Rachel Gallagher
Rachel Gallagher is Enterprise & Innovation Manager at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). Rachel manages the IADT incubator centre, The Media Cube, and Enterprise Ireland’s New Frontiers programme team at IADT (an entrepreneurial development programme for early-stage start-ups). In addition, Rachel manages a suite of extra-curricular student entrepreneurship programmes, including a student bootcamp and accelerator programme.
Rachel has had a lifelong career working in the private sector in marketing and digital marketing on the agency side both in Ireland and internationally in London and Moscow. She has an MSc in Digital Marketing & Analytics and has lectured extensively in marketing and digital business. She is passionate about working with industry and start-ups to help them grow and developing the innovation ecosystem regionally.
PhD candidate Eilís N. explores loneliness, isolation and our growing dependence on digital spaces in a newly published article examining Bo Burnham’s *Inside* (2021), featured in the *Irish Screen Studies Journal* special issue, *Cinema and Loneliness*.
Building Entrepreneurial Skills Through The IADT Student Accelerator Programme
The TU RISE IADT Elevate Programme hosted an XR Design Sprint bringing together enterprises and creative practitioners to explore real-world applications of immersive technologies through collaborative, hands-on innovation. Over five days, participants developed early-stage concepts across education, culture and creative industries, supported by design thinking and industry expertise.