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Her first book prompted Jeff Goldblum to write that “Annie makes the unreal seem hyperreal, and the real more supremely alive and utterly magical”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381530804-0TK7GQ6TCT2NOKTPR0BO/Maser.jpg 2025 Speakers - Maser Dublin-born artist Maser, who first made his mark in the graffiti scene in 1995, has risen to prominence in the international art world. His career, rooted in a deep connection to urban environments and their communities, showcases his journey from the streets of Dublin to global acclaim. Maser’s educational background in fine art and visual communications, highlighted by an award from the International Society of Typographic Designers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381529771-28OD6P0YVVTU0SF8PU6K/AMANDA-B.jpg 2025 Speakers - Amanda Bone Amanda Bone Architect MRIAI Company: www.dta.ie www.amandabonearchitects.ie Architect Amanda Bone worked in Paris, New York and Dublin prior to establishing Amanda Bone Architects in 2000, a multi award winning architectural practice specialising in one-off individual houses ranging from contemporary new build to the refurbishment of protected structures. Since 2020 Amanda has also been working with DTA Architects, a design oriented practice with particular expertise in high density sites and typological innovation, and recognised as a leading practice in residential design and sustainability across various scales and sectors for both public and private clients. Amanda is also a judge on the RTE series Home of The Year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381531993-HEJNA3XOB1JC3ZGRGU35/Linda-Brownlee.jpg 2025 Speakers - Linda Brownlee Linda Brownlee’s work, as both photographer and director, moves between the worlds of portraiture, fashion,and documentary. Her work has been shown in group shows at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Photo Museum Ireland & IMMA. Linda’s monographs include ‘Achill’ published in 2010 by Eighty One Books. Her photography has featured regularly in publications such as British Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed & Confused and the Guardian magazines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381530508-QF0FHVUNHLJOYM790LL6/RICH_GILLIGAN.jpg 2025 Speakers - Rich Gilligan Rich Gilligan is a photographer from Dublin. He began making his own zines as a teenager and went on to become a skateboard photographer. He now shoots a wide range of commissioned projects while continuing to pursue his own personal work. From 2015-2021 Rich was based in New York. He is now based in Wicklow where he continues to work on projects worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381533665-Y0WJQX2RXMXDSOME6I8G/Bryan-OSullivan_.jpg 2025 Speakers - Bryan O'Sullivan Bryan O’Sullivan Studio was founded in 2013 and today has teams established in both central London and New York City. The studio works with clients globally to produce contemporary, liveable design informed by an elegant and eclectic European point of view. Projects span residential, hospitality, restaurants, bars and maritime. Bryan finds exquisite details and inspiration everywhere he goes absorbing the nuances and details that make everyday living exceptional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381532637-2UY4Q2CTWUP6BWVTEIBB/Jenny-Huston.jpg 2025 Speakers - Jenny Huston Jenny Huston is an Irish-Canadian radio DJ, author, and award-winning jewellery designer. After a decade on Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ 2fm, she launched Edge Only in 2014, her multi award-winning sustainable fine jewellery brand. Known for bold, minimalist statement pieces crafted in 100% recycled gold and sterling silver, Edge Only champions clean, genderless design and ethical luxury — precious metal jewellery with a point of difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381531635-CA3LONPFSZWUJ3H51874/Marc-Fish.jpg 2025 Speakers - Marc Fish Marc Fish is a British designer and maker celebrated for pushing the boundaries between fine furniture, sculpture, and design art. Blending meticulous craftsmanship with experimental techniques, Fish creates works that explore the relationship between nature, form, and material innovation. His practice sits at the crossroads of traditional woodworking and contemporary design, with a particular focus on layered construction, biomorphic forms, and the tactile elegance of natural materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381533340-RILDLQLXE51M97O56KXN/Fingal-Ferguson.jpg 2025 Speakers - Fingal Ferguson Fingal Ferguson is a world renowned knife designer. The West Cork farmer, food producer and knifemaker combines form and function in his handmade knives. Growing up as the fifth generation on Gubbeen Farm, Fingal learned that for every job there was a knife, and a good, solid knife was always an essential tool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756982869764-KSU0F6ADRIIZEJN6SP59/paul-galvin.jpg 2025 Speakers - Paul Galvin Paul Galvin works at the intersection of design and sport. His design and storytelling examines everything from stadium architecture, seating plans, pitch lines and play designs in NFL to hurley-making, club crests, & victory-speeches. Language is used in a specific and culturally appropriate way to design, storytell and market his brand at Dunnes Stores. His latest story, BAS, communicates the essence of hurling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759151633063-UPE8N1KJL4HMW28ALK6W/Darren-Kavanagh-2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Darrell