Dublin AI Week 2026, October 2-9 in Dublin, Ireland: the community AI event week before the International AI Summit

Kathlin Jong

Last week, I had the opportunity to explore AI agents at the Hire Your First AI Colleague workshop, organised by Give(a)Go × Lua AI as part of Dublin AI Week. Rather than just learning about AI concepts, we had the opportunity to build and test an AI agent. Drawing on my experience in insurance and digital transformation, I chose to build a customer-facing AI support agent for insurance enquiries using Lua AI. The ag

Tithe Odeyemi

Last week I volunteered at Give(a)Go to help host Dublin AI Week, and it was one of the best weeks I’ve had in Dublin!🎊 From 2 to 9 October there were more than 35 free events across the city. I worked with Give(a)Go and helped with the organizing and support at four of them: 🔹 Opening Night at Baseline Community + Fund, where the week began.🚀 🔹 Hack for Humanity with The AI Collective, a one-day build event focu

Harshit Panchal

🏆 From an idea to 1st Place Overall at Notion Dublin × Dublin AI Week Hackathon! Last Friday, my team and I took part in the Notion × Lovable × Workday Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon, where we built PhysioPractice AI 🩺 💡 We had just three hours to take the challenge of improving student life with AI and technology and turn it into a working idea. Our idea was to make practical examination preparation more access

Valentina Diaz Estevez CPA

Dublin AI Week was a reminder of what happens when a community comes together to build, share ideas and open doors 💜 I was delighted to be part of Dublin AI Week, a week that brought together builders, founders, engineers and curious minds across Dublin through 35+ community-led AI events. One of the highlights was Women Who Build, organised by Avanti Rao and Micaela Serraiocco with Give(a)Goo. It was inspiring to s

Siddarth Thirunavukkarasu

After months of work behind the scenes, we've wrapped up the first-ever Dublin AI Week (presented by Give(a)Go), and what a week it was 😃! It was a community-led week of AI events in Dublin, right before Ireland hosted the International AI Summit as part of its EU Council Presidency. I led operations across 35+ events, 10 venues and around 3,000 attendees, with 40+ volunteers and countless other stakeholders along t

Pedro Fernandes

We had just over 3 hours to turn an idea into a working prototype... We ended up winning 1st place! 🏆🥇 Last week, my team and I won the Notion × Lovable × Workday Hackathon, part of Dublin AI Week! The event brought together 100+ students from universities across Ireland, with over 300 more on the waitlist! The challenge was simple: How can we use AI and technology to improve student life? We decided to focus on he

Shivani Satija

One month into my MBA in Dublin: learning business, navigating change and plenty of brainmaxxing! 🇮🇪 Some decisions stay on your list for years. For me, pursuing an MBA was one of them. After 10 years across strategy, consulting and programme management, I spent the last year at KPMG working on Agentic AI workflows. Dublin felt like the right place for this next step, with so much happening across AI, technology an

King Mbachu

We won Best Use of Notion! 🏆 As part of Dublin AI Week, I had the opportunity to take part in another amazing hackathon hosted by Give(a)Go and Notion and I’m delighted that our team came away with the award for Best Use of Notion. Notionary tackles a problem we experience as students: course knowledge is scattered across lecture slides, tutorials, transcripts, past papers and shared notes. Our solution was to turn

Eamon Leonard

Two grassroots endeavours ran back-to-back in Dublin over the past two weeks: the first Dublin AI Week, organised by Give(a)Go and Baseline Community + Fund, and Rebase organised by Frontline Ventures and again, Baseline. By themselves, they would have been notable events, but in combination, something really special to Dublin. Dublin AI Week brought 4,000 people to 35 community organised events in venues across the

Aman Vijra

🤖 Building solutions for Ireland using AI On 4 October, I had the opportunity to volunteer at Build for Ireland, organised as part of Dublin AI Week in collaboration with OpenAI, Give(a)Go, and Dogpatch Labs. The hackathon brought together 32 teams working to address some of Ireland’s pressing challenges, including housing, renewable energy utilisation, traffic congestion, infrastructure, and local services. As an M

Arko Ganguli

What a week in Dublin! Dublin AI Week turned out to be much more than a series of AI events. It was a week of building, conversations, reconnecting with the Irish startup ecosystem, and being reminded why I love entrepreneurship. The biggest part of the week was taking part in Baseline Community + Fund Pressure Cooker challenge alongside Shalki Nagpal. The premise was simple: build something from scratch in a matter

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

Yet another amazing evening at Dublin AI Week! The more I dive into the world of AI, the more I realise that building intelligent agents is about so much more than just choosing the right LLM. And this evening was a perfect reminder of that! As part of Dublin AI Week, I had the opportunity to attend MongoDB: Memory for AI Applications and honestly, it was such an exciting learning experience! We explored how AI agent

Dogpatch Labs

Dublin AI Week at Dogpatch Labs brought founders, engineers, student teams, and creatives into the building for hackathons, hardware builds, product sessions, and live demos. Projects ranged from AI agents controlling lights and motors over WhatsApp to prototypes for public services, student-built rockets, and AI-assisted advertising. Hack for Humanity | The AI Collective × Give(a)Go Builders developed prototypes add

Monica Rodriguez

I think this is what they mean by scaling? In just a month, the Base44 Community Team went from supporting a few IRL ambassador and partner community events to covering over 10 event this week alone! Here’s a look back on last week: 🟠 Micaela Serraiocco and Avanti Rao brought Women Who Build with Give(a)Go to Dublin AI Week. 🟠 Balint Somos of Somos Media opened up his office in Kecskemét, Hungary for a Base44 meetu

Sude Unal

🏆 3rd place at the Notion × Lovable Student Hackathon! This past Friday I joined a hackathon backed by Give(a)Go as part of Dublin AI Week. Out of 300+ applications, our team got a spot, which honestly still feels a bit surreal👩‍🏫 Placing was great, but what I'll remember most is the room itself: so many sharp, curious people to talk to and learn from. Our project was Bookmarked, an AI-powered library assistant bu

Dwiparna Pal

In September I went to Ideas Fest and noticed the real connections weren’t happening on stage. They were happening in the coffee queue. Wednesday night was my attempt to bring a glimpse of that to Dublin. I was craving a proper conversation, not another bot or the newest LLM, about how to use AI as a skill for repetitive, complex work, and as a tool for growth, not a limit or a replacement. So the Rebel Meetups by Re

Akhtar Kamal

🧠 Most AI agents forget everything the moment a session ends. Last week I learned how to change that. As part of Dublin AI Week I attended “Make Your Agents Remember: AI Memory Workshop & Retrieval Challenge” at the MongoDB Dublin office, hosted by Harshit Mehta and Suhani Chawla Big thanks to Mayank & Harshit for the invite. 🙌 It was a hands-on evening: laptops open, a live lab, and a room full of builders asking

Abraham Tukai

Took the leap and jumped into my very first hackathon this weekend! 👾 I spent last Friday at TU Dublin for the Notion x Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon. The room was packed with 100+ students from all over Ireland, all focused on one goal: using AI to tackle real problems in student life. To tackle the language barriers many international students face, our team created Mosaic AI. An intelligent study assistant. It

Lea Stan

Nearly 300 registrations. 13+ universities. 100 students. And a LOT of pizza🍕 Yesterday, we brought Notion Loves Dublin × Dublin AI Week: Student Hackathon to Technological University Dublin Grangegorman! The ideas were genuinely impressive, but what made the day so special was the atmosphere. Rooms full of students brainstorming, building, helping each other out, and meeting people from universities and colleges ac

Lam Xiang Le

I’m excited to share that my first hackathon ended with a 1st place win at the Notion × Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon, alongside an incredible team! We built PyschioPractiseAI, an intelligent practical exam simulator designed to make practical examination support more accessible to healthcare students, using Lovable. For healthcare students, practising clinical examination techniques without a tutor by their side

Sergei Malyshev

If you'd told me two months ago that a hackathon would lead to this weekend, I probably wouldn't have believed you. Two months ago, I met Sam and Germain at the Agentic GTM Hackathon. We won, decided to keep building something on the side, and Winmo AI was born. Since then, we've signed our first customer, made the top 3 at Give(a)Go's Pressure Cooker during Dublin AI Week, and somehow earned ourselves an invitation

Evrim Kanbur

One of the best ways to make new friends in a new city is to put a bunch of cool and creative minds in a room, give them amazing AI tools, a tight deadline, and see what happens. Last week, I attended the Creative AI for Advertising Hackathon, organized by Give(a)Go and Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week , with support from Napkin AI , HeyGen and fal . Definitely, it was one of the most enjoyable events I’ve att

Ethan Mc Candless

100 students, more than 13 universities and a room exploding with ideas at Technological University Dublin 🙌 Last Friday I travelled down from Belfast to co-host the Notion × Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon with Lea Stan and Nadyla Barbosa, my fellow Notion Campus Leaders! I don’t think people realise how much goes on behind the scenes to make a day like this go smoothly. Thank you both for inviting me to your uni

Komal Raj Mahantesh

🇮🇪 Dublin AI Week 2026: A Reflection on the Future of AI and Data 🚀 A sincere appreciation to the Dublin AI Week organising team and everyone contributing to Ireland’s growing AI ecosystem for bringing together people passionate about artificial intelligence, innovation, and emerging technologies. Their efforts help create an environment where people can share ideas, learn from one another, and explore the future

Bruna Marcolongo Schmitz

Thrilled with the outcome of the recent Ladies That UX Dublin event! Sharing the stage with Leigh Harrison (Product Manager) and Eduarda Scharnhorst (Software Engineer) was such a rewarding experience. We dived deep into what cross-functional alignment really means when navigating high-stakes projects with complex dependencies, balancing user needs, business goals, design requirements, and technical constraints. Coll

