You can find archives of previous virtual events at: March to June | July
I'll keep track of virtual tech events from August onwards here. This seems to be a norm, so to a point where this live blog is not needed anymore, I'll stop, and will just have them in our monthly Coding Grace newsletter. (Also helps me so I don't double up on the work maintaining the lists on a blog and newsletter).
Let me know either via contact@codinggrace.com or @CodingGrace if you want to include:-
- a missing upcoming event
- announcements
- call to actions / help
- opportunities / grants
Here's some events and conferences who have adapted to having their events virtually (I'll try and keep this post updated).
Events, Workshops & Conference
| Mon Aug 31, 13:00 - 14:00 | Azure Dublin Meetup: Blockchain Series - CORDA on Azure Blockchain 🇮🇪 | |
| Mon Aug 31, 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1 | MLDublin Goes Remote 🇮🇪 | |
| Tue Sep 1, 13:00 - 14:00 | Dublin Social Entrepreneurs: Lunchtime Social Enterprise Check-Ins 🇮🇪 | |
| Wed Sep 2, 15:00 - 19:00 GMT+1 | DigitalOcean TIDE EMEA Online Conference | |
| Wed Sep 2, 18:30 - 20:30 GMT+1 | Rust Dublin September Remote Meetup 🇮🇪 | |
| Wed Sep 2, 19:00 - 21:00 | Newry Digital: Serverless First | |
| Thu Sep 3, 13:00 - Fri Sep 4, 17:00 BST | Machine Learning Dublin: The John McCarthy AI Summer School 🇮🇪 | |
| Thu Sep 3, 19:00 - 21:00 | 🆕 DublinR: Why R? Webinar: Reproducible research with workflowr with John Blischak | |
| Fri Sep 4, 13:00 CEST | Dogpatch Labs: First Fridays 🇮🇪 |
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| Fri Sep 4, 12:00 - 15:15 | Tangent | Trinity's Ideas Workspace: LaunchBox 2020: Demo Day - Online! 🇮🇪 | |
| Fri Sep 4, 13:00 CEST | NLNOG Live! | |
| Fri Sep 4 - Sun Sep 6 | What The Hack: Blockchain and The World Food Supply 🇮🇪 | |
| Sat Sep 5, 14:00 - 16:00 | 🆕 Women CyberSecurity Society - Dublin: Cybersecurity Conversations 🇮🇪 | |
| Sat Sep 5, 15:00 - 17:00 | 🆕 Dublin Code Mentoring: Free code mentoring - For all levels 🇮🇪 | |
| Tue Sep 8, 13:00 - 13:30 | Diversein: Launch Event and Webinar: Inclusive Intelligence 🇮🇪 | |
| Wed Sep 9, 12:00 - 13:15 | Science Gallery Dublin: Citizens' Think-in on Artificial Intelligence 🇮🇪 | |
| Thu Sep 10, 18:00 - 20:00 | 🆕 GDG Galway: DevParty - Cloud NEXT Extended (UK & Ireland) | |
| Thu Sep 10, 18:00 - 21:00 | Hackaccess: Startups4AXS: Empowering Founders of Diverse Abilities 🇮🇪 | |
| Mon Sep 14 - Fri Sep 18 | IT@Cork Tech Summit 🇮🇪 | |
| Wed Sep 16 2020 | 1GAM Galway Meetup 🇮🇪 | |
| TBC - Oct 5th to 10th 2020 | NI Developer Conference | 💡 Call for Ideas. |
| Tue 6 Oct - Thu 8 Oct | Engineers Ireland: Women in Engineering: Strategies for Advancing Your Career - Online Classroom 🇮🇪 | |
| Tue 6 Oct - Thu 8 Oct | UXDX Online 2020 🇮🇪 | |
| Mon 12 Oct - Thu 15 Oct | Saastock EMEA 2020 🇮🇪 | |
| Wed 14 Oct | Dublin Tech Summit 2020 🇮🇪 | |
| Various dates | AnitaB.org's Community 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. |
| Various dates | Creative Mornings Field Trips | 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. |
| Various dates | Hackaday's calendar of virtual events and classes | |
| Various dates | Women Who Code Remote Events | |
| Mon Feb 15 - Fri Feb 19, 2021 | Global AppSec Dublin Conference 🇮🇪 | |
| Fri Apr 23- Sun Apr 25, 2021 | OFFSET 2021 🇮🇪 | OFFSET 2020 postponed to next year. |
🔁 Recurring & ⏩ Ongoing Events
[Update] I've split out recurring and ongoing events, hope this helps. 😊
| 🔁 From Fri Mar 20 onwards | Quarantine Thermo Seminar Series (TCD) 🇮🇪 | 1st in a series starting on Mar 20th. See more via https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/quarantinethermo/join |
| 🔁 Every Mon Morning (Started) Mar 30) | Women Who Cowork Dublin - Virtual Coworking Coffee 🇮🇪 | Via Zoom: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/713622343 |
| 🔁 Every Fri evening @ 17:00 (Started Fri Apr 3) | Women Who Cowork Dublin - Cocktail o'clock with WomenCo 🇮🇪 | Via Zoom - see their meetup page for more info |
| 🔁 Every Thu @ 19:00 IST | 🆕 Why R? Webinars | This is an online webinar series, see https://twitter.com/whyrconf/ for updates. |
ℹ️ More virtual events
👉 There's more virtual conferences listed in the following doc (thanks to the cool women in tech slack group): View live Google Doc
👉 Here's more webinars for Irish Companies & Founders: View calendar (thanks to @g_myaccesshub)
👉 Startup Digest, there's one in a city/town near you: https://www.startupdigest.com/ - Just search for your city name and a calendar of events will pop up.
