LISTEN NOW: Live from Galway: Building Future Heritage Brands: Fashion, Beauty, Jewellery and Spirits 💫
A Night of Irish Fashion, Jewellery, Skincare and Spirits
Hello Tech Powered Luxury listener, and now reader!
🎙️ Live Now: Building Future Heritage Brands: Fashion, Beauty, Jewellery, and Spirits. This week, we’re coming to you from the vibrant Hyde Bar in Galway City. Tune in to hear from inspiring Irish heritage brand founders who are blending tradition with innovation.
🌟 A warm welcome to all of our new readers this week! We’re thrilled to have you join our amazing community. Keep reading to discover everything about Tech Powered Luxury, our Community Rewards, and how this newsletter came to life.
💎 I’m Laoise O’Connell and I’m very excited to welcome you to this week’s edition!
Hello Tech Powered Luxury listener, and now reader,
After incredible live shows in Dublin, Paris, and Abu Dhabi, Tech Powered Luxury finally made its way to Galway City, where Irish heritage brands took center stage. Hosted at the lively Hyde Bar, the evening celebrated creativity, community, and craftsmanship with a focus on Building Future Heritage Brands.
A Homecoming for Ashley McDonnell ❤️
Galway’s own Ashley McDonnell moderated a stellar panel featuring:
Aoife McNamara, founder of her namesake B-Corp certified sustainable fashion brand
Chupi Sweetman, founder of Ireland’s leading fine jewellery brand, Chupi
Pádraic Ó Griallais of the sixth-generation Micil Distillery
Charlene Flanagan, co-founder of the award-winning skincare brand, Ella & Jo
Together, they shared insights on preserving heritage while innovating for the future.
The episode is now live on all your favourite podcast platforms! 🎙️
🫶🏽 Our Partner: Azure Communications
This season’s sponsor of the Tech Powered Luxury podcast is Azure Communications, and we’re thrilled to continue our partnership with them. For quite some time now, Azure has been our go-to provider for all things print and marketing. Whether it’s branded materials for our content, from print and direct mail to event invitations, they’ve been behind the scenes making it all happen.
If you’re looking for top-tier branded collateral, print services, or marketing support, we highly recommend checking them out. They took care of all our print materials for the event, and their work was absolutely exceptional. Take a look below!
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What’s Next? 👀
Our live show in Galway was truly remarkable - not only is the West of Ireland home to three of the brand founders who shared their stories during the evening, but it also served as the inspiration behind Chupi’s recent Claddagh ring creation for Nicola Coughlan, which featured in British Vogue last year. (Read all about it here)
The Galway event was a true celebration of community, storytelling, and Irish heritage, highlighting the creativity and craftsmanship that define these exceptional brands. While our live events allow us to connect directly with our amazing community, we’re thrilled to share this experience with everyone through the podcast.
🎟️ Exciting News: Tickets for our next Tech Powered Luxury live show with Mary Furtas, founder of CULTNAKED, went live last night! Join us at Café en Seine on July 16th for what promises to be one of our most incredible events yet. We hope you managed to grab a ticket - it’s going to be a night to remember! ✨
🎙️ And, enjoy the latest episode and let us know your thoughts.
Until next time,
Laoise 🖤
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💫 Who are we and what led us here today?
🎙️ Launched as a podcast on November 1st 2022 by Ashley McDonnell, Tech Powered Luxury has since nurtured a vibrant community of experts passionate about the evolving synergy between technology and luxury. We have reached over 20 million people through the podcast, social platforms and media, and have hit +500K downloads.
🪄 This season, our weekly newsletter will be curated by Laoise O’Connell, a luxury marketeer with experience in client relations and communications at fashion houses and global brands Chanel and Givenchy in Paris. Laoise has been a proud contributor to Tech Powered Luxury since Season 1 and we are excited to have her guide our content for the newsletter this season and look forward to the insights she will bring. 💎