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**AGENDA\*** Sponsorship enquiries [here](https://forms.gle/6mgfTiL9Jo3RM2feA) Thanks to **fourTheorem** for sponsoring this event! **6:00 PM - WELCOME** Ronan Ó Caollaí, AWS User Group Ronan Guilfoyle, AWS Solutions Architect Lead **6:15 PM - LUCIANO MAMMINO, Senior Architect, fourTheorem** "Serverless Podcast Transcription with Durable Lambda Functions, ECS Managed Instances, and Bedrock" **7:00 PM - NETWORKING** **7:20 PM - GLEN KEANE, Senior Software Engineer, BRIGHTBEAM** "Dr. Strangeagent, or: How I Learned to Stop Prompting and Love the State Machine” --Glen Keane, Senior Software Engineer, Brightbeam --Brian Finnegan, Principal Solutions Director, Brightbeam --Blake Rizk - Head of AI and Transformation, Laya Healthcare **8PM - Francis Flannery, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS** Talk details TBA **8.30pm - ENDS** **SPEAKER BIOS** +++++++++++++ fourTheorem **LUCIANO MAMMINO** Senior Architect at fourTheorem, AWS Serverless Hero, author, and podcast host, Luciano is a popular standout voice in the AWS Community, known for his immense expertise and tireless dedication to the community. Luciano's talk explores Lambda Durable Functions, ECS GPU workloads, Amazon Bedrock and building scalable, serverless podcast transcription pipelines. Luciano also co hosts AWS Bites with Eoin Shanaghy. The show has passed 150 episodes and, as a side project alongside a full time job, the production workflow has to be efficient. A few years ago Luciano and Eoin built an automated system to transcribe each episode and generate subtitles for YouTube and the website. That system became Podwhisperer, an open source pipeline that anyone can deploy in their own AWS account to automate podcast transcription. Three years is a long time in the AWS world. Better speech tooling showed up, new ways to run GPU workloads became practical, and durable orchestration in Lambda showed up as a great option to build workflows programmatically. So the project was rebuilt as Podwhisperer v2: a serverless transcription pipeline optimized for podcasts, with GPU accelerated transcription, speaker diarization, and an optional refinement step powered by Amazon Bedrock. v2 also produces captions in VTT, SRT, and JSON, including word level timing, so the output can be used directly across platforms without extra manual work. *This talk is a practical case study of the v2 architecture and the trade offs behind it, but it is also designed to teach the foundations behind the building blocks that make it work. Luciano will introduce Lambda Durable Functions and explain how checkpointing and replay enable long running workflows to survive Lambda timeouts. He will then break down ECS Managed Instances and show how they can provision CUDA capable capacity on demand for containerized GPU workloads, scale to zero between runs, and avoid the operational overhead of managing an EC2 fleet. Finally, the talk will cover how Amazon Bedrock can be used for transcript refinement in a controlled way, improving readability without turning the output into creative writing.* *Along the way, the session digs into the implementation details that make or break these systems in practice, including idempotency, worker callbacks, queue based coordination, and startup latency when scaling from zero. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of the services involved and a set of practical patterns they can apply to their own long running, event driven workloads.* **Speaker Bio** Luciano is a Senior Architect at fourTheorem in Dublin, helping teams be successful with AWS by adopting serverless. He is an AWS Serverless Hero, co-host of the AWS Bites podcast, and co-author of the books [Node.js](http://node.js/) Design Patterns and Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust. **SPEAKER BIOS** +++++++++++++ BRIGHTBEAM **Blake Rizk - Head of AI and Transformation, Laya Healthcare:** Blake is Head of AI and Transformation at Laya Healthcare, part of the AXA Group, where he leads the strategy and delivery of AI-driven transformation across the organisation. With over 20 years of experience in technology, data and digital transformation, he focuses on applying practical AI solutions to modernise core healthcare insurance operations and deliver measurable business value. Blake is currently responsible for advancing the adoption of artificial intelligence across many areas including claims processing, document intake, customer service, and knowledge management. **Brian Finnegan - Principal Solutions Director, Brightbeam:** Brian brings three decades of experience to his role as a Principal Solutions Director at Brightbeam. His expertise in technology delivery stems from a diverse background - which includes previous roles as a Technical Account Manager at AWS and Solutions Architect at Sungard and Presidio. As well as Cloud Architect at Zurich Insurance. This broad perspective gives Brian a pragmatic edge (cutting and otherwise) in bridging the gap between the promise of AI and other new technologies and the gritty reality of scaling it in production. **Glen Keane** \- Senior Software Engineer\, Brightbeam: Glen is a senior software engineer at Brightbeam who wears many hats. Lately, he’s been focused on building intelligent systems using AI. In his past he built smart systems without it. A fullstack developer in all the worst possible ways - he does backend, frontend and devops in both startup and enterprise environments. Previously, he’s been a node.js core maintainer at Nearform; the first engineering hire (outside the founding team) in an Irish Unicorn, Wayflyer; and a Head of Engineering for a local startup. He likes to pretend he’s cosplaying as Chewbacca when he needs a haircut (which is most of the time) and enjoys sitting by beaches in the sunny south east writing code and sipping coffee. **BRIGHTBEAM - TALK DETAILS** AI agents nail demos and drift in production. They skip steps, hallucinate results, and present confident garbage. The fix is not better prompts - it is better architecture. This talk shows how Step Functions patterns - typed I/O, explicit transitions, choice states, parallel execution, error catchers - solve the reliability problem for AI agents. I will walk through a real mutation testing workflow (Chaos Monkey for your test suite) that orchestrates five parallel AI agents, routes on data, and validates intent at the terminal state, without the orchestrating agent remembering anything. Three ideas that land: * **Split intelligence from execution.** AI reasons freely to scope the problem, then a typed state machine drives the steps. Same mental model as Step Functions, applied to agents. * **Isolated sub-tasks.** When a step needs real thinking, spin up a fresh agent with focused context and only the data it needs. The main thread stays deterministic. The sub-task gets the model's full attention. * **Self-driving I/O.** Every step's output carries the next instruction. The agent follows the chain - it does not maintain a plan. If you have used Step Functions on AWS, you already understand the mental model. This talk shows where it maps directly to AI orchestration and where the AI-specific patterns diverge. **Takeaways** 1. Why agents drift and why prompt engineering cannot fix it 2. A concrete architecture you can implement the following week 3. Some core implementation patterns that have been tested in anger ++++++++++++++++++ SPEAK or SPONSOR We have speaking/sponsorship slots available! If you’re building something interesting on AWS we’d really love to hear from you. ++++++++++++++++++ **SAVE THE DATE! - 24 March 2026!** REINVENT RECAP + More!!! Don’t miss the next AWS community event featuring * Major Announcements made @ REINVENT + More!!! * Leading voices from the front lines of AWS / AI development * AWS Ask an Architect All your questions about AWS answered at a single event! ———— **Tickets are FREE but are Limited, so please RSVP Now.** **WANT TO SUPPORT?** AWS User Group events offer a great opportunity to align your brand with AWS thought leadership and to reach a highly influential audience of senior engineers, architects, founders and technical decision-makers that traditional channels cannot match. The Dublin AWS User Group is amongst the longest established in the world and has a long reputation for delivering quality content and engagement opportunities. Meetups are run in a city centre live entertainment setting with full A/V capabilities including dedicated lighting and sound engineers and seating for 200. Contact us through the **Messages Icon** about Speaking and/or Supporting. 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Our Spring Social event will happen on **Tuesday 24th March** in the Black Sheep on Capel Street. There will be no speakers, but there will be craft beers, food, and general conversations around Information Security. Everyone is welcome whether you’re a pro, an amateur or just curious about the field! If you want to speak at a future event, please email us at info@dubsec.ie

