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Come along to get rid of the number one fear people have. Every week we have new members and people starting from scratch so you will not be alone. Everything is based around what you're comfortable with and you don't have to stand up, talk or do anything if you don't feel like it. But you will have the opportunity to speak at least 4/5 times a night. You can come along to see what we're doing and take part if you like. We will be running this for beginners every week and anyone is welcome to join us to learn and get better together. Hope to see you there :D We charge €5 to help towards the room rental.

**Please see registration details below this class descriptor:** Join us for a meditative Hatha Yoga class at Anam Ashram. This class is designed to nourish mind, body and spirit so that the practitioner can come to know their true selves. This term, we have a special series of classes focuses more deeply on the chakra system where we spend some time reflection on these energy centres of the body in an effort to achieve more balance in our lives. Suitable for beginners as well as experienced students, it includes pranayama (breath work), asanas (postures) a focus on the energy centres of the body (chakra system) and finishes with a 15 minute relaxation (Savasana). For anyone interested in going deeper into the yogic system to cultivate a more holistic spirituality, come and join us on the mat. This class is available in person or online. **Facilitator**: Jane Mellett is a qualified yoga and meditation teacher (Yoga Alliance 500-Hour RYT); retreat facilitator and spiritual director based at Anam Ashram in Tallaght. **Investment**: 10 euros for in person and 7 euros online (via zoom). Special offer for this new term: 6 classes for 50 euros for in person only. **To register please** email mellettj@gmail.com

www.dublindancecoop.com for more info! Every Monday at 7.45 in the F2 Rialto. 12 euros. All Welcome. Freeform dancing, stretching, rolling around and playing with anything dance related. No experience necessary!

**Do you like to make things? Would you like to use 3D software, lasercutter and 3D printing to help you make your idea?** TOG has an open evening to learn how CAD software and 3D fabrication tools can help you make your project. All you need to take part is your own laptop and some ideas on what you want to make. This is not a taught class, more like an informal working group of self-directed makers. We will be happy to help you explore how to use our 3D tools in designing and making your project whether you are a crafter, designer, engineer or hobbyist. Come and have a look at the tools in our space and get some ideas on how your project can be made.

These are our regular Monday evening electronics nights. Everyone from absolute beginner to experienced is welcome. These evenings are not classes or tutorials, rather a very friendly informal evening. We have a wide range of people who come. Some are absolute beginners who do not even work or study electronics, but are interested to know more. Others have something that they are already working on. We almost always have some first time visitors and we always give them a tour of the space. Come in with your Pi, Arduino, or whatever you have. Bring your laptop. Maybe you want to make something, solder, breadboard or use our electronic gear. Maybe you have some vague ideas and just want to get started. Or maybe you’re just curious……if so, it’s fine to come along and just see what others are doing. If you would like to get even more involved and have the full use of our space, we would be delighted to have you as a full member. Membership brings many benefits. We are located behind Mr Price and the Bright Lights store on Kylemore Road. We have lots of free parking available.

Join us for an ultimate Frisbee session, and meet some lovely people. This is a relaxed evening of Ultimate Frisbee in Merrion square Park. No experience? No problem. Just bring yourself and whatever makes you comfy outdoors. But dress to run! NB: Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact sport. Do your utmost to avoid collisions with other players. *** 🗓 **What’s Happening** * Gentle warm-up + Frisbee basics * Friendly, low-pressure Ultimate Frisbee games * Optional: sideline cheering, lounging * Cool down & post-game hang *** 📍 **Where** **Merrion square park**, Dublin 💶 **Contribution** If you’d like to help cover the meetup costs and gear (cones, bibs, frisbees, etc), a **€2 contribution** is suggested. Revolut ref tag: [https://revolut.me/marise3](https://revolut.me/marise3) No pressure — you can join us either way. *** 🧺 **What to Bring** * Your fave snacks or drink (solo or to share) * A blanket or something comfy to sit on * Sunscreen, water, good energy, and running shoes ☁️ **Weather Watch** If it rains, we’ll update this page **90 minutes beforehand**. (Also: the traditional sun dance is already scheduled 🌞) *** 🔗 **More ways to connect** Looking for more social and creative outdoor & indoor fun? 👉 [https://activesocialconnections.com/](https://activesocialconnections.com/)

