Tech events in dublin

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Diarmuid Kelly (Chief Financial Officer, Europe, Schroders Greencoat)

An informal evening for people working on energy and renewables, built around one speaker: Diarmuid Kelly, CFO Europe at Schroders Greencoat. Kelly is on the senior team behind Greencoat Renewables plc, the Irish renewable infrastructure company with around 1.4GW of capacity across five countries. He's there to give an inside view of the finance and asset-management side. Before Greencoat he was CFO of Sirius Real Estate, after roles in sovereign wealth and private equity. Energy Innovators Ireland hosts it at Nearys on Chatham Street, 18:00 to 20:00. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: rare access to how a listed renewables owner thinks about capital, contracts and growth. Worth it for cleantech founders, energy engineers and anyone pitching to infrastructure investors.

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.

PyLadies Dublin's first sprints night: a hands-on evening working with APIs and real datasets, such as the Irish government's open data portal, and getting comfortable with git and source control. Scopely hosts it at DIGIT Game Studios on Prince's Street South and covers food and drinks. Bring your own laptop and charger. Coding Grace and the Python Software Foundation are community partners. The events are open to everyone at every level, and the group runs under a published code of conduct. Registration is on Luma, not Meetup. Free. Why go: a low-pressure way to write real code against real data with people around who'll help when you're stuck. Good for Python learners and career-changers, and for experienced devs who want to mentor.

with Jessica Minghinelli (, ) · Alan Cooke (, )

LeadDev is relaunching its Dublin meetups as a quarterly series, and this is the first, hosted by Squarespace at Squarespace House on Ship Street Great. Two talks from engineering leaders: Jessica Minghinelli at 6.30pm and Alan Cooke at 7.30pm, titles still to be announced. Check-in from 5.30pm, networking from 6pm, close at 9pm. Drinks and food are on Squarespace. Free, RSVP required, and spaces are limited. Why go: LeadDev is the brand engineering managers actually follow, and a launch night pulls the city's tech leads into one room. Best for engineering managers, staff engineers and anyone moving from building to leading.

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.

with John Looney (, Crusoe)

Site Reliability Engineering Dublin's first meetup since SRECon, hosted by Google at its Barrow Street docks campus. John Looney of Crusoe opens with Tracking Down Noisy Neighbours, on finding the workloads that quietly starve everything else on shared infrastructure. A second talk comes from a Google engineering team, title still to be confirmed. 7pm to 9pm. Free, but places are limited. Keep your RSVP current and make sure your Meetup profile shows your full first and last name, because names are checked at the door. Why go: a practitioner room on a real production problem, inside Google's own Dublin building. Best for SREs, platform engineers and anyone running shared clusters.

A full day at Teeling Whiskey Distillery in Newmarket for Ireland's wireless and connectivity community, run by the Wireless Community group under the #WICO tag. The format is technical education plus a deliberately long networking track: the organisers say the agenda is built to leave plenty of room for informal conversation between sessions, and the listing is scheduled for eight hours. The speaker line-up had not been published at the time of writing, so check the Eventbrite page closer to the date. Paid, with the ticket price shown at checkout. 09:00 on Thursday 19 November. Why go: wireless and RF people in Ireland have almost no dedicated day of their own, and this one puts operators, integrators and vendors in a room for a full working day. Best for network and RF engineers and anyone deploying wireless infrastructure.

with Barry Adams (, ) · Jonathan Moore (SEO, AI and analytics consultant, ) · Aoife McIlraith (Moderator, )

Dublin's SEO meetup wraps up its second year with its eighth event, at dentsu Ireland on Haddington Road. Barry Adams takes an Ask Me Anything, moderated by Aoife McIlraith. Jonathan Moore, an SEO, AI and analytics consultant, gives a talk on where those three now overlap. The Screaming Frog team comes along for the first time to talk shop and hand out swag. Doors at 6pm, speakers from 6.30pm, then the pub across the road from 8pm. Hosted by Gus Pelogia, with food and photos sponsored. Free, registration required on Luma. Why go: an open AMA with one of the best-known names in news SEO, plus a talk on where search work is heading with AI. Best for SEOs, growth marketers and founders who live on organic traffic.

