, the non-profit for women entrepreneurs, hosts it at Stripe's Dublin office. The line-up includes Eileen O'Mara (Vice Chair, Stripe), Patricia Scanlon (founder of SoapBox Labs and former chair of the Irish government's AI Advisory Council), Mary McKenna (co-founder, Awaken Angels), India Healy O'Connor (Linda AI), Jayne Ronayne (Oac) and Katie Doran (Consello Ireland). Opening fireside chat at 18:10, then a session on finding funding. Doors 17:15, finishes 21:00. Free, at One Wilton Park, Wilton Place, Dublin 2. Ticket sales have ended, so only go if you already have a place. Why go: unusually senior speakers for a free evening, with investors and operators who talk money plainly. For women founders at pre-seed to growth stage.
A relaxed Monday evening of electronics at Tog Hackerspace: bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino or half-finished board and solder, breadboard and debug with people who know the kit. Hosted by Gary T., 19:00 to 21:30, every second Monday. Not a class or a tutorial: a friendly, informal night that mixes absolute beginners who just want to learn with people deep into their own projects. First-time visitors are given a tour of the space. Bring a laptop; Tog's electronics gear is available to use. Free. Tog is now on Kylemore Road, Dublin 12, behind Mr Price and the Bright Lights store, with free parking. Why go: the most welcoming route in Dublin into hands-on electronics, with experienced members happy to look over your circuit. For hardware tinkerers, IoT and embedded beginners, and anyone prototyping a device.
An open evening at Tog Hackerspace for making physical things with CAD software, the laser cutter and 3D printers, with members on hand to help you turn an idea into a printable or cuttable design. Hosted by Louise N., 19:00 to 21:00, every second Monday. Not a taught class: an informal working group of self-directed makers, whether you are a crafter, designer, engineer or hobbyist. Come with your own laptop and something you want to make, or just come to see the tools. Free. Tog is now on Kylemore Road, Dublin 12, in a warehouse behind Mr Price. Why go: the cheapest way in Dublin to get access to fabrication kit and people who know it. Best for hardware founders prototyping enclosures, product designers and makers moving beyond hobby printers.
with Stephane Dudzinski (Program Co-Chair, Crusoe AI) · Philip Rowlands (Program Co-Chair, Jane Street)
USENIX's European site-reliability conference: three days of deeply technical talks on SRE, systems engineering and running complex distributed systems at scale, with a culture of critical thought that pitches to newcomers and decades-long veterans alike. The programme is co-chaired by Stephane Dudzinski (Crusoe AI) and Philip Rowlands (Jane Street). Runs 13 to 15 October at the Convention Centre Dublin; the full programme is on the USENIX site. Late registration is US$1,300 (US$950 for students), with discounts for USENIX members and a hardship rate for those who are unemployed, retired or without employer support. The cancellation deadline has passed. Why go: the most serious reliability conference to come to Europe, and this year it is on Dublin's doorstep, with its evening fringe of meetups across the city. For SREs, platform and infrastructure engineers, and the managers who own uptime.
A local enterprise forum at ACE Enterprise Park on available supports, plus practical tips on getting a small brand visible online.
Ireland's data, analytics and AI community in one building for a day: keynotes on a 2,000-seat main stage, a use-case stage for real-world deployments, sector-led sessions for executives, and deep-dive AI Labs for technical people. Run by the Analytics Institute, now in its 11th year and spread across three floors of the Convention Centre Dublin. The organisers expect more than 2,000 attendees and 30-plus speakers; the full agenda is on the Analytics Institute's own summit site. Doors 8:30, programme 9:30 to 17:00. Paid tickets through Eventbrite, with no refunds. Paid parking on site. Why go: the one day each year when most of Ireland's enterprise data and AI teams are under the same roof, which makes it as useful for meeting peers and hiring managers as for the talks. Best for data leaders, analytics engineers and anyone selling into Irish enterprise data teams.
A half-day vendor training course on Matterport 3D capture — camera operation, scan workflow and publishing the resulting digital twins.
Canon Ireland opens its Dublin customer experience centre for a side-by-side comparison of its professional print range.
A hands-on follow-up for developers implementing the PDP-Connect standard.
Jonathan Greechan, co-founder and CEO of the Founder Institute, on how founders think and why mindset rather than luck separates those who take the leap. Online.
Four builders walk through what they shipped on PDPP and where it got hard. Online, from the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Ireland community.
Matar Peles, Field CTO at Port, on turning AI coding agents into an automated end-to-end delivery pipeline — context layers, factory agents and guardrails. Online.
An evening of networking at Neary's for people working or researching in sustainability and innovation in Dublin.
A vendor-hosted happy hour for people in town for SREcon: food, drinks and conversation about observability, reliability and running analytics at scale, with no slides and no agenda. Hosted by the ClickHouse team through the ClickHouse Ireland user group. ClickHouse is the open-source columnar database for real-time analytics and the engine behind ClickStack, its open-source observability stack, so expect plenty of its engineers and users in the room. 18:30 to 20:30, after the first day of the conference. Free, at Charlotte Quay Bar and Restaurant on Ringsend Road. Meetup RSVPs do not reserve a place: space is limited and entry is by approval on ClickHouse's Luma page. Why go: an easy way to meet SREcon speakers and attendees without a conference badge, and to talk to the people building one of the fastest-growing observability back ends. For SREs and data engineers already in the SREcon orbit.
