What's happening: Week of 27 July 2026
Tashfeen Ahmed (Microsoft) · Shiv Rajappa (Mastercard) + 1 more
AI Tinkerers Dublin returns with a screened, demos-first builder night sponsored by Toast — no pitch decks, just technical show-and-tell on generative AI and agentic workflows. Five-minute deep dives are…
Daniel M. Kuchta (NVIDIA)
AI workloads are breaking the interconnect. As models scale, the bottleneck moves off the chip and onto the wire — and co-packaged optics is the industry's answer. Daniel M. Kuchta,…
The regular Dublin Tech Social mixer at The Bleeding Horse on Camden Street — afterwork drinks and networking for tech workers across engineering, AI, data, product, cybersecurity and IT. An…
with Tashfeen Ahmed (Senior Product Designer, Microsoft) · Shiv Rajappa (Product Manager, Mastercard) · Paula Ribeiro (Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Toast)
AI Tinkerers Dublin returns with a screened, demos-first builder night sponsored by Toast — no pitch decks, just technical show-and-tell on generative AI and agentic workflows. Five-minute deep dives are followed by a hands-on "science fair" for walking through code and getting live feedback. Confirmed demos include Tashfeen Ahmed (Microsoft) on building a free-LLM API, Shiv Rajappa (Mastercard) on Compountier, and Paula Ribeiro (Toast) on a marketing agent. Attendance is screened and capped at 150 — one of the highest-signal AI rooms in Dublin.