Dublin — Week of 19 Oct 2026

In-person only at the Portmarnock Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, D13 V2X7

with Stephen Dowling (CEO, TrialView) · Barry Cahir (Partner, Beauchamps LLP) · Lydia Bunni BL (Moderator, )

A Dublin International Disputes Week partner event on how AI is being used in arbitration, with Stephen Dowling of TrialView and Barry Cahir of Beauchamps, moderated by Lydia Bunni BL.

Join us for our inaugural Effectiveness Conference on Tuesday, 20th October.

A full-day working session at Croke Park from CeADAR, Ireland's Centre for Applied AI, recognised as an Associated Event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The agenda is aimed at people who have to implement AI governance rather than comment on it: how Ireland's National AI Strategy balances adoption with responsible-AI frameworks, a deep dive on the EU AI Act and the toolkits, standards and supports available, industry case studies from SMEs, startups and larger tech companies, and research from the MANOLO project. Speakers come from government, agencies, innovation hubs, enterprises and public-sector bodies in Ireland and across Europe. Lunch and networking included. 08:30 to 14:30. Why go: the most practical AI Act room in Dublin this month, with the agency that funds a lot of Irish applied AI in the chair. Best for founders, CTOs and public-sector leads who need a compliance plan.

A full-day workshop at the Dylan Hotel on securing AI systems — threat models, controls and practical steps for teams deploying models in production.

DCU's digital humanities seminar series, run out of Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge — computational methods applied to language and cultural data.

A short-form ideation session at UCD's O'Connor Centre — teams take a problem from brief to pitch in under two hours, with feedback from the room.

A recurring Dublin meet-up for digital marketers. Venue announced to ticket holders.

Important Details This event will be ONLINE using Teams. not in person! Topic Summary A software-as-a-service offering such as Microsoft Fabric offers a fixed cost per month, making budgeting much easier. That should be the end of the conversation, but it's actually only the beginning - how do you make the most of the capacity units you get with the fixed price?

A hands-on evening for QA and test engineers on what AI actually changes in testing, hosted by BrowserStack in Workday's Smithfield office. The format is a short session on AI-powered quality engineering followed by a two-hour hackathon: generate test suites from PRDs, Jira stories and screenshots, build a working automation workflow on the night, and look at cutting test maintenance debt. Doors 18:00, briefing at 19:00, build until roughly 20:45, then networking and snacks. Bring a laptop. Free, registration through Meetup. Why go: most AI-in-testing talks stay at the slideware level. This one makes you build something before you leave, with other test leads and SDETs in the room to compare approaches. Best for QA engineers, test leads and automation engineers.

A public lecture from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies on the physical layer almost nobody thinks about: the fibre-optic cables on the seabed that carry essentially all intercontinental internet traffic. The talk runs from the first transatlantic telegraph message sent from Valentia Island in 1858 through to today's global deep-sea fibre network, and on to a newer use for it. The same cables that move data can be read as sensors, picking up earthquakes, ocean temperature and other signals about a changing planet. One hour, in the basement lecture room at the Royal Society of Antiquaries on Merrion Square, free to attend. Why go: cable infrastructure is the part of the stack engineers depend on daily and rarely see, and Ireland sits on a landing point for a lot of it. Best for infrastructure and network engineers, and anyone who likes knowing how the pipes actually work.

Tog Hackerspace's weekly open evening: a tour of the workshop, the tools and the projects in progress, for anyone curious about Dublin's volunteer-run hackerspace.

Vendor software training for locum pharmacy staff.

A full-day summit on sustainability across Irish healthcare delivery and procurement.

A parallel strategic session at EIF 2026 on moving consumer policy from protection to participation, with sector experts.

Dublin's Shopify community evening at the Liberties Suite in Aloft Dublin City, 1 Mill Street, expecting over a hundred merchants, developers, agency people and ecommerce leads. The format is a networking session followed by a panel with voices from across the Shopify ecosystem: merchants on what has actually worked, and people building brands, agencies and apps on the platform. There is a merchant giveaway from Slash Themes, and an informal afterparty in a nearby pub. 18:00 to 21:00 on Thursday 22 October. The listing showed twenty seats left at time of writing. Why go: Ireland's Shopify ecosystem is large and mostly invisible between editions of this meetup; it is the one room where merchants and the agencies serving them are in the same place. Best for ecommerce operators, Shopify developers and app builders.

A session on how the EU AI Act's regulatory sandboxes are meant to work in practice, and what they mean for teams shipping AI systems in Europe. Run by the Dublin AI governance community.

The 2026 Women in STEM Awards recognise the people and projects advancing science, technology, engineering and maths in Ireland, over an evening ceremony at the Round Room.

with Shivvani Seyth (Go-To-Market Strategy & Revenue Growth Manager, GoSales Solutions)

An evening for people with a side project that works and no customers yet, at the NYX Hotel on Portobello Harbour. Shivvani Seyth of GoSales Solutions gives the main talk on finding your first ten customers: what converts, what does not, and how to make it repeatable. She has spent over ten years in B2B go-to-market and revenue operations and built the revenue function from scratch at three companies. Doors 18:30, talk at 19:00, then open floor for the room to meet each other. No company, team or audience required, early-stage ideas welcome. Free. Why go: Dublin has plenty of rooms for people who have raised and few for people stuck at zero revenue. This is the unglamorous distribution conversation. Best for solo builders and side-project founders about to launch.

Online session on how Dublin creators are actually making money from their audiences.

Online workshop on applying AI tools to everyday work, run by the ODSC AI Dublin group.

CIOB's Irish construction conference — CPD, industry outlook and networking for construction leaders.

A free digital-hub session at Palmerstown Library on staying secure online — current scam patterns, passwords and two-factor authentication, and what to do after a breach.

with Catherine Naughton (Director (moderator), European Disability Forum) · Maxine Williams (VP of Accessibility, Meta) · Eoin Mulligan (Trusted AI Advisor, Microsoft) + 2 more

The European Disability Forum brings accessibility leads from four of the largest technology companies into one Dublin room to talk about what actually gets built. It runs alongside EDF's board meeting in the city. Catherine Naughton of EDF moderates, with Maxine Williams, VP of Accessibility at Meta; Eoin Mulligan, Trusted AI Advisor at Microsoft; Shadi Abou-Zahra, Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager at Amazon; and Rachel Bleakley, Programme Manager at Google. Members of the disability movement join them to set out the barriers they hit and the innovations that help. 16:00 to 19:00, closing with networking. In person only: the organiser states online attendance is not available, and places are extremely limited. EDF runs registration itself, not the usual Irish host. Why go: accessibility calls at Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are normally made a long way from the people they land on, and this is a rare room where both sides sit at one table. Best for product and design people shipping consumer software, and anyone in assistive tech.

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.

Total station setting-out and surveying training at Hitechniques' Rathcoole facility, tailored to each trainee's requirements.

A hands-on Tog workshop on assembling a working satellite ground station — antenna, SDR receiver and the software to decode what comes down. Build it on the day and take the setup home.

A full day of amateur radio at Dublin's volunteer-run hackerspace: live radio demos, callsign patches, advanced soldering and talks, rolling into TOG's open social and pizza night.

The Dublin Linux Community's monthly informal pub meetup.

An afternoon of vintage computing and classic radio tinkering at TOG, the Dublin hackerspace.