November 2025: Wexford Tech Meetup
Details
Join us on Wednesday, 26th of November at Scurri HQ in Wexford Town (Y35 HX06).
This month, we are thrilled to host a diverse lineup featuring expert insights into the human impact of AI and deep dives into cloud engineering architecture. Whether you are interested in the psychology behind technology or the mechanics of Google Cloud, there is something for everyone. Come along and show your support!
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: Dr. Trudy Meehan TedX Speaker, Author, Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer with the Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI
Talk: Why Simulation Isn't Enough
In this talk we explore what it really means to be human and what are the important differences between human based services/interactions and technology mediated AI based interactions. Do you interact in more meaningful ways with your dogs than with your family and friends? Wouldn't I be better off with an AI therapist than waiting two years for a real life one? Isn't an AI companion better than being lonely? And if general intelligence ever happens, what's so bad about being like a cat and letting AI feed us and look after us and do all the hard work?
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Speaker: James Livermont Senior Engineering Manager @ Google Cloud
Talk: Queue Theory and Recommendations for Queue-Based Workloads
A fun, not-too-mathy or heavy overview of queue theory and some observations on queue-based architectures. I'll provide some real-world examples and some tips to help folks right-size queues and the workloads they support.
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