Dublin — Week of 9 Nov 2026

A one-hour lunchtime keynote on the ethics of AI in healthcare, hosted by the UCD Institute for Discovery on the UCD campus in Dublin 4. The talk, "AI Ethics: Non-Negotiables for Patient Care," looks at health equity, governance, and how the patient-clinician relationship shifts as AI enters care. The speaker is Dr. Khulood Alsayegh, Head of Clinical Standards and Guidelines at the Dubai Health Authority, trained at the Royal College of Surgeons and Harvard Medical School. She is the first certified AI Lead Ethical Assessor in healthcare in the Middle East and Africa and sits on the UAE's National Committee for AI Regulation, with two decades in clinical and regulatory leadership. In person on campus, free, 13:00 to 14:00. Why go: a concentrated hour on AI governance in medicine from a regulator who helps write the standards. Best for clinicians, health-tech builders and anyone working on AI assurance.

An Irish Design Week session at the Design Tower on Pearse Street — talks and studio access across product, graphic and interaction design practice in Ireland.

Session two of UCD Entrepreneurship's Wicked Problems student consultancy series, in the Shackleton Lounge at the UCD Innovation Academy. Students work in teams on an open-ended organisational problem. Free, 15:15 to 17:00.

HackerX's Dublin recruiting event, employer ticket — face-to-face interview rounds between hiring companies and local developers.

Tog's electronics evening — soldering, circuit debugging, PCB design and microcontroller work, with the hackerspace's benches and more experienced members on hand.

Tog's maker evening: supervised access to the laser cutter and 3D printers for whatever you are building, with help on CAD and machine setup.

A fast-format night of interaction-design talks from IxDA Dublin: twelve speakers, twenty slides each, fifteen seconds a slide, PechaKucha-style. Ireland's interaction and service designers share work and the design problems they are wrestling with, under the banner "Defuse - Design for Use." Held at The Sugar Club on Leeson Street, run by IxDA Dublin with Service Design Ireland, Design Brew and Dublin UX, and hosted by Patrick Mooney. 19:00 to 22:00. This is not a ticketed event and it is free, but it is popular: an RSVP on Meetup does not guarantee entry, so arrive early. More at defuse.ixd.ie. Why go: the design community's end-of-year showcase, and one of the better rooms in Dublin for UX and product designers to see a lot of real work fast and meet the people behind it.

Zyte's annual Extract Summit comes to Dublin for two days on web data extraction - crawling, parsing and the engineering around keeping extraction pipelines running. The organiser describes it as insights, networking and hands-on workshops, with 10+ talks per edition. It runs 10 and 11 November at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel on Golden Lane, 8am to 4pm both days. Zyte pitches it at data professionals and web scraping developers rather than a general AI audience. No speaker line-up and no ticket price are published yet, and refunds close seven days before the event, so check the registration page before booking. Why go: Dublin gets very few rooms aimed squarely at people who run crawlers and data pipelines in production. Best for data engineers and developers who maintain extraction at scale.

Zyte's web-data conference brings its eighth annual edition to Dublin for two days at the Radisson Blu Royal on Golden Lane: the engineering and legal realities of web scraping and large-scale data extraction, a niche with very few dedicated events anywhere. Run by Zyte, the Dublin-headquartered company behind Scrapy. 8am to 4pm on each of the two days, 10 and 11 November. Paid, with ticket tiers on the summit site; the speaker programme was not final at the time of listing. Why go: the people who run production scraping infrastructure almost never get a room of their own, and this is the one where compliance, anti-bot countermeasures and pipeline reliability get discussed by people doing it at scale rather than selling it. Best for data engineers, platform teams and anyone whose product depends on third-party web data.

Join us for the UX book club on Tuesday, June 9, where we’ll chat about the book Click: How to Make What People Want by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky . //ABOUT THE BOOK // A practical playbook for starting projects the right way, the books helps teams get clear on what they're building, why it's different, and whether anyone actually wants it - before they've wasted months going in the wrong direction.

A bold, practical day for project u0026 portfolio managers — built around women's voices, open to every ally serious about the craft.

A one-day in-person community day on Azure, AI and GitHub at Microsoft's Dublin campus at One Microsoft Court in Leopardstown, run by the Microsoft Azure Community User Group. 10am to 4.30pm. The agenda had not been published at the time of listing - the organisers say it is to be confirmed - and no speakers are named yet, so what you get is a full day on the Microsoft cloud and developer stack without a programme to judge it by. In-person only, no online option. Why go: community days at a vendor's own campus usually pull in the local field engineers, which is the cheapest way to get a real answer about something you are running in production. Go if you work in Azure or GitHub day to day and want the people behind it in the room; wait for the agenda if you need specific sessions.

Online session walking through how to classify an AI system under the EU AI Act.

