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🇮🇪 Tech Events in Ireland

Ireland's tech-event calendar centers on Dublin, home to the European HQs of most major US cloud providers and a deep meetup circuit across software, DevOps, data, and product. Satellite communities continue to grow in Cork and Galway. Active cities on Brainberg right now include Dublin, Dublin 12, Galway, Dublin 8, The Municipal District of Newcastle West, Cork, Blanchardstown, and Dublin 4. Brainberg aggregates listings from multiple event platforms and community calendars into a single European feed, so the full schedule for the country shows up in one chronological view instead of spread across separate platforms.

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Upcoming events in Ireland

SecurityMeetupFree

Who do THEY think you are? Quiz Night - Back by popular demand

Dublin 8, 🇮🇪 Ireland

Back by popular demand! Put your knowledge to the test at a data privacy table quiz. "It's more fun than it sounds" - Quizzer, 2025

Think you know what the Internet knows about you?

Our quiz is back by popular demand! After a packed out quiz last year, we’re returning for one night only this year. Join us for a fun, social and eye-opening table quiz that'll put your knowledge of the hidden world of online tracking to the ultimate test.

Grapple with questions like:

  • How long would it take to read all the terms & conditions the average internet user accepts in a year?
  • What did RTÉ journalists get from a data broker, with surprising ease, last year?
  • Which tech billionaire once killed a goat with a stun gun and served it cold to the boss of Twitter?

What to expect:

  • Brain-teasing questions that reveal the hidden world of personal data.
  • A fun, relaxed & social atmosphere - no tech expertise required!
  • Prizes for the top team who prove they're the true privacy champions.

Whether you're a privacy novice or a seasoned security pro, you'll learn something new, have a great Monday night out and leave with a better understanding of how to be more in control of your digital life.

Grab your friends, form a team (or join one when you arrive!), and let's play "Who Do THEY Think You Are?"

Date: Monday, 9 November

Time: doors at 19.00; quiz starts at 19.30

Location: Lucky's, 78 Meath Street, Dublin 8

Who do THEY think you are? is led by Wove Design, with ADAPT Centre, Beta Festival and NCAD as partners.

Mon 9 Nov · 19:00 – 22:00
Tech Leadership & ProductWorkshopFree

"Do No Harm" Product Ethics Workshop

Galway, 🇮🇪 Ireland

itag’s Product Management Forum and Product Management meetup Galway Presents: "Do No Harm" Product Ethics Workshop

Is your product causing harm you haven't accounted for?
AI is accelerating product development at an unprecedented pace, but our ability to anticipate the ethical consequences hasn't kept up.

For product teams, good intentions are no longer enough. Regulatory scrutiny around responsible technology is intensifying, reputational risk from harmful products is growing, and the cost of identifying ethical failures post-launch far outweighs addressing them early. Ethical design isn't a values exercise, it's a risk management discipline.
This session is about putting that into practice.

Working in small groups, you'll apply a real ethical design tool to a real product - surfacing harm, unintended consequences, and blind spots that traditional product processes miss.

Tools include Spotify's own Ethics Assessment, the Black Mirror Brainstorm, Provocatype, Dichotomy Mapping, and more. Each table works with a different tool and a different product, before the room comes together to compare findings.

No prior knowledge of ethics or ethical design required. These tools are built to be picked up without specialist training - you'll leave knowing whether that's actually true.
Come ready to ask the questions nobody on your team has thought to ask yet.

Workshop facilitators

  • Ailis McCaul, Product Consultant at Liberty IT
  • Ben Bland, Consultant – Emerging Tech, Liberty IT
Tue 10 Nov · 18:00 – 20:00
Bio & Health TechConferenceFree

The Digital Heartbeat Tech Talks with Medtronic-Dublin Edition

Dublin, 🇮🇪 Ireland

Discover how Medtronic is building digital and cloud native software technology in Ireland that is shaping the future of patinet care.

The Digital Heartbeat Tech Talks With Medtronic

Dublin Edition

After two sell-out events at the PorterShed in Galway, Medtronic’s ‘The Digital Heartbeat Tech Talks’ series is going on the road for the first time. This November, we are bringing the series to Dublin for an evening designed for software, cloud, data, AI, systems, product, and digital technology professionals who want their work to make a meaningful difference at global scale.

