Jan 2025: Wexford Tech Meetup

Announcing the next Wexford Tech Meetup, sponsored by Scurri! Join us on Wednesday, 29th of January at the Scurri HQ in Wexford Town (Y35 HX06)

Remember, RSVP is required for entry.

House Keeping:
- Doors open at 6:45pm
- Event starts 7:00pm sharp and doors close at this time
- Events finishes 9:00pm with doors closing at 9:15pm, if anyone would like to continue the chat, T-Morris around the corner is a great local

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Speaker 1: Leigh Griffin, Head of OCTO R&D Funding - Ireland at Red Hat

Leigh has led Agile teams for over a decade. Working with developers in a coaching and mentoring capacity, Leigh has helped teams figure out their own flavor of Agile, far removed from the textbooks, but far more effective.

Talk: Old School Development: How AI is Changing the Developer Role

Generative AI is reaching a point where it is capable of driving, to a reasonable degree, the auto generation of code, testing and documentation. The natural fear is that the machines are taking over and a developer is made redundant. If anything, this is not a paradigm shift, it's a time machine back to old school development.
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Speaker 2: Gary Meehan, Founding Engineer Axe, Co-Founder and former CTO of Retrograde

Talk: AI for Accessible Politics: Chatting with Manifestos and Beyond

In the lead-up to the recent Irish General Election, he developed an AI-powered tool designed to make political manifesto documents more accessible and engaging. By enabling users to have natural language conversations with these documents, the tool aims to simplify complex information and empower voters to make more informed decisions.

During this talk, he’ll walk through how the tool was built, the challenges of applying AI to politics, and its potential to transform the way we interact with political content.

If time allows, he’ll also share insights into his News 2025 project, which leverages large language models (LLMs) to analyse news headlines and explore their potential impact on our emotional states.

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