Sai Harshit Thota

What an incredible success at the Creative AI for Advertising Hackathon, hosted at Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week! 🤖🚀 In just such a short time , participants went from a blank canvas to original character concepts, storyboards, and full-fledged video ads exploring first-hand how generative AI is reshaping the future of modern advertising. A massive thank you to everyone who brought this event to life: Par

Sravanthi Sunnam

A great way to wrap up Dublin AI Week One takeaway from the Forward Deployed Engineering event really stayed with me: quality starts with understanding the problem, not just testing the solution. As a Quality Engineer, I’ve worked across requirements, test automation, APIs, CI/CD and release quality. The event reinforced how important it is to understand real customer workflows, build practical solutions and take the

Nadyla Barbosa

WE ACTUALLY DID IT 🥳🎉 We've hosted Notion 🖤 Dublin × Dublin AI Week's Student Hackathon, with almost 300 registrations from 13+ universities all gathered in Technological University Dublin! Getting here involved a LOT of emails, phone calls, last-minute problem-solving, and figuring things out as we went. Turns out, organising an event is its own kind of debugging. And the pizza situation tested me more than any b

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

I went to a Forward Deployed Engineering event during Dublin AI Week. One idea stayed with me: Building useful software starts with getting close enough to understand the customer's daily work, constraints, and exceptions. I'm not a forward deployed engineer. I work in financial data and operations. So I tried to explain the role through work I know: reconciliation ReconEdge. In this edition of All Tech Related Info,

Eamon Leonard

6 weeks ago we were bouncing some ideas around with our friends Harsh, Sanat, and a few members of their Give(a)Go community about what we should do to kick off Dublin AI Week. We thought it'd be cool to extend the standard weekend hackathon format into a week long startup build. Not just a quick demo or prototype, but something more substantial: real product being used by real users, or with real customers. What cou

Klaudia Obieglo

AI should take over the mundane parts of our jobs and stress test our thinking; but it shouldn’t replace it. That was the thread running through last night’s Triad Dynamics session, hosted by Ladies That UX Dublin in collaboration with Dublin AI Week, on how AI is changing the way Product, Engineering and Design work together. As we are asked to continuously produce more artifacts, work quicker and deliver more value

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 7 of my Dublin AI Week journey brought that question into focus at “Dark Factories != Dark Magic,” the Augmented Software Engineering meetup hosted by Phorest Software. An AI agent finishes writing the code. What evidence would make you comfortable approving it? The evening explored how to build, configure and run automated software factories, with Greg’s “The (un)scientific path towards a software factory” and R

Adesh Kumar Sharma

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 'AI in Development Lifecycle' event at the Workday Dublin office on October 6th, as part of the Dublin AI Week. As someone with a software development background and currently studying MSc in Computer Science (Data Science) at TU Dublin, it was really interesting to get to know how AI is applied beyond just generating code, and how professional engineering and product team

Daria Osypova

🚀 From 500+ applicants to the Top 8 teams at MongoDB Student Hackathon Builder Day! Last Saturday, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the MongoDB × Give(a)Go Student Builder Day Hackathon, hosted at Baseline Community + Fund in Dublin as part of Dublin AI Week! I was thrilled to be selected from over 500 applicants to take part in this event. Even more exciting, our team made it into the Top 8 out of

Apaar Mast

What matters with AI isn't who does the work. It's whether you can trust the outcome. That was my biggest takeaway from the Dublin AI Week event on Saturday. It was especially good to see Veronika Pushkina on the panel, a technical programme manager for AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a fellow MSc Digital Innovation graduate from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. She was joined by Alena Panshina, foun

Avanti Rao

Some evenings you leave with contacts. Monday night, I left with a feeling 💜 Micaela and I brought Women Who Build back with Give(a)Go for Dublin AI Week. I went in expecting a good evening but I came out with a room I'll remember for a long time ✨ One of the first people I met was Maria, who had already built a live app on Base44. She spent the night networking with people and helping beginners get started on their

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 6 of Dublin AI Week brought that question into focus at the Daytona HackSprint with Abundant and Geometric at Dogpatch Labs. 🇮🇪 Your AI agent completed the task. What evidence would convince you it did it correctly? I attended sessions by Meji Abidoye, Founder of Abundant, and Boris Albar from Geometric. Two ideas stayed with me. 1. Build the environment that reveals the failure. Meji’s session on evaluations a

Ishaan Anwar

Spent yesterday evening at the GTM Meetup at HubSpot House as part of Dublin AI Week . Really interesting discussion with Harry Arkwright from ElevenLabs , Josh Shih from Corgi and Patrick Hegarty from Sensiba LLP on what actually works when taking a product to market. One idea in particular stuck with me: AI can automate a huge amount of GTM. But it can’t replace understanding the customer. Harry spoke about how Ele

Laura Grace

Over the years, I’ve become very comfortable in my little bubble within the tourism industry. But as my business has grown, I’ve found myself becoming increasingly interested in the building side of things. The data, systems, analytics and technology behind how things actually work. I don’t come from a traditional tech background, and I think one of my biggest fears about stepping into that world was not having the l

Mansi Maurya

"Everyone checks what the AI got right. Nobody keeps track of what got rejected." 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗚𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 🍃 Last Saturday, I teamed up with Umer Karachiwala at the MongoDB × Give(a)Go Student Builder Day in Dublin, part of Dublin AI Week. One day. Two of us. One problem we both cared about. 🔍 The problem AI agents now take real actions: refunds, deployments, data exports.

Dheeraj Chavan

⚡ “Give an AI agent access to tools, and you give it a hundred new ways to break.” Last night, I attended Break the Agent at Dublin AI Week, a hands‑on AI security challenge where we skipped the slides and spent three hours breaking vulnerable AI agents. As LLMs evolve from isolated chatbots into autonomous agents with API access, database permissions and web browsing capabilities, the security conversation shifts. I

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 5 of Dublin AI Week. My fourth day taking part — this time as a participant after volunteering earlier in the week. “I have a startup. I have a great idea.” “If I raise funding, am I successful?” “If I don’t, have I failed?” Tonight’s GTM Meetup at HubSpot House in Dublin prompted me to think about how we measure startup progress. Raising capital is a milestone. So is finding a customer who pays, uses your produc

Nikhitha Naresh

Story time... It all started during a conversation with a complete stranger turned connection on Linkedin who pushed me to go this event (Thanks Martin B. Hansen)! More than 1.5 years in Ireland, and somehow, I had never been to a networking event. I've been to hackathons before. But hackathons are like you get technically immersed, you have a problem to solve, a team to work with, and your brain has somewhere to hid

Adityanarayanan Buddharajan

What if getting from A to B wasn’t just about finding the fastest route, but finding a route that you can actually use? In Ireland, accessibility is still a challenge across the transport journey, with the Government highlighting that many disabled people continue to face mobility barriers despite ongoing investment in accessible transport. Yesterday, at the Dublin AI Week Build for Ireland Hackathon, our team built

Aditya Kharbanda

Last Sunday, I took part in Give(a)Go ‘s Build for Ireland hackathon at Dogpatch Labs for the Dublin AI Week 🚨🚨 I teamed up with Abhinav Koul to build GridSense and we were one of the top 10 teams who got a chance to present our solution to the wider participants! In a nutshell, let me share the pitch for GridSense that got us selected into the top 10 teams. Ireland’s grid has a timing problem, so we built GridSens

Andrei Seleznev

Two hackathons. One weekend. Part of Dublin AI Week. 🤖 Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in two hackathons as part of Dublin AI Week, a citywide programme of practical AI events. 🔹MongoDB x Give(a)Go Hackathon 500+ people applied for the event, with only 80 places available. I was really happy to be selected for one of those spots and take part in the in-person hackathon at Baseline It was a grea

Haardik Mago

On Saturday, we placed 3rd at the MongoDB Student Builder Day in Dublin, and won a cash prize! 🏆 ⠀ → Run by MongoDB and Give(a)Go with Baseline Community + Fund as part of Dublin AI Week , and we were among the 80 builders selected out of 500+ applicants. ⠀ → With Konrad Kunkel and Aris Sokianos , I had just 3 hours to build. We discussed a few ideas and concluded to build Boomerang 🪃, a lost and found app where “G

The AI Collective: Europe

The AI Collective Dublin Chapter hosted our Hack for Humanity last weekend as part of Dublin AI Week, and what a day! We were delighted to have 15 teams come together to build practical, community-driven AI and software solutions to solve local and global human problems in less than three hours. Our winners were: Droichead | Built by Muhammad Murtuza Hussain | https://lnkd.in/djMYn_QS Our belief is simple. A wish to

Mariah Stewart

We are in the midst of Dublin AI Week and I'm looking forward to a packed schedule of events as the week continues! It has also made me reflect upon recent past events that I've attended, in particular: AI and your Business – what you need to know about effective use, safety and legal considerations by the Local Enterprise Office Dublin City Women in Business Network. Mná Made: Rewriting the Innovation Playbook hoste

Alen Sebastian Veliyathuparamban

🚀 Had an incredible time attending the #BuildforIreland hackathon as part of Dublin AI Week at Dogpatch Labs! 🇮🇪 ✨During this fast-paced event, my team and I built GP Ops—an AI operations layer designed to cut down administrative burden for Irish GP practices. 🩺🤖 Research shows Irish GPs spend nearly 17% of their working time on paperwork. GP Ops tackles this head-on with our product thesis: We don’t replace cli