Join senior engineering leaders from Medtronic and connect with Dublin’s tech community to explore how cloud-native platforms are shaping the future of patient care. Discover what it means to build digital solutions where reliability, zero-downtime resiliency, and innovation directly support life-critical clinical outcomes.

  • Date: Tuesday, 10th November, 2026
  • Location: The Market Bar, Fade Steet, Dublin 2
  • Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Tech Talks start at 7:00 PM)

About the Event:

Building on the momentum of our first two session at the PorterShed, this event expands the conversation across both Medtronic’s Patient Care Systems (PCS) and Digital Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) teams.

We will explore how specialised clinical technology and modern cloud platforms intersect to power the next generation of connected healthcare. You will hear directly from engineering and technical leaders about how cloud-native platforms, connected systems and data-driven intelligence are shaping the future of patient care. This is a chance to discover what it means to build digital solutions where reliability, security and innovation can directly support better clinical outcomes.

Why Attend?

  • Technology with purpose: See how modern software, cloud architecture, and connected platforms are being applied to complex healthcare challenges.
  • Clinical and patient perspective: Hear how technology moves from code and platform decisions into real clinical settings and patient experiences.
  • Insights from Medtronic teams: Learn how the Patient Care Systems and Digital Interventional Cardiology Therapies teams are advancing connected care and scaling digital health platforms across Ireland and globally.
  • Dublin Tech Networking: Connect with local developers, architects, and product leads, as well as Medtronic’s engineering teams over complimentary finger food, craft beers, wine, and soft drinks on Fade Street.
  • Open conversation: Take part in a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on the future of connected health, AI and meaningful tech.

Speakers & Host:

  • Paul Mearns: Sr. Director, Patient Care Systems (PCS), Medtronic
  • David Formisano: VP, Digital Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) Group, Medtronic
  • Anne Tierney: Cardiac Physiologist, St. Vincent’s Private Hospital
  • MC / Moderator: Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (Academic | Science Communicator | Broadcaster)

Agenda:

  • 18:30 – 19:00 | Arrival & Networking: Craft beer, wine, soft drinks, and finger food served in a relaxed setting.
  • 19:00 – 19:10 | Welcome & Opening Remarks: Paul Mearns on architecting and scaling global digital health platforms from Ireland.
  • 19:10 – 19:30 | Panel Discussion: The Future of Connected Health & Digital Platforms, moderated by Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin. A frank discussion on cloud scale, reliability, engineering culture, and technical hurdles.
  • 19:30 – 19:45 | Open Q&A
  • 19:45 – 20:30 | Networking & Informal Mixer: Grab another drink, chat with the speakers, and meet the engineering teams to discover what building software at Medtronic is really like.
  • 20:30 | Event Close

About Medtronic’s Digital Health Engineering Teams:

Innovation happens where clinical domain expertise meets scalable, enterprise digital platforms. Our Patient Care Systems (PCS) team builds the secure, cloud-native architecture for continuous remote cardiac monitoring, while our Digital Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) group delivers data-driven intelligence directly into acute care workflows.

Together, these teams push the boundaries of what’s possible in connected medical technology, ensuring that lifesaving telemetry data is processed reliably when every second counts. If you are curious about what software engineering looks like at Medtronic and want to build tech that genuinely matters, come network with our team.

For more information on Medtronic, visit www.Medtronic.com and follow Medtronic on LinkedIn.

Registration

Attendance is free, but capacity at The Market Bar is strictly limited. Reserve your spot early to join us for our Dublin debut!

Tue 10 Nov · 18:30 – 20:30
SecurityMeetupFree

Cork|Sec 161

Cork, 🇮🇪 Ireland

Running since June 2013, every month we have 1-2 talks focused on Security or Technology - followed by socialising with like minded people

  • You can find out exactly what to expect about the night and the venue on the What We're About section of our Meetup page. Past talk details can be found the "Past Events" section.
  • All people with any sort of an interest or level of knowledge in Security, Hacking and Emerging Technology are more than welcome to attend and feel free to bring like minded colleagues and friends.

