Presented byGive(a)Go
2026
Partner for 2027Between Friday 2 and Friday 9 October, around 4,000 people came to 35 free events across Dublin. Twelve of those rooms were filmed. This is the week in the order it happened: what went on in them, who was there, and what people wrote about it afterwards.
Fri2Opening Night
Sat3Hack for Humanity, MongoDB Hackathon
Sun4Build for Ireland
Mon5Women Who Build, Break the Agent, Hardware Night, Inside EirSpace, Agents Technical Lab
Tue6Lua AI Build Night, GTM Meetup, Self-Improving Systems, AI in Development, Cafe Compute, CTO Craft Mixers, Product Garage × Fierce
Wed7AI Observability, Hosting Local LLMs, Daytona HackSprint, Founders Networking
Thu8Rebase
Fri9Creative AI, Forward Deployed Engineer, SocialDay 1
Friday 2 October
The week started at Baseline Community + Fund, which organised Dublin AI Week with Give(a)Go. Opening Night was the only event on Friday's calendar, and the one night of the week when the whole thing fit in a single room.
Baseline, a few minutes before the first talk.
Partner logos on the wall, a queue for the backdrop, and by the time the first speakers picked up the microphone the sofas were full.
Day 2
Saturday 3 October
More than 500 students applied for MongoDB's Student Builder Day. The ones who got a place spent Saturday at Baseline building with MongoDB and Give(a)Go, and the top eight teams finished the day presenting to the room.
One pair built Git for AI agents: a record of every action an agent takes, including the ones a human turned down.
One day. Two of us. One problem we both cared about.
Day 3
Sunday 4 October
The brief for Build for Ireland was in the name. OpenAI, Give(a)Go and Dogpatch Labs hosted, and 32 teams spent the day on housing, renewable energy, traffic congestion, infrastructure and local services, under the glass roof of the CHQ building on Custom House Quay.
At the end of the day the top ten teams pitched to everyone else. GridSense took on the timing problem in Ireland's electricity grid. Flexplay and Vibra Scan won.
Teams, ideas and six hours of building for Ireland.
Also on Sunday
Day 4
Monday 5 October
On Monday evening, four events started at the same minute in different parts of the city. Three of them were filmed.
18:00
Four rooms open at once
Avanti Rao and Micaela Serraiocco brought Women Who Build back with Give(a)Go. One of the first people Avanti met already had an app live on Base44, and spent the night helping beginners get started on theirs.
Some evenings you leave with contacts. Monday night, I left with a feeling
An agent-security capture-the-flag. No slides: three hours of trying to get AI agents wired to real tools to do things they shouldn't.
Yesterday I spent an evening trying to break AI agents, and I loved every minute of it.
Lua and EirSpace turned Dogpatch Labs into a workshop: student-built rockets on the tables, and AI agents switching lights and motors over WhatsApp.
Day 5
Tuesday 6 October
Tuesday evening had five events inside half an hour. Two of them covered both ends of a startup: making the thing, and getting someone to buy it.
The workshop was called Hire Your First AI Colleague, and people did: they went from nothing to a working agent in one evening on Lua's AgentOS. One built a support agent for insurance enquiries.
Rather than just learning about AI concepts, we had the opportunity to build and test an AI agent.
At the same time…
HubSpot for Startups hosted a panel on what actually works when you take an AI product to market, with Harry Arkwright from ElevenLabs, Josh Shih from Corgi and Patrick Hegarty from Sensiba.
AI can automate a huge amount of GTM. But it can’t replace understanding the customer.
Day 6
Wednesday 7 October
By midweek the sessions had moved on from what AI can do to how you run it: how you see what it's doing in production, and whether it has to live in someone else's cloud.
Everyone, plus one brontosaurus.
Bronto hosted an evening on observing and monitoring AI systems at MongoDB's Dublin office, and brought a giant yellow brontosaurus. It is in most of the photographs.
At the same time, Grant Thornton's office was full of people who want to run open-source models on their own hardware, and spent the evening on how.
Day 7
Thursday 8 October
Rebase, the startup gathering run by Frontline Ventures and Baseline, ran back to back with Dublin AI Week. On Thursday its Dublin chapter ended at the Guinness Storehouse, with the result of the Pressure Cooker.
Guinness Storehouse
Over 100 teams applied to the Pressure Cooker: a week to start, build and launch a company from scratch. That night, one of them found out Baseline would invest €100,000 in it. Winmo AI, a company born at a hackathon two months earlier, made the top three.
By themselves, they would have been notable events, but in combination, something really special to Dublin.
Day 8
Friday 9 October
The final day had five events, from a Notion student hackathon at lunchtime to a 21:00 start for Avalanche Team1. The last one we filmed was back at Dogpatch Labs, in the brick vaults under CHQ.
Give(a)Go and Dogpatch Labs handed people HeyGen, fal and Napkin AI, and a tight deadline. They went from a blank canvas to characters, storyboards and finished video ads.
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.
All 35 events were free and community-organised: run by meetups, startups and the companies that opened their offices for an evening. Each number below is printed with who said it.
In their words
The quotes in the chapters above came from these. Each card opens the original on LinkedIn.
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
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Credits
Dublin AI Week was organised by Give(a)Go and Baseline Community + Fund, with the partners below and every host who opened a room for an evening.
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