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Hi there, Here are the books for the March 24th meetup. And remember, you don't have to read both books! Enjoy, and see you on the 24th of March! PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LOCATION HAS MOVED FROM THE BLEEDING HORSE TO JIMMY RABBITTE AT 87 LOWER CAMDEN STREET. **This meetup is being pushed back from the normal slot of the third Tuesday, which would have been the 17th, to avoid St Patrick's weekend!** Note: If these books are difficult to find in bookshops, try online (e.g.: Amazon.co.uk, kennys.ie, easons.com, bookdepository.com to name a few). AS THIS GROUP DOES NOT TAKE ONLINE PAYMENTS, EVERYONE WILL SHOW AS 'UNPAID'. PLEASE IGNORE. **1\. The Havoc of Choice \- Wanjiru Koinange** 2007, Kenya. Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life suffocated by political machinations. When her husband decides to run in the next election, these shadows threaten to consume her home. Unable to bear this darkness, Kavata plots to escape. As her family falls apart, so too does her country. In the wake of Kenya’s post-election turmoil, Kavata and her family must find their way back to each other across a landscape of wide-spread confusion, desperation, and heartrending loss. One of the first pieces of long fiction from Kenya to explore its 2007 post-election violence (PEV) in such detail, The Havoc of Choice is a delicate and deeply personal attempt to understand the root of this spontaneous yet organised conflict and to figure out what healing looks like for the people of Kenya. **2\. War: What is it good for \- Ian Morris** War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future generations. But, argues bestselling historian Ian Morris, in the very long term, war has in fact been a good thing. In his trademark style combining inter-disciplinary insights, scientific methods and fascinating stories, Morris shows that, paradoxically, war is the only human invention that has allowed us to construct peaceful societies. Without war, we would never have built the huge nation-states which now keep us relatively safe from random acts of violence, and which have given us previously unimaginable wealth. It is thanks to war that we live longer and more comfortable lives than ever before. And yet, if we continue waging war with ever-more deadly weaponry, we will destroy everything we have achieved; so, our struggles to manage warfare make the coming decades the most decisive in the history of our civilisation**.** Séamus