AI DUBLINERS

Another Week in AI: This Time, Let’s Start with Dublin At the start of each week, I try to bring together some of the developments that caught my attention over the previous few days. And as another week begins, looking back at last week, things have certainly been busy here in Dublin. Dublin AI Week 2026 is underway. From 2–9 October, more than 35 events are taking place across Dublin, bringing together founders, re

Ronan Lundy

Week 39 of all things VISTY. On to the numbers: 4 new client meetings - 1 follow-up meeting - 2 new opportunities opened - 0 lost - 0 signed. Your network is your net worth… The good: 🔌 Had a number of calls with potential technology partners as I start planning for 2027. Year 1 was all about validating VISTY's offer - in other words - will people pay for it. Year 2 will be all about scaling with ambitious goals so

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 3 of my Dublin AI Week volunteering journey brought me to Dogpatch Labs for Build for Ireland, bringing together Give(a)Go, Dogpatch Labs and OpenAI. Teams, ideas and six hours of building for Ireland. 🇮🇪Congratulations to Flexplay and Vibra Scan, the winners at Build for Ireland—and to every team that turned an idea into something they could share with the room. 👏 The day’s agenda: 🕚 11:00 am — Doors open 🎤

Aditya Sharma

Most people only get to practise interviewing when the stakes are real. We wanted to change that in about 1.5 hours. At Hack for Humanity, part of Dublin AI Week, our team built Interview Buddy: an AI interview coach that lets you practise a live, spoken, on-camera interview and then shows you exactly where to improve. The problem is simple: • Human mock interviews are expensive, hard to schedule and not available to

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

From being selected among 100+ participants from 1000+ applications to making it into the Top 3 teams, I’m honestly still super excited about today! 🐾 I applied to Hack for Humanity mainly because I wanted the experience of participating in a hackathon, meeting other builders, and challenging myself to build something meaningful in just a few hours. I never imagined that we would go from simply being selected to par

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Two years ago, I arrived in Ireland to begin a new chapter. Today I wore a volunteer T-shirt at Dublin AI Week. A small moment, but one that means something to me. When you move to a new country, building a career also means finding your community. Finding people you can learn from, places where your curiosity belongs, and opportunities to contribute while you are still figuring things out. Day 1 of Dublin AI Week be

Eamon Leonard

Next Thursday 8th Oct, as the Dublin chapter of Rebase reaches its peak in the Guinness Storehouse, we'll announce the winner of The Pressure Cooker - an intense week of starting, building and launching a brand new startup from scratch as part of Dublin AI Week - and we'll invest €100,000 in the winner. Last month we announced we were opening applications, and over 100 teams applied to take part. We narrowed down the

Micaela Serraiocco

IT’S TODAY, IT’S TODAY Dublin AI Week is finally hereee And there’s an event for everyone: Friday, Oct 2 • Opening Night Saturday, Oct 3 • Hack for Humanity • AI Adoption: Startups vs Enterprise • MongoDB Student Builder Day • Agents Reading Group Sunday, Oct 4 • Grok Bot Dublin Builder Day • Build for Ireland Monday, Oct 5 • Women Who Build 💜 (organised by Avanti and me) • AI Week Coworking • EirSpace: Rockets, Dro

Razik Shariff

What if your product photos could become an interactive 3D experience? I'm working with Ray Mongey and Paul Butler Lennox as part of the #PressureCooker Challenge, and we're building something I've genuinely been excited to work on: HolosView. The problem were exploring is pretty straightforward. When you're buying something online, photos only show you so much. What if, instead of scrolling through a few product ima

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

Dublin AI Week 2026 I’m excited to be part of it! I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected to attend multiple hackathons and AI events during Dublin AI Week, taking place from October 2 to 9 across Dublin. There are 35+ events covering AI agents, LLMs, RAG, AI security, open source AI, startups, product and hackathons. Some events worth checking out: https://lnkd.in/d3s2zaGd Oct 2 • Opening Night Oct 3 • Hack for

Ray Mongey

This is a mildly ridiculous thing to attempt in a week. So naturally, we’re doing it. Three people. One idea. Only ten teams accepted to the challenge. Three finalists. Somewhere in between, we’re supposed to build a working software product, find real users, convince a few of them to become paying customers and try to win the #PressureCooker Challenge. No pressure, then. Our team is Paul Butler Lennox, Razik Shariff

Howard Kingston

One of AI's youngest billionaires just told everyone to master one skill. AI is the skill, and he's right about that. The problem is that knowing it and ACTUALLY being good at it are two different things. Plenty of founders know AI matters and still can't build one useful thing with it. 🫣 Reading about it tells you AI exists. It doesn't tell you where it breaks, what it's actually good for, or how it behaves in your

Dwiparna Pal

Real AI, Real Impact - A Festival of AI Roundtables 🎉🤖 Dublin AI Week is going to be full of hackathons, pitch competitions, and panels - people building under pressure. All good stuff. This one's different. In collaboration with Give(a)Go, turning this month's Rebel Meetups by Rebellious Co into a festival - six tables, six founders who are actually using AI to grow and solve real problems in their business. No st

Sonia Toqqe

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴? I've lost count of how many times I've had this exact conversation. So instead of explaining it one more time, I built something you can actually use. Meet CreaBuilders 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐫: 📡 +600 events across Europe in the coming weeks 🎫 Meetups, workshops, hackathons, roundtables, experiences, breakfasts, challenges... 💎 Manually curated

Alexandra (Sasha) Mikhailouskaya

Still slightly surprised to have been named a Community Champion at ShipItCon. Thank you. I’m honoured and humbled. The talks covered a great variety of themes, from engineering and sociotechnical principles to communication, collaboration under pressure, and the impact AI is already having on the SDLC and product development. AI can save time. But for what? How do we change the way we work when the technology change

Vishnupriyan Govindarajan

Knock knock GTM and Product folks! On 6 October, Product Garage is teaming up with Fierce Tech Founders and Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week for our biggest Garage session yet. And we’re keeping the format true to what we care about: 2 founders. 4 teams. 16 experienced operators. Real B2B growth problems. No panels. No passive networking. The founders will bring live challenges around things like GTM, pricing,

Vikas Prasanna

Big one for us. 🚀 On 6 October, Product Garage is teaming up with Fierce Tech Founders and Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week for our biggest Garage session yet. And we’re keeping the format true to what we are all about: 2 founders. 4 teams. 16 experienced operators. Real B2B growth problems. No panels. No passive networking. The founders will bring live challenges around things like GTM, pricing, positioning,

Alexandra (Sasha) Mikhailouskaya

A big thank you to everyone who made the August CTO Craft Dublin Mixer happen, and especially to our sponsors, Phorest Software, and to the panelists who shared their experience so openly. The role of senior leaders is changing as we speak. It's increasingly about getting hands-on, showing the way, helping teams understand what good AI adoption/absorbtion looks like, and creating the conditions for people to experime

Tire Aruwajoye

Delighted to have been selected from over 300 applicants to participate in my first-ever hackathon on Friday at the Notion Loves Dublin × Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon. The challenge was straightforward: How can we use AI and technology to make student life better? Using Notion, Notion AI and Lovable, my team and I developed AccessPath AI, an AI-powered student support navigator designed to help students discover

Adarsh E Reji

Dublin AI Week was a good one ☄️ I went to the Dublin MongoDB User Group workshop on giving AI agents memory. Agents are great at generating answers but forget everything once the conversation ends, so this one was about fixing that. We built a memory-augmented agent in Jupyter notebook, and a few things stuck with me: 💠 Agents need both short-term and long-term memory to keep context 💠 Memory isn’t just storing th

Halimat Oyawoye

Last week I took part in the Notion Loves Dublin x Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon, and I am still thinking about how much a team can get done in one day. The challenge was how we could use AI and technology to improve student life. My team focused on a problem: taking notes while listening to a lecture can be hard and it's even harder if you're deaf or hard of hearing, or if the lecture is in a language you're stil

Diarmuid Brady

Learning a new skillset during Dublin AI Week Over the past few months, I’ve stayed involved with Give(a)Go, now as a volunteer. Thanks to Harsh, Sanat, and Siddarth, I’ve learned about how the events run. During Dublin AI Week, I helped run four events at 1WML, Grant Thornton Ireland, and Dogpatch Labs. On Friday, I stepped up as team lead and facilitator to run the final event, Creative AI for Advertising, where at

Iniya Baskaran

I had the amazing opportunity to present my app, Gymento, at Demos Anon, Dublin AI Week! Gymento is the first-ever truly gamified gym app powered by AI and computer vision. I built it for beginners who struggle to get to the gym because they lack motivation and guidance. Gymento is your handler, and you’re a secret agent who climbs the ranks of the bureau by keeping your streak alive. Every piece of equipment in your

Jason Ogwueleka

🏆 3rd Place at the Notion × Lovable Student Hackathon! On Friday, I had the opportunity to take part in an incredible hackathon sponsored by Give(a)Go as part of Dublin AI Week , where my team were selected to participate from 300+ applicants! Beyond the result, one of the best parts of the experience was meeting so many talented builders and learning from people who are passionate about innovation. We built Bookmar

Mihir Maurya

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to take part in Build for Ireland — OpenAI x Give(a)Go x Dogpatch Labs 🇮🇪. Together with my teammates, we built FixMyArea : a civic-assistance platform that helps people take the right next step when they encounter issues like broken streetlights, illegal dumping, or electronic waste. The flow is simple: 📸 Upload a photo 🤖 AI identifies the issue 📍 Location + Irish public data id