💪 Events/Orgs that need your help:
| Tech help - Volunteering to assist the elderly | This page gathers details, for the sole purpose of setting up volunteers who wish to assist the elderly, over the telephone, with technical support, during the current Covid-19 crisis. Should a volunteer request it, their details will immediately be removed from this dataset. The data gathered here will not be forwarded for any other purposes other than that stated above. |
| Open Source Ventilator Project | This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions. |
| Startup Weekend COVID-19 Remote Edition 🇮🇪 | Register your interest |
😓 Cancelled/Postponed events
If there's any cancelled or postponed events, please let us know in the comments below. Thanks in advance.
Cancelled 🚫
| UX Belfast | Cancelled indefinitely |
Postponed 🔮
| Dublin Maker 2020 🇮🇪 | Postponed to Summer 2021. See @DublinMaker on Twitter for latest updates. |
| EuroPython Dublin 2021 | Postponed physcial EuroPython 2020 in Dublin to 2021. |
| Futurescope 2020 🇮🇪 | Moved to quarter four |
| MeasureBowling (Belfast) | Moving to autumn |
| PyCon 2020 Remote | Postponed PyCon 2020 but going remote, updates via their newsletter, sign up via https://us.pycon.org/2020/remote/ and also keep an eye on their Youtube channel |
| RebelCon 🇮🇪 | Postponed to later in the year |
| Security BSides Dublin 2020 | Postponed to later date, check website for updates |
| 🆕 ShipItCon 🇮🇪 | Postponed to 2021, check website for updates |
| Women Techmakers Belfast 2020 | Postponed until further notice, check website for updates |
🆒 Opportunities
Other opportunities since the Coding Grace March newsletter was published:
| 🆕 TWi And Tech Writers Without Borders And You 🇮🇪 | Professional writers are ready to volunteer. TWi and Tech Writers Without Borders are partnering to bring technical writers to your not for profit COVID-19 related projects. |
| Bank of Ireland provides €1m in emergency funding for communities impacted by Covid-19 🇮🇪 | Funds fast-tracked for projects supporting vulnerable groups with immediate needs. In partnership with The Community Foundation for Ireland, the Bank is fast tracking €500,000 of the funds to 13 organisations that are working to support the immediate needs of vulnerable groups across the island of Ireland, north and south. The remaining €500,000 is being donated to The Community Foundation for Ireland and the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 Funds to help local charities and community organisations assisting vulnerable individuals and groups through this difficult period. The Community Foundations will launch these funds next week. |
| Bank of Ireland: Begin Together – helping our communities to thrive 🇮🇪 | The Begin Together Fund provides valuable investment for community initiatives that will make a real difference in towns and villages. We want to get behind those trying to make the lives of others in their communities better by improving their financial, physical and mental wellbeing. |
| 🆕 Design and Crafts Council Ireland - Call to Makers to create digital content 🇮🇪 | Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI), supported by Creative Ireland, is commissioning online content that will ‘Get Ireland Making’ DCCI invites applications from clients and member organisations to develop digital content for a series of online activities, video interviews and live classes. |
| UN Global Call to Creatives | For the first time, the UN is launching an Open Brief to Creatives everywhere to help spread public health messages in ways that will be effective, accessible and shareable. Together we can flatten the curve. There is no deadline. |
| Ladies that UX Dublin Mentorship 🇮🇪 | Currently looking for mentors |
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If you have others to share, add them in the comments below... I'll try and update this blog post and will note it for April's newsletter.
🤖 AOB Events
This section is for any other things that doesn't fit in the categories above, like moving off meetup, and so on.
| BelfastFP moving away from Meetup | New site: https://belfastfp.github.io/ |
| 🆕 Mobilize on Hiatus until end of year | https://www.meetup.com/mobilizemeetup/ |
| New MongoDB User Group Events site for Dublin 🇮🇪 | On April 28th, 2020, they will no longer run any user groups or events on Meetup. To continue interacting with your user group after that date, you need to create an account on their new platform. |
| 🆕 Women Who Co-work Dublin moving away from Meetup to Eventbrite | Updates via: https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/women-co-17855424135 |
🤓 Resources for Organisers on organising virtual events
| 🆕 Python Software Foundation: Resources for Virtual Events | Info for organisers who can use to host virtual conferences, user group meetings, and sprints! |
| [Eventbrite] Managing Eventbrite virtual events | Info for organisers using Eventbrite (due to covid-19) |
| [Meetup] Hosting an online event on Meetup | 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. |
| [Zoom] Guide to safely use Zoon (via Silicon Repubic) | |
| [Zoom] Thread about using Zoom safely | 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). |
🌈 Finally
As our Taoiseach said in his statement on Thursday (Mar 12th):
"I know that some of this is coming as a real shock and it is going to involve big changes in the way we live our lives. [...] We’re doing it for each other. Together, we can slow the virus in its tracks and push it back. Acting together, as one nation, we can save many lives."
Let's do our part and make sure help slow down the spread of the virus and protect our community and all those loved ones around us. ❤️
🗄 Past virtual events since last post -
🆙 Moved to the end, as this ARCHIVED events list is getting really long! 😆
I've decided to add this section as it might be helpful for others who are looking into running virtual events, and share ideas used.
