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In this meetup, we will discuss what Europe's push for tech sovereignty means for Irish organisations that rely on global AI and cloud providers. Speakers include Colin Rooney, Technology Partner, Arthur Cox; Kieran McCorry, National Technology Officer, Microsoft; and Jamie Hackett, Specialist Solution Architect for AI, Red Hat. This Meetup is ideal for professionals in the areas of AI policy, law and infrastructure. Capacity is limited for this event. Event Details Date: Wednesday, 28th October 2026 Location: Dogpatch Labs, CHQ Building, Dublin 1 Registration: 6.00pm Talks: 6.30pm to 7.30pm Networking: 7.30pm to 8.30pm

Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! Talk first, build next Claude Conversations runs as a pair of events. The talk was on Thursday 17 September, when people who use Claude all day sat beside people who are mainly just uneasy about it and worked through three questions: what does AI mean for my job, what is AI doing to me, my kids and my community, and who decides the rules. This is the build. We're going back through everything that came up and pulling out the problems people actually named, the ones concrete enough to build against. Those become the briefs, and they'll be posted on this page ahead of the day. Each team picks one and spends the evening building something with Claude Code that takes a real swing at it. How the evening runs Doors open at 17:00. Come with a team of up to five, or come on your own and we'll put you with people when you arrive. Teams pick a brief and build until demos start at around 20:00, with pizza in the middle so nobody has to down tools for long. Every team then gets a few minutes to show what it built, running live, and the winners are announced before we finish at 21:00. Credits, prizes and judging Every participant gets $100 in Claude API credits, and the winning team takes the prizes, including a month of Claude Max 20x for each member. Builds are judged on how directly they take on the problem they picked, whether they actually work when shown live, and whether someone could realistically pick them up and use them after the night. Who it is for People who already code with Claude Code. Four hours goes quickly and there's no time to learn the tool on the night, so you should be comfortable building and shipping with it before you arrive. If you're new to Claude Code, this isn't the one to start with. Before you come Bring a laptop with Claude Code installed and working, and your charger. The API credits attach to an organisation in the Claude Console (consol

Hi All, We are excited to invite you to another informative Saturday morning. Agenda: 10:00 – 10:10 DSEclub introduction 10:10 – 10:50 From Open Storage to Open Meaning: How Apache Ossie (Incubating) Completes the Open Data Lakehouse by Will Martin 11:00 – 11:30 Data Streaming at Home by Georgi Samardzhiev 11:30 – 12:00 Projects & Networking Topic 1: The open data lakehouse has a solid data foundation thanks to Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris: an open table format and catalog that any query engine can share without lock-in. But openness in storage doesn't mean openness in meaning. Business context, like “revenue” and “active customer”, tends to sit in downstream systems, like notebooks and BI tools. These definitions tend not to agree, and they don’t travel well between systems. That is, until Apache Ossie (Incubating) — the newly Apache-incubated open spec for semantic layers and ontologies, backed by Snowflake, Dremio, Databricks, dbt Labs, and Salesforce. This talk will explain the current open data lakehouse stack and introduce Apache Ossie (Incubating). We’ll discuss how open source projects provide vendor-neutral options without sacrificing performance, and why shared semantics is the next open standards fight in this age of agentic analytics. Will Martin is Dremio’s Data & AI Evangelist. Starting out with statistical analysis in particle physics, his professional journey has spanned multiple industries, including banking, shipping logistics, entertainment, healthcare, defence, and customer 360. With experience as a data engineer, solutions architect, and software developer, he has spent 15+ years collaborating with companies and organisations across EMEA and APAC, including roles at CERN, Deloitte, and Tamr. Topic 2: Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg as a machine for learning — and the issues that did the teaching. A full account of a streaming Kappa platform in my homelab — Kafka, Iceberg, Bytewax, k3s, self-hosted S3 — built to learn on rather than to

Are you an established company aiming to grow your business in need of funding?

Are you an established company aiming to grow your business in need of funding?

