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with Brian Pane (Open Source Developer (ex-Roblox, Pinterest, Dropbox, Facebook), Independent)

Brian Pane — who spent his career leading networking and infrastructure software at Roblox, Pinterest, Dropbox, and Facebook before retiring to open source Rust — brings two technical talks: one on testing unsafe Rust code, one on hardware-aware performance optimization using his work on zlib-rs. Substance from someone who has shipped at scale.

Dublin's favourite product management un-conference: community-driven, participant-led, and genuinely free. The format makes for an unusually high-signal room of practitioners who turn up to contribute, not just consume.

The Dublin MongoDB User Group goes deep on search — Apache Lucene fundamentals to Atlas Search to semantic search with vector embeddings. A structured evening with practitioner war stories and a skill badge you can add to LinkedIn. Good room for backend engineers and anyone building search into their applications.

Dublin's regular data pub meetup: informal, recurring, and exactly the kind of room where practitioners talk shop without jargon. Free, ticketless — just turn up.

Dublin's weekly tech afterwork social — free, recurring, and low-friction. Show up, find the room, meet people building things.

Dublin's established AWS User Group returns for an evening session — 138 signups and near capacity at research time. Strong room for engineers building on AWS, with one of the best-attended cloud community groups on the Irish calendar.

An accessible evening networking event in Dublin 2 for tech professionals across disciplines — engineers, consultants, founders. Light on formality, open to all levels.

Python Ireland's June monthly meetup — the longest-running Python community gathering in Ireland with 9,100+ members. Technical talks and networking, with venue and speakers confirmed in advance on the Meetup page. Essential for Dublin's Python developer community.

A deep technical day ahead of Data Céilí — covering Git and branching strategies, Azure Pipelines, fabric-cicd tooling, and automated testing for Fabric items. Built for data engineers.

with Ben Watt (Data Engineering Presenter, Independent)

A full-day pre-conference workshop from Data Céilí, walking data engineers through building a metadata-driven Lakehouse using CF.Cumulus with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, and Fabric. Led by Ben Watt at Trinity College Dublin the day before Data Céilí's main conference. Seats are limited — focused technical depth for cloud data platform engineers.

with Ben Watt (Data Engineering Presenter, Independent)

A hands-on full-day workshop on Power BI at scale — covering query optimisation and performance techniques for billion-row datasets. Led by Ben Watt at TCD as part of Data Céilí's pre-conference day (June 11), the day before the main free conference. Strong practical value for BI practitioners and analytics engineers.

Ireland's community-led data conference returns to Trinity for a full day of Microsoft data platform sessions — from Power BI to Fabric to Azure Data. Free, community-organised, and packed with practitioners.

Dublin's weekly tech afterwork social — free, recurring, and low-friction. Show up, find the room, meet people building things.

Dublin's low-key AI coffee meetup — casual enough for Saturday morning, substantive enough for real conversation. No agenda, no pitch decks: just AI talk and caffeine.

Dublin's weekly tech afterwork social — free, recurring, and low-friction. Show up, find the room, meet people building things.