Hello there! Learn to Meditate in 2026 - Free 10 Week Ongoing Sahaja Yoga Meditation Course - hosted by Jayant, Violeta, Vivek, Seamus and friends every Tuesday - All Welcome - Join any Week - The address: Fringe Lab, Sycamore Building, Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, DO2 TD81 - on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 pm until 9:00 pm With Sahaja Yoga Meditation, we usually sit on chairs to achieve yoga effortlessly & spontaneously. So there is no need for mats or special clothing. All across the globe, many are seeking new sources of energy. Meanwhile, the most transformative energy is hiding in plain sight within us, and it's natural, sustainable, and infinitely renewable. It's called inner kundalini energy. And everyone already has it — everyone!. It is often likened to an inner feminine or motherly energy which automatically knows about us and what is needed to help us restore balance and harmony within our subtle being. It works spontaneously, effortlessly, organically, and cannot be paid for. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a simple, time-honoured technique that lets you tap into that energy and harness its power to become better balanced and better connected to yourself — emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. If you're having trouble juggling the challenges in your life, Sahaja Yoga Meditation might help you manage stress, master your emotions and find solutions to your problems. You may enjoy better health, better focus, and a deeper understanding of the universe and your place in it. Meditation is not just for mystics and monks. Sahaja Yoga meditation is for everyone. Anyone can do it. It's that easy. But with the Sahaja Yoga experience, you'll quickly realise it isn't your typical Meditation. It's much more than just feeling peaceful and relaxed. Sahaja Yoga Meditation has many layers, varied and deep. Explore at your own pace, in your way. Our volunteer experts are always available to help. Ready to plug into your inner energy? A few minutes of your life may be all it takes to connect to your inner energy and light the path to lifelong transformation. It's all about energy — guaranteed pure and carbon neutral, and you can never have too much of it. All classes are free. No strings, no catch. Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend. ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION Mondays from 7:00 to 8:00 pm To Join Zoom Meeting, please click the below link (Recurring meeting) http://online.freemeditation.ie/ Sahaj Yoga Ireland 🤗🙏😇 https://www.facebook.com/groups/MeditationOnlineIreland Facebook Group: "Meditation Online Ireland" for about 30 minutes On this group, you can scroll through past guided meditations and watch any one of the hundred or so meditations there, and you can watch them anytime, day or night. Also available: https://wemeditate.com/ Our website: www.freemeditation.ie For classes in London visit: www.sahajayogalondon.co.uk

Hello! Free screening. Please book your ticket ASAP on Eventbrite. Meeting time: around 540pm. Take our seats time: 550pm. Film time: 6pm. Thanks! Alan A World for Julius (2021) (Film 1/4 of Peruvian Film Screening Week!) Date: 24 mar • 18:00 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-world-for-julius-2021-film-14-of-peruvian-film-screening-week-tickets-1983526913393?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=listing_android&sg=aa3360161324b058e17050be574c8f26674c63726438c66c4ea0c19ae9be9a0bb63b95052c68f3d8d7abf9b0a2881ef64320fd0d08c254115ccbc22e6f75f45cdf678fe758fe9333cda2c34b43

TOG will be open on Tuesday evenings from 19:00 to 21:30 for a general Open House event. Expect to find members and visitors in the space up to all sorts of activities. It's a great time to drop in and see what the space is about. If you're an artist, tinkerer, maker or just plain curious, come in and see what the space is about. Maybe you already have something to work on (or want to), have something to fix, create, design, bodge or tinker... drop in. We're also open for just for plain old social chat and hang out, with plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits. We have lots of free parking right outside our door.

