Dublin — Week of 20 Apr 2026

A sharp crossover event from PyLadies Dublin: ICHEC researcher Buket Benek Gursoy explains how High Performance Computing underpins modern AI development — supercomputers, parallel processing, and what HPC actually means in practice. Hosted at EdgeTier in Temple Bar, with pizza and a strong networking crowd.

The inaugural Datadog User Group Dublin event — three talks on platform engineering, cloud cost frugal architecture, and observability. Speakers from Zendesk, Flipdish, and andsafe. Hosted at Datadog's Docklands office with drinks and snacks.

A rare public discourse from Trinity College Dublin's Fellows: TCD Provost Linda Doyle, Fellows Chair Cliona O'Farrelly, and Fintan O'Toole engage with what it means to be a university in the age of AI.

Dublin Data Science returns to Dogpatch Labs in April. Details TBC — check the Meetup page for speaker announcements. The group has 6,400+ members and consistently hosts quality evenings on machine learning and analytics.

Ireland's largest careers fair returns to the RDS — hundreds of employers actively recruiting across tech and other sectors. Free entry, Career Clinic for one-on-one CV advice, and a full seminar programme. Sponsored by Recruit.ie.

Dockyard's monthly deep-work gathering — a focused afternoon of building your own projects in good company in The Liberties. Bring your laptop and your current project. Approval required via Luma.

A hands-on 1-hour NLP workshop walking through Named Entity Recognition using Hugging Face and PyTorch in Google Colab — no local setup required. Bring your laptop, pay €30 cash on the day, leave with a reusable Jupyter notebook. Limited to 15 places — good for engineers and data practitioners looking to add practical NLP to their toolkit.