Interaction Design

🔐 **Hack and Chill – Weekly Meetup** 🔐 📍 **Tog Hackerspace** \| 🕖 **Fridays, 7–9 PM** *(Except the first Friday of the month – we’re at 2600 Dublin then!)* Are you into cybersecurity, hardware hacking, or just love the hacker mindset? Bring your laptop, your curiosity, and your latest digital mischief to our chill Friday night sessions. No talks, no pressure — just hacking, learning, and chatting with like-minded folks in a relaxed space. 💻 BYO projects, hacks, and war stories ☕ Tea, tools, and toggers provided 💬 New faces always welcome Come hang out. We don’t bite — unless you’re a vulnerable service. https://www.tog.ie/2025/08/new-weekly-group-night-hack-and-chill/

Our next **Motherhood Matters Coffee Morning** is a special one - it's our 1st birthday celebration! 🪅 Our monthly meet-up has grown into something really special: a space where mums come together to share, laugh, listen, and remind each other that they’re not alone. Whether you’ve joined before or have yet to come along, you’re more than welcome to join our birthday celebration. One of the things I’m most proud of is that at every single coffee morning, there’s been at least one mum who arrived not knowing anyone at all — sometimes not even me! But that doesn’t last long. There’s always warmth, plenty of laughter, and kindness waiting at the table… along with coffee and cake (there is always cake!). Motherhood Matters Coffee Morning invites you to join us: ✨ When: Friday March 27th, anytime between 11am and 12.30pm ✨ Where: The Gallery, Marlay Park ✨ Who: You, your little ones, and other mums who get it. This time, we’ll have *birthday* cake🎂 Come and celebrate with us! ✨ RSVP so we can save you a seat!

*update* waitlist is open. please message me directly to confirm availability. Only 2 space left. We’re kicking off a new Let’s Get Social Dublin event at The Hideout! Join us for a relaxed evening of pool, chats, and good vibes. It’s a great way to meet new people in Dublin in a casual setting. Best part? The venue is BYOB, so feel free to bring your drink of choice and enjoy a fun night with the group. 🎟 Tickets: €18 💳 Pay via Revolut: @michaeuhtv ✏️ Reference: Hideout03 📅 Date: Friday 27th March 🕒 Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm 📍 Location: The Hideout (BYOB Pool Hall) 🎱 Pool games 🗣️ Socialising 👥 Meet new people Spots are limited and your place will be confirmed once payment is received. Feel free to invite friends who might enjoy the event too – the more the merrier! 😊 Looking forward to seeing you there.

Hello! Free screening. Please book your ticket ASAP on Eventbrite. Meeting time: around 540pm. Take our seats time: 550pm. Film time: 6pm. Thanks! Alan Through Rocks and Clouds(2024) (Film 4/4 of Peruvian Film Screening Week!) Date: 27 mar • 18:00 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/through-rocks-and-clouds2024-film-44-of-peruvian-film-screening-week-tickets-1983532496091?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=listing_android&sg=aa3360161324b058e17050be574c8f26674c63726438c66c4ea0c19ae9be9a0bb63b95052c68f3d8d7abf9b0a2881ef64320fd0d08c254115ccbc22e6f75f45cdf678fe758fe9333cda2c34b43

Looking to get to know new people? Try this board game meetup! Bring a friend, or come alone and play with someone new. Choose from **over 150 games** or puzzles in our library, or **bring one of your own**. Staff are happy to suggest different games you may enjoy to help break the ice! Register online, or walk-ins welcome too :) **Price:** €10 - includes 3 hours of board game play for only €3.33/hour - regular price is €5/hour. **Ages:** 18+

## LIFE DRAWING An untaught life drawing class in the flesh with a model at 27 Pearse Street Dublin 2 (The Ireland Institute) every Friday evening 6.30-9-00PM Room will be open from about 6.20PM €26 (Buy Four Classes for €84-save €20) We draw from about 6.45-9-00PM with a break half way through. BOOK HERE: https://dublin-drawing.sumupstore.com/product/next-available-untaught-class **If you've prepaid for some classes send a quick email to dublindrawing@gmail.com** Materials: We have drawing boards and clips and some charcoal and paper. If you have your own materials bring them- they will be better quality. Places are limited so book as soon as you can. TLDR: Friday Evening LIFE DRAWING UNTAUGHT **6.30-9.00PM** Room open from about 6.20PM **27 Pearse Street Dublin 2** (The Ireland Institute) BOOK HERE: https://dublin-drawing.sumupstore.com/product/next-available-untaught-class

