Programs & Events Combined page for workshops, clinics, labs, and community sessions

Practical programmes by day, public events by evening.

Dublin Enterprise & Technology Centre Company Limited By Guarantee runs a joined-up schedule for founders, learners, mentors, and partner organisations. This page brings together the longer support tracks and the shorter event formats that keep ideas moving between planning, testing, and delivery.

Each activity is designed to be concrete: office hours that answer operational questions, workshops that build usable skills, and open gatherings that help people meet collaborators across enterprise, education, and community work in Dublin.

Founder support Skills workshops Community innovation labs Networking and demo evenings
Programme attendees gathered inside the centre during a daytime session.
This Month

April programming focuses on funding readiness, digital delivery, and collaborative problem-solving

Teams can move between intensive support tracks and shorter public sessions, making it easier to keep momentum without losing access to expert advice or peer feedback.

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Programme Streams Longer-form support with direct outputs

Current programmes across the centre

Participants collaborating during a startup readiness session.

Startup Readiness Studio

An eight-week programme for founders refining their offer, testing demand, and building a first operating plan they can actually use after the sessions end.

The studio combines structured workshops, weekly peer review, and short mentor checkpoints on pricing, messaging, governance, and launch sequencing.

A skills workshop in progress with participants focused on laptops.

Digital Skills Exchange

Open practical training for people improving confidence in digital tools, online service delivery, and day-to-day workflow systems.

Sessions are shaped around hands-on tasks rather than lectures, helping learners leave with tested processes, clearer documentation, and fewer blockers in their weekly work.

A mentor speaking with members during a support programme.

Mentor Office Hours

Bookable support sessions for early-stage teams and community organisations that need a fast route to expert input on finance, compliance, operations, procurement, or communications.

Office hours are intentionally short, focused, and recurring so attendees can return with progress, not start again from scratch each time.

A collaborative community innovation workshop around a shared table.

Community Innovation Labs

Facilitated working sessions that bring residents, charities, educators, and technical specialists together around specific local service or access challenges.

The labs focus on practical mapping, prototype discussion, and small next steps that partners can realistically carry forward after the room clears.

Events Calendar Short-format sessions with high repeat attendance

Events that keep the wider network active between programme cycles

The centre uses a mixed events format so people can join at different levels of commitment. Some sessions are quiet, practical clinics. Others are public-facing evenings built around demos, introductions, and local visibility for new work.

Taken together, they create a rhythm: learn something useful, meet the right people, test an idea, then return to a programme track with better context and sharper questions.

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An event space prepared for an evening programme at the centre.
How It Works Joined-up delivery across programmes and events

A format built for repeat participation rather than one-off attendance

4

core programme streams

Founders, learners, mentors, and community partners all have a clear route into support.

12+

event formats

Clinics, talks, showcases, labs, workshops, and roundtables create multiple entry points.

People can enter wherever the timing makes sense

Some attendees begin with a public event, meet a mentor, and later join a formal programme. Others arrive through a structured track and use events to widen their network, test language, or learn how similar teams are solving practical issues.

A meeting area prepared for discussion and event coordination.
1:1

support remains available

Short advisory sessions help participants translate workshop learning into their own context.

Local

by design

Programming stays rooted in Dublin’s operating realities, access needs, and partnership ecosystem.

Events are not separate from the support model

The centre treats events as working infrastructure, not just promotion. They are used to surface real questions, connect people with useful peers, and keep programme participants visible to the wider community between milestones.

Workshop participants discussing digital tools during a session.
Who It Is For

Designed for people doing real work, not just browsing opportunities

Programmes and events are structured for practical involvement. Founders can refine their next step, learners can build confidence with tools, and partner organisations can contribute knowledge or host collaborative sessions around shared local priorities.

Programme Gallery Scenes from workshops, labs, and public sessions
Founders and participants in conversation during a programme session.
Attendees gathering at the start of a centre event.
Community members collaborating during an innovation workshop.
An evening event environment inside the centre.
A mentor-led conversation during office hours.
A programme support area arranged for discussion and planning.