How do you scale an AI startup from an initial idea to an enterprise-grade solution? Hear from the Snowflake Startup Program team and a cohort of founders who are leveraging Snowflake to transform complex data into intelligent, scalable products **Snowflake for Startups Program** **Ryan Lieber** Ryan Lieber will introduce the Snowflake for Startups Program, which provides several initiatives (e.g.,Startup Package, Startup Program & Cortex REST API) focused on supporting early-stage companies from a financial, technical and co-marketing perspective as they look to build their businesses on top of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Learn how the program supports startups with technical enablement, go-to-market guidance, and direct access to Snowflake’s ecosystem to help scale innovative AI and data-driven products. **From Program to Agentic AI: Building Enterprise Context** **Ekai** How do startups move from the Snowflake Startup Program to delivering high-impact AI solutions for major industries? In this session, the leadership team at Ekai will share their journey of building enterprise AI products powered by Snowflake. They will explore how they tackle one of the biggest challenges in AI: Enterprise Context. You’ll learn how Ekai developed an AI Backbone that transforms fragmented enterprise data into intelligent, agentic AI systems, along with the technical and commercial strategy required to scale across industries such as manufacturing and media. **Unlocking the 80%: Turning Unstructured Data into Governed AI Intelligence** **EmergeGen** Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because of the models. It fails because 80% of critical enterprise data - including contracts, PDFs, and emails - remains unstructured, ungoverned, and inaccessible to decision-making systems. In this session, EmergeGen, a Snowflake Native App, will demonstrate how organisations can unlock this hidden intelligence. Using ontology-based reasoning, EmergeGen converts messy unstructured data into governed, analysis-ready intelligence without data leaving the Snowflake environment. **Key Highlights** * Native Integration - Build a governed intelligence layer directly inside the Snowflake Data Cloud * Beyond the LLM - Use ontologies to make AI systems explainable and trustworthy * Real-World Impact - Case studies from MSD Partners (Private Credit) and 101 Logistics **Speakers** Ryan Lieber - Snowflake Startup Program EMEA & AJP Tero - Chief Commercial Officer, Ekai Hussnain - AI Architect, Ekai Allan Beechinor - EmergeGen **Event Schedule** 📍 26 March 18:30 - Ryan Lieber, Snowflake - Introduction to the Snowflake Startup Program 18:45 - Ekai - From Program to Agentic AI 19:10 - EmergeGen - Unlocking the 80%: Unstructured Data to Governed AI **Food & Drinks** Food and drinks will be provided during the event.

🚀 A one day build sprint at the frontier of AI agents & sandboxes Every time an AI agent writes code, it needs somewhere to run it. A real computer. Isolated. Fast. Disposable. Until recently, spinning one up took minutes. Daytona does it in under 90 milliseconds. That changes what is possible. **Registeration required on [luma page](https://giveago.co/register/hackspring).** **Please register here to confirm your post: [www.giveago.co/register/hackspring](https://giveago.co/register/hackspring)** On March 28th, we are bringing together Dublin’s most ambitious builders to explore what happens when you give AI agents fast, isolated compute and let them loose on real problems. *** # 🧠 What You Will Build **Design AI agents that demonstrate** * Sharp reasoning * Independent decision making * Safe execution in isolated sandboxed environments * Real world impact A sandbox is an isolated compute environment. A full computer spun up on demand where an agent can run code, browse the web, access files, execute workflows and disappear instantly. This is the infrastructure underneath tools like Claude Code, Codex and Browser Use. It is how serious agent systems run safely in production. *If it involves agents doing real work in the world, sandboxes are how you make it reliable and fast.* ✨ Every builder receives Daytona credits. 🏆 Top three teams earn thousands of dollars in compute. *** **Please register here to confirm your post: [www.giveago.co/register/hackspring](https://giveago.co/register/hackspring)** ## **Project Ideas:** * **Self-Evolving Agent** Spawn hundreds of agent variants in parallel, mutate prompts/tooling/memory, benchmark performance, and keep only the strongest. Darwinian selection for reasoning systems. * **Parallel coding agents** with full context on your codebase and all dependencies pre-loaded, running experiments simultaneously with different parameters and returning results fast. * **Research pipelines** that spin up isolated environments per experiment, run them in parallel, and aggregate outputs without any one run contaminating another. * **Evolutionary Fine-Tuning Lab** Run hundreds of fine-tuning jobs with varied hyperparameters and datasets in isolated sandboxes. Automatically rank, kill, and respawn better-performing models. *** ## What the day looks like 🕚 11:00 AM Doors open ⚙️ 11:30 AM Intro to Daytona and sandbox primitives 🚀 12:00 PM Hacking begins 🍕 1:00 PM Lunch 🛠️ 1:30 PM Back to building 🖥️ 4:45 PM Demos and judging 🏆 5:30 PM Awards and close Bring your laptop, an idea, and something you’ve been wanting to automate. **Please register here to confirm your post: [www.giveago.co/register/hackspring](https://giveago.co/register/hackspring)** ## About Daytona **[Daytona](https://daytona.io)**: Daytona builds the compute infrastructure that AI agents actually need: sandboxes that launch in under 90ms, fork into parallel branches, and snapshot mid-execution. Their customers include LangChain, Browser Use and more. This is the tech underneath Claude Code, Codex and every serious agentic tool running the cloud today. ## Venue Partner ​​\*\*[Baseline](https://baseline.community/)\*\*: An independent community and fund for early-stage founders in Ireland. They write €100K first checks to technical founders, backed entirely by private investors. Looking for your first check? these are the people to be in a room with. ## Join the Community **[Give(a)Go](https://giveago.co)** is a Dublin-based builder community running hands-on technical events for ambitious people who make things. 30+ events. 1,000+ attendees. Partners include PostHog, LangChain, ElevenLabs, HubSpot and Windsurf. One rule: learning by building. **Follow us on: [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/giveago) \| [Instagram](https://instagram.com/giveago) \| [Website](https://giveago.co) \| [GitHub](https://github.com/giveago)** > ***We’ll be taking photos and short video clips throughout the day for recap posts and marketing. By registering, you consent to being included. If you prefer not to appear in any photos or videos, just let one of the hosts know when you arrive*** **Please register here to confirm your post: [www.giveago.co/register/hackspring](https://giveago.co/register/hackspring)**

