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Ireland's AI filmmaking hackathon returns to Dogpatch Labs — 100 makers have 24 hours to write, shoot, and finish a short film using AI tools, culminating in a black-tie cinema premiere. Backed by ElevenLabs, fal.ai, and Red Bull. Open to engineers, designers, filmmakers, and AI builders. Apply early — admission is by application.

Dogpatch Labs and Infineon Technologies bring together hardware founders, robotics researchers, and deeptech builders to explore the humanoid robotics market. Hear from Infineon's Irish team and SOSV's HAX accelerator on what it takes to build in hardware — plus the opportunity to access prototyping kits, engineering support, and Infineon's global Startup Challenge 2026. A rare gathering for Dublin's nascent hardware and deeptech community.

A focused one-day course from the AI Assurance Institute on implementing Quality Management System requirements under the EU AI Act — practical, immediately applicable guidance for developers, compliance teams, and AI practitioners. Covers governance, risk classification, and conformity assessment prep aligned to the prEN 18286 standard.

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.

WomenHack's Dublin edition brings 15-20 tech companies to a structured speed-interview career fair for women and non-binary talent in engineering, data, design, and product. Free for job seekers — employers pay to participate, signalling genuine hiring intent. Sponsor keynotes, speed rotations, networking drinks.

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.

Maynooth University doctoral candidate Thibaud K presents on Avendish, a C++ library for generic multimedia programming — diving into the ossia.io plugin system and early C++20 reflection. Sharp technical content from Dublin's 1,000+ member C++ community.

Ireland's flagship cybersecurity conference returns with its biggest lineup yet: 18 speakers including a Deputy Director from the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service, an FBI agent, and BBC's Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy. With 600+ CISOs and CIOs in the room, this is where Ireland's information security community gathers. If you work in security, compliance, infrastructure, or lead a tech team — this is the room to be in.

Dub|Sec's monthly infosec social: talks, drinks, and frank conversation about cybersecurity with Dublin's security community. April's lineup includes Ashley English plus a second speaker — all experience levels welcome, from CISO to curious newcomer. Pairs well with Zero Day Con earlier the same day for a full day of security.

TU Dublin's monthly Start-up Café at Grangegorman: a relaxed morning for early-stage founders and entrepreneurship students to connect, hear from a guest entrepreneur, do a hands-on workshop, and practice pitching in a low-pressure setting. Free, friendly, and a consistent fixture in Dublin's founder support ecosystem.

EnergyElephant brings together Dublin's climate-tech community: founders, operators, and sustainability leads exploring AI-energy-SaaS intersections and climate funding in Ireland. Limited to 50.

Women in AI Ireland host a practical evening at eBay's Dublin campus: panel discussion with career changers, hands-on elements, and strong networking for anyone looking to move into the AI sector.

The Snowflake User Group Ireland returns with four case studies from Irish companies: The Irish Times on hybrid news recommendation, Buymedia on parsing 400+ media sources with Cortex AI, Coolplanet on AI-powered data infrastructure. Four named speakers.

Two practical sessions: Microsoft MVP Oliver Rodrigues on server logic for Power Pages, and Simply Dynamics lead Mohit Chaturvedi on whether Copilot Plans can generate production-ready apps from natural language.

A cinema-style book club exploring Mustafa Suleyman's 'The Coming Wave' — AI acceleration, innovation vs regulation, and societal impact. Part 1 of 2-part series at Iconic Offices. €14.

DubJUG's 265th event with professor Željko Kozina: a REST-to-GraphQL migration deep-dive using Netflix as case study, and a Java garbage collection optimisation session. Free entry at TCube.

Dublin's monthly data networking pub night — no agenda, no slides, just data people talking data. Good for data scientists, analytics engineers, BI professionals, and anyone working with data wanting informal community.