Talk
Lisa Wehden
Mon 6 Jul · 12:00–13:00
Founder of Plymouth Street, built after her own messy US visa journey. She helps talented builders move to America faster and with less immigration guesswork.
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Upcoming speakers and mentors
Speakers
& mentors
coming in
Talks, firesides, mentorship and workshops for Patch participants.
Fireside
Dr Alison Darcy
Tue 7 Jul · 12:00–13:00
Clinical psychologist and founder of Woebot Health, now a Moonshot Explorer at X, Google's Moonshot Factory. X is where bets like Waymo and Google Brain were shaped. See Alison on LinkedIn.
Mentorship
Ciaran Lee
Wed 8 Jul · 12:00–13:00
One of the original Intercom co-founders, part of the Dublin team that turned conversational customer support into a global SaaS company and later AI customer-service platform.
Fireside
Jack Pierse
Thu 9 Jul · 12:00–13:00
Co-founder of HappyStack. Before that he co-founded Wayflyer, the Irish e-commerce financing company that reached unicorn status.
Mentorship
Seán O'Neill McPartlin
Fri 10 Jul · 10:30–12:00
Director of Housing Policy at Progress Ireland, writing about concrete ways to make Irish housing more abundant, liveable and affordable on the Progress Substack.
Mentorship
Sam Enright
Fri 10 Jul · 10:30–12:00
Patch alum and Innovation Policy Lead at Progress Ireland. He also writes Sam Enright's Newsletter and edits The Fitzwilliam.
Workshop
Menno Axt
Fri 10 Jul · 15:00–17:00
Head of Platform at Dogpatch Labs and NDRC, scouting startups and helping founders sharpen fundraising. Co-running a practical cold-emailing workshop with Julian Lewandowski.
Workshop
Julian Lewandowski
Fri 10 Jul · 15:00–17:00
Patch alum and FDE at Zymbly. Julian got his role through cold emailing, builds across startups and aviation, and is known for going viral on X. See more at julianlew.com.
Mentorship
Deepak Baliga
Mon 13 Jul · 12:00–13:00
Co-founder and CTO at Kota, building benefits infrastructure for modern teams. Kota has raised $22M+ in funding to make health, pension and insurance benefits easier to run.
Fireside chat
Sean Mullaney
Tue 14 Jul · 14:00–14:30
Founder and CEO of Seapoint, building the finance stack for European startups. Previously CTO at Algolia, European CIO at Stripe, and worked at Google's moonshot factory, Google X.
Office visit
Abbey Capital
Wed 15 Jul · 14:30–16:30
Patchers visit Abbey Capital's office for an afternoon session between the speaker programme and the later company visits.
Abbey Capital · Map
Trip
IMR Trip
Thu 16 Jul · All day
A smaller trip for a select group to Irish Manufacturing Research in Mullingar, including a look at the ESA lab and conversations with people from the ESA.
Irish Manufacturing Research · Map
Office visit
Stripe HQ
Wed 22 Jul · All day
Drop-in mentorship from people doing interesting work across Stripe, from business teams to developers, while working out of the snazzy, modern Stripe offices.
Stripe Dublin · Map
Fireside chat
Rosanne Longmore
Thu 23 Jul · 12:00–13:00
Co-founder and CEO of Coroflo, the Irish femtech company behind Coro, a breastfeeding monitor that picked up multiple CES awards in 2026.
Talk
Deirdre Mortell
Thu 23 Jul · 15:00–16:00
CEO of Rethink Ireland, which she built from the ground up into a major social innovation fund that has given nearly $100M in grants to social innovation causes.
Talk
Brian Williams
Tue 28 Jul · 12:00–13:00
Applied scientist at Google Research with a physics master's from Imperial and an Oxford PhD in computer vision. His team turned millions of Android phones into sensors for mapping Earth's ionosphere and improving GPS.
Mentorship
David Nugent
Tue 28 Jul · Mentorship
Cryptography and cybersecurity R&D engineer. After work on secure enclaves at Evervault and post-quantum digital-asset security at Project Eleven, he now runs his own R&D lab, Breaks Ciphers.
Office visit
Stripe HQ
Wed 29 Jul · All day
Drop-in mentorship from people doing interesting work across Stripe, from business teams to developers, while working out of the snazzy, modern Stripe offices.
Stripe Dublin · Map
Office visit
Stripe HQ
Wed 5 Aug · All day
Drop-in mentorship from people doing interesting work across Stripe, from business teams to developers, while working out of the snazzy, modern Stripe offices.
Stripe Dublin · Map
Demo Day
Demo Day
Thu 13 Aug · Final day
The final day of your Patch journey: present what you've built and learned across seven weeks to a room full of brilliant people, alongside your friends and parents. After Demo Day, you become a Patch alum, joining a huge community of some of the most brilliant young people in Ireland and beyond.
Patch Summer Programme