Hi All, this is a on lead walk with dogs of all ages and experience welcome. Many who attend are recently rescued and learning. Walk the lovely grounds and see the flowers and wildlife followed by coffee. There is a Fb page Sighthound Adventures Ireland and #dublinhoundwalks on Instagram. All Welcome.

​You already know what OpenClaw is. You've probably starred the repo. Maybe you've spun it up once and hit a wall somewhere around channel config or API keys or "wait, which model am I actually running?" ​That's what this night is for. ## **Register on this link to confirm your RSVP:** [https://giveago.co/register/openclaw](https://giveago.co/register/openclaw) ​This event is brought to you in collaboration with **Give(a)Go** and **AI Collective** — and the team from Jentic who have been running OpenClaw agents in production and building skills on top of it. They'll be in the room to help you through it. Bring your laptop, bring your questions, and by the end of the night you'll have an agent actually running. Talking to you on WhatsApp or Telegram. Doing things. ​**What usually trips people up (and what we'll cover):** * ​Hosting: VPS vs home server, what's actually worth the hassle * ​Channel setup: linking WhatsApp without losing your mind * ​Skills and tools: connecting real APIs so it can actually do stuff * ​Personality and memory: [SOUL.md](https://soul.md/), [MEMORY.md](https://memory.md/), making it yours * ​Model selection: not burning money on every message ​Prep materials go out beforehand. Come ready, or come from zero — both are fine. ​Bring a laptop. That's it. ## **Register on this link to confirm your RSVP:** [https://giveago.co/register/openclaw](https://giveago.co/register/openclaw) **​About Jentic** [Jentic ](https://www.jentic.com/)is the missing layer between your APIs and AI agents. When you deploy agents to production, you hit real walls: fragmented API access, no governance, untested behaviour crashing into live systems. Jentic removes that friction. **Venue Partner** ​​​**[Baseline](https://baseline.community/)**: An independent community and fund for early-stage founders in Ireland. They write €100K first checks to technical founders, backed entirely by private investors. Looking for your first check? these are the people to be in a room with. ​**​Community** **[The AI Collective ](https://www.aicollective.com/)**is a global non-profit building the human layer for the AI era. Uniting 200,000+ leaders, builders, and stakeholders across 100+ chapters worldwide to navigate the rapid acceleration of technological progress ​​**[Give(a)Go](https://giveago.co/)** is a Dublin-based builder community running hands-on technical events for ambitious people who make things. 30+ events. 1,000+ attendees. Partners include PostHog, Langchain, ElevenLabs, HubSpot and Windsurf. One rule: learning by building. ​Follow us on: [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/giveago) \| [Instagram](https://instagram.com/giveago) \| [Website](https://giveago.co/) \| [GitHub](https://github.com/giveago). ## **Register on this link to confirm your RSVP:** [https://giveago.co/register/openclaw](https://giveago.co/register/openclaw) ## **​Community** **​[Give(a)Go](https://giveago.co/)** is a Dublin-based builder community running hands-on technical events for ambitious people who make things. 30+ events. 1,000+ attendees. Partners include PostHog, Langchain, ElevenLabs, HubSpot and Windsurf. One rule: learning by building. **Follow us on: [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/giveago) \| [Instagram](https://instagram.com/giveago) \| [Website](https://giveago.co) \| [GitHub](https://github.com/giveago)** ​ *We’ll be taking photos and short video clips throughout the day for recap posts and marketing. By registering, you consent to being included. If you prefer not to appear in any photos or videos, just let one of the hosts know when you arriv*

