Dublin AI Week 2026 · Community workshop

AI Is Changing Careers.

How to reinvent without starting from zero.

A practical workshop for professionals figuring out what stays valuable, what needs to change and where AI fits into their next career move.

DateTuesday, 6 October 2026
Time6:30–8:00 PM
LocationDublin · Venue to be confirmed
AdmissionFree · Limited to 35 people

Why this conversation matters

Your career may need to change. That does not mean you need to start again.

AI is changing how work gets done, which skills matter and what employers increasingly expect. For many experienced professionals, that creates an uncomfortable question: Where do I fit now?

This workshop moves beyond predictions about which jobs AI may replace. Instead, we will identify what you already have that remains valuable, what genuinely needs strengthening and where AI can amplify your work without replacing the judgement that makes you valuable.

You will leave with the beginnings of a practical career roadmap—not another list of “future skills”.

The Career Reinvention Map

Five decisions. One clearer next move.

Bring one real career question. You will work through it during the session using a simple, practical framework.

01

Keep

Experience, judgement and strengths that remain valuable.

02

Translate

Capabilities you already have but need to communicate differently.

03

Build

Genuine capability gaps worth developing next.

04

Amplify

Where AI can make your work faster, stronger or more useful.

05

Protect

Where human judgement, accountability and relationships must remain.

Inside the workshop

Practical, participatory and grounded in real work.

You will not need a technical AI background. You will need an open mind, a notebook and one question about where your career is heading next.

Transferable value

Look beyond your job title and identify the experience that still carries forward.

The real gap

Distinguish a capability gap from an evidence or positioning gap.

Human advantage

Identify the judgement, influence and accountability that become more important with AI.

Deliberate action

Choose a practical next move instead of collecting courses without direction.

Workshop flow

90 minutes from uncertainty to a clearer direction.

Short ideas, guided reflection, real scenarios and time to work on your own career—not a lecture.

6:30 PM

Arrive & connect

One opening question: what are you trying to understand about AI and your career?

6:40 PM

Do not start from zero

Why reinvention does not require erasing the value you have already built.

6:50 PM

What AI changes—and what it does not

Separate the noise from the shifts that genuinely affect professional value.

7:05 PM

The Career Reinvention Map

KEEP → TRANSLATE → BUILD → AMPLIFY → PROTECT.

7:20 PM

Work on your own career

A guided individual exercise followed by discussion of real scenarios.

7:50 PM

Q&A + one next move

Turn your reflection into one deliberate action after the workshop.

Who it is for

For people who know work is changing—and want to respond deliberately.

  • Professionals considering a move without discarding years of experience
  • Operators and change leaders adapting their role for an AI-enabled workplace
  • Founders thinking about how their own capability must evolve with their company
  • Career changers unsure whether they need a new direction, stronger evidence or better positioning
Sneha Chawla speaking to an audience about career reinvention and the future of work

Your host

Sneha Chawla

Risk Manager · Project & Transformation Professional · Career Strategist · Speaker

Sneha’s career has moved across research, education, customer operations, project delivery, compliance and operational risk. That non-linear path gave her first-hand experience of rebuilding a professional identity without discarding the value that came before it.

Alongside her corporate career, she works with professionals navigating transitions, progression and leadership—helping them identify transferable value, strengthen genuine capability gaps and communicate their experience more effectively.

She recently spoke at NomadÉire 2026 on Don’t Start From Zero—Reinventing Your Career for a World That Keeps Changing, including how professionals can use AI as an amplifier while retaining human judgement and accountability.

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Tuesday, 6 October · Dublin

Bring one career question. Leave with a more deliberate next move.

Register now to reserve your place. Final venue details will be sent by email once confirmed.