Tech events in dublin

The monthly gathering of Ireland's game development community, in the back room of The Circular in Rialto. The format is presentations, playtesting and networking: developers show what they have been working on, and anyone can bring a build and get it played and critiqued on the night. The group runs 1GAM, a one-game-a-month jam, and October's theme is 'Shocking' - prototypes made to that theme turn up here first. If you want to present there is a sign-up form in advance. Free, 19:00, with a Discord that keeps the conversation going between meetups. Why go: it is the one regular room in Dublin where unfinished games get played by other developers rather than pitched to publishers. Best for game developers, artists and designers, from hobbyists to studio staff.

Day one of IBM's Qiskit Fall Fest at Trinity, hosted by CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for future networks headquartered at TCD. The day runs from 10:00 to 15:30 in the O'Reilly Institute and covers quantum networks specifically rather than quantum computing in general: keynote talks, research discussions, a poster showcase from the groups working on this in Ireland, and the launch of Dennis McNulty's Quantum Wiki. Free to attend and open beyond the university. Why go: quantum networking in Ireland is a small field and most of the people doing it will be in this room for the day, in a format that leaves time to actually talk to them. Best for researchers, physics and CS postgrads, and engineers tracking where quantum communications is heading.

A hands-on hackathon at the UCD Innovation Academy in the O'Brien Centre for Science, run with UCD Careers, on a single brief: how might we prepare UCD graduates for the jobs of the future. Teams form on the night or arrive together, work the challenge, and take ideas as far as a workable proposal in about three hours. Solo entrants are welcome and get placed. Free, drinks and snacks provided, 16:00 on Tuesday 27 October. Registration is restricted to current UCD students. Why go: a real brief, a short clock and mentors from the Innovation Academy, which is a better first hackathon than most open events. Best for UCD students who want to try building something without committing a weekend.

with Patrick Palmer (Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS) · Tanya Vo (Lightning talk speaker, Fidelity Investments)

The AWS User Group Dublin takes over the Button Factory on Curved Street for an evening of practitioner talks on building and running things on AWS. Patrick Palmer, Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, has the main slot at 18:00: "The Next Heartbleed Is Coming. Are You Ready?" on frontier AI models accelerating vulnerability research, the post-quantum cryptography migration, and why the visibility and automation both demand are better treated as one shared capability than as separate projects. Tanya Vo of Fidelity Investments follows with a ten-minute talk on the AWS community programmes. More speakers to be announced. Free, registration from 17:45, talks run to 19:45. RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a security talk with real technical content from someone who does the work at AWS, in a room of Dublin developers, architects and founders rather than a vendor audience. Best for engineers and technical leads who own production infrastructure.

with John McFarlane (Software engineer, automotive software, undefined)

This month's Dublin C++ User Group talk, at Anseo on Lower Camden Street. John McFarlane speaks on what it takes to write C++ to a reasonable standard of quality: bug-catching tools, contracts and undefined behaviour, safety-critical considerations, Agile practice and workflow, then a walk through experimental projects combining the approaches he has settled on. He is a software engineer working in automotive software, previously in server software and games, and has sat on national and international C++ committees including the NSAI. 19:00, free. City centre, and the group notes there is no free parking. Why go: safety-critical C++ practice is thinly covered in Dublin, and this is a working engineer on tools he actually uses rather than a survey talk. Best for C++ engineers, especially anyone shipping into automotive or other regulated targets.

A Royal Irish Academy and ALLEA workshop on what generative AI is doing to research practice, bringing ALLEA's Research Ethics and Integrity Council together with invited experts. Daniel Carey, RIA president, and Maura Hiney MRIA open at 10:00. Professor Jeroen de Ridder of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, who chairs the drafting committee for the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity, gives the keynote on the Dutch experience. Short presentations follow on academic freedom, trust in science and the risk of declining research standards, then a panel with de Ridder, Deborah Oughton and Krista Varantola on whether existing codes still hold. Closes at 13:00 with lunch. Why go: this is where the rules for AI-assisted research are being written, not just discussed. Best for researchers, research managers and anyone drafting institutional AI policy.

A GEC Sustainability Cluster session at the Guinness Enterprise Centre, hosted with Techies Go Green, on where a product's carbon footprint actually comes from. Earlier cluster sessions covered national and sector emissions; this one goes down to the product. It covers the common building blocks of a product carbon footprint, how the Greenhouse Gas Protocol frames the measurement, and worked examples from cut flowers, bottled water and spirits, fast fashion and transport, including where intuition gets it wrong. The last section is on using footprint data commercially, for sourcing and packaging decisions and for answering customer questions before they are asked. Q&A, tea and coffee after. 10:00. Why go: specific and numerate where most sustainability sessions are neither. Best for founders, ops and sustainability leads at any business that makes, imports or sells a physical product.

with Dr Victoria McGovern (Senior Business Researcher, UCD Business School and I-Form)

UCD MechSoc and I-Form, the Research Ireland Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, host a 50-minute guest talk on how Irish manufacturers are actually adopting AI: what is already running in production, where it stalls, and how it is reshaping engineering roles and skills. Dr Victoria McGovern, Senior Business Researcher at UCD Business School and I-Form, presents findings from her research with Irish manufacturing companies, including the problems they have hit. Free, 11:00 to 11:50, room L0.18-LEA in the O'Connor Centre for Learning on UCD's Belfield campus. Pizza afterwards. Why go: a short, free, research-backed read on AI adoption on Irish factory floors instead of vendor slideware. Best for engineers, operations people and anyone tracking where industrial AI is genuinely landing.

with Isabella Sparks (Speaker, Threatcraft) · Aaron Ott (Speaker, )

Dublin's infosec meetup, in the Abbey Room of the Camden Court Hotel, with two talks and a bar. Isabella Sparks opens at 19:00 on Threatcraft. At 19:40 Aaron Ott presents work on an Auto Mode RCE in Claude Code, building on Johann Rehberger's research: a coding agent refuses to run an attacker's decoder, writes its own Python decoder instead, and executes it from inside the directory it just unzipped - where a planted struct.py shadows the real module. He walks the chain from injected prompt to execution and shows how often it fired across runs. From 18:30, free, food and drinks. Why go: agent security is being discussed everywhere and demonstrated almost nowhere. This is a working exploit, explained by the person who reproduced it. Best for security engineers, red teamers and anyone shipping coding agents.