Sunday Evening Walk This Sunday’s walk will be a nice gentle pace from Booterstown Dart Station. We will be meeting at 16:00 outside the entarance of Booterstown Dart Station, you can get the Dart from Northbound or Southbound or you can get the Bus 4, 7 and 7A to the Station. There is a Car Park too. We will wait 10 minutes then we will be walking to Booterstown Park, Blackrock Park, We will then be walking the coast of Seapoint and Monkstown and then we will be walking of the Piers in Dún Laoghaire and finishing at the Train Station. There is a few Cafè’s while we are walking for those who would like Coffee. You can bring your Pet too but please have them on leads. We should be back for around 17:30-18:00. If you can please pay me €3-5 worth this helps me for the page as I am paying the subscription. It also takes me time and effort creating these events and doing research. I hope to see you there, but please wear warm clothes ! Many thanks Thomas

**Welcome to The Assets Builders.** We are tired of the old story: study hard, get a job, climb the ladder. That ladder is broken, and we want to build our own. We are ambitious, talented, and restless to own more of our work. We believe that the future of work isn't a job. It's a portfolio. It's about not letting your job be your only plan. Jobs are temporary; assets are forever. Jobs pay; assets compound. We aren't just looking to earn a living; we're looking to design a life. We are ambitious, talented, and restless to own more of our work. This isn't just about entrepreneurship. It's about experimentation. It's about shifting from being an employee to an experimenter. We aren't asking you to quit your job. We're asking you to not rely on it. We're asking you to diversify, to build, and to take control. We build business assets and career assets, which are the tangible and intangible resources that grow your value and multiply your options. They include: Your unique skills and know-how. A powerful personal brand. A robust network of connections. A compelling portfolio of your work. Valuable digital content and digital products. We follow the Assets Ladder. We learn more skills. We earn more income. We own more assets. This is the three-step framework that busts the myth that assets are only for the rich. It's a path for anyone who is willing to do the work. This is not just an idea. It's a strategy. Learn Earn Own is our toolkit. We provide the maps, the scorecards, the templates, the AI prompts, and the digital tools you need to build your own Career Assets. By joining The Assets Builders, you will learn to: Design your own future and stop building someone else’s. Own more of your work and stop leaving money on the table. Earn more without working more to become more independent. Create multiple personal career ideas with our practical tools. Create things of value to monetise, including digital tools Collaborate with others with complementary skills and experience We are ready to build something that lasts. We are ready to own our potential. We are The Assets Builders. Join our kick-off at Career Lab in Dublin. **The Organiser** I’m an innovator in digital business for 25 years, including starting and selling a personal brand side hustle called 'Connector'. Recently, I published a book about the Future of Work, introducing the idea of Career Assets, as the Career Ladder is broken. I will have some copies of 'Learn Earn Own' at a special offer price of €10 if you want to get a signed copy. Nowadays, I help ambitious individuals, groups, and organisations build assets with long-term value. Get weekly updates on events and other opportunities by subscribing on my website [[www.conorlyn.ch](http://www.conorlyn.ch/)] **Extras** \- Doors open at 6pm \- Come between 2\-6pm if you want a place to work and chat \- Some volunteers are invited to help out and get some event experience \- Food & drink are available to purchase at the venue **Previous Feedback** "I loved how inclusive, informative, and open the community was. I've been to professional networking events before, and sometimes they tend to get a bit cliquey (when too many senior execs or startup founders are involved), but I was really glad this wasn't like that at all!" Rishmita Aich **Conor's Links** Previous event photos and other handy links like our WhatsApp group - [here](https://linktr.ee/conorlyn.ch) **Free chapter of Learn Earn Own** -> www.conorlyn.ch/p/im-sharing-chapter-1-of-learn-earn **Buy Conor a coffee, or buy his book ;-0** The event takes time to organise, but it is free for you to attend. However, a donation to support these events is welcome here or on the evening. -> [Buy Me A Coffee](http://buymeacoffee.com/conorlyn.ch) -> www.amazon.com/author/conorlynch Thanks! Sponsors are welcome to get in touch.