My name is Aurelie and I'm graduating with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Limerick. I run monthly **machine learning** and **deep learning** tutorials in Dublin with a small group of people. \*\*In this tutorial, we will build an end‑to‑end object detection workflow using the **DETR** model from Meta AI, powered by **Hugging Face Transformers** and **PyTorch** based on a Hugging Face tutorial. We will use a small public dataset, walk through data preprocessing, fine‑tuning the model, evaluating performance, and finally running inference on a **new, unseen image** containing a similar object that was not part of the training set. You will receive a Jupyter notebook with clean, reusable code covering every step. No setup required beyond a laptop and a Google account to run everything in Google Colab. **The tutorials are limited to 15 participants and you can reserve your spot either here or by emailing aureliem219@gmail.com. Please make sure to book as soon as possible, as the registration count on Meetup does not guarantee availability.** **For more information about the tutorials:** * The tutorials are interactive and will be conducted using **Jupyter notebooks** on **Google Colaboratory** (a free, cloud-based platform that lets us write and run code directly in the browser). While **Google Colaboratory** is free to use, tasks that require more computational power (such as training deep learning models) may benefit from GPU access. In that case, Google offers a once-off payment for around €10 which can last several months depending on your usage. Some familiarity with **Python** or other programming languages is helpful but not required. Everyone is welcome to join and learn at their own pace. * The tutorial lasts for 1.5 hours. * During the tutorial, I share the Jupyter notebook with participants so they can keep it for future reference. We go through the notebook step by step together and I do my best to answer any questions along the way. * The notebook includes the complete code from data preparation to model training and evaluation. It can be reused or adapted for your own business needs or personal projects * We will be working with a variety of **Python** libraries including **Scikit-learn**, **PyTorch**, **TensorFlow**, **Keras**, **Seaborn**, **Pandas** and **Matplotlib** and the **Hugging Face** framework. These tools will help us explore different machine learning and deep learning techniques using publicly available datasets. * Each tutorial focuses on a different algorithm in depth. Topics covered include **linear regression**, **logistic regression**, **K-means clustering**, **decision trees**, **artificial neural networks (ANNs)**, **convolutional neural networks (CNNs)** for image classification, **object detection** and **natural language processing**. The goal is to break down each technique step by step, making it approachable and practical for real-world applications. This tutorial take place at the **Grafton Hotel, 32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2** (We will be sitting in the lobby in the corner or on the right handside). It will run from **3 pm** to **4.30 pm**. **Grafton Hotel, 32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2** * The tutorials are a high-level practical introduction to machine learning and deep learning and the emphasis on understanding how we process the data , train and evaluate a model with Python. We won't cover the mathematics behind it however some tutorials may have mathematical formulas as part of the algorithm explanation and some tutorials might have more complex data preprocessing as it depends on the datasets and the task we are doing. However the tutorials focus on the practical part! * *Payments need to be made in advance to secure your place and fees are non-refundable unless I need to cancel the event, in this case refunds will be made.*

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.

🚀 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, We are excited to invite you to another informative and coding session on Saturday morning. Come network with data enthusiasts, share ideas, projects, advance your analytics and programming skills. We recommend bringing a fully charged laptop. Agenda: 10:00 – 10:45 Building an actionable dashboard on short term rentals using Power BI by Henrique Ricardo and Krupa Patel 11:00 – 11:45 Tableau: Transform Your Data into Actionable Insights 11:45 – 12:30 Networking Curious about turning data into beautiful visual stories? Join our PowerBI and Tableau analytics technologies for a friendly, hands-on session perfect for beginners! We’ll guide you step by step—from connecting to your data and creating your first charts, to exploring simple dashboards and interactive visualizations. No prior experience needed—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to learn. You’ll pick up practical tips, see real examples, and leave ready to start creating your own data insights with confidence. Let Roman Golovnya know if you're interested in hosting the next event or presenting at future meetups. You can contact him via meetup messages or email [roman.golovnya@gmail.com.](http://roman.golovnya@gmail.com./)