The Dublin chapter of AI Tinkerers runs a demo night with PostHog as marquee sponsor and Baseline as venue partner. The format is builders showing working software rather than slides: short technical demos of what people have actually shipped, followed by questions and open networking. Previous Dublin editions have been run with Notion, Kiro, Exa and Fin, which gives a sense of the standard. Attendance is approval-gated - you apply through the AI Tinkerers site and the exact address is shared with approved attendees. 18:30 on Wednesday 28 October. Why go: it is the most consistently technical AI room in Dublin, and the approval gate keeps it builders rather than spectators. Best for engineers shipping LLM products and founders who want their demo stress-tested by people who have shipped one.

An evening on WordPress's new AI layer at tcube coworking on O'Connell Street, and the first Dublin WordPress meetup in some time. The talk covers the Abilities API, AI Client, Connectors and MCP: how WordPress now talks to AI models and agents, with worked examples of what developers can build on top. Attendees include people from CommerceGurus and from Google's Site Kit plugin, so the room is agencies and plugin developers, though the organisers are explicit that newcomers are welcome too. Questions at the end, open discussion afterwards, and the organisers are collecting suggestions for the next session. 19:00, free. Why go: WordPress shipping an MCP surface changes what anyone building on it can automate, and this is the only Dublin room discussing it. Best for WordPress developers and agencies deciding what to build against the new APIs.

TU Dublin's monthly coffee morning for aspiring founders at the Greenway Hub on the Grangegorman campus, 10:00 to 12:00 on the last Thursday of the month. Each edition has a guest founder who talks through their own route from idea to launch and then runs a short workshop on refining your concept and your pitch. An open-mic slot lets anyone pitch and take feedback in a low-pressure room. October's guest is Sean Kirwan, CEO and co-founder of MedWrite.ai, who spent twenty years in digital roles in pharma before founding it. Free. The October edition is full and running a waiting list, so watch for cancellations. You do not need an idea prepared; the organiser asks you to bring a problem or challenge you would like to work on, and the session is built around creative problem-solving. Pitch slots are allocated in advance. There is no parking on site. Why go: one of the few Dublin rooms aimed at people who have an idea and nothing else yet, with a founder who will actually look at it. Best for first-time founders and students thinking about starting something.

with Kevin Collins (Host, DCU:Innovate Catalyst)

A four-hour build night that follows a September talk where people who use Claude Code all day sat with people uneasy about AI and worked through three questions: what AI means for their jobs, what it is doing to their families and communities, and who sets the rules. The problems named that evening become the briefs, posted on the event page ahead of the day. Teams of up to five pick a brief and build against it with Claude Code until demos start around 20:00. Judging is on whether the build works live and whether someone could pick it up afterwards. Pizza mid-build. Every participant gets 100 dollars in Claude API credits; each member of the winning team gets a month of Claude Max 20x. Hosted by Kevin Collins of DCU:Innovate Catalyst. Free, approval required, exact address sent to approved registrants. Why go: a rare Dublin room where the brief comes from people outside tech and the build has to answer them in four hours. For developers already fluent in Claude Code, not for learning it.

Dr Aleksi Aaltonen of the Stevens Institute of Technology on 'Making Sense of Data in the Age of AI: Data Studies in Management'. His argument: data have always been central to large-scale organising and are becoming more so in an AI-driven economy, but what actually feeds contemporary AI systems resists the simple definitions companies work with, which is why managing, using and sharing data for AI proves so hard in practice. He makes the case for treating data as a research object in its own right, drawing on his own work and the Research Handbook on Digital Data. Part of UCD College of Business's MIS seminar series and its Conversations on AI and Humans collection. 2pm to 3.30pm in Room Q115, Lochlann Quinn School of Business, Belfield. Free. Why go: an academic seminar rather than an industry talk, which is the point - the data-strategy problem framed by someone with no product to sell. Best for data leads, researchers and anyone writing their company's data strategy.

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.

Second in Quantum Ireland's techBREK quantum series, run with Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet: a breakfast session on Irish quantum research with industry applications and the skills pipeline behind it. Billed as a chance for people working in and around quantum to compare notes across research and industry. 8.30am to 10am at the Trinity Innovation Hub on Grand Canal Quay. Free. No speakers or agenda had been published at the time of listing - the registration page says more information to follow - so the programme is still unknown. Why go: quantum in Ireland is small enough that the room matters more than the agenda, and this series is the main place the research side and the hiring side of it are in the same one. Go if quantum skills and recruitment are your problem; skip it if you want specific technical talks, because none are announced.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

AI Ethics: Non-Negotiables for Patient Care

Monday , 9 November 2026 | The Sugar Club | 6PM | 20 Slides x 15 Seconds x 12 Speakers DEFUSE - DESIGN FOR USE Come join the Dublin design community for a night of inspiration, innovation and insight as some of Ireland's leading experts in the field of Interaction Design share their stories and highlight some of the most compelling design challenges they face.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.