Ninety minutes in Stripe's Dublin office building something an AI agent can pay to use, using the Machine Payments Protocol. MPP lets an agent request a resource, pay for it and get the result back over the web. The brief is to ship a working prototype of an API or service worth paying for - a data feed, a developer tool, a narrow service that does one thing well - inside the time limit, then show it. Bring a laptop and charger; snacks provided. Free, starts 13:00 on Tuesday 10 November. Why go: agent payments are moving from blog posts to protocols, and this is a chance to put something through one in an afternoon with Stripe engineers in the room. Best for backend and API developers, indie hackers and anyone thinking about how agents will buy things.

with Tony Brook (Founder, SPIN)

The 100 Archive's 2025 Selection launch during Irish Design Week 2026, with a keynote from Tony Brook, founder of the London studio SPIN. Free, 18:00 to 20:30 at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

with Paul Mearns (Speaker, Medtronic) · David Formisano (Speaker, Medtronic) · Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain (Speaker, Medtronic) + 1 more

Medtronic takes its Digital Heartbeat Tech Talks series out of Galway for the first time, after two sell-out evenings at the PorterShed. Senior engineering leaders walk through how the company builds cloud-native platforms in Ireland for life-critical clinical software: zero-downtime resilience, reliability engineering, and what changes about shipping when patient care depends on uptime. Doors 18:30 at The Market Bar on Fade Street, talks from 19:00, close at 20:30. Speakers listed are Paul Mearns, David Formisano, Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and Anne Tierney. Free, and pitched at software, cloud, data, AI, systems and product people. Why go: one of the few Dublin rooms where engineers running regulated, life-critical systems describe their actual architecture decisions. Best for cloud and platform engineers curious about healthtech constraints.

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.

Skillnet Climate Ready Academy Summit 2026

A full day on building for AI agents, run by Stripe at its Dublin offices on Wilton Place. The format is hands-on: workshops and a hackathon rather than a stage, with the Stripe engineers who built the tooling in the room. The programme covers integrations, financial operations and agent-initiated transactions, which is the plumbing an agent needs once it has to move money rather than just produce text. Schedule and registration sit on Stripe's own events site; the Stripe Dublin Meetup listing is the community entry point. 08:30 to 17:30, free. Why go: agent payments is one of the few areas where the tooling is moving faster than the documentation, and this is a day of building against it with the people who ship it. Best for engineers putting agents into production, and for founders whose product will take payments on an agent's behalf.

IRISSCON, the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service's annual cybercrime conference, runs a full day at the Aviva Stadium. Talks and discussion across ransomware, threat research, scam victimisation and online behaviour, with a deliberately long networking track and an after-party. Confirmed so far: Rik Ferguson (VP Security Intelligence, Forescout), Tarah Wheeler (Chief Security Officer, TPO Group), Selena Larson (Threat Researcher, Proofpoint), Bob McArdle (Director of Cybercrime Research, TrendAI), Peter Griggs (Cyber Security Architecture, Product and Testing Manager, Transport for London), Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton (cyberpsychology, IADT) and Maureen King (Founder and CEO, iTrust 6A), with a speaker from the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau and Gordon Smith as MC. More to be announced. Doors 8.30am, 9am to 5.30pm, 50 euro, over-18s. Why go: IRISSCERT is not-for-profit and the line-up mixes vendor threat researchers with law enforcement and academia, which is a harder room to buy your way into than most security conferences. Best for security engineers, incident responders and anyone carrying risk or privacy responsibility.

A two-day European creative-industries gathering at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, run by CreativeFED and the Design & Crafts Council Ireland. 09:00 to 18:00 across 11 and 12 November.

Free online training on server-side Google Tag Manager use cases with the JSON server tag.

with Stan Massueras (General Manager, Western Europe, ElevenLabs)

A fireside conversation on building a repeatable go-to-market engine, from OpenAI and Dogpatch Labs. Aimed at founders heading for their first 1m euro in revenue or scaling from 1m to 10m. Stan Massueras, General Manager for Western Europe at ElevenLabs, former VP at Intercom and active angel investor, covers what works in GTM today, where founders should spend their effort and how to use AI for sales and growth. Doors 17:00, fireside 17:15, audience Q&A 18:00, networking until 18:30. Open to Dogpatch Labs members and the wider startup community. Free, but registration needs host approval. Why go: a short, candid session with someone who has run GTM at a scale-up and now backs founders, in Dublin's main startup hub. Best for founders and commercial leads at early-stage companies who need a sales process, not just a pitch.

with Kevin Collins (Claude Code Community Ambassador, Anthropic) · Pedro Rodrigues (AI Tooling Engineer, Supabase) · Ryan Slater (Principal Solutions Architect, Iru)

A builder meetup for people shipping with Supabase, Claude Code and scripts for device fleets. The theme is "ship it like a dev": reviewing and testing AI-assisted scripts before they go live, especially for IT and security teams. Arrival at 18:00, lightning talks at 18:30 from Kevin Collins (Claude Code community ambassador), Pedro Rodrigues (AI tooling engineer at Supabase) and Ryan Slater (principal solutions architect at Iru). Then a 30-minute workshop at 20:00 building something non-trivial with Claude Code, and networking from 20:30. Registration needs host approval; no price is listed. Why go: you get a workshop where the tools' own engineers are in the room, plus a practical angle on safely deploying AI-written scripts. Best for developers and IT or security engineers already using Claude Code or Supabase.

