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Waypoint

Navigating Towards AI Success

DateTuesday 1 September 2026
Time9:30 – 12:30
VenueO'Connor Centre, UCD, Dublin
The room250 senior Irish business leaders · invite-only
Attendance is by invitation. Invites come through our partner organisations. If you have an invite link, register through it. Otherwise you can apply below.

About the day

A half-day briefing on what AI is actually changing in Irish business. Frontier keynotes, live demos of working systems, and panels with the people putting AI into engineering, construction, recruitment, legal and professional services. It closes with networking on the floor.

Run of show

  1. 09:00
    Registration and coffee
    Doors open. Grab a coffee and find a seat before we start.
  2. 09:30
    Welcome to Waypoint
    Nomad AI opens the day: why we are all here, and what the next few hours hold.
  3. 09:35
    Inside OpenAI
    Stephen Denver of OpenAI on ChatGPT, the product roadmap and where it goes next, with time for questions.
  4. 10:00
    AI across industries
    Panel one, moderated by Nomad. Engineering, recruitment, legal and manufacturing leaders on putting AI to work, and what it has cost them.
  5. 10:45
    Orchid, live
    Ben Havenga demonstrates Orchid running on real work, not a staged demo.
  6. 10:55
    Coffee break
    Twenty minutes to stretch, refill and talk to the person beside you.
  7. 11:15
    Claude, in practice
    Kevin Collins, Claude Code Ambassador at Echofold, on using Claude, managing it, and putting it to work.
  8. 11:35
    AI on the ground
    Panel two, moderated by Nomad. Leaders who have built AI into their own companies on what they made, what broke, and what they learned.
  9. 12:20
    Closing thanks
    A last word from Nomad AI and our partner chambers before we head out to the floor.
  10. 12:25
    Networking
    The room moves outside and the whole Nomad team is on the floor. Stay as long as you like.

The day ends at 12:25, with networking on the floor afterwards.

The venue

O'Connor Centre, UCD, Dublin: a tiered room built for working sessions, not rows.

Speakers

Stephen Denver
Go-to-market, OpenAI
Kevin Collins
Claude Code Ambassador, Echofold
Bernard Denver
Managing Director, Metec Consulting Engineers
Sean Devlin
Group Sales Director, MCS Group
Feargal Brennan
Managing Partner, Byrne Wallace Shields
Matthew Mullan
Senior Director of Engineering, aPriori
Roger Courtney
Founder & CEO, Sunstone
Rob O'Farrell
Chief Technology Officer, ID-Pal
Jonathan Eustace
Commercial Director, Microsoft Ireland
Rebekah Brooks
Co-founder & COO, The Indie List
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