Dublin — Week of 2 Nov 2026

A site visit to Equinix's DB5x data centre in Dublin, organised by CIGRE Ireland, the Irish national committee for power systems engineering. 10:00 to 16:00, free.

The national final of Junior Chamber International Ireland's Creative Young Entrepreneur competition. Finalists are aged 18 to 40 and all run real trading businesses. Each gets three minutes to pitch a panel of judges, then takes live questions. Guest arrival and networking from 16:00, programme from 16:30, at TU Dublin's Greenway Hub on the Grangegorman campus. Alongside the pitches there are short talks on entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership, then the awards ceremony. The winner represents Ireland at the European CYE final at the JCI European Conference in the Netherlands in 2027. Hosted by JCI Dublin. Free, refreshments provided. Why go: a room of founders who are already trading, pitching under time pressure to judges who push back. More useful than a panel if you want to see how Irish early-stage businesses are positioning themselves right now. Best for early-stage founders and the people who coach or back them.

with Dr Anila Mjeda (Quantum information security module, MTU) · Dr Felix Binder (M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology; European Quantum Academy, Trinity College Dublin) · Dr Venkatesh Kannan (Quantum learning pathways, ICHEC / Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet)

Second in Quantum Ireland's techBREK quantum series, run with Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet: a breakfast session on the skills pipeline behind Irish quantum research, and the courses now open to people who want into the field. The final agenda has three presentations. Dr Anila Mjeda on a quantum information security module available from MTU. Dr Felix Binder on Trinity College Dublin's M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology, open to both students and working professionals, and on the newly formed European Quantum Academy. Dr Venkatesh Kannan on quantum learning pathways built through Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet with ICHEC and the University of Galway, at both business and technical level. 8.30am to 10am at the Trinity Innovation Hub, 4 Grand Canal Quay, Eircode D02 HR22. Free. The organiser asks attendees to navigate by the Eircode, and to release a ticket if they cannot come - the event is running a waiting list. Why go: this is the main room in Ireland where the quantum research side and the hiring side are in the same place, and the agenda is now squarely about routes in. Best if quantum skills, recruitment or retraining are your problem.

A lunchtime seminar in DCU's Digital Humanities series, organised by Dr Brian O Raghallaigh of Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, at the library on DCU's St Patrick's Campus. Free, 13:00 to 14:00.

A PDA Ireland session hosted at Takeda on how AI is reshaping technical and regulated-industry careers — which skills hold their value, which are commoditising, and how to plan the next move.

Women in AI Ireland and PyData Ireland run a joint panel and breakout session at Squarespace House on how you actually check whether an AI system is working as intended. Four lenses, each with a panellist: product and engineering (what 'good' looks like, testing and monitoring), governance and policy (who owns the decision and the risk), legal and regulatory (data, transparency, obligations when you deploy), and finance (what AI actually costs and how to budget for it). The panel is followed by an interactive breakout rather than a Q&A queue. Free, hosted and powered by Squarespace. Why go: the EU AI Act turns these four conversations into one job, and most teams are currently having them separately. Best for ML engineers, data leads, and anyone who will be asked to sign off on an AI system.

with Surabhi Agarwal (Founder, The Charisma Coach)

November meetup of the Dublin Entrepreneurs group. Guest speaker Surabhi Agarwal, founder of The Charisma Coach and a senior management consultant at KPMG Ireland, talks about personal branding and first impressions for founders, with a live colour analysis demo. Tuesday 3 November, 18:30 to 20:30, J.R. Mahon's, Burgh Quay. Free, RSVP on Meetup.

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.

NCAD's portfolio workshop for prospective product and interaction design students — what the college looks for, how to structure the work, and feedback from staff on the day.

Week one of a six-week introductory AI course at Ballyroan Library, Rathfarnham, delivered by Jane Gill and provided by DDLETB. Free, 12:15 to 14:15.

with Oscar Diez (, European Commission)

Talk by Dr Oscar Diez of the European Commission on the forthcoming Quantum Act, the quantum technology platforms, the challenges of scaling quantum computing and the European quantum ecosystem, with a focus on Ireland and opportunities for students and early-career researchers. Wednesday 4 November, 18:00 to 20:00, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin.