**An event for Career Builders** Career Lab is back! This event is for anyone looking to get the most out of their working life. If you are looking for work or side hustles, or want to explore new ideas to build up your income and skills, don't miss this event. As well as introducing my new book 'Learn Earn Own', I hope to have a couple of special guests to speak to you. And I will launch a new project. called The Assets Builders, where we make assets together. These interactive sessions I will unveil will use my framework, the Assets Ladder. I want to give everyone a chance to introduce themselves to everyone else. By handing over the mic! Depending on the number of guests, you have approximately 30 seconds to introduce yourself! Then anyone interested can come and talk to you. So be ready with your 'pitch'. This is the suggested format: I AM - Current skills keywords, experience ... I HAVE - Job, time to spare, ideas to share ... I NEED - No. 1 thing you are looking for right now ... Note, if you go over your 30-second time slot, you have to buy everyone there a drink and other disincentives to be announced that evening ;-) So there will be lots of career networking to help you make new connections and friendships. Come along and collaborate with like-minded people who want to help each other succeed. At our events, Conor is available for chats as a 'Career Designer', plus a traditional Career Coach might be available to answer career-related questions for job seekers etc. **Are you ready for the future of work?** Own assets or become obsolete. David Autor, MIT So are you ready for the future of work? How will you design and manage your dream career? To help you prepare, Career Lab events focus on career innovation and collaboration with your peers. **The Organiser** I’m an innovator in digital business for 25 years, including starting and selling a personal brand side hustle called 'Connector'. Recently, I published a book about the Future of Work, introducing the idea of Career Assets, as the Career Ladder is broken. I will have some copies of 'Learn Earn Own' at a special offer price of €10 if you want to get a signed copy. Nowadays, I help ambitious individuals, groups, and organisations build assets with long-term value. Get weekly updates on events and other opportunities by subscribing on my website [[www.conorlyn.ch](http://www.conorlyn.ch/)] **Extras** \- Doors open at 6pm \- Come between 2\-6pm if you want a place to work and chat \- Some volunteers are invited to help out and get some event experience \- Food & drink are available to purchase at the venue **Previous Feedback** "I loved how inclusive, informative, and open the community was. I've been to professional networking events before, and sometimes they tend to get a bit cliquey (when too many senior execs or startup founders are involved), but I was really glad this wasn't like that at all!" Rishmita Aich **Conor's Links** Previous event photos and other handy links like our WhatsApp group - [here](https://linktr.ee/conorlyn.ch) **Free chapter of Learn Earn Own** -> www.conorlyn.ch/p/im-sharing-chapter-1-of-learn-earn **Buy Conor a coffee, or buy his book ;-0** The event takes time to organise, but it is free for you to attend. However, a donation to support these events is welcome here or on the evening. -> [Buy Me A Coffee](http://buymeacoffee.com/conorlyn.ch) -> www.amazon.com/author/conorlynch Thanks! Sponsors are welcome to get in touch.

Calling all founders, CEOs, lawyers, doctors, and entrepreneurs to join our special *Founder Edition* of Sip & Read meetup event. Let's sip on fine wine and discuss our first book **The 5AM Club- Own Your Morning Elevate Your Life, by Robin Sharma**. We will pair this book with our favorite wine at **Wine on High** and engage in thought-provoking discussions on startup businesses and entrepreneurship, and network with like-minded individuals in a cozy book club setting. Come prepared to discuss this month's book. At the end of each book club meeting, we will take next book and venue suggestions from the participants for the next meeting. Whether you are a book lover, women entrepreneur, or a content creator, this event is perfect for sharing ideas and insights with other funders and founders in the entrepreneurial world. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to connect, learn, and grow together. Sign up now to reserve your spot! *Fun fact! This meetup was established in 2015 and had over 1,000 members. I had to shut down operations while attending law school, but we're back!!*

Columbus Code & Coffee is excited to partner with GiveBackHack to put on the Healthtech Impact Sprint from 3/28-3/29 at Rev1 at The Peninsula! RSVP here using promo code CODEANDCOFFEE: https://luma.com/tk2jdrxk This is a health-specific version of GBH’s traditional weekend event. Participants pitch, research, and prototype health-focused projects for a chance to earn to $5K in funding from The Columbus Foundation and IGS Energy. On Saturday, folks will pitch their idea, form teams, and build. On Sunday, they’ll finalize their pitches before showcasing their work to the community and judges. # ​Schedule ​**Sat, Mar 28** * ​​9a: Doors open & breakfast * ​9:30a: Kickoff and intros * ​​10a: Ideation session * ​​11a: Pitches & team formation * ​​12p: Working lunch * ​​2p: Mentor visits * ​​5p: Free work (optional) * ​​9p: Doors close ​​**Sun, Mar 29** * ​9a: Doors open * ​10a: Mentor visits * ​​12p: Showcase * ​​1p: Final pitches & awards * ​​2p: Wrap *** # ​ FAQs ​**Do all ideas have a chance at getting funded?** ​​Not all ideas will move forward after initial pitches on Saturday. Once pitches are complete, we’ll vote for top ideas and form teams around the 4 – 7 ideas with the most votes. You must recruit **at least four total team members** (including the founder) to move forward and have a chance at getting funded on Sunday. If your idea doesn’t move forward, you can join another team! ​​**Do I have to submit my idea online prior to the event?** ​​Unlike previous years, we don’t have the option to submit your idea online prior to the event. Instead, everyone will be going through a brainstorming exercise on Saturday that’ll help you prepare for your initial pitch. ​​**Will we be working for 24 hours straight?** ​​Nope. The event is split over two days. You’ll be building on Saturday and pitching on Sunday. ​​**Do I have to pitch an idea?** ​​Nope. You can also simply join a team. ​​**What types of entrepreneurs does GBH support?** ​​While GBH most often works with technology startups, we support *any* organization (for- or non-profit) that makes an impact on health in the US or across the world.

