Tech Events in Galway

A joint event with ISACA and ISC2 Chapters - From Gen Z to Gen A and the Boomer Wise Guys and Gals

This event brings together two groups with a shared but often misaligned interest: students and young professionals preparing to enter the IT workforce, and the Industry Professionals seeking to recruit and develop talent that delivers real organisational value.

Rather than a traditional careers fair or one-directional presentation format, this event is built as a mutual learning experience. Students and Industry Professionals each articulate their expectations of one another, explore the gap between those expectations, and then work together in mixed groups on realistic, pre-scripted problems — building genuine professional relationships along the way.

The audience mix is approximately 70% students and 30% Industry Professionals, keeping small-group discussion rich and well-facilitated without professional voices being diluted or overwhelmed.

The draft timetable for the day is:

Time Session

08:30 – 08:55 Registration and welcome

09:00 – 09:15 Opening: Purpose of the day, the Wisdom Worker concept, the expectation gap

09:15 – 09:30 Women in Tech Spotlight: A Wisdom Worker Journey

09:30 – 09:50 Industry panel: what we look for

10:00 – 10:30 Student panel: what we hope for

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:00 Facilitated joint discussion / Q&A

12:00 – 12:15 Setup pods – potentially 5

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch and networking (mixed seating)

13:15 – 15:00 Workshops: mixed group problem-solving – introduce problem

15:00 – 15:15 Break

15:15 – 16:00 Group reporting and highlights (Slido)

16:00 – 16:30 Closing: Wisdom Worker recap, next steps, networking close

5 to 9 October 2026 | Building an AI-ready West of Ireland

The week is being developed around five learning pathways, with practical sessions for different audiences and levels. Partners are welcome to propose alternatives, new ideas or different formats, the examples below are intended to start the conversation, not constrain it.

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Share your gamedev projects and experiments, get feedback, meet other game makers for general gamedev chats.

In-person event. Follow on discussion in the Galway Game Makers Meetup Discord server

Open to game makers/developers from hobbyist to professionals of all levels and disciplines.

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