📸 **Objective** We’ll explore the streets around Smithfield and central Dublin, focusing on atmosphere, architecture, and everyday moments. The goal is simple: shoot with intention, improve your eye, and learn by doing. After the walk, we’ll regroup for a coffee and share photos, ideas, and feedback. *** 📍 **Meeting Point** Proper Order Coffee Co. 📅 **Date**: Saturday, 28 March 2026 🕒 **Time**: 11:00 am *** ### What to expect * A relaxed photowalk through Dublin’s streets (no fixed route) * Practical, real-time tips while shooting * Opportunities to experiment with composition, light, and timing * A casual post-walk session to review shots and exchange ideas *** ### This is for you if you want to ✅ Get comfortable using your camera beyond Auto ✅ Understand shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and exposure in real situations ✅ Improve composition and storytelling in street photography ✅ Meet other photographers and build connections *** ### Benefits * See Dublin differently by actively looking, not just walking * Learn faster by shooting, not just reading or watching tutorials * Get feedback and ideas you won’t get shooting alone *** ### What to bring 📷 Any camera (phones are absolutely fine) 💰 Money for coffee/drinks after 👟 Comfortable shoes ☔ Weather-appropriate clothing *** ### Weather note If the weather is poor, we’ll still meet at Proper Order Coffee Co. and turn it into a photography discussion session instead of cancelling. *** ### Important 🔔 This is a casual, peer-led meetup. You are responsible for your own safety and equipment. *** ### GDPR / Consent By joining, you consent to being photographed by other participants. Always ask permission before photographing identifiable individuals outside the group. Respect refusals. Extra care is required when photographing minors. ***

Please PREPAY for this game either by Revolut https://revolut.me/davidandl or Paypal ([kenna.david@gmail.com](http://kenna.david@gmail.com/)) √ We have just 60 minutes to play so please come along a few minutes early to ensure we can start on time. √ The maximum number of players is 18. Please be sure you show up. Places are in high demand so unfortunately, failure to show will result in you being automatically removed from the group. √ As always, you participate in these games at your own risk and an agreement to indemnify the organisers from any injury, loss, claim, or infection.

We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able! Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!

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.

**The Data-Driven Brand: Using Analytics to Shape Perception** Can you use analytics to improve tacos? This being CBUSDAW, we think the answer is probably “yes”, but we’re not sure how to implement or test this theory. For our April meetup we’ve got Sara Kear, CMO of Condado Tacos, to investigate this delicious question. Sara will explore how she blends quantitative data and qualitative customer feedback to shape brand positioning and drive business decisions. We all know that marketing and analytics go way beyond attribution. Sara will show how Condado uses customer insights to inform product and pricing strategy. She’ll also highlight how Condado leverages customer feedback at scale to influence operational priorities, positioning marketing as the voice of the customer across the organization. In the last 12 years Condado has gone from one location in Columbus to 52 locations across 10 states, so we’re guessing there’s more to that growth than really good guac (though the guac probably helps). Ultimately, this talk focuses on the intersection of art and science—using data to inform creativity and build a brand that resonates with customers in a measurable way. **About Our Speaker** Sara Kear is Chief Marketing Officer at Condado Tacos, where she oversees brand, restaurant design, menu and pricing strategy, off-premise including catering, and customer data strategy. Since joining in 2021, she has helped grow the brand from 19 to 52 locations while building a data-driven marketing organization focused on loyalty and customer insights. Condado has since been named to the Inc. 5000, recognized as Breakout Retailer by Chain Store Age, and consistently ranked among FastCasual’s Top 100 Movers & Shakers. 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)

**First meetup of the Columbus AI Engineering group.** We’ll kick things off with a practical, beginner-friendly discussion on: **How LLMs like ChatGPT actually work — and how to build real applications with them.** We’ll cover: * what’s actually happening under the hood (at a high level) * why LLMs behave the way they do (hallucinations, prompt sensitivity, etc.) * how people are building real systems with them today * where things break in practice This will be a **short, informal talk (\~15–20 min)** followed by open discussion and Q&A. Whether you’re an engineer, builder, or just curious about how modern AI systems work, you’re welcome to join. No slides, no fluff — just real conversation about real systems. We’ll hang out afterward and get to know each other.

Our monthly PHP meetup. A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm

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Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts—CORE—is an informal community for anyone enthusiastic or curious about radio—whether you're new to radio and want to learn or you've been tinkering for years and want to share. Ham radio operators, GMRS users, Meshtastic fans, software-defined radio nerds, makers, and technical and non-technical folks are all welcome. No experience required or expected. This month we have **WiFi HaLow: Introduction and Practical Use** with **Alex Barbur**. Details are are [core.radio](https://core.radio).