The Augmented Software Engineer community's end-of-year meetup at ServiceNow Ireland on Dawson Street, built around how engineers work with AI coding agents. Hosts Roland and Sasha run the evening: a welcome at 18:30, a second speaker still to be confirmed, then a "no slides, just code" live demo from Roland at 19:30. Doors open at 18:00 with pizza and beer, and it wraps at 20:00. The group has run agent-fleet and software-factory sessions all year, including a Dublin AI Week edition in October that drew 137 RSVPs. Free to attend; ServiceNow is supporting this one. Why go: one of the few Dublin rooms where people share working agent setups rather than slides. Best for engineers and tech leads already shipping with coding agents, and the 2027 trends chat should suit anyone deciding how to staff for them.

eBay Dublin hosts Cursor for an evening on AI-assisted software development, for engineers, developers and students in the local tech community. Expect technical presentations, interactive discussions and networking on how AI coding tools are changing engineering workflows, developer productivity and the skills the next generation of engineers will need. Around 80 people expected, a mix of eBay engineers and outside developers. Runs 18:00 to 20:30 at eBay's Blanchardstown campus. Registration needs host approval and the event is now full: approved places were moved to a waiting list on 3 November, so new sign-ups join the list. The page doesn't name speakers or a price. Why go: a look at how a large engineering org actually uses Cursor day to day, with a room of working developers to compare notes with. Best for engineers deciding how far to take AI coding tools in their own team.

with Claire McBride (Moderator, ) · Alan Coleman (Panellist, ) · Ria Browne (Panellist, ) + 2 more

ProductCamp Dublin's first winter edition, and a departure from its usual un-conference format: this one is a moderated panel on how product management careers actually get built, followed by food, drinks and open networking. Claire McBride moderates, with Alan Coleman, Ria Browne, David Mullins and Jennifer Geraghty on the panel. Run in partnership with TU Dublin and Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet. Doors 6.15pm, panel from 6.30pm, running to 10.30pm at MJ Wright on South Great George's Street. Ticketed and paid, with the price shown at checkout, and no refunds. Over-18s only. Why go: ProductCamp Dublin is volunteer-run and the room is mostly working product people rather than vendors, so the career talk tends to be specific about moves, titles and hiring rather than inspirational. Best for product managers, designers and engineers weighing a move into product.

with Dr Joss Moorkens (Associate Professor, DCU School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies) · Pol O Gradaigh (Language Affairs Officer, European Commission) · Tomas Svoboda (undefined, Charles University, Prague) + 2 more

The third Multilingual Workshop at DCU, on translation and AI and the trade-off between what the technology gives and what it costs. Registration from 09:00, close at 13:50. Dr Joss Moorkens of DCU's School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies opens with Pol O Gradaigh of the European Commission. Tomas Svoboda of Charles University speaks on translation technology and sustainability, and Artur Queiroz, who heads AI-based services at the Commission's Directorate-General for Translation, on building AI for European values. Three roundtables cover human-centred AI in translation, imagined futures for the profession, and AI translation during cascading crises, with speakers from DCU, Zoetis, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the DGT. The workshop is hybrid; this listing is the in-person room at DCU Business School. Free. Why go: the people who run translation AI at EU scale, in a room small enough to argue with them. Best for anyone building or buying language technology.

The Marketing in Ireland community's annual Share Your Wins evening, built around a panel on how AI is changing hiring: recruiters, career specialists and team leaders on what is being automated out of the process and which human skills still decide who gets hired. 18:00 to 20:00 at IBAT College Dublin's Wellington Quay campus. Ten euro including tea and coffee, which the organisers say covers refreshments and photography. Speakers and the full programme were still to be announced when this was written. Open to marketers at any stage, students included. Why go: hiring is where AI has moved fastest in marketing, and this is a room where people will say out loud what they are actually seeing. Best for marketers in or moving into tech, and anyone hiring into a marketing team next year.

Technology Ireland's industry awards reach their 34th year, which makes this the longest-running night in the Irish tech calendar. The ceremony doubles as the sector's annual get-together rather than a dinner with a trophy table attached. Run by Technology Ireland, the Ibec group representing more than 300 technology companies in Ireland. Doors at 7pm, ceremony and dinner through to 11pm, at The Round Room at The Mansion House on Dawson Street. Seats are 200 euro for Ibec members and 250 euro otherwise, plus VAT; tables of ten go for 2,000 and 2,500 euro. Booking is through Ibec's own event form rather than a ticketing site, and enquiries go to events@ibec.ie. Why go: it is the one evening where the people running Irish technology companies are all in the same room, and the table format means you spend it talking rather than queueing. Best for founders, executives and anyone whose next move depends on who they know in Irish tech.

