Dublin — Week of 24 Aug 2026

Dublin's long-running information-security community meets in the Abbey Room of the Camden Court Hotel for an evening of talks and conversation. Doors from 18:30, first talk around 19:00, opening with a session on cyber deterrence and staying a step ahead of attackers. Dub|Sec draws a mix of security engineers, blue- and red-team practitioners, and people in adjacent infrastructure and platform roles — informal, free, and one of the most consistent security fixtures in the city.

AI Tinkerers Dublin returns for a code-first demo night built for people actively shipping with LLMs, agents and generative AI. Expect five-minute lightning demos of real, in-progress systems — architecture choices, orchestration patterns, evaluation harnesses and the failure modes builders actually hit — followed by hands-on, no-pitch networking and ad-hoc Science Fair demos. Marquee sponsor is Kiro (AWS's agentic development environment), with Baseline hosting the venue. Attendance is screened and capped at 150 to keep the room full of practitioners; bring a laptop if you want to walk peers through your stack. One of the strongest recurring rooms in Dublin for engineers, researchers and technical founders working on production AI.

An informal evening for founders, builders and tech workers with an itch to take a risk — grab a slice and meet your people over pizza and good conversation. Hosted by Tech in a Circle at Google Dockmill on Barrow Street, it's a friendly, no-agenda room for swapping ideas, comparing notes on the founder journey and making genuine connections in Dublin's startup scene.

A Saturday-morning working session for data engineers and analytics practitioners, run by Dublin's Data Science and Engineering Club. The headline talk is a walkthrough of what's new in DuckDB v2.0 from Krzysztof Lechowski, followed by a second speaker slot and an open projects-and-networking block. Bring a charged laptop — this is a hands-on coding session rather than a lecture, and the format suits anyone working with modern in-process analytics engines.

Daytona, Give(a)Go and Baseline bring Dublin builders together for a one-day HackSprint at the edge of model training and agent infrastructure. The brief is deliberately tight: take a model or agent, give it a measurable task, and make it improve. Teams fine-tune small models on focused datasets, build evaluation loops, train agents with reinforcement learning, or use isolated sandboxes to run many experiments in parallel. Working systems and visible results over slide decks. Note that RSVPs are handled on the Give(a)Go site, not on Meetup.