Tania Gamboa Rojas

From idea to digital product: a day of AI, teamwork and bold ideas ✨ During the full-day Grok builder event at Dublin AI Week, I had the opportunity to meet talented people, hear innovative ideas and work alongside an incredible team of women. In just two hours, our team shaped and presented TaxPal: an AI expense tracker designed to help people in Ireland organise their expenses and understand which ones may be tax-d

Vanessa John Lobo

Had a great evening at the Daytona HackSprint during Dublin AI Week! 🚀 Two talks that really got me thinking: Boris Albar from Geometric broke down how agents are taking on more and more GPU optimisation work through a loop of searching for better programs, revising the language itself, and then evaluating what actually helped. What stuck with me was the evaluation step: keeping only what works at equal cost, and fe

First one, and definitely not the last. 🚀 My journey into hackathons has begun, and now I’m only hungry for more. Last Friday, 9th of October, we had the pleasure of taking part in Notion’s hackathon. This event pushed us to explore our creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, which I must say, was absolutely enjoyable. The challenge was to build a solution that could improve student life, whether through l

Alexandra (Sasha) Mikhailouskaya

Another great CTO Craft Mixer, this time as part of Dublin AI Week. Thank you to Ashutosh Saxena for making it happen, Stephen Healy and Bank of Ireland for being such great hosts, Kateryna Svezhentseva for amazing pictures, and especially Su/Sukhmani Khanna for sharing the fascinating story of building an AI organisation capable of supporting her across practically every aspect of running a startup. What I find amaz

I’m scared of hackathons. Not because of the people but because I always thought I wasn’t a good enough builder to contribute? Last Friday, I popped along to the Notion x Lovable hackathon as part of Dublin AI Week with 90 students and 300+ more on the waitlist 🤯... Organised by our stellar Notion Campus Leaders (s/o Lea Stan, Ethan Mc Candless, Nadyla Barbosa) the brief was simple - use Notion and Lovable to build

Alina Bolshakova

Dublin AI Week has come to an end, but what a week it was! 🚀 I joined three events, got hands-on with AI, and built things I can actually use. Here are my highlights: 🔹 Women Who Build: a beautiful event where I built an app in Base44 that automates the weekly cost-per-item (CPI) analysis I do at work. It generates a summary of cost changes, key drivers and recommendations, plus a waterfall chart. What used to take

Jim Tan

Could you invent a brand character and turn it into an ad in just 90 minutes? 🎨⚡ That was the challenge at Creative AI for Advertising, part of Dublin AI Week. In teams of two, we went from an original character idea to a brand world, storyboards and an ad, all while learning what makes characters like the Michelin Man (Michelin) and Duo (Duolingo) so memorable. My favourite takeaway: AI can speed up the making, but

Kota

Dublin made us proud last week 💜 Dublin AI Week brought 35+ community-led AI events to the city from 2 to 9 October, and we were proud to sponsor two of them. 📍 Women Who Build @ Chartered Accountants Ireland, where Avanti Rao and Micaela Serraiocco brought their series back with Give(a)Go. The room was full of women building with AI, some for the very first time and some with years of experience behind them, and e

AI DUBLINERS

Another AI-filled week comes to an end in Ireland! 🇮🇪 Today marks the final day of Dublin AI Week, taking place across Dublin from 2–9 October. With over 35 events on the programme, including workshops, hackathons and meetups, Dublin AI Week has brought together entrepreneurs, developers, researchers and AI enthusiasts across the city. And the AI momentum hasn’t been limited to Dublin. In the west of Ireland, itag

Cara Kelly

Went to an inspirational talk this morning by Su/Sukhmani Khanna at a CTO Craft event as part of Dublin AI Week, and it gave a fascinating glimpse into the future of work.​Su spoke about her new startup, Plinker which operates with a unique (although increasingly common), team structure: 12 AI agents and 1 human.​What makes this setup compelling isn't just the ratio—it’s how the agents collaborate, continuously learn

Madhu Sudhan

This week I joined two Dublin AI Week events: the Lua AI Build Night and the session at Workday. At Lua, builders went from zero to working AI agents in a single evening using AgentOS. At Workday, the conversation moved to the other side: what happens when AI produces work faster than people can review it. Having worked on LLM benchmarking and AI research myself, that tension felt very familiar. In one of my own proj

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

From 150 builders to building WayAble! 💥 This Sunday, I had the opportunity to be one of 150 selected builders at the OpenAI Hackathon Build for Ireland during Dublin AI Week and what an experience! Our team built Wayable a Dublin first accessibility aware journey planner designed to help wheelchair users and people with low vision navigate more confidently. From integrating FastAPI routing APIs, NTA GTFS transit da

Ashutosh Saxena

It was a packed room for CTO Craft Dublin on Tuesday, despite the wet morning. We took a deep dive into what it actually means to lead agents, not just humans. Su/Sukhmani Khanna took us inside how she works with her team of AI agents: delegating work across a hierarchy of agents, with everything coming together in a daily morning briefing from Aoife, her Artificially Intelligent Chief of Staff. It was interesting to

The AI Collective: Europe

There's never been a better time to start building with AI in Dublin, Ireland! Earlier this month on September 9, Baseline Community + Fund, Lovable, and The AI Collective Dublin chapter hosted "Pilots and Prototypes: Stop Waiting, Start Building!" By the end of the night, everyone in attendance - from government employees to seasoned backend developers - had built an initial prototype of some kind. A pet horoscope s

Andrew T.

This week I went to the GTM Meetup at HubSpot House, part of Dublin AI Week, organized by Give(a)Go. Three speakers: Patrick from Sensiba LLP, Harry from ElevenLabs and Josh from Corgi. Different companies, different stages. But all three kept coming back to the same thing: human connection. The opportunity right now isn't to replace people with AI. It's to automate enough of the busywork that we get our time back fo

Veronica Surkova

✨ ADLC in Practice Join us for an upcoming event covering specification-driven development, AI in CI, and AI cost reduction, with perspectives from Workday product and engineering teams. AI is reshaping our work, and this is a great opportunity to learn and hear first-hand what our speakers have learned in practice, ask questions, and share what you're seeing in your own work. Everyone from product and engineering we

Darragh O'Connor

Great to catch the tail end of the Dublin AI Week at Baseline Community + Fund on Thomas Street! Huge thanks to the team at MongoDB and Suhani Chawla (from Kota) for the invite. It was fantastic connecting with the local AI community and diving into some practical, real-world implementations within the space. A few key takeaways from the event: - Building with Customers: Suhani hosted a stellar panel on Forward Deplo

Safiya Fathima Syed

One month into living in Dublin, and I’ve already had the chance to volunteer at the Notion x Dublin AI Week Hackathon last Friday! Full disclosure: I initially wanted to participate in the hackathon but ended up on the waitlist. 💔 As it turned out, I got the opportunity to experience the event from a different perspective as a volunteer instead. 🙂‍↔️ It was amazing to be back in an environment filled with undergra

Ekene Ochuba

500+ applicants, 80 students selected, 21 teams competing, and our team made the final 8! Last Saturday, I joined the MongoDB × Give(a)Go Student Builder Day as part of Dublin AI Week, where our team built Mend AI (Know Before You Rent). The question we wanted to answer was simple; Is this rent fair? Mend AI lets renters explore properties on an interactive 3D map, compare asking prices against official CSO/RTB renta

Razik Shariff

HolosView 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲. In less than a week, we built HolosView from scratch, got the app live, connected the full video-to-3D pipeline, added payments and started putting it in front of real businesses. The idea is simple: Take a short phone video of a physical product → upload it → get an interactive 3D experience that customers can rotate, zoom, share or embed on a website. I tested it with a statue in my

Ihor Ivanchenko

I participated in my first-ever hackathon! 🚀 Last friday, as part of the Dublin AI Week I had an opportunity to participate in a hackathon hosted by Notion and Give(a)Go. Together with over 100 students from universities across Ireland, we tackled everyday student problems using AI. Along with Cormac Kildea, Maksym Chechotkin, Maksym Shtymak and Krushal Sharmu, we built a tool designed to ensure students never miss

Ali Hassan

Yesterday I spent an evening trying to break AI agents, and I loved every minute of it. "Breaks the Agent: An Agent Security CTF" put us up against agents wired to real tools, and the job was simple: make them do things they shouldn't. It's a fun way to see how fragile agents can be once they can act, not just chat. What I took away: 🔒 Least privilege. Give an agent only the tools and permissions it needs. Nothing m

Ashutosh Saxena

What does engineering leadership look like when your team isn’t entirely human? On 6 October, CTO Craft Dublin is getting together for a breakfast session as part of Dublin AI Week Our speaker, Su/Sukhmani Khanna, has spent the past few months working with a team of 14 AI agents which are not just individual but have different roles and responsibilities, and even a hierarchy where agents coordinate and direct other a

Ray Mongey

Im only just catching up with life after the madness of Dublin AI Week. I think my brain is still buffering! 😂 A massive thank you to Eamon Leonard, Fiona, Baseline Community + Fund and Give(a)Go for putting together such a brilliant week and giving 10 teams the slightly bonkers challenge of building a real business in less than a week! And a huge thanks to Paul Butler Lennox and Razik Shariff for joining me on this

Micaela Serraiocco

If you live in Ireland and are into AI, this is where you need to be next month. Dublin AI Week is running 2–9 October, organised by Give(a)Go and Baseline Community + Fund in collaboration with sponsors and local communities. There are 35+ free events happening across the city (yes, for free). Workshops, building sessions, and the chance to connect with people from all backgrounds. Here are some events I wouldn't mi

