Tech events in dublin

Ireland's Build Digital programme on digitising construction and infrastructure for a wetter, less predictable climate. Proptech and construction-tech people should be in this room.

Learnovate's annual global learning summit at the Aviva, covering where learning technology, workplace skills and AI-assisted education are actually heading — aimed at edtech builders, L&D leads and researchers.

A one-hour working session on designing content distribution so a post actually travels: picking the channel before the format, building for the share rather than the view, and the sequencing that turns one piece into several. Aimed at founders and operators doing their own distribution. Part of Build Station Dublin at Dogpatch Labs, the series' weekly in-person build day, where co-working runs through the day around the scheduled session. Free. Registration is approval-gated by the host, so sign up in advance rather than turning up on the day.

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AI agents are great at generating answers, but what happens when they forget everything after the conversation ends? Join the Dublin MongoDB User Group for an evening of hands-on building, practical AI engineering, and a bit of friendly competition. We’ll explore how to give AI agents memory, how to retrieve the right information at the right time, and how small retrieval design choices can make a big difference.

Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® meetup on Thursday, October 8th from 6:00pm in Dublin hosted by Autodesk! Venue: Autodesk 1 Windmill Lane, 2nd Floor, Dublin D02 F206 PLEASE BRING A FORM OF VALID ID AND REGISTER WITH YOUR DETAILS FOR SECURITY PURPOSES/BUILDING ACCESS. THANK YOU!

Hi All, Dublin AI-Week is upon us!!! And the Augmented Software Engineering Meetup is part of it. The next meetup will happen on Oct., 08th, 6pm. We are still locking down the location. The theme for the evening is ... How to build, configure, run dark (software) factories? We have one presentation, but we are looking for a second one. Feel free to contact me (roland@tritsch.email), if you want to contribute.

Health2.0 Dublin's first un-conference at RCSI: the digital health community sets the agenda and debates how far Irish digital health has actually come. Open discussion format, over fifty already signed up.

An informal Dublin data meetup upstairs in The Lord Edward — analytics, engineering and AI chat with no slides and no agenda.

An informal evening at Google's Dockmill building for founders and tech people who want to talk about what they are building. Low-key format, strong room — the sort of event where the conversation is the product.

An introductory data-science session for non-specialists, held at South County Business Park.

A Dublin AI Week session on how generative tools are actually being used in advertising and creative production — what works in a real campaign workflow, what still needs a human, and where the craft is heading. Part of the community-led week of AI events running 2–9 October ahead of the International AI Summit.

The forward-deployed engineer role has gone from a Palantir curiosity to a standard hire at AI companies. This Dublin AI Week session looks at what the job actually involves — embedding with customers, shipping against their constraints, and feeding what you learn back into the product.

Second October edition of Tog's AI-free open hacking night.

Avalanche Team1 Ireland hosts a Dublin AI Week gathering at JR Mahon's on Burgh Quay for Web3 builders, founders, students and the blockchain-curious.

The Dublin Linux Community's virtual coffee meetup — newcomers who know nothing about Linux are explicitly welcome.

A summit on building Ireland's space-sector workforce, hosted at the Guinness Enterprise Centre. Niche, but the Irish space supply chain is real and hiring. Entry is restricted: the organisers describe this as a focused working session and prioritise places for industry representatives, senior academic leaders and other stakeholders directly involved in Ireland's space sector and related skills development. They do cancel registrations from outside that audience on the basis of the details given at sign-up, so contact the organiser first if your connection to the sector is not obvious from your registration.

FreedomTech CHAT brings together assistive-technology researchers working across Irish and EU projects, with a focus on how technology is making research itself more accessible. Hosted at TU Dublin Grangegorman.

Funded u0026 Fearless: Build Smarter. Get Funded. Go Further.

OOPS #18 coincides with SREcon Dublin: an evening at The Ferryman for incident and reliability practitioners, opening with a talk from John Allspaw of Adaptive Capacity Labs.

Tog's electronics night — soldering, boards and debugging with people who know the kit.

Open maker night at Tog with the laser cutter and 3D printers available to work on your own projects.

with Stephane Dudzinski (Program Co-Chair, Crusoe AI) · Philip Rowlands (Program Co-Chair, Jane Street)

USENIX's European site-reliability conference lands in Dublin for three days of deeply technical talks on SRE, systems engineering and running complex distributed systems at scale. Programme co-chaired by Stephane Dudzinski (Crusoe AI) and Philip Rowlands (Jane Street), with a committee drawn from Microsoft, AWS, Snowflake, Reddit, IBM and Dynatrace.

Ireland's largest analytics and AI conference, run by the Analytics Institute — enterprise data platforms, governance under the EU AI Act, and case studies from organisations actually running models in production.

A working session at the Guinness Enterprise Centre on moving payments and financial-services data from dashboards to deployed AI — what the data foundation has to look like first, and which use cases are actually in production.

An evening of networking at Neary's for people working or researching in sustainability and innovation in Dublin.

In town for SRECon? Come raise a glass with the ClickHouse team! 🍻 We're hosting a casual happy hour by the quay: no slides, no agenda, just food, drinks, and great conversations about observability, reliability, and running analytics at scale. Whether you're a longtime ClickHouse user, SRE-curious, or just unwinding after a day of sessions, you're welcome. New to ClickHouse?

