The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) is an accessible and flexible venue, offering you and your delegates the perfect venue for your event.
Based in the Dublin Docklands, The CCD benefits from a convenient city centre location and excellent transport links. Our central location makes us the perfect choice for those who want to combine business and leisure and get a taste of Dublin’s culture and heritage during their stay. There are many public transport options close to The CCD including the Luas, Dart and Dublin Bus.
We have a relentless passion for exceptional service and we pride ourselves on our high levels of professionalism, expertise and Irish warmth and hospitality. When you book an event at The CCD you will be assigned a core team of experts in their field, who are supported by a full range of in-house services. By allocating an experienced and dedicated team to every event, we ensure that the client’s experience is at the heart of our approach.
Sustainability / Green Credentials
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) is the world’s first carbon-neutral constructed convention centre and one of Europe’s most environmentally friendly venues. The CCD’s vision is to become Ireland’s most sustainable venue and a leading expert in sustainable event delivery in Europe. They have identified four ambitions that, with the support of industry partners, clients and delegates will help them to achieve their vision– carbon neutral by 2025, community involvement, sustainable hospitality, plastic-free.
From 100% renewable clean energy to a biodiversity partnership, from 12 water fountains around the venue to eliminating sourcing food by air freight, The CCD is committed to having a positive impact on the world around it.
The CCD is a Gold accredited Healthy Venue, as well as holding ISO 20121, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 accreditations. Out hospitality partner, Levy Ireland, are members of Origin Green
Here are just some of the venue’s achievements to date in these areas:
• Supplied with 100% renewable clean energy, which has led to a reduction in carbon emission output for electricity to zero.
• Light fittings across the venue have been changed to more efficient and environmentally friendly LED lighting.
• A proactive waste management strategy
• A biodiversity partnership with Grown Forest, which also extends to clients who wish to offset the environmental impact of their event.
• Use indigenous suppliers from all over Ireland who champion sustainable practices.
• A plastic-free cash catering food offering.
• The CCD’s hospitality partner, Levy Ireland, is a member of Origin Green.
• 12 water fountains installed around the venue, encouraging clients and delegates to bring their own refillable bottles to avail of fresh, clean water.
• Members of the local Docklands Community Steering Group.
• Take part in clean-up and community initiative days.
• Engage with local schools to help with mentoring, interview preparation and coaching.
What Makes Us So Special?
- City centre location 15 mins from Dublin Airport.
- Over 95% customer satisfaction rate
- Free Wi-Fi for up to 22,000 devices.
We chose The CCD because it is the best venue for an event of our size. It is a beautiful modern space and has all the facilities that we need. We have been very impressed with the whole service at The CCD. The staff have been great and our every need has been catered for. The catering has been excellent and the flow through the building for all the different spaces we used has been really good. It has been easy to move around and easy to offer a very good delegate and exhibitor experience.
Thea George, Director at Finextra Research, EBAday 2017.
“Our sustainability plan ‘Green Days’ is very important to us. Declan helped us to realise our goal of offsetting our carbon footprint at The CCD and showcasing the Grown Forest project with whom we have collaborated, resulting in us planting almost 600 indigenous trees on protected land. We were also able to work closely with the digital signage department to create a bespoke solution, reducing the amount of printed signage needed.” - Bridget Barbieri, Event Manager, ESGE Days 2023
“The staff are the friendliest and most helpful staff of any venue that I have been in, especially in Europe. I would use the venue again in the future. Everyone we interacted with was a great help to us in making the event run smoothly. Attendees had nothing but good things to say about he venue.” – Event Organiser, International Association.
“All of you appear to be experts in your field, were quick to answer any questions we had and helped us to keep on track. Michaela had everything handled. We never had to worry about our F&B or kosher meals. She is definitely one of the best! If our conference ever brings us back to Dublin, we would not hesitate to go back to The CCD. You and your team are exceptional. Thank you again for all that you did to ensure our conference was a success.” – Lauren Thomas, Events Manager, OWASP Foundation
“Always wonderful to have an event at The CCD – the facilities and staff are exactly what you need to ensure your event will run smoothly on the day. The CCD staff who were present during the day on the floor were also really lovely and friendly people.” – Lisa Holmes, Marketing Manager, Dell Technologies