Platform Engineers Dublin on what an internal platform has to provide before agentic engineering workflows are safe to run on it — isolation, observability and a credible permission model.

with Juarez Barbosa Jnr (Sr. Principal Java Developer Evangelist, Oracle)

Rust Dublin's 263rd meetup, at tcube on O'Connell Street, on the new native Rust driver for Oracle Database. Juarez Barbosa Jnr of Oracle walks through rust-oracledb, a pure Rust thin driver that talks the Oracle Net protocol directly with no external dependencies. The session goes from installing the driver and basic authentication to running queries, connection pooling for applications that need scalable access, and a practical introduction to AI Vector Search. He has over twenty years in the field, previously leading Azure developer relations at Microsoft. Booking is through rustdublin.org as well as Meetup. Free, 18:15. Why go: a 263-edition meetup is a real community, not a launch event, and this is a first look at a driver that removes the C dependency Rust teams have been working around. Best for Rust developers and backend engineers on Oracle estates.

with Damien Roche (Co-Founder, Irish Tax Hub) · Katrin Van Krause (Co-Founder, InDance Wellness & Dance Studio)

Founder stories evening from Rebel Dublin. Damien Roche (Irish Tax Hub, 600+ clients in 14 months after leaving Deloitte) and Katrin Van Krause (InDance Wellness & Dance Studio) talk about leaving standard business models behind. Agenda: meet and greet 18:30, panel 19:00, Q&A 19:45, networking from 20:00. Wednesday 4 November, NYX Hotel Dublin Portobello. Free.

Business Post Experiences' annual decision-makers forum, convening what the organiser describes as 400 of the state's most influential business leaders, policymakers and senior economists. Six focus themes: Technology and AI, EU Presidency and Ireland, Trade and Tariffs, Infrastructure for Economic Resilience, Energy and Defence, and Capital Markets, Corporate Tax and FDI Strategy. Confirmed speakers include Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance, on Budget 2026 in context; Daniel McConnell, Editor of the Business Post; and Denis O'Brien on The Ireland of Tomorrow. VENUE UNRESOLVED: the organiser's own page gives two different venues and publishes no start time. Check the registration page before travelling.

Ireland's pharma and medtech manufacturing community gathers at Leopardstown — automation, digital validation and the technology stack behind a sector that employs tens of thousands here.

Ireland's lab and cleanroom conference and exhibition returns to the Leopardstown Pavilion — instrumentation, controlled environments and the suppliers serving Irish life-sciences manufacturing.

with Dr Maria Farrell (Keynote speaker, undefined)

A day on internet policy run by the .IE Domain Registry, now in its second year. Registration opens at 09:30 and the programme runs to 16:00 at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire. Dr Maria Farrell opens with a keynote called Rewilding the Internet, on how a handful of platforms came to dominate every layer of the stack and what restoring diversity and resilience would take. The rest of the day is panels and discussion on online policy, with the full agenda published on the registration page. Free, in person, six hours. Why go: the registry that runs Ireland's domain space convenes this, so the room is infrastructure operators, regulators and researchers rather than vendors. Best for founders whose product depends on platform rules, and for anyone working on policy, trust and safety, or internet infrastructure.

Dublin's talent and HR community on AI in hiring — what the tooling actually changes in a recruitment process, and what remains stubbornly human.

The November edition of this monthly, ticketless data and analytics meetup on the second floor of The Lord Edward. Free, 18:30 to 20:30, no registration needed.

Dublin Dataviz follows its Dublin Tech Week workshop with an unconference at The Digital Hub on Thomas Street. There is no fixed agenda and no speaker list. Attendees set the sessions on the night and the format runs on what the room collectively knows rather than one person presenting to the rest. The group is explicit that this is a deliberate break from its usual talk-plus-Q&A evening and that the normal format returns afterwards. Places are limited and there is a EUR 5 charge, which goes entirely on pizza. Drinks in Arthur's afterwards. Why go: unconferences work when the attendees are good, and this group's are - analysts, designers and researchers who argue about chart choices for a living. Best for anyone who makes charts other people have to act on.

