BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Meetup//Meetup Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH NAME:Platform Engineers Dublin X-WR-CALNAME:Platform Engineers Dublin BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316100458@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260905T083837Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260917T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260917T184500 SUMMARY:Enterprise AI infrastructure in 2026: A reality check for platform engineers DESCRIPTION:Platform Engineers Dublin\nAfter two years of hype\, many ente rprises feel they’ve overspent on AI infrastructure without realizing th e promised value.\nIn this session\, Dan Ciruli\, Kelsey Hightower\, and L uca Galante cut through the buzzwords to show what enterprise AI infrastru cture actually looks like in production.\n\nIn most cases\, it is often le ss about training models from scratch and more about how platform engineer ing teams can fold AI inference and fine-tuning directly into their existi ng infrastructure.\n\n**Join the discussion to learn:**\n1. Why you don’ t need infrastructure for training models from scratch\, and how to start treating inference and fine-tuning just like serving standard web APIs.\n2 . Strategies for folding AI workloads and autonomous agents into your exis ting heterogeneous environments (VMs + containers + legacy databases) with out rebuilding everything.\n3. How to build an Agentic Development Platfor m (ADP) based on actionable reference architectures to deploy real-world A I applications.\n\nSpeaker: Kelsey Hightower\nRetired Distinguished Engine er\, Google Cloud. Author\, Investor\, and Technical Advisor\n\nSpeaker: D an Ciruli\nVP and General Manager\, Cloud Native\n\nSpeaker: Luca Galante URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-dublin/events/3161 00458/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260813T151943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T151943Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316368340@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260905T083837Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260922T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260922T184500 SUMMARY:How to build an agent-ready IDP with open source tools DESCRIPTION:Platform Engineers Dublin\nA portal is just a front door. The real complexity of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) sits in the backen d layer beneath it. As autonomous AI agents begin using your platform\, tr aditional setups built only for human developers face immediate security g aps and operational bottlenecks. Join Sameera Jayasoma and Lakmal Warusawi thana\, maintainers of the CNCF OSS project OpenChoreo\, as they show how to build an agent-ready platform without a multi-year custom build.\n\nIn this session\, you will learn:\n- **Platform vs. portal:** Why a portal al one is not enough\, and how owning the backend execution layer speeds up s oftware delivery.\n- **Designing for AI agents:** How to give AI agents th eir own identities\, limited access\, and safety rules when interacting wi th your APIs\, shifting your engineering team from working _inside_ the lo op to _orchestrating_ it.\n- **Practical open source adoption:** How to us e a modular architecture like OpenChoreo to connect the Kubernetes\, CI/CD \, and monitoring tools you already run\, turning your existing tools into secure\, agent-ready golden paths\n\nSpeaker: Sameera Jayasoma\nVP and Di stinguished Engineer @ WSO2\, OpenChoreo Maintainer\n\nSpeaker: Lakmal War usawithana URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-dublin/events/3163 68340/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260901T121016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T121016Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316367165@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260905T083837Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260924T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260924T184500 SUMMARY:What 3+ years of platform data tells us about how to succeed DESCRIPTION:Platform Engineers Dublin\nTechnology rarely decides whether a platform succeeds. New research from Octopus Deploy shows the difference comes down to how a platform gets rolled out\, whether there's a clear str ategy behind it\, and how involved leadership stays.\nJoin the Octopus Dep loy Developer Relations team as they unpack what The Future of Platform En gineering report found\, and what to do about it.\n\nWalk away knowing:\n- Why mandated\, organization-wide adoption is associated with markedly hig her performance than opt-in\, and how a platform is adopted matters more t han most teams expect.\n- Why building without a clear strategy is strongl y associated with hitting obstacles\, and where leadership engagement make s a difference for high performers\n- How platform maturity shapes whether AI investment actually pays off URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-dublin/events/3163 67165/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260901T094048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T094048Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316083127@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260905T083837Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261001T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261001T184500 SUMMARY:Everything you need to know about managing AI spend in 2026 DESCRIPTION:Platform Engineers Dublin\nProsperOps surveyed 100+ platform e ngineers on managing AI cloud costs. Learn insights from our survey result s. Together with our partner\, Pay-i\, we show you a practical framework f or measuring AI ROI\, avoiding bill shock\, and building cost guardrails t hat scale with agentic workloads.\n\nEvery platform team is now tasked wit h funding and managing AI initiatives\, but few have a clear read on resul ts. We surveyed 100+ platform engineers on how they prioritize\, measure\, and manage cloud costs as AI reshapes their role. This session pairs thos e results with a practical look at how leading teams measure AI ROI\, cove ring where you should spend your time\, how much influence FinOps and the C-suite have over cost strategy\, and how to apply unit economics to answe r: was the AI investment worth it? You'll leave with best practices for av oiding AI bill shock and building ROI metrics for agentic workloads.\n\nSp eaker: Josh Glover\nFinOps SME @ ProsperOps\n\nSpeaker: David Tepper\nCEO and Co-founder @ Pay-i\n\nSpeaker: Grace Gui URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-dublin/events/3160 83127/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260812T101303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T101303Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316419283@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260905T083837Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261006T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20261006T184500 SUMMARY:Platform Engineering in the age of AI: How to scale visibility wit hout losing c… DESCRIPTION:Platform Engineers Dublin\nAI-driven and agentic SRE workloads are creating more telemetry than ever. Learn how modern Platform Engineer ing teams can centralize telemetry collection\, routing\, governance\, and access to reduce toil\, control costs\, improve visibility\, and give SRE and developer teams faster access to the context they need for search and AI-driven investigations.\n\nJoin us for a practical session on how moder n Platform Engineering teams are building scalable telemetry strategies fo r the AI era. Learn how to centralize control over telemetry collection\, routing\, governance\, and access to support AI and agentic SRE workflows\ , reduce blind spots\, and improve efficiency.\nYou’ll learn how to:\n- Scale visibility as AI-driven and agentic SRE telemetry grows\n- Reduce to il with a more centralized\, flexible telemetry model\n- Give developers f lexible telemetry access\, from search to AI-driven investigations\, while balancing cost\, governance\, and autonomy URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-dublin/events/3164 19283/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260904T162755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T162755Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-dublin/events/ica l/ X-WR-CALNAME:Platform Engineers Dublin END:VCALENDAR