Welcome to this week’s blog, written by the newest member of the Dogpatch Labs team, me, Naoise. I’m the one who is usually unlocking the door for you and answering any stationery needs you may have. I joined the team just over 2 months ago but I’ve been a Dogpatcher since last July as I was the Events Manager with the Irish Youth Foundation. The Dogpatch reception area is a busy place, constantly on the go with people coming and going. The morning will usually follow the same routine as residents arrive, clients show up for meetings and post and…

Here at Dogpatch our team works with all members of the tech ecosystem – from startups and solopreneurs to universities and multinationals – supporting them to innovate through events such as team-building innovation workshops, knowledge sharing meetups, and highly curated intro-accelerating networking events. One of the event formats we use to help organisations to innovate is through Hackathons and Startup Weekends, which help immerse the organisation in the world of innovation over a few days. If you’re asking yourself “What is a hackathon?”, we’ll explain it briefly. The term comes from a combination of two seemingly unrelated words: Hack –…

This video is the first in a series of ‘Resident Profiles’ that we, the Dogpatch Content Team, have created to get to know our residents a little bit better and to understand what it is they do. First up is Twilio, a Cloud communications platform for building Voice, Video, Authentication & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale. They take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API that developers can interact with to build intelligent and complex communications systems. As your app’s usage scales up or down, Twilio automatically…

In the modern workplace, ensuring a diverse and representative environment is of the utmost importance for forward thinking organisations. Both Dublin as a capital city, and Ireland as a nation are becoming more diverse, socially, culturally and economically. In acknowledgement of this trend, last month we hosted ‘Diversity Week’ which served as a platform for bringing together a plethora of Ireland’s most prominent tech start-ups and grassroots tech communities, and was held in conjunction with Ulster Bank and Google. The occasion of International Women’s Day (8th March) played a central role in the themes and perspectives…

NUMA, Paris invited the Google for Startups partners to their Startup Hub in the French capital for an exchange program and workshops which took place on March 10th & 11th. Dogpatch Labs was represented by myself, Community Manager; Liz, Events & Corporate Partnerships Manager and Suzanne, Financial Controller. The Google for Startups Partner Network is a community of tech hubs from around the world and as one of the partners, Dogpatch Labs members have access to over 20 of these hubs globally. We arrived at NUMA Thursday morning, entering off the street into a busy cafe. You could sense…