Monthly SME owner networking breakfast at the Irish Management Institute in Sandyford.

A day on digital inclusion with accessibility leaders and practitioners, hosted at Workday Dublin. Directly useful to engineers, designers and product people with accessibility obligations.

Barnardos' digital-wellbeing morning at Google's Foundry on Barrow Street — research and practice on children, screens and online safety.

A new summit for people building direct relationships with kids' audiences across streaming, apps and games.

A paid masterclass on moving public-sector digital policy into delivery, run by the Ireland eGovernment Awards in association with Aurion.

A morning session for Irish SMEs on choosing an AI approach that matches the size of the business — where it pays back quickly, where it does not, and how to pilot without a platform commitment.

A technical enablement morning at Microsoft Ireland on deploying Copilot without opening up your data estate — permissions, data boundaries, DLP and the governance work that has to land before rollout.

A Dublin Business School Entrepreneurship Society trip to the Guinness Enterprise Centre, departing from the Common Room on South Great George's Street. Open to DBS students. 13:30 to 16:00.

with Jonathan Dempsey (2026 Chair, RAIL Community of Practice, undefined) · Dr Barry Scannell (undefined, undefined) · Susan Leavy (undefined, undefined) + 3 more

The last 2026 session of Learnovate's Responsible AI in Learning community of practice, on how AI regulation is landing on learning and training and what changes in 2027. Jonathan Dempsey, the community's 2026 chair, leads. Also speaking: Dr Barry Scannell, Susan Leavy, Nessa McEniff, Dr Ann Devitt and Dr Peter Gillis. Networking from 17:00, welcome at 17:15, panel from 17:20, two hours in total at Chartered Accountants House on Pearse Street. In person only, and it is a working session as well as a panel: the community sets RAIL's direction for next year in the room. Why go: six named people who have actually read the AI Act, arguing about what it means for anyone building or buying learning technology. Narrower and more concrete than the general AI governance circuit. Best for edtech teams, L&D leads and anyone shipping AI features into training products.

ODSC AI Dublin's community evening, supported by Snowflake. A main session with a Snowflake speaker alongside Sheamus McGovern, founder of ODSC AI, then up to five three-minute community lightning talks, who-is-hiring and who-is-looking shout-outs, pizza and topic-based networking. Arrivals and icebreakers from 6pm, main session 6.30pm, finishing at 8pm. Free with registration. Speaker and session details were still to be announced, and the listing gives Dublin without a venue - the exact location is to be announced by the organisers.

with Mark Doyle (Software Engineer, Stripe)

The next Stripe Dublin evening meetup, in person at Stripe's offices in Fitzwilton House on Wilton Place. One talk this month: Mark Doyle, a software engineer at Stripe, on building autonomous coding agents at Stripe. Doors and refreshments from 18:00, talk and Q&A from 18:30, then food, drinks and networking to 20:00. Free, with a hard cap on places and a Meetup waitlist once it fills, so RSVP early if you want to be in the room. Why go: a short, specific talk from someone shipping coding agents inside a company that runs them at scale, then two hours with the Dublin payments and infrastructure crowd. Best for engineers working on agents or on Stripe integrations.

Tog's locksport session: physical security, how locks actually fail, and supervised practice on the hackerspace's own collection.

with Alan Smeaton (Board member, AI Office of Ireland)

A SeedFoundry session on what the EU AI Act means for products, with Prof. Alan Smeaton, board member of the AI Office of Ireland, followed by a hands-on exercise on a real use case. Eventbrite sales have closed; join the waitlist via SeedFoundry. Venue listed only as Alta Verde, Blackrock.

A unique Summit where ambitious Manufacturing leaders share real war stories from the trenches, practical and proven ways to scale.

An IREPO workshop at the Ashling Hotel on energy poverty, combining community research, hands-on testing of data-driven tools and policy co-design. Free, 09:30 to 16:00.

An Irish Design Week studio workshop at Flux Studios on Chatham Row.

An informal Friday catch-up for the TechFoundHer community: alumni, tech champions, future founders, supporters and founding members. There are no speeches and no agenda. TechFoundHer has a dedicated space at Café en Seine on Dawson Street from 16:00, and the idea is to drop in, catch up with people you know and meet new ones. Drinks are bought individually at the bar. Free, register on Eventbrite. Why go: a relaxed way into one of Dublin's women-founder networks without sitting through a programme. Best for women building, or thinking about building, a tech company, and the people who back them.

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.

Annual general meeting of OpenStreetMap Ireland CLG. Covers the state of OpenStreetMap in Ireland, the company's finances and a set of lightning talks from the community. No previous experience needed. Saturday 14 November, 12:00 to 13:30, KatRisk, Winetavern Street.

The Dublin Linux Community's informal online coffee session — open-source chat, troubleshooting and whatever people are currently running.