Kathlin Jong

Last week, I had the opportunity to explore AI agents at the Hire Your First AI Colleague workshop, organised by Give(a)Go × Lua AI as part of Dublin AI Week. Rather than just learning about AI concepts, we had the opportunity to build and test an AI agent. Drawing on my experience in insurance and digital transformation, I chose to build a customer-facing AI support agent for insurance enquiries using Lua AI. The ag

Tithe Odeyemi

Last week I volunteered at Give(a)Go to help host Dublin AI Week, and it was one of the best weeks I’ve had in Dublin!🎊 From 2 to 9 October there were more than 35 free events across the city. I worked with Give(a)Go and helped with the organizing and support at four of them: 🔹 Opening Night at Baseline Community + Fund, where the week began.🚀 🔹 Hack for Humanity with The AI Collective, a one-day build event focu

Harshit Panchal

🏆 From an idea to 1st Place Overall at Notion Dublin × Dublin AI Week Hackathon! Last Friday, my team and I took part in the Notion × Lovable × Workday Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon, where we built PhysioPractice AI 🩺 💡 We had just three hours to take the challenge of improving student life with AI and technology and turn it into a working idea. Our idea was to make practical examination preparation more access

Valentina Diaz Estevez CPA

Dublin AI Week was a reminder of what happens when a community comes together to build, share ideas and open doors 💜 I was delighted to be part of Dublin AI Week, a week that brought together builders, founders, engineers and curious minds across Dublin through 35+ community-led AI events. One of the highlights was Women Who Build, organised by Avanti Rao and Micaela Serraiocco with Give(a)Goo. It was inspiring to s

Siddarth Thirunavukkarasu

After months of work behind the scenes, we've wrapped up the first-ever Dublin AI Week (presented by Give(a)Go), and what a week it was 😃! It was a community-led week of AI events in Dublin, right before Ireland hosted the International AI Summit as part of its EU Council Presidency. I led operations across 35+ events, 10 venues and around 3,000 attendees, with 40+ volunteers and countless other stakeholders along t

Pedro Fernandes

We had just over 3 hours to turn an idea into a working prototype... We ended up winning 1st place! 🏆🥇 Last week, my team and I won the Notion × Lovable × Workday Hackathon, part of Dublin AI Week! The event brought together 100+ students from universities across Ireland, with over 300 more on the waitlist! The challenge was simple: How can we use AI and technology to improve student life? We decided to focus on he

Shivani Satija

One month into my MBA in Dublin: learning business, navigating change and plenty of brainmaxxing! 🇮🇪 Some decisions stay on your list for years. For me, pursuing an MBA was one of them. After 10 years across strategy, consulting and programme management, I spent the last year at KPMG working on Agentic AI workflows. Dublin felt like the right place for this next step, with so much happening across AI, technology an

King Mbachu

We won Best Use of Notion! 🏆 As part of Dublin AI Week, I had the opportunity to take part in another amazing hackathon hosted by Give(a)Go and Notion and I’m delighted that our team came away with the award for Best Use of Notion. Notionary tackles a problem we experience as students: course knowledge is scattered across lecture slides, tutorials, transcripts, past papers and shared notes. Our solution was to turn

Eamon Leonard

Two grassroots endeavours ran back-to-back in Dublin over the past two weeks: the first Dublin AI Week, organised by Give(a)Go and Baseline Community + Fund, and Rebase organised by Frontline Ventures and again, Baseline. By themselves, they would have been notable events, but in combination, something really special to Dublin. Dublin AI Week brought 4,000 people to 35 community organised events in venues across the

Aman Vijra

🤖 Building solutions for Ireland using AI On 4 October, I had the opportunity to volunteer at Build for Ireland, organised as part of Dublin AI Week in collaboration with OpenAI, Give(a)Go, and Dogpatch Labs. The hackathon brought together 32 teams working to address some of Ireland’s pressing challenges, including housing, renewable energy utilisation, traffic congestion, infrastructure, and local services. As an M

Arko Ganguli

What a week in Dublin! Dublin AI Week turned out to be much more than a series of AI events. It was a week of building, conversations, reconnecting with the Irish startup ecosystem, and being reminded why I love entrepreneurship. The biggest part of the week was taking part in Baseline Community + Fund Pressure Cooker challenge alongside Shalki Nagpal. The premise was simple: build something from scratch in a matter

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

Yet another amazing evening at Dublin AI Week! The more I dive into the world of AI, the more I realise that building intelligent agents is about so much more than just choosing the right LLM. And this evening was a perfect reminder of that! As part of Dublin AI Week, I had the opportunity to attend MongoDB: Memory for AI Applications and honestly, it was such an exciting learning experience! We explored how AI agent

Dogpatch Labs

Dublin AI Week at Dogpatch Labs brought founders, engineers, student teams, and creatives into the building for hackathons, hardware builds, product sessions, and live demos. Projects ranged from AI agents controlling lights and motors over WhatsApp to prototypes for public services, student-built rockets, and AI-assisted advertising. Hack for Humanity | The AI Collective × Give(a)Go Builders developed prototypes add

Monica Rodriguez

I think this is what they mean by scaling? In just a month, the Base44 Community Team went from supporting a few IRL ambassador and partner community events to covering over 10 event this week alone! Here’s a look back on last week: 🟠 Micaela Serraiocco and Avanti Rao brought Women Who Build with Give(a)Go to Dublin AI Week. 🟠 Balint Somos of Somos Media opened up his office in Kecskemét, Hungary for a Base44 meetu

Sude Unal

🏆 3rd place at the Notion × Lovable Student Hackathon! This past Friday I joined a hackathon backed by Give(a)Go as part of Dublin AI Week. Out of 300+ applications, our team got a spot, which honestly still feels a bit surreal👩‍🏫 Placing was great, but what I'll remember most is the room itself: so many sharp, curious people to talk to and learn from. Our project was Bookmarked, an AI-powered library assistant bu

Dwiparna Pal

In September I went to Ideas Fest and noticed the real connections weren’t happening on stage. They were happening in the coffee queue. Wednesday night was my attempt to bring a glimpse of that to Dublin. I was craving a proper conversation, not another bot or the newest LLM, about how to use AI as a skill for repetitive, complex work, and as a tool for growth, not a limit or a replacement. So the Rebel Meetups by Re

Akhtar Kamal

🧠 Most AI agents forget everything the moment a session ends. Last week I learned how to change that. As part of Dublin AI Week I attended “Make Your Agents Remember: AI Memory Workshop & Retrieval Challenge” at the MongoDB Dublin office, hosted by Harshit Mehta and Suhani Chawla Big thanks to Mayank & Harshit for the invite. 🙌 It was a hands-on evening: laptops open, a live lab, and a room full of builders asking

Abraham Tukai

Took the leap and jumped into my very first hackathon this weekend! 👾 I spent last Friday at TU Dublin for the Notion x Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon. The room was packed with 100+ students from all over Ireland, all focused on one goal: using AI to tackle real problems in student life. To tackle the language barriers many international students face, our team created Mosaic AI. An intelligent study assistant. It

Lea Stan

Nearly 300 registrations. 13+ universities. 100 students. And a LOT of pizza🍕 Yesterday, we brought Notion Loves Dublin × Dublin AI Week: Student Hackathon to Technological University Dublin Grangegorman! The ideas were genuinely impressive, but what made the day so special was the atmosphere. Rooms full of students brainstorming, building, helping each other out, and meeting people from universities and colleges ac

Lam Xiang Le

I’m excited to share that my first hackathon ended with a 1st place win at the Notion × Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon, alongside an incredible team! We built PyschioPractiseAI, an intelligent practical exam simulator designed to make practical examination support more accessible to healthcare students, using Lovable. For healthcare students, practising clinical examination techniques without a tutor by their side

Sergei Malyshev

If you'd told me two months ago that a hackathon would lead to this weekend, I probably wouldn't have believed you. Two months ago, I met Sam and Germain at the Agentic GTM Hackathon. We won, decided to keep building something on the side, and Winmo AI was born. Since then, we've signed our first customer, made the top 3 at Give(a)Go's Pressure Cooker during Dublin AI Week, and somehow earned ourselves an invitation

Evrim Kanbur

One of the best ways to make new friends in a new city is to put a bunch of cool and creative minds in a room, give them amazing AI tools, a tight deadline, and see what happens. Last week, I attended the Creative AI for Advertising Hackathon, organized by Give(a)Go and Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week , with support from Napkin AI , HeyGen and fal . Definitely, it was one of the most enjoyable events I’ve att

Ethan Mc Candless

100 students, more than 13 universities and a room exploding with ideas at Technological University Dublin 🙌 Last Friday I travelled down from Belfast to co-host the Notion × Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon with Lea Stan and Nadyla Barbosa, my fellow Notion Campus Leaders! I don’t think people realise how much goes on behind the scenes to make a day like this go smoothly. Thank you both for inviting me to your uni

Komal Raj Mahantesh

🇮🇪 Dublin AI Week 2026: A Reflection on the Future of AI and Data 🚀 A sincere appreciation to the Dublin AI Week organising team and everyone contributing to Ireland’s growing AI ecosystem for bringing together people passionate about artificial intelligence, innovation, and emerging technologies. Their efforts help create an environment where people can share ideas, learn from one another, and explore the future

Bruna Marcolongo Schmitz

Thrilled with the outcome of the recent Ladies That UX Dublin event! Sharing the stage with Leigh Harrison (Product Manager) and Eduarda Scharnhorst (Software Engineer) was such a rewarding experience. We dived deep into what cross-functional alignment really means when navigating high-stakes projects with complex dependencies, balancing user needs, business goals, design requirements, and technical constraints. Coll