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. This event is organised by IxDA Dublin in partnership with Service Design Ireland, Design Brew and Dublin UX. This is NOT a ticketed event. RSVPs are open to discover who from the Dublin UX community is attending and to utilise event chat. RSVPing to this event does not guarantee entry. Learn more at https://defuse.ixd.ie and see you there.

Join us for an evening with Dublin’s builder community, brought to you by Supabase, Claude Community and Iru. This one is for people who are actively building. Whether you’re deep into Supabase, experimenting with Claude Code, or shipping scripts to a fleet of devices and hoping for the best, you’ll fit right in. The theme: ship it like a dev. AI has changed who gets to write code. Developers already use it for everything from code generation to security reviews to weekend prototypes, and IT and Security teams have the same opportunity. Too often, though, a script gets written, it runs, and it goes out to thousands of devices with no review at all. Tonight we look at bringing the developer mindset to all of it: review it, test it, then ship it. We kick off with lightning talks, three speakers, thirty minutes each, across a range of experience levels and no filler. Then the workshop: thirty minutes, laptops open, one challenge. Build the most complicated thing you can with Claude Code before the clock runs out. Speakers include: Kevin Collins: Claude Code Community ambassador representing Claude Code and Anthropic Pedro Rodrigues: AI Tooling Engineer at Supabase Ryan Slater: Principal Solutions Architect at Iru Run of Show: 6:00pm: Arrive. Grab a soft drink and some food, find a seat, say hello. 6:30pm: Lightning talks. Three speakers, 30 minutes each, varying levels of experience, no filler. 8:00pm: Workshop. 30 minutes to build the most complicated thing you can with Claude Code. 8:30pm: Networking. Stick around, swap notes, keep the conversation going.

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Your agents can now find a bug, fix it and draft the pull request, or hunt for new business like a sharp intern. They act with real authority, and they rarely belong to one person. They belong to the team. So who is accountable when an agent acts? Who assigns the work and who checks it? And how do you get every agent working together, whether it's Codex, Claude, Grok Bot, Duet or a Slack bot, without betting your company on one vendor? Join us for an hour on running people and agents as one team, with no lock-in to any AI provider. You'll leave with: \- One shared task list where people and agents each have a named owner \- A way to check agent work against a written contract instead of taking it on trust \- A setup that works across agents from different vendors\, so you can switch whenever you like \- A live example from a small company that runs this way every day We'll build on HeyStax, a shared work graph for people and agents, and SpecFlow, open-source contracts that say what the software or agent must do. For founders, small business owners and enterprise leaders who want agents doing real work with someone clearly accountable.

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This one-to-one clinic is aimed at helping companies seek equity investment.

Online workshop for established companies looking to grow and in need of funding

This one-to-one clinic is aimed at helping companies seek equity investment.

Online workshop for established companies looking to grow and in need of funding

Online workshop for established companies looking to grow and in need of funding

Online workshop for established companies looking to grow and in need of funding

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SGI Conference - From Innovation to Implementation This year’s conference will bring together senior leaders from across the energy sector to explore how to deliver a smarter, more resilient and carbon-free grid towards 2035 . The all-island conference aligns with Ireland’s Presidency of the EU 2026 - strengthening competitiveness, security, and values across the EU while advancing climate action, digital innovation, and regulatory simplification.

Not another networking event No standing around hoping a recruiter notices you. Every team in the room is hiring, and they come to pitch to you. How the night works: First: five-minute pitches from CTOs and hiring teams Then: talk to the teams you liked. You'll already know what to ask. All evening: food and drinks, on the house Who's pitching Usually 3 to 6 hiring teams take the stage. We'll send you the lineup before the event. Can't wait? See who's coming at outgeek.org. Who it's for Mid-career and senior women in tech, ready for their next move. A few entry-level tickets are available too. You won't be the only woman in the room. Guys, you're welcome too, and relax: you won't be the only woman in the room either. Tickets Most tickets are free. The last 10 are paid and help cover our team on the night. Can't make it? Cancel so someone else gets your spot. See who's pitching before you go. Join free at outgeek.org . Team of the Year 2026 voting is open. Pick the best team in each category at outgeek.org .