😰 For many years, I've been hand-curating events from meetup, eventbrite and other sources, like word of mouth from my various networks and social media. It's been quite time consuming (especially as a volunteer), as I before the Covid-19, I was curating for:-
- Coding Grace Monthly Newsletter (1st week of the month)
- Coding Grace blog update on monthly newsletter
- Posting the newsletter and additional events to my DEV account
Since the pandemic restrictions, I've additionally curated:-
- Daily updates of virtual events around Ireland and Northern Ireland
- Tools used by events in the 1st few months of the pandemic (2020) - I stopped this once I noted that most people settled on Zoom, Teams, Meet for events, and tech organisers stopped runnning around like headless chickens. 😆
🙌 So building this site of listings of events, and separately listing diversity in tech events will save me a lot of time, plus I hope folks in general will find it useful
🌈 You can contribute by PR to event lists, I've a CONTRIBUTING doc on github that you can have a read through on how you can share info about events, conferences and even opportunities.
🤔 Any questions, email me at vicky[at]eventgeek[dot]ie
Upcoming General Tech Events in Dec
When: Thu Dec 2, 2021 (18:30)
When: Thu Dec 2, 2021 (19:00)
When: Fri Dec 3, 2021 (19:00)
When: Sat Dec 4, 2021 (09:00)
When: Sun Dec 5, 2021 (13:30)
Latest Upcoming Diversity in Tech Events this month
When: Tue Dec 14, 2021 (17:00) - Tue Dec 14, 2021 (18:15)
Not quite time yet for ho, ho, ho but never too early to get the date in the diary as we know how much our Awakenhubbers love to plan and also let their hair down.
What happens at our AwakenHub Christmas Jollies stays at our Christmas Jollies so you know it will be fun.
When: Thu Dec 23, 2021 (08:00) - Thu Dec 23, 2021 (09:00)
🔁 Recurring Virtual Events
Members of the global AnitaB.org Local community organize events and provide one another with resources to navigate careers in tech. They organize valuable meetups, codeathons, and our one-day HopperX1 events modeled after the Grace Hopper Celebration.
When: Various dates
Mostly via Zoom.
FieldTrips are meetups to interact, learn and collaborate in an effort to level-up your creative life. Built on top of our 20,000 monthly attendees at CreativeMornings talks, FieldTrips are designed and organized by amazing individuals and organizations from within our community.
When: Various dates
Join us as we explore in these series, success stories of for Women Entrepreneurs and Founders in Tech startups and businesses.
When: Every 3rd Tuesday, 19:00
When: Every Fri evening @ 17:00
🎫 Conferences
📌 6 Upcoming Conferences
Being tired of all the conferences that happened online? Don’t worry, we are different from the other online tech conference. We are totally community-run and very chill.
When: Dec 4, 2021 - Dec 4, 2021
These unprecedented times are a turning point for the cybersecurity industry. New technologies, new attack vectors, geopolitical tensions and regulations are reshaping cyber and business risks. With these many evolving challenges, now is the time to supercharge your security. Zero Day Con will host a full day of expert level discussion on cutting edge security approaches to implementing the right security measures to protect your systems, data, and information. Join Zero Day Con in Dublin on March 10th 2022, to examine industry insights, top security technologies, and key priorities for your infosec program.
When: Mar 10, 2022 - Mar 10, 2022
Security BSides is a community-driven framework for building events, by and for, information security community members. These events are already happening in major cities all over the world! We are responsible for organising an independent BSides-Approved event for Ireland, in Dublin.
The conference brings together renowned Information Security professionals from all over the world and gives to all participants the opportunity to network, learn and participate among like-minded individuals, while sharing or presenting their work.
This years conference builds on the success of the virtual event of 2021, by returning to The Convention Centre Dublin for an in-person event on 19th of March 2022.
When: Mar 19, 2022 - Mar 19, 2022
PyCon Limerick will return in Spring 2022. Please RSVP to stay up to date with further announcements.
- The proposed venue is in Limerick City Centre
- The proposed date is the first Saturday after the 6 Nations rugby championship.
When: Mar 26, 2022 - Mar 26, 2022
This gathering of 2,000+ key decision makers from the UK and Ireland tech sector will provide a unique online forum for leading technology companies, tech buyers, start-ups, investors to meet and discuss the key tech trends facing the sector.
When: Apr 14, 2022 - Apr 14, 2022
First time this week long traveliing Python conference will be in Dublin.
When: Jul 11, 2022 - Aug 17, 2022
🛑 Cancelled/Postponed Conferences
See website for full statement regarding cancellation.
See website for full statement regarding cancellation.
See website for full statement regarding cancellation.
See website for full statement regarding cancellation.
🆒 Opportunities
8 tech skills programmes to help non-tech jobseekers rapidly and easily develop new digital skills and access new job opportunities. Candidates must be at least 18 years old and be unemployed.
Applications for our second NDRC Accelerator are now open!
We’re looking for entrepreneurs building ‘global solutions to global problems’ from a diverse set of backgrounds, sectors and skill sets to join our startup community.
Join our 6 month programme and get access to:-
- €100k SAFE investment with founder friendly terms
- Firesides & mentoring from a founder network worth over €5B
- Weekly coaching from EIRs
TSupported by Technology Ireland, InterTradeIreland and Skillnet Ireland, TechIreland has launched a new initiative called the RestartBizMap. [...] interactive map featuring innovative technology solutions to enable businesses to operate in these disruptive Covid times. The project aims to encourage technology adoption by the industry, promote homegrown tech innovation and connect technology providers to industry sectors: retail, manufacturing and services.
Unsure how to get a job in the tech industry? Have you been recently made unemployed? Is your job currently at risk or are you just looking for a fresh start? StepIn2Tech can provide you with a mentored pathway to a career in the technology sector.
🤓 Resources for Organisers on organising virtual events
As everyone knows, most of our open source events have transformed from in-person to digital this year. However, due to the sudden change, not everything is accessible. We took this issue seriously and decided to work with one of our accessibility experts, Neighborhood Access, to share best practices for our community. We hope this will help you organize your digital events!
Info for organisers who can use to host virtual conferences, user group meetings, and sprints! They are offering to share their Zoom Webinar and Pro license to Python events.
Info for organisers using Eventbrite (due to covid-19)
Because of COVID-19, they temporarily updated their in-person event policy to permit groups to host events online. They have high level pointers to various tools and some tips.
Their new what's happening now on their landing page as well as more references on tips and tricks to make your event more engaging.
Info for organisers who can use to host virtual conferences, user group meetings, and sprints!
Because of COVID-19, they temporarily updated their in-person event policy to permit groups to host events online. They have high level pointers to various tools and some tips.
Many heard of zoombombings and random people joining zoom sessions. This twitter thread has some good tips on running a zoom session (as safely as you can).