CorkSec is made possible through generous sponsorship from our Platinum Sponsor TrendAI, Gold Sponsor CyberSkills , as well as our Silver and Bronze Sponsors featured prominently on the night.

Our talks come from our community so if you have an idea for a topic (anything for 10-60 minutes) please email us at DefconCork@gmail.com . Whether you are an experienced presenter, or presenting for your first time - CorkSec is a great venue for it - and we are happy to help you prepare and mentor you.

Doors open at 19:00 with talks starting at 19:15. Talks below

TALK 1: Airgapped System | Not a problem. Lessons Developing Malware for a NATO Exercise by Sabastian Hague
Step inside the development process behind Exercise Locked Shields 2026, the largest and most complex cyber live-fire exercise in the world
Centri had the honour of supporting Locked Shields by developing realistic technical content for some of the most capable cyber operators globally. This session explores the challenge of building scenarios that are credible, relevant, and difficult enough to test defenders operating at enterprise and nation-state level.
You’ll hear how we approached the design of advanced exercise content, the considerations involved in developing realistic adversary behaviour, and how we balanced technical depth, safety, and learning value.
The session will also walk through one of the more intricate malware components developed for the exercise. Rather than relying on obvious destructive behaviour, this tooling was designed around specific operational objectives, showing how subtle functionality can be harder for commercial detection tooling to identify.
Can malware be effective without being noisy? Can highly specific functionality create a bigger detection challenge than overtly malicious behaviour?
Join us and find out.

TALK 2: Adopting AI for Threat Defense: What Actually Works (and What’s Still Hype) by Saurabh Khadtare
A lot of people in security are understandably skeptical of “AI” right now. Marketing slides promise fully autonomous SOC's, while real defenders are still drowning in huge alerts and brittle detection logic. At the same time, attackers are already using automation and AI‑adjacent tooling to scale phishing, brute forcing, credential abuse, and exploitation, so a purely manual defensive approach is becoming unrealistic.
In this talk, I’ll share practical lessons from working as a security engineer and Pentester on how AI is actually starting to help with threat defense, and where it absolutely should not be trusted on its own. I’ll break “AI for defense” into three buckets: classical ML/UEBA and anomaly detection, AI‑powered SOC automation for triage and noise reduction, and LLM‑based that help with summarizing incidents, writing queries/rules, and translating technical findings for non‑technical stakeholders. For each bucket, I’ll walk through concrete workflows and examples (using redacted or synthetic data) showing what sucked before, what AI does better, and what still needs a human in the loop.
I’ll also cover the major limitations and risks: hallucinations, weak multi‑step reasoning, prompt injection, and new attack surfaces introduced by LLMs and vendor tools. The goal is to give the audience a realistic blueprint for where AI can safely augment defenders today, and where “AI‑only” approaches are still pure hype.

We will also have a seat for the CPTA | Certified Penetration Testing Associate to give away on the night

Tue 10 Nov · 19:00< 50
SecurityConferenceFree

IRISSCERT Annual Cybercrime Conference 2026

Dublin 4, 🇮🇪 Ireland

Join us at the IRISSCERT Annual Cybercrime Conference 2026 for a day of networking, and expert insights into tackling cybercrime

IRISSCERT holds an annual conference is an all day conference providing attendees with an overview of the current cyber threats facing businesses in Ireland and what they can do to deal with those threats.

Experts on various aspects of cyber crime and cyber security share their thoughts and experiences with attendees, while a the day is a great opportunity to network with other professionals .

The conference will be open to anyone with the responsibility for securing their business information assets. There is a nominal fee of €50 per person attending to cover the costs of catering and other organisational expenses.

This year's speakers will be confirmed and announced over the coming weeks.

COVID 19 GUIDELINES

The event will be run in line with the current government guidelines regarding the hosting of indoor events.

We recommend people wear masks, ideally FFP2 and N95 masks, when attending the event, in particular when moving in common areas and within the conference hall. In addition, we strongly encourage attendees to be up to date with the relevant vaccinations and we ask that attendees conduct a rapid antigen test (RAT) before attending IRISSCON.

