A New Year - First newsletter of 2026

We welcome you to our first bi-monthly newsletter of 2026. A huge thanks to all of you for your continued support of Coding Grace's newsletter.

We would love to hear what you are interested in hearing about in our future newsletters, and it's anonymous feedback. Thanks in advance.

📰 Last month, Vicky and Mick along with Declan McGrath (Ruby Ireland) co-organised the annual Irish Techies Table Quiz raising money for The Dublin Simon Community, and it was the highest funds raised before match-funding.

🙏 A huge thank you to everyone who supported by donating, attending and contributing to this event, in total plus a cheque was €2590! All this will make a difference at The Dublin Simon Community. Here's the write-up of the evening in question from winners, team names, all the amazing local tech community groups partnered in the event, and the sponsors who provided the prizes.

👀 After holidays, you want to get back into gear, check out the videos from GDG DevFest playlist which was published recently.

And if you are itching for events in the coming months to learn something new, meet and catch up with folks, check out the Diversity in Tech listings below (scroll down) and speaking of events...

Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin 2026- 20th to 22nd March

Build Impact. Lead Change. Shape the Future.

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📢 Save the date for Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin 2026 which is taking place on be Mar 20th-22nd. More details can be found here >>>

📢 If you are based in Northern Ireland, a new tech professionals hub was recently created on reddit.

Join us to discuss the local job market, share technical advice, and stay updated on NI tech news. From Belfast to Derry/Londonderry and beyond, if you build or work in the tech industry in NI, you belong here.

👏 A big congrats to TOG Hackerspace on their recent grant award from As Darragh Did.

This funding will allow us to expand the creative tools available in the space and kick off a new programme of inclusive, hands-on workshops focused on design, creativity, and making. Over the coming months, you’ll start to see new activities appearing at TOG that are designed to lower the barrier to getting involved, welcome new faces into the space, and give people fun, accessible ways to learn new skills.

So keep your eyes peeled for their upcoming events.

🛟 Coding Grace is a non-profit and we are volunteers running all the activities from curating events listings, running this newsletter, advocating diversity in tech through events, speaking engagements, and collaborations. As a registered company, our main expenses which includes accountancy fees, bank fees, and zoom.

💖 If you want to be involved with Coding Grace, there are different ways from offering to mentoring 🧑‍🏫, collaborating 🤝, help spreading the word about us 💬, and financial contributions 🤲.

🌈 Dublin City PPN - Community Partner, we are also members.

💬 To keep the conversation going, join us on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/PVNQcpH4gq

🎤 PyLadies Dublin: Call for Speakers 2026

PyLadies Dublin Monthly Meetups: Call for Speakers

PyLadies Dublin are monthly meetups hosted in-person or remotely (possibly hybrid in the future).These meetups are free, and are open to everyone of a…

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PyLadies Dublin are looking for speakers, workshops, and collaborations for 2026.

Some of the various things you can submit:-
⚡️ Lightning Talks
💻 Workshops
🎤 Show & Tell
⚙️ Maker activity
💟 Other ideas for an event

Any questions, or looking to sponsor/host our event, email: dublin@pyladies.com

🎤 Wexford Tech Meetup: Call for Speakers

Wexford Tech Meetup Speaker

We welcome a wide range of talk topics from within the tech space. This can include topics from different disciplines such as engineering, design, product, marketing, you get the idea 😄 Don’t worry, you don’t have to finalise your talk outline for this. Just give us a rough idea of what you would like to speak about. We will reach out to chat to you about availability and scheduling, so you are not committing to anything right now!

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📢 Imirt and CREW - ELEVATE Programme

Supported by the Screen Ireland Stakeholders Fund, Imirt and CREW were delighted to announce ELEVATE, a new business development programme designed to upskill early-stage game developers, focusing on:

• Leadership
• Team building
• Strategic development
• Financial management
• Fundraising

The programme will consist of 12 x 2-hour online workshops delivered over 12 weeks running from late January until April 2026.

It will be complementary for those selected, with a preference given to individuals who have previously taken part in IndieDev, Incubators or similar initiatives.

PyLadies Dublin x Go Ireland, Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

🙌 PyLadies Dublin are delighted to collab with Go Ireland this month. More details to follow. 💻 Don’t forget to bring along your laptops (work on own project, share cool

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Women in Tech Belfast: Beat the Burnout Event January 2026, Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup

**Women in Tech Belfast presents: Beat the Burnout** **An interactive workshop-led evening focused on self-care, energy, and sustainable wellbeing** **Thursday 22nd Janua

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Brigit: Dublin City Celebrating Women

The fifth edition of the festival will take place from Fri, 30th January to Mon, 2nd February 2026. Full programme in early January.

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Women in Tech Dublin - OutGeekWomen

All the badass women in tech, are you in? #outgeekwomen

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⏭️ Our next bi-monthly newsletter will be in March including the following:-

• 📢 Announcements
• 🗓️ Events
• 💟 Opportunities 

This will be covering 🌱 March and April 🌱, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.

Cheers,

/// Vicky 🐱🏳️‍🌈🦄