The Games Co-Op's last meetup of 2026, in the back room at The Circular in Rialto. The usual monthly format: presentations from Irish game developers, playtesting of in-development games, and networking with the local game-dev community. Bring a build if you want feedback. This month's One Game A Month jam theme is Null and Void, so expect a few prototypes made to it. Anyone who wants to present signs up through the group's form. Monday 23 November, 7pm to 11pm. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: the most hands-on room in Dublin's games scene, where you play what people are building rather than hear about it. Best for indie developers, students and anyone curious about how Irish game makers prototype.

with Aleksei Markov (Software engineer, ) · Sascha Bacardit Cuomo (Senior Software Engineer, SiriusXM)

Two lightning talks on Linux and C++ in the back of Anseo on Camden Street. Aleksei Markov covers building software from source properly - pulling dependencies, the usual configuration and build traps, and doing it so the result can actually be uninstalled afterwards, which matters when packaged versions do not give you the build options you need. Sascha Bacardit Cuomo of SiriusXM then takes sharing platform-agnostic business logic across applications: connecting native UIs to a shared core, through IPC services or libraries exposed over the C ABI, with maintainability and limited headcount as the constraint. 19:30, free, beginners explicitly welcome. Why go: two specific engineering problems, explained by people who hit them at work, with no vendor behind either. Best for systems and C++ developers and anyone maintaining cross-platform code.

with Paul Horgan (, )

Dublin's monthly infosec meetup, back at the Camden Court Hotel on Camden Street. Paul Horgan opens at 7pm with When Is the Incident Over?, on the gap between technical recovery and organisational recovery: the temporary firewall rule nobody removed, remediation that slipped down the backlog, risk accepted without anyone deciding to. He'll share the questions to ask before anyone declares an incident closed. A second talk is still to be announced. Doors from 6.30pm, with drinks, food and chat around the talks. Free, and open to professionals, amateurs and the curious. Why go: a long-running, friendly security room, and this talk takes on the part of incident response most frameworks skip. Best for security engineers, incident responders and the managers who sign off on resolved.

with Ross Mulcahy (Engineering Lead, Automattic) · James Osborne (Support team lead, Site Kit plugin, Site Kit by Google)

Two talks on keeping a website useful as AI agents start doing the browsing. Ross Mulcahy, Engineering Lead at Automattic, opens with what AI agents mean for WordPress architecture: HTML, REST APIs, the Abilities API and MCP, and how a site gets found, read and acted on by software. James Osborne, support team lead for the Site Kit by Google plugin, follows with its newer monetisation and engagement features, including newsletter sign-ups, paywalls and contribution requests, plus a preview of what's next. Dublin WordPress Meetup Group runs it at tcube coworking on O'Connell Street Lower, with Q&A after each talk and open discussion at the end. Free, all levels welcome. Why go: a practical take on agent-readable websites from inside Automattic. Best for web developers, agency teams and anyone running a WordPress site that earns money.

A full-day fintech summit at the Clayton Hotel Cardiff Lane, run by Investnet with Fintech Ireland. The stated topics are central banking, regulation, digital assets, cyber security, payments, AI, open banking and fintech education; the 2026 session list and speakers are not published yet. 09:00 to 16:00, in person. Paid, with refunds up to seven days before. The organiser says last year's summit sold out, so book rather than decide in late November. Why go: Dublin fintech is regulation-heavy, and this is the one day a year when the Central Bank-adjacent crowd, the payments companies and the startups are in the same building. Most useful if you sell into Irish financial services or need to read what the regulator is signalling.

A monthly coffee morning at TU Dublin's Greenway Hub for people with a business idea and no clear next step. Each session has a guest founder who talks through their path from first idea to launch, then runs a practical workshop on sharpening your concept and pitch. It finishes with an open-mic slot where you pitch and get feedback from the room. November's guest isn't named on the listing. It runs on the last Thursday of each month, 10:00 to 12:00, at Greenway Hub in Grangegorman. Free, places are limited, register on Eventbrite. Why go: a supportive first room for idea-stage founders who want feedback before they face investors. Best for anyone testing an idea or weighing up a side project.

with Nick Couldry (Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics)

Nick Couldry of the LSE presents his new book Predatory AI: How We Can Resist Corporate Capture of the Human Mind, then opens the floor. His argument is that the terms on which we are handing cognitive work over to AI models are set by the companies that own them, and that this is a social contract worth refusing rather than an inevitability. Co-hosted by the UCD Centre for Digital Policy and the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin, as part of the Horizon Europe Forsee project. 17:00 to 19:00 in the Robert Emmet Theatre. Free. Why go: a serious critic of the AI industry, in person, with time for argument afterwards. Best for people building AI products who want to hear the strongest version of the case against how it is being done.

with Oliver Rodrigues (Business Architect, ) · Joe Gill (Power Platform Consultant, )

Power Platform Ireland User Group's November session, at Nexus Human on Strand Street Great, Dublin 1. Two talks. Oliver Rodrigues, a former Microsoft Business Applications MVP now working as a business architect, explains Agent Flows: what they are, how they differ from Cloud Flows, and when to use which. Joe Gill, a Power Platform consultant, shows how to build Generative Pages in model-driven Power Apps, using AI to generate interfaces that combine content, data and functionality. 6pm to 8pm. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a practical look at where Microsoft's low-code stack meets agentic AI, from people delivering it on enterprise projects. Best for makers, Power Platform developers and consultants deciding whether Agent Flows are ready for client work.