Join us July 7th @ 5.45pm at the Startup Loft in Dub19 for a special information workshop. **AWS All Builders Welcome Grant – Application Tips & Tricks from a 2025 Awardee Presentation & Workshop** Ever wondered if you could attend AWS re:Invent - AWS’s flagship conference in Las Vegas - for free? ⸻ Event Details 📅 Tuesday, 7 July 2026 🕕 5:45 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 AWS Building, Charlemont Road, Dublin 2 🚪 Startup Loft 🤝 Networking included ⸻ Join the AWS User Group Dublin for a free, interactive workshop where you’ll hear firsthand from a 2025 recipient of the AWS All Builders Welcome Grant. If you’re in the first five years of your cloud journey, this session is designed to help you understand the application process and give you the confidence to apply. Whether you’re a junior engineer, student, aspiring cloud professional, or have colleagues and peers who would benefit, this workshop will provide practical guidance on how to make the most of this incredible opportunity. What you’ll learn * How the AWS All Builders Welcome Grant works * Tanya’s experience attending AWS re:Invent as a grant recipient * Tips and tricks to strengthen your application * What to expect from the conference itself * How to get started on your application * Live Q&A with a 2025 awardee * Networking with fellow builders and cloud enthusiasts Applications close on July 14th, so don’t miss the opportunity to get your application underway. ⸻ Speaker Tanya Vo Fintech Cloud Engineer Tanya Vo is a 2025 AWS All Builders Welcome Grant recipient, cloud enthusiast and conference speaker. Since attending AWS re:Invent as an awardee, she has become: * AWS Community Builder * Datadog Observability Ambassador * AWS New Voices participant * AWS Certified in Generative AI * An active member of Ireland’s technology community Tanya will share her experiences from both the application process and attending re:Invent itself, followed by a Q&A and a short hands-on workshop to help attendees begin their own applications. ⸻ Who should attend? * Cloud practitioners within the first five years of their cloud journey * Students and early-career professionals * Junior engineers and developers * Community members interested in AWS * Anyone aged 21+ who would like to experience AWS re:Invent ⸻ Event Details 📅 Tuesday, 7 July 2026 🕕 5:45 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 [AWS Building, Charlemont Road, Dublin 2](https://maps.app.goo.gl/tZod84ChM6C9PzEC8?g_st=ic) 🚪 Startup Loft 🤝 Networking included ⸻ PLEASE NOTE * Bring Gov issued picture ID to access AWS building ⸻ Useful Resources Tanya Vo on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyavo/ Conference Blog https://medium.com/@votan.consultant/worth-the-wait-aws-all-builders-welcome-grant-to-my-first-re-invent-5a1191f6cd07 AWS All Builders Welcome Grant https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/experiences/all-builders-welcome/ Hosted by AWS User Group Dublin — building and growing the AWS community in Ireland.

\> Note: If you have registered via luma\, please dont double register here\, Thanks\. **Talk: How MongoDB Atlas Gives AI Agents Memory in Python** The session will stay beginner to intermediate friendly, with the first part giving enough background for anyone new to Atlas or AI agent concepts before moving into the main demo and explanation. **Author:** **Venkat Cherukuri** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkat-sai-cherukuri-71053513a/] [Venkat Cherukuri, MongoDB Atlas Technical Services Engineer with 3+ years of deep experience managing and optimizing production-grade deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven expertise in resolving critical issues, improving performance, and reducing operational costs in time-sensitive environments.] **Ade S.B** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/st999/] [Solutions Architect and MongoDB / AWS expert with over 5 years of experience designing scalable cloud architecture and mission-critical environments. Specialized in automating release pipelines (CI/CD) and optimizing infrastructure to turn complex technical requirements into seamless, stable systems. A collaborative, detail-oriented problem solver focused on building strong stakeholder relationships and delivering high-impact tech solutions on budget.] **=============================** **Talk: Generating Images Using Neural Networks** Walking through a notebook that trains a Neural Network to de-noise images from the \`fashion mnist\` dataset, then uses the trained neural network to generate images out of static noise. **Author:** **Brian MacCarvill** [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-maccarvill/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-maccarvill/)] [Masters in Statistics, Undergrad in Maths. Currently work at a small company as a researcher. I have a cute dog.] **=============================** **Talk: Insight into job hunting and the confidence to get the job you want.** Career advice from my cat I've spent 12 years working in recruitment and helping people find jobs. During that time I've read thousands of CVs, and watched people tie themselves in knots over things that probably don't matter as much as they think. Meanwhile, my cat has somehow developed a far healthier attitude to life. He knows his worth. He doesn't take rejection personally. He doesn't spend six months replaying an embarrassing moment in his head. He is persistent to the point of being annoying, and he has a remarkable ability to identify what he actually wants instead of what looks impressive. This talk uses questionable cat behaviour to explore some surprisingly useful lessons for job seekers, including confidence, persistence, networking, handling rejection, and figuring out what actually matters to you in a role. Perfect for students, graduates, career changers, job seekers, and anyone who's ever spent three days overthinking an interview answer. **Author:** **Rose Farrell** [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/roseirl/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roseirl/)] [I've been a tech recruiter for 12 years and a massive nerd for much longer. I try to give practical, blunt and occasionally entertaining advice on hiring, interviews and DEI.] **=============================** **=============================** **Venue:** MongoDB [Building 2 Number One Ballsbridge, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, D04 Y3X9](https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48670c275d061203:0x76f97274f33c1a41?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111) Big thanks to our sponsor for this edition: [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/company/careers/locations/ireland)