Sai Harshit Thota

What an incredible success at the Creative AI for Advertising Hackathon, hosted at Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week! 🤖🚀 In just such a short time , participants went from a blank canvas to original character concepts, storyboards, and full-fledged video ads exploring first-hand how generative AI is reshaping the future of modern advertising. A massive thank you to everyone who brought this event to life: Par

Sravanthi Sunnam

A great way to wrap up Dublin AI Week One takeaway from the Forward Deployed Engineering event really stayed with me: quality starts with understanding the problem, not just testing the solution. As a Quality Engineer, I’ve worked across requirements, test automation, APIs, CI/CD and release quality. The event reinforced how important it is to understand real customer workflows, build practical solutions and take the

Nadyla Barbosa

WE ACTUALLY DID IT 🥳🎉 We've hosted Notion 🖤 Dublin × Dublin AI Week's Student Hackathon, with almost 300 registrations from 13+ universities all gathered in Technological University Dublin! Getting here involved a LOT of emails, phone calls, last-minute problem-solving, and figuring things out as we went. Turns out, organising an event is its own kind of debugging. And the pizza situation tested me more than any b

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

I went to a Forward Deployed Engineering event during Dublin AI Week. One idea stayed with me: Building useful software starts with getting close enough to understand the customer's daily work, constraints, and exceptions. I'm not a forward deployed engineer. I work in financial data and operations. So I tried to explain the role through work I know: reconciliation ReconEdge. In this edition of All Tech Related Info,

Eamon Leonard

6 weeks ago we were bouncing some ideas around with our friends Harsh, Sanat, and a few members of their Give(a)Go community about what we should do to kick off Dublin AI Week. We thought it'd be cool to extend the standard weekend hackathon format into a week long startup build. Not just a quick demo or prototype, but something more substantial: real product being used by real users, or with real customers. What cou

Klaudia Obieglo

AI should take over the mundane parts of our jobs and stress test our thinking; but it shouldn’t replace it. That was the thread running through last night’s Triad Dynamics session, hosted by Ladies That UX Dublin in collaboration with Dublin AI Week, on how AI is changing the way Product, Engineering and Design work together. As we are asked to continuously produce more artifacts, work quicker and deliver more value

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 7 of my Dublin AI Week journey brought that question into focus at “Dark Factories != Dark Magic,” the Augmented Software Engineering meetup hosted by Phorest Software. An AI agent finishes writing the code. What evidence would make you comfortable approving it? The evening explored how to build, configure and run automated software factories, with Greg’s “The (un)scientific path towards a software factory” and R

Adesh Kumar Sharma

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 'AI in Development Lifecycle' event at the Workday Dublin office on October 6th, as part of the Dublin AI Week. As someone with a software development background and currently studying MSc in Computer Science (Data Science) at TU Dublin, it was really interesting to get to know how AI is applied beyond just generating code, and how professional engineering and product team

Daria Osypova

🚀 From 500+ applicants to the Top 8 teams at MongoDB Student Hackathon Builder Day! Last Saturday, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the MongoDB × Give(a)Go Student Builder Day Hackathon, hosted at Baseline Community + Fund in Dublin as part of Dublin AI Week! I was thrilled to be selected from over 500 applicants to take part in this event. Even more exciting, our team made it into the Top 8 out of

Apaar Mast

What matters with AI isn't who does the work. It's whether you can trust the outcome. That was my biggest takeaway from the Dublin AI Week event on Saturday. It was especially good to see Veronika Pushkina on the panel, a technical programme manager for AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a fellow MSc Digital Innovation graduate from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. She was joined by Alena Panshina, foun

Avanti Rao

Some evenings you leave with contacts. Monday night, I left with a feeling 💜 Micaela and I brought Women Who Build back with Give(a)Go for Dublin AI Week. I went in expecting a good evening but I came out with a room I'll remember for a long time ✨ One of the first people I met was Maria, who had already built a live app on Base44. She spent the night networking with people and helping beginners get started on their

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 6 of Dublin AI Week brought that question into focus at the Daytona HackSprint with Abundant and Geometric at Dogpatch Labs. 🇮🇪 Your AI agent completed the task. What evidence would convince you it did it correctly? I attended sessions by Meji Abidoye, Founder of Abundant, and Boris Albar from Geometric. Two ideas stayed with me. 1. Build the environment that reveals the failure. Meji’s session on evaluations a

Ishaan Anwar

Spent yesterday evening at the GTM Meetup at HubSpot House as part of Dublin AI Week . Really interesting discussion with Harry Arkwright from ElevenLabs , Josh Shih from Corgi and Patrick Hegarty from Sensiba LLP on what actually works when taking a product to market. One idea in particular stuck with me: AI can automate a huge amount of GTM. But it can’t replace understanding the customer. Harry spoke about how Ele

Laura Grace

Over the years, I’ve become very comfortable in my little bubble within the tourism industry. But as my business has grown, I’ve found myself becoming increasingly interested in the building side of things. The data, systems, analytics and technology behind how things actually work. I don’t come from a traditional tech background, and I think one of my biggest fears about stepping into that world was not having the l

Mansi Maurya

"Everyone checks what the AI got right. Nobody keeps track of what got rejected." 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗚𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 🍃 Last Saturday, I teamed up with Umer Karachiwala at the MongoDB × Give(a)Go Student Builder Day in Dublin, part of Dublin AI Week. One day. Two of us. One problem we both cared about. 🔍 The problem AI agents now take real actions: refunds, deployments, data exports.

Dheeraj Chavan

⚡ “Give an AI agent access to tools, and you give it a hundred new ways to break.” Last night, I attended Break the Agent at Dublin AI Week, a hands‑on AI security challenge where we skipped the slides and spent three hours breaking vulnerable AI agents. As LLMs evolve from isolated chatbots into autonomous agents with API access, database permissions and web browsing capabilities, the security conversation shifts. I

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 5 of Dublin AI Week. My fourth day taking part — this time as a participant after volunteering earlier in the week. “I have a startup. I have a great idea.” “If I raise funding, am I successful?” “If I don’t, have I failed?” Tonight’s GTM Meetup at HubSpot House in Dublin prompted me to think about how we measure startup progress. Raising capital is a milestone. So is finding a customer who pays, uses your produc

Nikhitha Naresh

Story time... It all started during a conversation with a complete stranger turned connection on Linkedin who pushed me to go this event (Thanks Martin B. Hansen)! More than 1.5 years in Ireland, and somehow, I had never been to a networking event. I've been to hackathons before. But hackathons are like you get technically immersed, you have a problem to solve, a team to work with, and your brain has somewhere to hid

Adityanarayanan Buddharajan

What if getting from A to B wasn’t just about finding the fastest route, but finding a route that you can actually use? In Ireland, accessibility is still a challenge across the transport journey, with the Government highlighting that many disabled people continue to face mobility barriers despite ongoing investment in accessible transport. Yesterday, at the Dublin AI Week Build for Ireland Hackathon, our team built

Aditya Kharbanda

Last Sunday, I took part in Give(a)Go ‘s Build for Ireland hackathon at Dogpatch Labs for the Dublin AI Week 🚨🚨 I teamed up with Abhinav Koul to build GridSense and we were one of the top 10 teams who got a chance to present our solution to the wider participants! In a nutshell, let me share the pitch for GridSense that got us selected into the top 10 teams. Ireland’s grid has a timing problem, so we built GridSens

Andrei Seleznev

Two hackathons. One weekend. Part of Dublin AI Week. 🤖 Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in two hackathons as part of Dublin AI Week, a citywide programme of practical AI events. 🔹MongoDB x Give(a)Go Hackathon 500+ people applied for the event, with only 80 places available. I was really happy to be selected for one of those spots and take part in the in-person hackathon at Baseline It was a grea

Haardik Mago

On Saturday, we placed 3rd at the MongoDB Student Builder Day in Dublin, and won a cash prize! 🏆 ⠀ → Run by MongoDB and Give(a)Go with Baseline Community + Fund as part of Dublin AI Week , and we were among the 80 builders selected out of 500+ applicants. ⠀ → With Konrad Kunkel and Aris Sokianos , I had just 3 hours to build. We discussed a few ideas and concluded to build Boomerang 🪃, a lost and found app where “G

The AI Collective: Europe

The AI Collective Dublin Chapter hosted our Hack for Humanity last weekend as part of Dublin AI Week, and what a day! We were delighted to have 15 teams come together to build practical, community-driven AI and software solutions to solve local and global human problems in less than three hours. Our winners were: Droichead | Built by Muhammad Murtuza Hussain | https://lnkd.in/djMYn_QS Our belief is simple. A wish to

Mariah Stewart

We are in the midst of Dublin AI Week and I'm looking forward to a packed schedule of events as the week continues! It has also made me reflect upon recent past events that I've attended, in particular: AI and your Business – what you need to know about effective use, safety and legal considerations by the Local Enterprise Office Dublin City Women in Business Network. Mná Made: Rewriting the Innovation Playbook hoste

Alen Sebastian Veliyathuparamban

🚀 Had an incredible time attending the #BuildforIreland hackathon as part of Dublin AI Week at Dogpatch Labs! 🇮🇪 ✨During this fast-paced event, my team and I built GP Ops—an AI operations layer designed to cut down administrative burden for Irish GP practices. 🩺🤖 Research shows Irish GPs spend nearly 17% of their working time on paperwork. GP Ops tackles this head-on with our product thesis: We don’t replace cli

