Waypoint
Navigating Towards AI Success
DateTuesday 1 September 2026
Time9:30 – 12:30, followed by lunch
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 finishes with a working lunch.
Run of show
- 01Welcome to WaypointNomad AI opens the day: why we're all here, and what the next few hours hold.
- 02The policy pictureTwo talks from thought leaders of AI in Dublin on where the rules are heading, and what that means for Irish business.
- 03Inside OpenAIA speaker from OpenAI on the frontier: what's shipping now, and what's coming next.
- 04The four pillarsNomad AI lays out the four pillars of AI and business: the foundations every serious deployment is built on.
- 05Nomad todayOur outlook on the work as it stands: the services, products and working systems we're putting into businesses right now.
- 06The Anthropic viewA voice from Anthropic on building AI that's safe, capable and ready for real work.
- 07AI on the groundLeaders from engineering, law, manufacturing and professional services on how they've put AI to work inside their own companies: what they built, and what they learned.
- 08Nomad of the futureA closing look at where this is all heading, and our thanks for spending the day with us.
The day closes with a working lunch.
The venue
O'Connor Centre, UCD, Dublin: a tiered room built for working sessions, not rows.
ApplyAlready invited? Use your partner's link.
