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⌖ Barcelona · Alice Secret Garden

Hosted by AI Engineers Barcelona

Build alongside Barcelona’s AI engineering community at this weekly, in-person meetup for people actively coding AI products and projects. Taking place on Monday, 26 October 2026, from 7:00–10:00 PM CET, the session is hosted by Daniel at Alice Secret Garden, Carrer de Pau Claris 90, in Barcelona. Bring your laptop and a project you are working on. The format centres on sharing your progress, seeing what other attendees are building and meeting fellow practitioners. It is best suited to: - Engineers coding AI projects - Technical founders building AI products - Researchers working hands-on with AI This is a practical community meetup rather than a published programme of talks; no formal agenda or speaker line-up has been announced. The group meets every Monday, with recurring sessions currently listed until 4 October 2027. On arrival, walk through the main entrance and continue straight to the garden at the back. The meetup’s seating location changes weekly, so ask staff where the AI Engineers group is seated. Learn more through the AI Engineers Community website, follow the community on LinkedIn, or apply to its developers-only WhatsApp community. Register for AI Engineers Barcelona

◎ Nottingham + online

Hosted by .NET Notts

Discover the surprising history behind “bugs”, hackers, C and other tech terms at this hybrid .NET Notts talk in Nottingham on 26 October 2026. .NET Notts welcomes developer and author Molly Painter for a journey through ancient history, popular culture and the unexpected origins of everyday computing language. The talk will explore: - Why computer “bugs” have nothing to do with insects - The link between a Viking warlord, a Hollywood starlet and modern technology - What hackers have to do with horses - Why a developer is nothing like a fajita - What the “C” in C means, and why it is sharp Molly has worked as a .NET developer for more than 20 years across government, retail and manufacturing. She speaks internationally about Functional C and wrote Functional Programming with C, published by O’Reilly Media in 2023. Find her on LinkedIn or Bluesky. This hybrid event runs from 6:30pm to 8:30pm GMT on Monday 26 October 2026. Attend in person at CGI (formerly BJSS), 16 King Street, Nottingham, opposite the Brian Clough statue, or watch via Zoom; the online link is visible to attendees. The topic is suitable for developers and anyone curious about computing culture and language. Sponsors include CGI, Rebel Recruiters and PJG Creations; pizza and drinks are listed with Rebel Recruiters. Register for this event

Sponsors: CGI · Rebel Recruiters +1

⌖ Mexico City

Hosted by Rafael Mendiola

AI Builders Meetup brings React and AI developers to Mexico City on 27 October 2026 during Mexico Tech Week and Día de Muertos. This planned meetup offers developers a timely opportunity to connect with Mexico’s technology community, compare what they are building and spend time discussing the intersection of React and artificial intelligence. Organised by Rafael Mendiola, it is designed to bring local builders together with developers travelling from outside Mexico. What to expect The concept is deliberately community-focused: gather strong developers in one place, invite interesting speakers and create space for conversations about React, AI and current projects. While the detailed programme and speaker line-up have not yet been announced, the meetup is expected to centre on: - React development and the evolving tools and practices around it - AI products, applications and developer-led experimentation - What attendees are currently designing, coding and shipping - Connections between Mexican developers and visiting builders - Exposure to one of the world’s most energetic technology communities The event is being timed to coincide with Mexico Tech Week and Día de Muertos, making it particularly relevant for people who want to combine a developer meetup with several days in Mexico City. That wider context gives international attendees an opportunity to experience the local technology scene while the city hosts other activity and one of Mexico’s most significant cultural occasions. Who should attend? The meetup is aimed specifically at React and AI developers. It should appeal to working engineers, independent builders and technically minded product creators who want to exchange ideas with peers and learn what others are building. The published announcement does not specify a required experience level, so prospective attendees should register their interest and follow future updates as the agenda takes shape. Current event status… Register for this event