The Irish Human Computer Interaction Symposium, running for nearly two decades and hosted by TU Dublin for the first time, at the Academic Hub in Grangegorman. Supported by the ACM SIGCHI Ireland Chapter and TU Dublin's Digital Futures Hub. A full day, 09:00 to 18:00, bringing HCI researchers together from across Ireland and beyond. Programme and keynotes are not published yet. General admission 30 euro, student tickets 25 euro, no refunds. Why go: the only annual gathering of Ireland's HCI research community, and the gap between that research and the product teams shipping interfaces in Dublin is wider than it should be. Worth a day if you do UX research, accessibility or interaction design and want to see what is coming out of the universities before it reaches practice.

A morning that puts ML-Labs research graduates in front of industry partners to talk about jobs, collaborations and projects. ML-Labs is the SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning, so the people coming through are doctoral-level machine learning researchers. The shape is simple: arrival, registration and coffee at 09:30, lightning talks from 10:00, networking and light refreshments from 11:15, finish at 12:30. Speakers are not named on the page yet. Held at MoLI, the Museum of Literature Ireland on St Stephen's Green. Why go: if you are hiring machine learning researchers or looking for an academic partner on an applied ML problem, this is three hours with a concentrated room and a short programme. Less useful if you came for the talks - the lightning talks are the warm-up and the networking is the event.

DevFest Ireland is the Irish Google Developer Groups' annual conference, run jointly by the GDG chapters around the country and hosted this year by GDG Dublin at the National College of Ireland on Mayor Street. Tech talks and deep dives across AI, Cloud, Web and mobile, hands-on workshops with mentors on hand, a diversity and inclusion track, and a social afterwards. Organised by Carolina Cobo (Workday), Silvia Choque, Mariana Alves and Suhani Chawla (HubSpot). 9am to 6.30pm on the Saturday. A small ticket fee covers food and drink, with student and jobseeker discounts; the detailed schedule and speaker list were not published at the time of listing. 203 people had RSVP'd. Why go: it is the largest community-run developer conference in the country and the one day a year the Irish GDG chapters are all in one building, which makes it the cheapest way to meet engineers from outside your own stack. Best for working developers and anyone early in a dev career.

with Jeffrey Roe (undefined, undefined) · Claire Downey (undefined, undefined) · Phoebe Brown (undefined, undefined) + 3 more

A full day at the Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun pulling together repair cafes, maker groups, community organisations and policy people from across the island. The programme covers starting and running a repair cafe, building sustainable repair networks, skills and knowledge sharing, cross-border collaboration, and where community repair sits in the circular economy. Speakers announced so far are Jeffrey Roe, Claire Downey, Phoebe Brown, Andreas Kopp, Theo Dillon and Navjot Sawhney, with more to be added. Organised by the Dublin Maker Team. Doors at 09:30 for a 10:00 start, running to 17:00, free parking on site. Why go: this is the hardware end of Dublin's maker community in one room, with the people who actually run the repair cafes rather than the people who write about them. Worth the Saturday if you build physical things or work on right-to-repair.

Europe's main quantum technology conference comes to Dublin for four days: the Quantum Flagship's annual gathering of researchers, industry and policymakers. The programme spans four pillars, quantum computing, simulation, communication, and sensing and metrology, through invited talks, panels, poster sessions and an industry exhibition. Organisers ICHEC and Abbey Conferences also list a QVX Day and sessions on skills gaps in the sector. It sits on the Irish EU Council presidency's events calendar. Named speakers aren't published yet. It runs 30 November to 3 December at the Convention Centre Dublin. Registration is open; fees aren't shown publicly. Why go: the one week a year when most of Europe's quantum ecosystem is in the same building, and this year it's in Dublin. Essential for quantum researchers, deep-tech founders and investors, with side events like French Tech Dublin's 2 December roundtable around it.

with Dr Luis De Miranda (Keynote, Uppsala University) · Dr Ronan Glynn (Panellist, EY Ireland) · Dr Danielle Petherbridge (Panellist, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life) + 1 more

The closing session of UCD Institute for Discovery's Breaking Boundaries in AI and Healthcare series, moved off campus to the Museum of Literature Ireland with transport laid on from UCD. One hour over lunch: keynote then panel. Keynote from Dr Luis De Miranda of Uppsala University. On the panel, Dr Ronan Glynn of EY Ireland, Dr Danielle Petherbridge of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life, and Dr Jaqueline Sullivan of Western University in Canada. Free, registration on the UCD Discovery site. Why go: this series has been the most consistent place in Dublin to get clinicians, ethicists and AI people arguing in the same room instead of at separate conferences. An hour at lunchtime, so an easy one to take if you work anywhere near health data.