The Aviva facilities have been selected due to its modern air conditiona and air filtration systems.

We appreciate everyone's support to keep all attendees safe.

ACCOMODATION

We have also negotiated a special delegate rate for those wishing to stay in the conference hotel, which is the Clayton Hotel Burlington. If you wish to avail of this send an email to info@iriss.ie to get the discount code.

Wed 11 Nov · 09:00 – 17:30
AI Integration & ApplicationMeetupFree

ODSC AI Skills Accelerator | Dublin

Dublin, 🇮🇪 Ireland

​ODSC AI Skills Accelerator | Dublin

​Join Dublin’s AI, data, and technology community for an evening of practical learning, pizza, and conversation.
​Supported by Snowflake, the meetup will feature a Snowflake speaker alongside Sheamus McGovern, Founder of ODSC AI, as co-speaker and co-host. Speaker and session details will be announced soon.
​Beyond the main session, there’ll be community lightning talks, hiring shout-outs, and time to meet people working on similar projects or exploring new ideas.
​Whether you’re building AI systems, leading a team, or figuring out how AI fits into your work, you’re welcome to join.

​Who Should Attend?
  • ​AI engineers, developers, and data scientists
  • ​Product managers, founders, and technical leaders
  • ​Business professionals exploring practical AI applications
  • ​People hiring or looking for their next opportunity
  • ​Emerging practitioners developing their AI skills
  • ​Anyone interested in meeting Dublin’s AI community

​Working on an AI project, testing a new tool, or learned something useful recently? Volunteer for a three-minute community lightning talk—we’d love to hear about it.

​Agenda
  • ​6:00 PM–6:30 PM: Arrivals, drinks, and icebreaker networking
  • ​6:30 PM–7:00 PM: Main session with a Snowflake speaker and Sheamus McGovern
  • ​7:00 PM–7:15 PM: Community lightning talks, up to five speakers, three minutes each
  • ​7:15 PM–7:25 PM: Who’s hiring / who’s looking shout-outs
  • ​7:25 PM–8:00 PM: Pizza, topic-based networking, and talent matching
​Event Details

​Date: November 12, 2026
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM, local time.
Location: Dublin (exact venue to be announced)
Admission: Free with registration
​Supported by Snowflake.
​Come ready to learn, share what you’re working on, and meet people who could become collaborators, colleagues, or friends. Register to reserve your place!

Thu 12 Nov · 18:0050–200
Software EngineeringMeetupFree

Nov 2026: 10th Anniversary Panel Session

Waterford, 🇮🇪 Ireland

Meetup – Thursday, 12th November 2026 | 7:00 PM
Venue: Waterford Treasures Museum (X91 K10E)

In November 2016, Waterford Tech Meetup held its first gathering, bringing together people working in tech to share ideas, experiences and make connections.

A decade later, the technology landscape looks very different. We've seen massive advances in AI, changes in how and where we work, the emergence of new technologies and industries, and plenty of predictions about the future - some more accurate than others! To celebrate 10 years of Waterford Tech Meetup this November, we're doing something a little different.

Instead of our usual two-speaker format, we're bringing together a special panel featuring some familiar faces from our Meetups over the years. Together, they'll reflect on how the industry has evolved since 2016, explore the opportunities and challenges facing the sector today, and share their thoughts on where technology might take us over the next decade.

Meet our anniversary panel:

  • Marco Troisi – Founder / Consultant, O2A Labs
  • John Frizelle - Founder, Alludium; Partner, SVV
  • Sophie Renshaw - Senior AI Quality Engineer, Workhuman
  • Colm Dunphy – Lecturer / Researcher
  • Richard Rodger - CEO, Voxgig

And we'd love you to help shape the discussion!

We'll be inviting our Meetup community to suggest questions and topics they'd like the panel to explore so keep an eye out for a short survey coming your way next week, where you'll have the chance to tell us what you'd most like to hear about. We'll use your suggestions to help guide the conversation on the night.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

With thanks to our sponsors: Waterford Local Enterprise Office, ServisBOT, Red Hat and Bluefin.

Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult

Thu 12 Nov · 19:0050–200