**PLEASE BUY TICKETS THROUGH EVENTBRITE. RSVP THROUGH MEETUP IS NOT A TICKET PURCHASE CONFIRMATION.** Strive welcomes you to 'General Business Networking', Columbus' hottest networking event! We are set in the perfect central location in Downtown for all to join. Are you interested in business? Want to elevate your career? Meet Consultants, Analysts of all types, Bankers, Software Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and more who are active in the space or are eager to get started. **\*\*This will be a multi-vertical event\*\*** **There will be professionals with backgrounds in the arts, finance, tech, real estate, healthcare, and more. Come with an open mind, and leave with connections that wouldn't be possible otherwise!** Pack some business cards and come with an open mind! Meet your future business partners, employers, coworkers, investors, and friends. You don't want to miss this opportunity to expand your network and create a brighter future. We will have a space for our event to check-in. The event will go from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (feel free to come at any point in this timeframe). Name tags will be provided. Business casual dress code. Job fair attire. **Remember, it's not who you know, it's who you meet tomorrow!** We look forward to meeting you at the event! Sincerely, Strive Networking Team *Refund requests are permitted up to 24 hours after purchase, so long as we are not within 48 hours before the event start time. Refunds will be made in full and repaid to your method of payment. Note that we are unable to reimburse PayPal fees.* *Disclaimer: By attending Strive Networking events you agree to photos/videos taken during the event being used to promote future events.*

We will meet next to the restrooms at the [Big Meadows Picnic Area](https://www.metroparks.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HBK_Web_1980.png). They're all the way at the back of the park, and they can be found at coordinates [40°09'06.6"N 83°02'30.2"W](https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2%B009'06.6%22N+83%C2%B002'30.2%22W/@40.151828,-83.0423587,214m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m10!1m5!3m4!2zNDDCsDA5JzA4LjAiTiA4M8KwMDEnNDUuMSJX!8m2!3d40.1522222!4d-83.0291944!3m3!8m2!3d40.151827!4d-83.041715?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIwNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) (near the playground and the zip line). We'll hike about 5 miles at [Highbanks Metro Park](https://www.metroparks.net/parks-and-trails/highbanks/) on the Dripping Rock and Overlook Trails. Afterward, we'll head over to [Olentangy River Brewing](https://www.olentangybrew.com/) for drinks, coffee, or food (their Sunday [food truck](https://www.olentangybrew.com/eventsandfood) is Venezuelan and always gets good reviews). The actual address of the brewery is [303 Green Meadows Dr S, 43035](https://www.google.com/maps/place/303+Green+Meadows+Dr+S,+Lewis+Center,+OH+43035/@40.1551938,-83.0144045,17.25z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8838f395cef06c97:0xe407de61b3e30069!8m2!3d40.1551765!4d-83.0124352!16s%2Fg%2F11c26jc7j9?entry=ttu). If you can't make the hike, we should be there by noon. **How to find our starting point in Big Meadows:** If you are new to Highbanks, the Big Meadows picnic area is 1.5 miles into the park just after you turn into the park off of U.S. Route 23. That is, after you enter the park, drive a mile and a half into the park. You will come to a crosswalk with a yield sign in the middle of it (this is not to be confused with the first such crosswalk you come to just in front of the Nature Center, which you arrive at maybe a quarter of a mile into the park). Just after this second crosswalk, make a left. Then make another almost immediate left into the parking lot on your left. There you will see the jungle gym and the kiddie zip line to your left. I will be just in front of the restrooms just a bit further down from the jungle gym and picnic shelter; the restroom building will also be on your left.

Bring your business cards and network in person with other business professionals! Gold Star Referral Clubs is one of the most established professional networking organizations in the country, with multiple groups in central Ohio. Join us!