AI DUBLINERS

Another Week in AI: This Time, Let’s Start with Dublin At the start of each week, I try to bring together some of the developments that caught my attention over the previous few days. And as another week begins, looking back at last week, things have certainly been busy here in Dublin. Dublin AI Week 2026 is underway. From 2–9 October, more than 35 events are taking place across Dublin, bringing together founders, re

Ronan Lundy

Week 39 of all things VISTY. On to the numbers: 4 new client meetings - 1 follow-up meeting - 2 new opportunities opened - 0 lost - 0 signed. Your network is your net worth… The good: 🔌 Had a number of calls with potential technology partners as I start planning for 2027. Year 1 was all about validating VISTY's offer - in other words - will people pay for it. Year 2 will be all about scaling with ambitious goals so

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Day 3 of my Dublin AI Week volunteering journey brought me to Dogpatch Labs for Build for Ireland, bringing together Give(a)Go, Dogpatch Labs and OpenAI. Teams, ideas and six hours of building for Ireland. 🇮🇪Congratulations to Flexplay and Vibra Scan, the winners at Build for Ireland—and to every team that turned an idea into something they could share with the room. 👏 The day’s agenda: 🕚 11:00 am — Doors open 🎤

Aditya Sharma

Most people only get to practise interviewing when the stakes are real. We wanted to change that in about 1.5 hours. At Hack for Humanity, part of Dublin AI Week, our team built Interview Buddy: an AI interview coach that lets you practise a live, spoken, on-camera interview and then shows you exactly where to improve. The problem is simple: • Human mock interviews are expensive, hard to schedule and not available to

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

From being selected among 100+ participants from 1000+ applications to making it into the Top 3 teams, I’m honestly still super excited about today! 🐾 I applied to Hack for Humanity mainly because I wanted the experience of participating in a hackathon, meeting other builders, and challenging myself to build something meaningful in just a few hours. I never imagined that we would go from simply being selected to par

SHIVASAI CHAVALA

Two years ago, I arrived in Ireland to begin a new chapter. Today I wore a volunteer T-shirt at Dublin AI Week. A small moment, but one that means something to me. When you move to a new country, building a career also means finding your community. Finding people you can learn from, places where your curiosity belongs, and opportunities to contribute while you are still figuring things out. Day 1 of Dublin AI Week be

Eamon Leonard

Next Thursday 8th Oct, as the Dublin chapter of Rebase reaches its peak in the Guinness Storehouse, we'll announce the winner of The Pressure Cooker - an intense week of starting, building and launching a brand new startup from scratch as part of Dublin AI Week - and we'll invest €100,000 in the winner. Last month we announced we were opening applications, and over 100 teams applied to take part. We narrowed down the

Micaela Serraiocco

IT’S TODAY, IT’S TODAY Dublin AI Week is finally hereee And there’s an event for everyone: Friday, Oct 2 • Opening Night Saturday, Oct 3 • Hack for Humanity • AI Adoption: Startups vs Enterprise • MongoDB Student Builder Day • Agents Reading Group Sunday, Oct 4 • Grok Bot Dublin Builder Day • Build for Ireland Monday, Oct 5 • Women Who Build 💜 (organised by Avanti and me) • AI Week Coworking • EirSpace: Rockets, Dro

Razik Shariff

What if your product photos could become an interactive 3D experience? I'm working with Ray Mongey and Paul Butler Lennox as part of the #PressureCooker Challenge, and we're building something I've genuinely been excited to work on: HolosView. The problem were exploring is pretty straightforward. When you're buying something online, photos only show you so much. What if, instead of scrolling through a few product ima

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

Dublin AI Week 2026 I’m excited to be part of it! I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected to attend multiple hackathons and AI events during Dublin AI Week, taking place from October 2 to 9 across Dublin. There are 35+ events covering AI agents, LLMs, RAG, AI security, open source AI, startups, product and hackathons. Some events worth checking out: https://lnkd.in/d3s2zaGd Oct 2 • Opening Night Oct 3 • Hack for

Ray Mongey

This is a mildly ridiculous thing to attempt in a week. So naturally, we’re doing it. Three people. One idea. Only ten teams accepted to the challenge. Three finalists. Somewhere in between, we’re supposed to build a working software product, find real users, convince a few of them to become paying customers and try to win the #PressureCooker Challenge. No pressure, then. Our team is Paul Butler Lennox, Razik Shariff

Howard Kingston

One of AI's youngest billionaires just told everyone to master one skill. AI is the skill, and he's right about that. The problem is that knowing it and ACTUALLY being good at it are two different things. Plenty of founders know AI matters and still can't build one useful thing with it. 🫣 Reading about it tells you AI exists. It doesn't tell you where it breaks, what it's actually good for, or how it behaves in your

Dwiparna Pal

Real AI, Real Impact - A Festival of AI Roundtables 🎉🤖 Dublin AI Week is going to be full of hackathons, pitch competitions, and panels - people building under pressure. All good stuff. This one's different. In collaboration with Give(a)Go, turning this month's Rebel Meetups by Rebellious Co into a festival - six tables, six founders who are actually using AI to grow and solve real problems in their business. No st

Sonia Toqqe

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴? I've lost count of how many times I've had this exact conversation. So instead of explaining it one more time, I built something you can actually use. Meet CreaBuilders 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐫: 📡 +600 events across Europe in the coming weeks 🎫 Meetups, workshops, hackathons, roundtables, experiences, breakfasts, challenges... 💎 Manually curated

Alexandra (Sasha) Mikhailouskaya

Still slightly surprised to have been named a Community Champion at ShipItCon. Thank you. I’m honoured and humbled. The talks covered a great variety of themes, from engineering and sociotechnical principles to communication, collaboration under pressure, and the impact AI is already having on the SDLC and product development. AI can save time. But for what? How do we change the way we work when the technology change

Vishnupriyan Govindarajan

Knock knock GTM and Product folks! On 6 October, Product Garage is teaming up with Fierce Tech Founders and Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week for our biggest Garage session yet. And we’re keeping the format true to what we care about: 2 founders. 4 teams. 16 experienced operators. Real B2B growth problems. No panels. No passive networking. The founders will bring live challenges around things like GTM, pricing,

Vikas Prasanna

Big one for us. 🚀 On 6 October, Product Garage is teaming up with Fierce Tech Founders and Dogpatch Labs as part of Dublin AI Week for our biggest Garage session yet. And we’re keeping the format true to what we are all about: 2 founders. 4 teams. 16 experienced operators. Real B2B growth problems. No panels. No passive networking. The founders will bring live challenges around things like GTM, pricing, positioning,

Alexandra (Sasha) Mikhailouskaya

A big thank you to everyone who made the August CTO Craft Dublin Mixer happen, and especially to our sponsors, Phorest Software, and to the panelists who shared their experience so openly. The role of senior leaders is changing as we speak. It's increasingly about getting hands-on, showing the way, helping teams understand what good AI adoption/absorbtion looks like, and creating the conditions for people to experime

Tire Aruwajoye

Delighted to have been selected from over 300 applicants to participate in my first-ever hackathon on Friday at the Notion Loves Dublin × Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon. The challenge was straightforward: How can we use AI and technology to make student life better? Using Notion, Notion AI and Lovable, my team and I developed AccessPath AI, an AI-powered student support navigator designed to help students discover

Adarsh E Reji

Dublin AI Week was a good one ☄️ I went to the Dublin MongoDB User Group workshop on giving AI agents memory. Agents are great at generating answers but forget everything once the conversation ends, so this one was about fixing that. We built a memory-augmented agent in Jupyter notebook, and a few things stuck with me: 💠 Agents need both short-term and long-term memory to keep context 💠 Memory isn’t just storing th

Halimat Oyawoye

Last week I took part in the Notion Loves Dublin x Dublin AI Week Student Hackathon, and I am still thinking about how much a team can get done in one day. The challenge was how we could use AI and technology to improve student life. My team focused on a problem: taking notes while listening to a lecture can be hard and it's even harder if you're deaf or hard of hearing, or if the lecture is in a language you're stil

Diarmuid Brady

Learning a new skillset during Dublin AI Week Over the past few months, I’ve stayed involved with Give(a)Go, now as a volunteer. Thanks to Harsh, Sanat, and Siddarth, I’ve learned about how the events run. During Dublin AI Week, I helped run four events at 1WML, Grant Thornton Ireland, and Dogpatch Labs. On Friday, I stepped up as team lead and facilitator to run the final event, Creative AI for Advertising, where at

Iniya Baskaran

I had the amazing opportunity to present my app, Gymento, at Demos Anon, Dublin AI Week! Gymento is the first-ever truly gamified gym app powered by AI and computer vision. I built it for beginners who struggle to get to the gym because they lack motivation and guidance. Gymento is your handler, and you’re a secret agent who climbs the ranks of the bureau by keeping your streak alive. Every piece of equipment in your

Jason Ogwueleka

🏆 3rd Place at the Notion × Lovable Student Hackathon! On Friday, I had the opportunity to take part in an incredible hackathon sponsored by Give(a)Go as part of Dublin AI Week , where my team were selected to participate from 300+ applicants! Beyond the result, one of the best parts of the experience was meeting so many talented builders and learning from people who are passionate about innovation. We built Bookmar

Mihir Maurya

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to take part in Build for Ireland — OpenAI x Give(a)Go x Dogpatch Labs 🇮🇪. Together with my teammates, we built FixMyArea : a civic-assistance platform that helps people take the right next step when they encounter issues like broken streetlights, illegal dumping, or electronic waste. The flow is simple: 📸 Upload a photo 🤖 AI identifies the issue 📍 Location + Irish public data id