Informal meet-up for scientists, clinicians and business people who want to set up a biotech company. Thursday 5 November, 19:30 to 21:00, The Swan Bar, York Street. Free, RSVP on Meetup.

ComReg, Ireland's communications regulator, opens its annual stakeholder breakfast to the sector it regulates. The stated subject is the significant changes coming to the digital and communications sectors over the next several years - the regulator's own read rather than a vendor's. Three hours at The Marker Hotel on Grand Canal Square, 8am to 11am, built around a keynote and a panel discussion. ComReg has not published who is speaking. You register your interest rather than buy a ticket, and no price is shown on the page. Why go: the regulator setting out its direction in person, with the people it regulates in the room. Best for anyone at a telecoms operator, ISP or digital business whose plans depend on Irish spectrum or communications policy.

A full-day Design Skillnet programme on building influence and making better design decisions — pitched at designers who want to be harder to replace as AI tooling spreads.

with Shiven Moodley (Session on tokenisation across TradFi and DeFi, )

Superteam Ireland's weekly Talent Hub co-working day at Dogpatch Labs, built this week around a session on tokenisation. Shiven Moodley walks through how tokenisation is opening new ways to build and manage wealth across traditional finance and DeFi, aimed at practitioners working across both. Doors open 9.30am and co-working runs all day. Lunch at 1pm, Shiven's session at 2pm, close from 5pm. Hosted by Superteam Ireland, the Irish chapter of the global Superteam network, at Dogpatch Labs in the CHQ Building on Custom House Quay. Free, open registration on Luma. Why go: Dublin's Solana and wider Web3 builders treat these Fridays as their standing room, so the day is worth more than the talk. Come for the co-working and the people; the 2pm session is framed around investing rather than building.

A creative-technology session on generative AI, horror design and how recommendation algorithms manufacture dread. Unusual, and squarely in the design-meets-AI space.

The final GEC AI Forum event of the year - a builder-first session for AI founders, developers and product creators, explicitly not a sales gallery. Opens with an AI Demo Deep Dive: a curated line-up of AI startups showing live product demos and talking only about the build - what worked, what failed and the engineering problems they had to solve. Then a panel, From Proof of Concept to Payment, on turning a working prototype into repeatable revenue, followed by open networking. Ninety minutes at the Guinness Enterprise Centre on Taylor's Lane, 12.30pm to 2pm. Tickets are limited. No speakers are named yet and the organiser has not published a ticket price, so check the registration page before travelling. Why go: the demo-then-revenue pairing is the gap most Dublin AI events skip - you see the build, then hear what it took to get paid for it. Best for AI founders and engineers with something working who need the commercial half.

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.

A ticketed small-group dinner for entrepreneurs run by BarCada, one of a rolling series of dates at a changing Dublin restaurant. 19:00 to 22:00. Paid; the face price is not published on the listing page.

An afternoon on AI, Atlassian Rovo and changing ways of working, run by the Dublin Atlassian Community for around 120 technology professionals. Main-stage talks and demos run alongside two smaller hands-on AI workshops, with parallel session rounds, breaks for networking, and pizza and drinks at the end. Free, capacity limited, RSVP via the organiser's LinkedIn event page. Speaker lineup not yet announced.

A paid one-day GPS and GNSS training course for surveyors and construction engineers, run by Hitechniques at its Rathcoole premises on the Dublin outskirts. Practical equipment training rather than a talks or networking event. No price is published on the registration page.

A full Saturday of building with Devin, the AI software engineer from Cognition. You bring an idea, side project or backlog, give Devin real tasks, steer it and aim to ship something that works by the end of the day. Hosted by Give(a)Go, the Dublin builder community behind Dublin AI Week, at Baseline in the Liberties. Doors and team formation at 11:00, building from 12:00, lunch at 13:00, demos at 16:15, close at 17:00. Every builder gets $200 in Devin credits and food is provided. Come solo or in a team of up to four. Registration is free but needs host approval, and they ask that you only apply if you can stay the full day. Bring a laptop and a GitHub account. Why go: a rare full day of hands-on agent building with the vendor's own credits, in the room of Ireland's dedicated pre-seed fund. Best for developers and technical founders who want to find out how far an AI engineer can actually get on a real backlog.