# The July SRE Meetup We’re back! This time we’re back at **Datadog**. Join us on **Thursday, 9 July** at the **Datadog office** for the next Dublin SRE meetup. ## Talk **Automating API developer journey @ Datadog** **Speaker:** [Javed Shaikh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/javedali-shaikh-71441580/) He’ll introduce **Hive**, Datadog’s internal multi-agent platform for helping engineers take APIs from “code ready” to “production ready”, covering OpenAPI guidance, route analysis, rate-limit recommendations, load-test readiness, API best-practice checks, workflow orchestration, and Slack-based developer workflows. This should be a great session for anyone interested in SRE, platform engineering, developer experience, internal tooling, or practical uses of agentic AI beyond code generation. ## RSVP To help with building security, please sign up in advance. We may need to close RSVPs before the event, so don’t leave it too late. We’re always looking for more speakers. Got an SRE, platform engineering, incident response, observability, reliability, or operations story to share? Please reach out. You can also find us on the Irish Tech Community Slack in **#SRE**. Sign up [here](https://irishtechcommunity.com/)!

Adult Bachata and Salsa dance classes with practice social at Coolock Ardlea Scout Den Coolock Village. This is a mirror studio located upstairs from the hall with nice wooden floors. This is a weekly Thursday event. Come down, learn and have fun! Men and Women are welcome. Free taster for first timers and discount for students, request via dm. Beginners cost 10 euro for all beginner classes and practice.

The idea is simple: grab a coffee, meet us in the centre of St Stephen's Green by the fountain, stroll around, chat, and get to know each other. Voilà! I do plan on more energetic stuff going forward, but a big part of my ambition for this group is social — so these kinds of events make sense too. **A bit about me:** I'm Noirin, I'm a data scientist and I run a couple of meetups. I'm sort of an extraverted introvert. I really love philosophy, reading, meeting new people and good chats.

Make New Friends💏! This Event is a large Monthly Social Salsa Dance Party 🎉🎊🎇 & Dance Show for Salsa Dancers and for New Solo people who want to learn Salsa dancing. This Salsa Dance Party will be held in a large hall. There is Bar facilities, cheaper drinks and toilets are avaliable. Time of Dance Party from about 9.30pm/10pm. till after 1 am. Dress: Neat Dress. (Salsa Dance class lesson from 8.45pm to 9.30pm.). There are Salsa Social Dance Classes on Thursday evenings for those who like to learn or improve Salsa dancing. The entrance fee for the Salsa Party is 10 euros cash at the Door, which includes the Salsa class lesson. This is very good value. Place of large Hall is in Dublin 8. There is a large Free Car Parking at the back also. Dublin Bus 2 mins walk. There will be many other solo people attending from all around Ireland beside this meetup who already know this venue. In the past Social Salsa Dance Parties, over 270 people attended. Please Note: Salsa Dancing involves people touching each other during dancing and classes. https://youtu.be/DWir_XczIE8?is=YWe0j-H3tECeWaQx https://youtu.be/iyLdoQGBchQ?feature=shared So if you are Solo, like Social Dancing, meeting new people and or like a free lesson to start learning Salsa dancing, RSVP and I will send you the Dance Party Address Details on the day of the event. Many people come solo, so do not worry, come solo or bring your friends with you and enjoy the great Latino music and social Salsa dancing.

Are you Solo and Single!! Easily Make new 💑 friends🍻 with Speed Friending! No need for Apps 😀We are meeting for social drinks including soft drinks 🍺🍸🍷 at Hogans Bar. We will be inside the Bar area. Please, at least buy a drink or a soft drink or so, as we may not be welcomed again to certain bars. We will go to another late bar afterwards for dancing. So Dress Nice & neat please. Leave your surfing cloths and 🏖 surfboards at home please.😂 https://youtu.be/wD0Mm6WIcYs?feature=shared Many new people come solo to socialize and make new friends, so do not worry if you are solo, you are welcome to join us. I will introduce you to others in the group,so you are no longer solo. 😆Welcome to ask me questions about hiking gear and 🐬🐠🐡 scuba diving.