Tania Gamboa Rojas

From idea to digital product: a day of AI, teamwork and bold ideas ✨ During the full-day Grok builder event at Dublin AI Week, I had the opportunity to meet talented people, hear innovative ideas and work alongside an incredible team of women. In just two hours, our team shaped and presented TaxPal: an AI expense tracker designed to help people in Ireland organise their expenses and understand which ones may be tax-d

Vanessa John Lobo

Had a great evening at the Daytona HackSprint during Dublin AI Week! 🚀 Two talks that really got me thinking: Boris Albar from Geometric broke down how agents are taking on more and more GPU optimisation work through a loop of searching for better programs, revising the language itself, and then evaluating what actually helped. What stuck with me was the evaluation step: keeping only what works at equal cost, and fe

First one, and definitely not the last. 🚀 My journey into hackathons has begun, and now I’m only hungry for more. Last Friday, 9th of October, we had the pleasure of taking part in Notion’s hackathon. This event pushed us to explore our creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, which I must say, was absolutely enjoyable. The challenge was to build a solution that could improve student life, whether through l

Alexandra (Sasha) Mikhailouskaya

Another great CTO Craft Mixer, this time as part of Dublin AI Week. Thank you to Ashutosh Saxena for making it happen, Stephen Healy and Bank of Ireland for being such great hosts, Kateryna Svezhentseva for amazing pictures, and especially Su/Sukhmani Khanna for sharing the fascinating story of building an AI organisation capable of supporting her across practically every aspect of running a startup. What I find amaz

I’m scared of hackathons. Not because of the people but because I always thought I wasn’t a good enough builder to contribute? Last Friday, I popped along to the Notion x Lovable hackathon as part of Dublin AI Week with 90 students and 300+ more on the waitlist 🤯... Organised by our stellar Notion Campus Leaders (s/o Lea Stan, Ethan Mc Candless, Nadyla Barbosa) the brief was simple - use Notion and Lovable to build

Alina Bolshakova

Dublin AI Week has come to an end, but what a week it was! 🚀 I joined three events, got hands-on with AI, and built things I can actually use. Here are my highlights: 🔹 Women Who Build: a beautiful event where I built an app in Base44 that automates the weekly cost-per-item (CPI) analysis I do at work. It generates a summary of cost changes, key drivers and recommendations, plus a waterfall chart. What used to take

Jim Tan

Could you invent a brand character and turn it into an ad in just 90 minutes? 🎨⚡ That was the challenge at Creative AI for Advertising, part of Dublin AI Week. In teams of two, we went from an original character idea to a brand world, storyboards and an ad, all while learning what makes characters like the Michelin Man (Michelin) and Duo (Duolingo) so memorable. My favourite takeaway: AI can speed up the making, but

Kota

Dublin made us proud last week 💜 Dublin AI Week brought 35+ community-led AI events to the city from 2 to 9 October, and we were proud to sponsor two of them. 📍 Women Who Build @ Chartered Accountants Ireland, where Avanti Rao and Micaela Serraiocco brought their series back with Give(a)Go. The room was full of women building with AI, some for the very first time and some with years of experience behind them, and e

AI DUBLINERS

Another AI-filled week comes to an end in Ireland! 🇮🇪 Today marks the final day of Dublin AI Week, taking place across Dublin from 2–9 October. With over 35 events on the programme, including workshops, hackathons and meetups, Dublin AI Week has brought together entrepreneurs, developers, researchers and AI enthusiasts across the city. And the AI momentum hasn’t been limited to Dublin. In the west of Ireland, itag

Cara Kelly

Went to an inspirational talk this morning by Su/Sukhmani Khanna at a CTO Craft event as part of Dublin AI Week, and it gave a fascinating glimpse into the future of work.​Su spoke about her new startup, Plinker which operates with a unique (although increasingly common), team structure: 12 AI agents and 1 human.​What makes this setup compelling isn't just the ratio—it’s how the agents collaborate, continuously learn

Madhu Sudhan

This week I joined two Dublin AI Week events: the Lua AI Build Night and the session at Workday. At Lua, builders went from zero to working AI agents in a single evening using AgentOS. At Workday, the conversation moved to the other side: what happens when AI produces work faster than people can review it. Having worked on LLM benchmarking and AI research myself, that tension felt very familiar. In one of my own proj

Sowmya Radhakrishnan

From 150 builders to building WayAble! 💥 This Sunday, I had the opportunity to be one of 150 selected builders at the OpenAI Hackathon Build for Ireland during Dublin AI Week and what an experience! Our team built Wayable a Dublin first accessibility aware journey planner designed to help wheelchair users and people with low vision navigate more confidently. From integrating FastAPI routing APIs, NTA GTFS transit da

Ashutosh Saxena

It was a packed room for CTO Craft Dublin on Tuesday, despite the wet morning. We took a deep dive into what it actually means to lead agents, not just humans. Su/Sukhmani Khanna took us inside how she works with her team of AI agents: delegating work across a hierarchy of agents, with everything coming together in a daily morning briefing from Aoife, her Artificially Intelligent Chief of Staff. It was interesting to

The AI Collective: Europe

There's never been a better time to start building with AI in Dublin, Ireland! Earlier this month on September 9, Baseline Community + Fund, Lovable, and The AI Collective Dublin chapter hosted "Pilots and Prototypes: Stop Waiting, Start Building!" By the end of the night, everyone in attendance - from government employees to seasoned backend developers - had built an initial prototype of some kind. A pet horoscope s

Andrew T.

This week I went to the GTM Meetup at HubSpot House, part of Dublin AI Week, organized by Give(a)Go. Three speakers: Patrick from Sensiba LLP, Harry from ElevenLabs and Josh from Corgi. Different companies, different stages. But all three kept coming back to the same thing: human connection. The opportunity right now isn't to replace people with AI. It's to automate enough of the busywork that we get our time back fo

Veronica Surkova

✨ ADLC in Practice Join us for an upcoming event covering specification-driven development, AI in CI, and AI cost reduction, with perspectives from Workday product and engineering teams. AI is reshaping our work, and this is a great opportunity to learn and hear first-hand what our speakers have learned in practice, ask questions, and share what you're seeing in your own work. Everyone from product and engineering we

Darragh O'Connor

Great to catch the tail end of the Dublin AI Week at Baseline Community + Fund on Thomas Street! Huge thanks to the team at MongoDB and Suhani Chawla (from Kota) for the invite. It was fantastic connecting with the local AI community and diving into some practical, real-world implementations within the space. A few key takeaways from the event: - Building with Customers: Suhani hosted a stellar panel on Forward Deplo

Safiya Fathima Syed

One month into living in Dublin, and I’ve already had the chance to volunteer at the Notion x Dublin AI Week Hackathon last Friday! Full disclosure: I initially wanted to participate in the hackathon but ended up on the waitlist. 💔 As it turned out, I got the opportunity to experience the event from a different perspective as a volunteer instead. 🙂‍↔️ It was amazing to be back in an environment filled with undergra

Ekene Ochuba

500+ applicants, 80 students selected, 21 teams competing, and our team made the final 8! Last Saturday, I joined the MongoDB × Give(a)Go Student Builder Day as part of Dublin AI Week, where our team built Mend AI (Know Before You Rent). The question we wanted to answer was simple; Is this rent fair? Mend AI lets renters explore properties on an interactive 3D map, compare asking prices against official CSO/RTB renta

Razik Shariff

HolosView 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲. In less than a week, we built HolosView from scratch, got the app live, connected the full video-to-3D pipeline, added payments and started putting it in front of real businesses. The idea is simple: Take a short phone video of a physical product → upload it → get an interactive 3D experience that customers can rotate, zoom, share or embed on a website. I tested it with a statue in my

Ihor Ivanchenko

I participated in my first-ever hackathon! 🚀 Last friday, as part of the Dublin AI Week I had an opportunity to participate in a hackathon hosted by Notion and Give(a)Go. Together with over 100 students from universities across Ireland, we tackled everyday student problems using AI. Along with Cormac Kildea, Maksym Chechotkin, Maksym Shtymak and Krushal Sharmu, we built a tool designed to ensure students never miss

Ali Hassan

Yesterday I spent an evening trying to break AI agents, and I loved every minute of it. "Breaks the Agent: An Agent Security CTF" put us up against agents wired to real tools, and the job was simple: make them do things they shouldn't. It's a fun way to see how fragile agents can be once they can act, not just chat. What I took away: 🔒 Least privilege. Give an agent only the tools and permissions it needs. Nothing m

Ashutosh Saxena

What does engineering leadership look like when your team isn’t entirely human? On 6 October, CTO Craft Dublin is getting together for a breakfast session as part of Dublin AI Week Our speaker, Su/Sukhmani Khanna, has spent the past few months working with a team of 14 AI agents which are not just individual but have different roles and responsibilities, and even a hierarchy where agents coordinate and direct other a

Ray Mongey

Im only just catching up with life after the madness of Dublin AI Week. I think my brain is still buffering! 😂 A massive thank you to Eamon Leonard, Fiona, Baseline Community + Fund and Give(a)Go for putting together such a brilliant week and giving 10 teams the slightly bonkers challenge of building a real business in less than a week! And a huge thanks to Paul Butler Lennox and Razik Shariff for joining me on this

Micaela Serraiocco

If you live in Ireland and are into AI, this is where you need to be next month. Dublin AI Week is running 2–9 October, organised by Give(a)Go and Baseline Community + Fund in collaboration with sponsors and local communities. There are 35+ free events happening across the city (yes, for free). Workshops, building sessions, and the chance to connect with people from all backgrounds. Here are some events I wouldn't mi