Tech Events in Galway

Home Assistant Community Day is a worldwide event for smart home enthusiasts and newcomers alike to socialise, share and learn.

Please note this event is in PorterShed a hAon, across the carpark from our usual venue

​Home Assistant Community Day is a worldwide event for people who use Open Home Foundation projects. It’s your chance to get together with fellow fans in Galway o share your enthusiasm and experiences.

Come along if you're curious about smart homes in general, or if you're a seasoned Home Assistant veteran. You're welcome to bring along any devices, automations or cool demoes to share with the community. We look forward to meeting you all.

Green Zone | Children only | Suitable for 12+ | 60 mins

Join this fun one-hour Pytch workshop and learn to create your own Space Invaders-style game while discovering the basics of Python programming. Pytch a free, web-based platform developed by Trinity College Dublin and partners, designed to help learners move from block-based coding (like Scratch) to Python. No experience needed—just curiosity and creativity!

G019 Lecture Theatre | Human Biology Building | Blue Zone | Adult & Children require a ticket | Suitable for ages 10+ | Duration 30 mins

Life as a NASA Engineer: Building the International Space Station, Training Astronauts, and Launching Rockets!

Ever wondered what it's like to work at NASA? Join former NASA engineer David Bushman as he shares fascinating behind-the-scenes stories of building the International Space Station, training astronauts for spacewalks, working on the Space Shuttle programme and developing rocket technology. An inspiring journey into the world of space exploration!

G019 Lecture Theatre | Human Biology Building | Blue Zone | Adult & Children require a ticket | Suitable for ages 10+ | Duration 30 mins

Join Jay Looney from the University of Limerick as he introduces EirSEDS (Irish Students for the Exploration and Development of Space), the Irish chapter of the international student-led organisation SEDS, founded in 1980.

Learn how passionate university students across Ireland are coming together to design and build rockets, explore space technologies and develop the skills shaping the future of the aerospace industry.

Perfect for curious minds, aspiring engineers and anyone who dreams of reaching for the stars!

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