Tog's weekly open house for anyone who wants to see the space and what members are building.
A parents' evening at Belvedere College on what children's online lives actually look like now — platforms, risks and what schools and families can realistically do.
with Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President, European Commission) · Micheál Martin TD (Taoiseach, Government of Ireland) · Peter Burke TD (Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Government of Ireland)
Ireland's government-convened AI summit, held at the RDS as part of the country's EU Council presidency. Three strategic themes: applied AI and sectoral value creation, the infrastructure underpinning Europe's AI capacity, and the frontier opportunity in agentic and quantum-enabled systems. Speakers include European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Commissioners Michael McGrath and Ekaterina Zaharieva, moderated by Deloitte Ireland CEO Harry Goddard and the FT's John Thornhill.
A hands-on, no-code workshop on building location-based augmented-reality experiences with Lureo.
Dahua Surveillance Training (DHSA-VSS)
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LF Decentralized Trust Webinar with DSR: Automated Supply Chain Accountability with Computer Vision & Ledger Technology Join us for a webinar with DSR Corporation, an LF Decentralized Trust General Member and maintainer of multiple open source projects, to explore how computer vision and distributed ledger technology can automate accountability across modern supply chains.
FabricOps is an LF Decentralized Trust Lab that provides a Kubernetes operator and CLI for provisioning and operating multi-organization Hyperledger Fabric networks from declarative, Fablo-style configuration. In this meetup, Pereowei Daniel will introduce the motivation behind FabricOps, especially the gap between local Fabric development with tools like Fablo and production-oriented Kubernetes deployment.
An unfiltered conversation hosted by the Marketing Society of Ireland at The Church about career growth, confidence and workplace realities in the marketing industry.
Strive Networking's Dublin mixer, tech vertical. Open pay-to-attend networking at Old Fashioned Sam's.
A recurring open networking evening for people working in tech and business in Dublin.
A recurring open networking evening with a blockchain and Web3 slant, run alongside the same organiser's general tech night.
Clarity Locums runs a training session on the TouchStore pharmacy dispensary software.
Tog Hackerspace and Lovelace Space run part one of a hands-on session on building pockets into garments — practical making at Tog's Kylemore Road workshop, open to anyone who wants to learn the technique.
Microsoft's monthly enablement session on deploying Copilot securely. Vendor-run product enablement.
A practical cyber-security awareness session at Ballyroan Library covering the scams and account-takeover tactics currently in circulation, and the handful of settings that stop most of them.
A UCD Global session on digital storytelling and online communication in higher education.
This is a second event in a series about the Talent Angels mentorship project. Skills are the currency of talent. In the age of AI, skill demand shifts faster than any individual, educator, or employer can track, making it critical for humans and AI systems alike to know what to learn, how to develop it, and when it becomes relevant.
AI is changing how we build products, but what does it mean for one of the most important parts of product management: making good decisions? 🎤 Tor Svendsen will share his experience as a Product Manager and explore why human judgment still matters. AI can be incredibly good at making individual decisions, but product management is rarely about one decision.
Tog's locksport session: physical security, how locks actually fail, and supervised practice on the hackerspace's own collection. A fixture of the Dublin security community's calendar.
A casual after-work meetup at The Crafty Fox for people working in tech in Dublin — no talks, no agenda, just conversation with other engineers, designers and operators.
ESB opens its research and development pipeline at its Dublin head office — grid technology, energy data and the engineering behind decarbonisation. Strong cleantech signal.
BlockW convenes a lunchtime session at Trinity Business School, part of the Digital Talent EU Days Forum, on whether large-scale reskilling can realistically close Europe's ICT skills gap. The panel, "AI in Financial Services: From Potential to Practice", covers implementing AI in practice, governance, customer service and risk, and bridging policy with delivery. Moderated by Owen Lewis (Global Head of AI for Banking and Capital Markets, KPMG), with Trevor Fitzpatrick (Central Bank of Ireland), Urja Pawar (BNY Mellon) and Joanne Seery (Marsh McLennan).
FREE careers event for students u0026 recent graduates to network with fantastic graduate employers!
Selected teams from the Superteam Ireland community pitch the projects they built for the Colosseum Hackathon, competing live for a $5,000 prize pool. Hosted by Superteam Ireland, the Irish chapter of the global Superteam network, at Dogpatch Labs in the CHQ Building. Expect live pitches from Irish builders working on Solana, food and drinks, and time to meet the teams. The organiser's own page gives the pitches as 14:00 to 17:00, and an after-party follows at Urban Brewing. Free, and registration is open with no approval step. Why go: the clearest look you will get in one afternoon at what Ireland's crypto builders have actually shipped, judged in public rather than described on a panel. Best for Web3 developers, early-stage founders and anyone scouting Irish Solana projects.
The Royal Irish Academy is pleased to announce that the 2026 Hamilton Lecture will be delivered by Fields Medallist Professor James Maynard.
Tog's deliberately AI-free hack night — bring a project, work on it alongside other people, and talk to someone about it. Open to non-members.
An informal Saturday-morning gathering for Dublin designers in Chapters on Parnell Street — portfolio chat, work-in-progress and job-market talk over coffee.
DesignBrew hosts a fireside chat on what AI is actually doing to design work and design careers. In-person at Baseline with a sizeable confirmed turnout.
An afternoon meet-up for entrepreneurs at Newmarket Yards hosted by Brave & Abroad — connection and peer support for people building a business.