Tech events in dublin

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.

with Mick Cooney (Organiser, Dublin Data Science)

Dublin Data Science's monthly talk, this time on using directed acyclic graphs to model a chain of reinsurance treaties and calculate recoveries. Mick Cooney, one of the group's organisers, shows how tidyverse code, domain knowledge and functional techniques break a messy calculation into small pieces, with a full audit trail for the odd results these calculations throw up. Thursday 29 October, 18:30 to 20:30, Trinity Business School, Pearse Street (BoI Room 225). Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a practical talk on making a hard-to-debug calculation traceable, from someone who has done it. Best for data scientists and analysts in insurance or finance, and anyone who likes functional programming applied to a real problem.

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.

Superteam Ireland's warm-up to Solana Breakpoint: the Irish Solana chapter in a Grand Canal Dock brewpub before the conference takes the community over to London. There is no agenda and there are no talks. Superteam Ireland hosts - the Irish chapter of the global Superteam network, which describes itself as a community of founders, engineers, operators and creators building on Solana - and the page lists ten featured guests, among them Garrett Cassidy, Benjamin Szabo, Alejandro Gutierrez, Graham O Maonaigh and Pragya Tiwari. Free, registration open with no approval step, 48 signed up. 3pm to 8pm at BrewDog Dublin, Three Locks Square. Why go: the Dublin Solana crowd in one room the day before Breakpoint pulls them abroad, which makes it the best pre-conference intel going in the city. Go for the people, not a programme. Best if you build on Solana or are heading to Breakpoint yourself.

with Bradley Fernandes (AI Security Deployment Strategist, )

A career talk from inside big tech, hosted by the Dublin MultiCloud Architecture meetup. Bradley Fernandes, an AI security deployment strategist, researcher and blogger, covers lessons from a career that has run through Okta, Qualtrics, SAP and Oracle. Friday 30 October, 18:30 to 19:30, tcube Dublin, 1 O'Connell Street Lower, D01 TX31. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a one-hour career session, not a technical deep dive. Worth your evening if you're a cloud or security engineer thinking about a move into strategy or customer-facing work and want to hear how someone else made it.

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. Free. 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Ireland's AI awards reach their eighth year, with Microsoft Ireland as principal sponsor. Fifteen categories this time, including new ones for the public sector and for agentic AI innovation, alongside startups, SMEs, large enterprise, responsible AI, cybersecurity, healthcare and sustainability, plus AI Person of the Year and the Women in AI and Young AI Role Model awards. Panel discussions and networking sit around the ceremony itself. Run by AI Ireland at the Radisson Blu Royal on Golden Lane. Registration 8.30am, start 9.30am, ceremony then lunch, finishing at 2pm. Full price 250 euro, 99 euro for nominees and 49 euro for students on production of ID; early bird has sold out. Smart casual. Why go: half a day rather than a long evening, and the nominee list is the most reliable annual snapshot of who is actually shipping AI in Ireland. Best for AI practitioners, research leads and technology executives.

A two-hour industry showcase closing out the three-year European ECO-eNET project, which has been combining advanced optical and wireless technologies with AI to make communication networks more energy-efficient and resilient. That is the infrastructure question sitting underneath AI, cloud and data-centre growth. The format is short research presentations, a live demonstration of networks adapting to changing conditions, a lab element and a networking reception. 16:00 to 18:00 at the CONNECT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, College Green. Free. Timed deliberately ahead of Data Centres Ireland 2026. Why go: a rare chance to see research-grade network technology demonstrated rather than described, with the people who built it in the room. Best for network, data-centre and infrastructure engineers, and anyone working on the energy cost of digital infrastructure.

with Dan Galavan (Independent Data Management & Governance Consultant, Galavan.com)

Dan Galavan on why semantic layers are back, and what that means if you are building data and AI on Snowflake. The talk covers the semantic layer's origin story, AI-augmented design and human-in-the-agent-loop review, data and AI quality assurance on Snowflake, data modelling as a core skill, Apache Ossie, and the governance questions agentic AI raises, from FinOps through Horizon Catalog to observability and auditability. Galavan is an independent data management and governance consultant, a certified Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect and one of 126 people worldwide in the Snowflake DSH programme. Food and networking from 6pm, talk at 6.30pm, at the Clayton Hotel Charlemont. Free, with 49 already signed up. Why go: one named practitioner going deep on a single problem beats a panel, and semantic layers are what data teams are actually arguing about right now. Best for data engineers, architects and anyone running Snowflake in production.

with Liam Whelan (Co-Founder & COO, TalentHunter.me)

An after-work networking evening for Dublin's tech community, built around a single featured conversation rather than open mingling alone. The night centres on a fireside chat with Liam Whelan, co-founder and COO of TalentHunter.me, an Irish AI-powered jobs platform; Whelan also sits on EU AI Office task forces on the transparency of AI-generated content under the EU AI Act. His talk, "What It Takes to Expand into Europe," covers building and scaling a business across European markets. Craig Maguire moderates. Registration and arrivals from 18:30, welcome remarks at 19:00, the featured talk at 19:10, open networking from 20:00. Free to attend, at The Capel Building in Dublin 7. Organised by CO:next Tech, who run a regular international tech-networking series. Why go: a low-commitment evening for founders and operators weighing European expansion, anchored by one substantive talk rather than name-badge small talk.