Tog's weekly open house for anyone who wants to see the space and what members are building.

with Henna Virkkunen (Executive Vice-President, European Commission) · Micheál Martin TD (Taoiseach, Government of Ireland) · Peter Burke TD (Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Government of Ireland)

Ireland's government-convened AI summit, held at the RDS as part of the country's EU Council presidency. Three strategic themes: applied AI and sectoral value creation, the infrastructure underpinning Europe's AI capacity, and the frontier opportunity in agentic and quantum-enabled systems. Speakers include European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Commissioners Michael McGrath and Ekaterina Zaharieva, moderated by Deloitte Ireland CEO Harry Goddard and the FT's John Thornhill.

A hands-on, no-code workshop on building location-based augmented-reality experiences with Lureo.

A one-day innovation challenge at the Guinness Enterprise Centre on smarter energy — teams working problems in grid flexibility, efficiency and energy data with industry mentors in the room.

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Strive Networking's Dublin mixer, tech vertical. Open pay-to-attend networking at Old Fashioned Sam's.

The launch night for Dublin Business School's Entrepreneurship Society — an opening session for students and recent graduates who want to start something, with the year's programme and mentor network introduced.

Tog Hackerspace and Lovelace Space run part one of a hands-on session on building pockets into garments — practical making at Tog's Kylemore Road workshop, open to anyone who wants to learn the technique.

Microsoft's monthly enablement session on deploying Copilot securely. Vendor-run product enablement.

A practical cyber-security awareness session at Ballyroan Library covering the scams and account-takeover tactics currently in circulation, and the handful of settings that stop most of them.

AI is changing how we build products, but what does it mean for one of the most important parts of product management: making good decisions? 🎤 Tor Svendsen will share his experience as a Product Manager and explore why human judgment still matters. AI can be incredibly good at making individual decisions, but product management is rarely about one decision.

A casual after-work meetup at The Crafty Fox for people working in tech in Dublin — no talks, no agenda, just conversation with other engineers, designers and operators.

Tog's locksport session: physical security, how locks actually fail, and supervised practice on the hackerspace's own collection. A fixture of the Dublin security community's calendar.

ESB opens its research and development pipeline at its Dublin head office — grid technology, energy data and the engineering behind decarbonisation. Strong cleantech signal.

BlockW convenes a lunchtime session at Trinity Business School, part of the Digital Talent EU Days Forum, on whether large-scale reskilling can realistically close Europe's ICT skills gap. The panel, "AI in Financial Services: From Potential to Practice", covers implementing AI in practice, governance, customer service and risk, and bridging policy with delivery. Moderated by Owen Lewis (Global Head of AI for Banking and Capital Markets, KPMG), with Trevor Fitzpatrick (Central Bank of Ireland), Urja Pawar (BNY Mellon) and Joanne Seery (Marsh McLennan).

FREE careers event for students u0026 recent graduates to network with fantastic graduate employers!

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.

An informal Saturday-morning gathering for Dublin designers in Chapters on Parnell Street — portfolio chat, work-in-progress and job-market talk over coffee.

DesignBrew hosts a fireside chat on what AI is actually doing to design work and design careers. In-person at Baseline with a sizeable confirmed turnout.

An afternoon meet-up for entrepreneurs at Newmarket Yards hosted by Brave & Abroad — connection and peer support for people building a business.

Join us for our inaugural Effectiveness Conference on Tuesday, 20th October.

A working session on responsible AI in practice — assurance, human oversight and the documentation the AI Act will expect — aimed at the people who have to implement it rather than write about it.

A full-day workshop at the Dylan Hotel on securing AI systems — threat models, controls and practical steps for teams deploying models in production.

A short-form ideation session at UCD's O'Connor Centre — teams take a problem from brief to pitch in under two hours, with feedback from the room.

A recurring Dublin meet-up for digital marketers. Venue announced to ticket holders.

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.

Dublin's Shopify community meet-up for merchants, agencies and developers — store performance, apps and the commerce stack, with time built in for actual conversation.

A session on how the EU AI Act's regulatory sandboxes are meant to work in practice, and what they mean for teams shipping AI systems in Europe. Run by the Dublin AI governance community.

The 2026 Women in STEM Awards recognise the people and projects advancing science, technology, engineering and maths in Ireland, over an evening ceremony at the Round Room.

A free digital-hub session at Palmerstown Library on staying secure online — current scam patterns, passwords and two-factor authentication, and what to do after a breach.

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.

A hands-on Tog workshop on assembling a working satellite ground station — antenna, SDR receiver and the software to decode what comes down. Build it on the day and take the setup home.

The Dublin Linux Community's monthly informal pub meetup.

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.

Tackle a real challenge faced by UCD students and turn your idea into something that could make campus life better.

HUSTLE London Liverpool St Entrepreneur Networking Event

The AWS User Group Dublin takes over the Button Factory for an evening of practitioner talks on building on AWS — architecture, AI services and the operational realities of running it in production.

An interactive VR workshop at UCD exploring the human eye in virtual reality. No prior VR experience required.

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.

The Royal Irish Academy on what generative AI is doing to research practice — authorship, reproducibility and integrity — with a view from people setting institutional policy.

A practical session at the Guinness Enterprise Centre on what actually moves a product's carbon footprint and the data behind it. Aimed at operators who have to measure and report it.