Now is the time to build.

The tools are moving fast. So are the people using them.

Over the past few years, we have seen communities in Dublin grow around us. Every week, organisers bring people together to share what they know, work on ideas, and help each other learn and build.

But that energy is scattered. Dublin AI Week is a chance to bring it together.

Most tech conferences put a few people on a stage and everyone else in seats. The ticket can cost hundreds, sometimes thousands, of euros. They are built around sales and networking.

Dublin AI Week works differently.

There is no single venue or main stage. Around 35 events will happen across the city, most created by independent communities. Every event is free to attend, with each organiser curating the room.

You might take part in a Capture the Flag over boba, read a new research paper with people who can help make sense of it, build a robot, or sit down at a café with someone working on an idea you have never heard of.

Some events will be deeply technical. Others will be for people opening these tools for the first time.

The week is for engineers, founders, researchers, designers, students, artists, and operators. What brings them together is the urge to learn, make something, and meet people they would not otherwise meet.

For one week, we want Dublin to feel like San Francisco.

We want the future to show up in ordinary places across the city. We want people to stumble into strange new technology, see unfinished work, and meet someone who might become their next collaborator, co-founder, or friend. We want people to leave with bigger ideas about what they could build and a community that can help them do it.

Dublin already has the ingredients. OpenAI has its European headquarters here1. Anthropic has opened an office here2. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and many more have built major operations here.

Irish founders have always punched above their weight. The online infrastructure behind Call of Duty came from Demonware, founded in an office on Abbey Street3. Intercom began with four founders in a Dublin coffee shop4. Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung, and Walmart have all used it to talk to their customers. Salesforce recently agreed to buy it for $3.6 billion5.

Manna started out at UCD. By January 2026, it had completed 200,000 commercial drone deliveries6, over twenty times Amazon Prime Air’s estimated total. Amazon had spent more than $2 billion on the programme.

$3.6B

Salesforce's agreed price for Intercom, begun by four founders in a Dublin coffee shop.

200,000

Manna drone deliveries by January 2026, from a company that started at UCD.

The talent is here. Dublin AI Week gives people across the city a week to find each other, share what they know, and start building together.

Dublin AI Week leads into Rebase organised by Baseline & Frontline, which will bring 300 founders and leading investors from across Europe together for matching sessions, saloon conversations and intimate dinners. Raising the standard of the Irish startup ecosystem.

Making the most of that moment depends on the leaders, community organisers, and builders already here.

This is the first Dublin AI Week. The people who show up now will shape what it becomes.