January 30, 2026
Convention Centre Dublin
The Dublin AI Conference 2026 gathered 400 of Ireland’s AI, Business, and Tech Leaders for an evening of content and networking.
This event was hosted by Startup Network Europe, an Irish Company that has hosted 245 events in 50 European Cities since 2021.
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AGENDA
6:00pm-6:20pm: Registration
6:20pm-6:30pm: Introduction
6:30pm-7:15pm: Panel Discussion
Topic – Getting ROI from AI: Perspectives Across Industries
- Jörg Koletzki, Chief Information Officer at AerCap (listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with a market cap of $22bn)
- Brian McGeough, Chief Information Officer at Creditsafe (a global credit intelligence provider with 1,700 employees)
- Michael Cordner, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Jentic (the first-ever Irish start-up to be selected for the AWS GenAI accelerator)
- Louise Dennehy, Chief Information Officer at Central Bank of Ireland (CBI is responsible for both central banking and financial regulation in Ireland)
- Graham Abell, VP, Software Engineering & Ireland Site Lead at Workday (Workday has recently announced a three-year €175 Million investment, to create a new AI Centre of Excellence in Dublin)
7:15pm-10:00pm: Networking at Convention Centre Dublin, with hundreds of meetings pre-arranged with a networking app
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ABOUT STARTUP NETWORK EUROPE
Startup Network Europe is an Irish Company that has hosted 250 events since 2021.
Click here for a directory of our past events – they include:
- The Dublin AI Conference 2025 (speakers included Emer Higgins T.D., Minister of State for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform)
- The European AI Conference 2024 (full-day event in Google’s European HQ in Dublin)
- The European Startup Conference 2022 (online event with speakers like Steve Wozniak)