Free Irish and UK data community conference at Trinity College Dublin, with a training pre-day on June 11 and the main conference on June 12, 2026. 24 sessions across the Microsoft data stack, with an optional EUR 25 contribution.
Data Céilí is a community-led conference for Irish and UK data professionals working on the Microsoft data platform. The 2026 edition ran at Trinity College Dublin with a training pre-day on June 11 and the main conference on June 12, totalling 24 sessions. Attendance was free, with an optional EUR 25 contribution. It is organised by Ben Watt of Datalineo together with a volunteer committee.
The training pre-day on June 11 led into a full main conference day on June 12, with 24 sessions in total. Topics covered Microsoft Fabric, AI, Power BI, the Power Platform, Power Automate, SQL Server, machine learning, and Databricks. The event keeps a practitioner orientation, drawing on the Irish and UK data community.
Céilí is the Irish word for a social gathering with music and dancing. The name signals the event's community character: a friendly, volunteer-run gathering for the Irish and UK data community rather than a commercial conference.
Yes. Data Céilí 2026 was free to attend, with an optional EUR 25 contribution to support the running of the event.
June 11 was a training day ahead of the main conference on June 12, offering deeper hands-on sessions before the shorter-format conference talks.
Trinity College Dublin is the city's historic university in the centre of Dublin, with lecture and event spaces used for community conferences. It is walkable from the main rail and tram lines serving the city.
Data Céilí is run by Ben Watt of Datalineo together with a volunteer committee drawn from the Irish and UK data community. The volunteer model keeps the cost near zero and the focus on community rather than commercial return.
Data Céilí is a volunteer-run, near-free community event that functions as the main annual gathering for Irish and UK Microsoft data professionals, compact and practitioner-focused, with the optional EUR 25 contribution doing little to change its community character.
Registration ran at dataceili.ie. Attendance was free, with an optional EUR 25 contribution. The event has now taken place; this fiche documents the 2026 edition for reference.
Trinity College is in central Dublin, served by the Luas tram, Dublin Bus, and a short walk from Pearse and Tara Street rail stations.
The event was free with an optional EUR 25 contribution covering the programme. Any separate arrangement for the training day is not disclosed by the organiser.
Recording availability is not disclosed by the organiser. Check dataceili.ie for any published material.
| Official website | https://www.dataceili.ie/ |
| Register | https://www.dataceili.ie/ |
| Programme | https://www.dataceili.ie/ |