Final session of Coding Grace's five-part series, building an alternative-controller gamepad.

Tech events in dublin
What's happening: Week of 28 September 2026
A short morning coffee-and-AI meetup at Coffeeangel on Shelbourne Road — informal conversation about what people are building with AI.
Are you a beginner fursuit maker who wants to learn the craft? Are you into electronics and want to figure out how to make your LED strips emit custom patterns?…
Friday 2 October— 2 events
A working session on how founders should frame a startup story for investors: who has the pain, why it is urgent, what insight led to the solution, what was built to prove that insight, and why this team is the right one to take it further. Aimed at founders who are unsure what their strongest version of that narrative is. Part of Build Station Dublin at Dogpatch Labs, where co-working is open 9am-5pm and lunch is served at 1pm; those who do not need the session are welcome for the networking and lunch. Free. Registration requires host approval, so sign up in advance rather than turning up on the day.
Open hacking and building night at Tog, explicitly AI-free. Bring a project and work on it alongside others.
Saturday 3 October— 4 events
Final session of Coding Grace's five-part series, building an alternative-controller gamepad.
A short morning coffee-and-AI meetup at Coffeeangel on Shelbourne Road — informal conversation about what people are building with AI.
Are you a beginner fursuit maker who wants to learn the craft? Are you into electronics and want to figure out how to make your LED strips emit custom patterns? Or maybe you want to talk on the radio with your fluffy friends? No matter how big or small, fluffy or simple the project is, bring it in to us for a social, fluffy event for all cats, dogs, wolves, foxes, and even protogens or any other species known.
A small founder session on applying AI tooling to ecommerce operations.
Sunday 4 October— 1 event
Tog's weekly craft night — textiles, small builds and whatever members bring in.
week of 5 October 2026
UCD Conway Institute opens its biomedical research year to industry — a good route in for anyone working at the health-tech, diagnostics or life-sciences-data end of Irish deep tech.
The Guinness Enterprise Centre's annual conference on the jump from startup to scale-up — hiring past the first ten, raising a Series A from Dublin, and the operational things that…
Great products don't happen in isolation
Monday 5 October— 1 event
A short-format ideathon at UCD's O'Connor Centre: take a real challenge, form a team and build an idea from scratch in an afternoon. No prior experience assumed.
Tuesday 6 October— 10 events
Join the UX Book Club on Tuesday 6 October where we'll explore key themes from Gamestorming 2.0 by Dave Gray and Sunni Brown - then try some of the games ourselves ! //ABOUT THE BOOK // The book is a practical toolkit of co-creation games used by innovators, designers, and teams to develop ideas and solve problems together.
CXPA Ireland marks global CX Day with a morning on expanding customer-experience impact inside an organisation. Useful for product, service-design and digital teams who own the customer journey.
A working session at Dogpatch Labs where Dublin PM and go-to-market operators take a real B2B growth problem apart together. Capped at ten people, so it stays a workshop rather than a talk.
UCD Centre for Space Research opens its Space Week programme with a talk from Professor Kate Robson Brown.
An interactive intercultural skills session, with real-life workplace scenarios role-play and chat with UCD Smurfit graduate, Elizaveta
Join us in Dublin this October for a casual meetup to chat all things LegalTech.
The Irish Snowflake user group on building agentic workloads on the platform — practical, data-engineering-flavoured, and one of the better-attended data meetups in the city.
The eighth French Tech Dublin apéro, on edtech scaling with French and Irish perspectives. Founder- and operator-level conversation plus the network's usual cross-border crowd.
Join us on Tuesday, 6th October 2026 at 6:30 PM at J.R. Mahon’s Public House & Brewery, Dublin 2 for our monthly Dublin Entrepreneurs In-Person Meetup. Whether you're thinking about starting your first business, have recently launched, are growing an existing business, or simply want to meet and connect with other entrepreneurs in Dublin, everyone is welcome.
Tog's weekly open house — drop in, see the space, meet members working on electronics, 3D printing and software projects.
Wednesday 7 October— 5 events
The Guinness Enterprise Centre's annual conference on the jump from startup to scale-up — hiring past the first ten, raising a Series A from Dublin, and the operational things that break at that size.
Connect with Irish peers, swap insights, and make your Workday work harder.
UCD Conway Institute opens its biomedical research year to industry — a good route in for anyone working at the health-tech, diagnostics or life-sciences-data end of Irish deep tech.
CHAI Dublin teams up with Give a Go for a Dublin AI Week meetup at Grant Thornton on City Quay: running useful AI on your own machine and understanding the open-source stack behind it. Strong turnout already registered.
A Dublin AI Week community roundtable at the NYX Hotel in Portobello for founders, creators and freelancers — real AI work and real impact, away from the hackathon and pitch-competition circuit.
Thursday 8 October— 7 events
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.
Great products don't happen in isolation
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 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.
Friday 9 October— 3 events
An introductory data-science session for non-specialists, held at South County Business Park.
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.
Saturday 10 October— 1 event
The Dublin Linux Community's virtual coffee meetup — newcomers who know nothing about Linux are explicitly welcome.
week of 12 October 2026
Funded u0026 Fearless: Build Smarter. Get Funded. Go Further.
ESB opens its research and development pipeline at its Dublin head office — grid technology, energy data and the engineering behind decarbonisation. Strong cleantech signal.
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…
Monday 12 October— 6 events
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. Registration is essential and places are limited.
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.
Open maker night at Tog with the laser cutter and 3D printers available to work on your own projects.
Tog's electronics night — soldering, boards and debugging with people who know the kit.
Tuesday 13 October— 4 events
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.
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.
Wednesday 14 October— 3 events
A hands-on, no-code workshop on building location-based augmented-reality experiences with Lureo.
REGISTRATION at Topics: Assess your alerting needs: pinpoint the right cadence, severity levels and critical events for your team Basic Setup: simple but powerful monitoring of GA4 Tracking using native UI Features of GA4, Gmail and Slack Advanced Setup: use Looker Studio Pro or raw BigQuery exports for high-precision, automated alerts Date: Wednesday , October 14th , 2026 | 10am -12pm (IST ) Trainer: Marina…
Strive Networking's Dublin mixer, tech vertical. Open pay-to-attend networking at Old Fashioned Sam's.
Thursday 15 October— 3 events
Microsoft's monthly enablement session on deploying Copilot securely. Vendor-run product enablement.
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.
Friday 16 October— 3 events
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!
Saturday 17 October— 2 events
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.
week of 19 October 2026
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…
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…
Tuesday 20 October— 4 events
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 recurring Dublin meet-up for digital marketers. Venue announced to ticket holders.
Thursday 22 October— 2 events
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.