**Practical Curiosity: Learning from Everyday Data** How do we actually get better at utilizing our day-to-day data? Fancy dashboards and complex models might look nice and draw attention, but that’s not where most of us spend our time. In fact those shiny outputs frequently sit unused, while the real insights are drawn from the analyst’s daily practice. Sometimes it’s as simple and as powerful as noticing that a segment is shrinking, a channel is underused, or certain links keep getting all the clicks. There’s many different places that the spark of insight can come from, but you have to keep your head in the data and know where to look. In this session, we’ll explore real-world examples of how segmentation, testing, and click behavior can uncover practical digital marketing opportunities. You’ll leave with inspiration for your own use cases, along with a few simple ways to ask better questions, spot meaningful patterns, and make smarter decisions without overcomplicating it. **About Our Speaker:** [Elaine Armbruster](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainearmbruster/) is a Director of Digital Experience at the [American Diabetes Association](https://diabetes.org/), where she focuses on using data and insights to create smarter, more effective digital experiences. A lifelong Columbus resident, she has built her career in email marketing and the broader digital user journey, and is finding she most enjoys working in the messy middle where systems, data, and big ideas don’t quite line up yet. Thanks to our 2026 sponsors: [Clarivoy](https://www.clarivoy.com), [What Box Consulting Group](https://www.whatboxconsultinggroup.com), [Conductrics](https://www.conductrics.com), and [Piwik PRO](https://piwik.pro) More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

Highlights and Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2025 With so much emphasis on cloud data platforms and AI these days, SQL people can feel left behind by all the marketing hype. SQL Server 2025 was officially released in November of 2025, though, and contains a ton of improvements that will make our SQL Server deployments a bit faster, better, and more secure. There are even more improvements tucked into the release that never made a marketing blog or press release that you'll likely be learning about for the first time in this session! Join this session to learn about what makes your high availability a little more available, your performance a bit more performant, and your database more developer and app-friendly. Come spend an hour with SQL people talking SQL Server 2025 – the good, the "not quite ready for prime time", and the hidden awesomeness.

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/ **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: https://www.veeam.com/ **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on. That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable. In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork. This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it. We’ll cover: * Why “it looks good” is not enough * How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints * How to compare LLM outputs more systematically * Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness * How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results * Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

**Title**: PySteak: Simulation, Calibration, and Optimization for a High-Steaks Culinary Problem **Details:** Cooking an expensive cut of steak can be a daunting, high-stakes task for a home cook. From traditional pan-searing to reverse searing, cold searing, sous vide, cryofrying, and grill sous vide, many steak-cooking methods can be viewed as attempts to manage the same fundamental tradeoff: * *Exterior flavor and texture:* The surface typically needs to reach roughly 300–330°F to promote rapid Maillard reaction, producing a crisp texture and complex, aromatic flavors. It is often pushed beyond 350°F to induce pyrolysis and develop deeper browning, smoky notes, and char. * *Interior juiciness and texture:* To retain moisture and maintain a tender texture, the internal temperature should stay near the target temperature for the desired doneness, often around 129–135°F for medium-rare. The laws of physics are unforgiving. The heat equation tells us how the high surface temperatures needed to develop the exterior crust create steep temperature gradients that drive heat inward, often resulting in the dreaded gray band of overcooked meat beneath the surface. In this talk, I will share my journey toward engineering a steak recipe designed to develop a deeply browned crust while minimizing the gray band and preserving as much of the juicy, tender interior as possible. No advanced background in mathematics, physics, or programming is required. I’ll start with a brief and accessible introduction to the principles of heat diffusion and how to simulate it on a computer. Then, I’ll explore the role of data (i.e., measurement) in calibrating the simulation model and optimizing the recipe. **Audience Takeaway:** After this talk, the audience will have a basic understanding of how thermodynamics shapes the tradeoff between crust development and an evenly cooked interior, and how heat transfer can be simulated on a computer. They will leave with computational tools they can use to experiment with measurements, calibration, and optimization, giving them a practical starting point for engineering steak-cooking protocols tailored to their own preferences and equipment. **Zoom: This is a *hybrid* event. To attend online, join us on Zoom here at 6pm:** https://iit-edu.zoom.us/j/89379230295?pwd=NdETyE5sdYuSrvsrBZXSBFkUESBVkg.1 Meeting ID: 893 7923 0295 Passcode: 5t5WYn **Sponsor:** **[AlphaSense](https://www.tegus.com) will provide the meeting site, as well as pizza and soft drinks for the onsite participants.** * **Address:** 200 N. LaSalle Street. Suite 1100. Chicago, IL 60601 * **AlphaSense's Overview:** The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. * The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. * **Logistics**: To access the Tegus by AlphaSense building, we require **first and last names** of those who RSVP'd by July 15. Attendees will then present their **IDs** when they arrive at the front desk (right when they enter the building). They will be sent up in the elevator to the 11th floor where we will be.

You can sleep in on the Semiquincentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.

We're planning a hands-on technical session focused on building AI solutions in ServiceNow - think skills, agents, and real-world use cases. If you’re curious about AI on the platform, RSVP now and stay tuned for more details. Let's build together!