⌖ Dublin · UCD Innovation Academy, O'Brien Centre for Science

Hosted by Innovation Academy UCD

UCD students can tackle real campus challenges at this three-hour, in-person hackathon in Dublin on 27 October 2026, working ideas into potential solutions. Make an idea for UCD more tangible The UCD Student Hackathon offers a focused opportunity to explore how campus life could be improved through student-led ideas. Rather than working with an abstract brief, participants will address genuine challenges faced by UCD students and consider practical ways to respond. Taking place from 4pm to 7pm at the UCD Innovation Academy in the O'Brien Centre for Science, this hands-on session is designed around collaboration and active problem-solving. You will have three hours to examine a challenge, exchange perspectives with other students and develop an idea into a potential solution that could make UCD better. What to expect The event uses a compact, in-person hackathon format. Participants can expect to: - Tackle a real challenge affecting students at UCD - Generate and develop ideas within a focused three-hour session - Collaborate with other students and draw on different perspectives - Move beyond discussing a problem towards shaping a possible solution - Meet fellow students interested in improving the university experience You can come on your own or arrive with a team. Everyone is welcome, making the event suitable both for students who already enjoy hackathons and collaborative projects and for those trying this kind of format for the first time. No named speakers or specific technology requirements are listed; the emphasis is on participation, teamwork and making progress on an idea. Venue and practical details The hackathon takes place on Tuesday 27 October 2026, from 4pm to 7pm, in the Shackleton Lounge at UCD Innovation Academy, O'Brien Centre for Science, Belfield, Dublin, D04 N2E5. It is organised by Innovation Academy UCD. Free drinks and snacks will be provided during the event. The combination of a real UCD-focused brief, an open invitation to solo participants and teams, and a short working format makes this a practical way to contribute ideas while connecting with other students. Get tickets for the UCD Student Hackathon

⌖ Nottingham · Fothergill House

Hosted by DevOps Notts

Explore architecture governance for AI coding agents at Fothergill House in Nottingham on 27 October 2026, from 6–8pm GMT. This DevOps Notts talk presents a financial-services approach to moving governance earlier in the software development process. Rather than relying solely on architecture review boards, deployment failures and late-stage guardrails, the session will show how governance can become part of an AI agent’s reasoning. You’ll learn how an agent can read real policy documents, explain applicable requirements in plain English while a developer is still describing a system, and identify constraints before any Terraform is created. The talk also covers mirroring those policies in OPA/Rego rules, allowing the agent to check its own proposed design before presenting it and enabling CI to verify changes made by hand. The event is particularly relevant to DevOps practitioners, software engineers, architects and teams working with AI-assisted development in regulated environments. No speaker biography or experience-level requirement has been published. Agenda - 18:00: Doors open - 18:30: Talk begins - 19:15: Pizza and catch-up - 20:00: Doors close Hosted by Mica B. for DevOps Notts at CGI Fothergill House, 16 King Street, Nottingham NG1 2AS. Register for this event

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⌖ Singapore · Lorong AI @ One-North

Hosted by Lorong AI

Explore how AI-powered robots move beyond controlled labs at this technical session in Singapore on 28 October 2026, covering embodied AI, VLA models and edge intelligence. Part of Lorong AI’s weekly AI Wednesdays series and presented with IMDA, this in-person event brings together researchers, practitioners and innovators for three research-to-deployment talks: - Soujanya Poria, Associate Professor at NTU, will examine what generalist physical agents still need beyond better actions. Drawing on GE-Act 2.0, MemBodied and RoboQuest, he will discuss fast control, persistent memory, evidence gathering, planning and verification. - Raphael Yee, Director of Griffin Labs, will explain how his team built Griffin Alpha, an open-weight vision-language-action model developed in Singapore, why it was open-sourced and how Alpha-S performs across robotics benchmarks. - Dr Ernest Tan, Assistant Professor at SIT’s Infocomm Technology Cluster, will explore edge intelligence for responsive, reliable robotics. Topics include 5G/6G communications, distributed AI, inference-aware offloading and applications in facilities management, public safety and the built environment. Event details Wednesday 28 October 2026, 3:00–5:00 PM GMT+8 Lorong AI @ One-North, Vidacity Building, Level 3, The Collider (Entrance B), 69 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139961. Registration requires host approval. Learn more about Lorong AI, then request to join the event.