Kavanagh Darrell Kavanagh is Managing Director of Image Now and co-founded the company in 1993. For the last three decades he has advised and directed clients on design strategies, becoming an internationally recognised authority on the strategic value of brand identity, and the role it plays in business, culture and society. Darrell has established a remarkable track record for Irish design including the iconic Riverdance identity system, MTV, Sony Playstation and the UN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759760065405-VDGHHBGMEFPB5YP3C929/James+O%27Neill.jpg 2025 Speakers - James O’Neill James O’Neill bridges the commercial and creative worlds, with a career spanning music, fashion, and design. Beginning in Dublin as the frontman of electro-pop band Bitches With Wolves. Moving to London with time in PR and fashion, he joined Bryan O’Sullivan Studio nearly a decade ago, where he is now Commercial Director, overseeing strategy, operations, and client relations for the internationally recognized design practice. Alongside this, James has recently returned to music under the project Chimera, with his single Tokyo Love Motel released in September and more tracks set to follow in 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1760359920789-BOLENMTHXJPCN574N5UR/Grainne-Kavanagh2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Grainne Kavanagh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759760012535-YCYR1MMPYN5Q7EQO4L80/image0.jpeg 2025 Speakers - Mark Joyce Mark Joyce owns and manages Joyce’s Craft Shop in Connemara. The shop was established in 1895 and has been trading for over four generations. Joyces prides itself on showcasing the work of Ireland’s best craftspeople and finest makers. The craft shop also celebrates more established makers and designers with the ‘Connemara Design Story’ project. Mark also works as a writer and illustrator. His books ‘Mythical Irish Beasts’ ‘Mythical Irish Wonders’ and ‘Mythical Irish Places’ are available in all good bookshops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1760359920729-KJBL4H0ZCNZ0PX4GZ34Y/Deirdra-McBeth2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Deirdra McBeth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759760096723-CEHW0PCO59124UV922JL/Simon-Ronan-2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Simon Ronan Simon Ronan is founder of Simon Ronan Landscape Architects, a studio of 14 landscape architects based in rural Skibbereen, West Cork. The practice collaborates with some of the world’s leading international architects on landmark projects across the world. Its work spans luxury hotels, major cultural landscapes, and visionary masterplans, always with a focus on creating places that are pushing the boundaries of contemporary design and ecologically attuned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759760020948-FY8ZZ0PXVBX097ISXE80/irish-design-shop-2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Irish Design Shop Clare Grennan & Laura Caffrey established Irish Design Shop in 2008 as a space to celebrate the very best in Irish craft and design. The shop ethos has always been to represent traditional heritage crafts and makers from all over Ireland. Clare and Laura to collaborate with skilled craftspeople on special collections developed exclusively for Irish Design Shop.Their high level of retail experience is carried through to the website, where importance is placed on high-quality photography, styling, and usability. 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the Names jewellery brand, created by Clare and Laura in 2015. Each piece of jewellery, crafted by hand, is named after a woman who inspires Clare and Laura, be they family members, disrupters, or fellow makers. To mark 10 years of the brand, a new collection is due to launch in the Autumn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759761135734-ZI2IRBEVVMG68MK3JHYT/Roisin-Lafferty.jpg 2025 Speakers - Roisin Lafferty Roisin Lafferty, Founder and Creative Director of her Dublin-based design house. Best known for their captivating environments and uncompromising, deliberate detail focus in their interior architecture. Projects range from high end residential, to hotels, one of a kind work environments, beauty experiences, members clubs, installations and restaurants, spanning international locations including Nashville, Miami, New York, Ireland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759760135724-GCTZEL552QK8E75OCPGZ/Steve+Doogan.jpg 2025 Speakers - Steve Doogan Steve Doogan is an award-winning illustrator. Best known for his best selling books with the writer Manchan Magan, including Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature and many others. He recently illustrated the new logo for the Abbey Theatre & created art for the Croke Park GAA Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1760007470759-ZJDRUSW19CQB4MKWJAIA/Roisin+Buckley+Green+colour.jpeg 2025 Speakers - Róisín Buckley Communications expert Róisín Buckley is company director at creative agency Piquant. A former RTÉ Producer, Róisín has twenty years of communications, production and creative project management experience. Her vast experience includes strategic communications, video production, campaign management, social media marketing, and digital brand elevation. Róisín has lectured in film production at the Technological University of the Shannon and is co-curator of GASP! The Business of Digital Storytelling, a bi-annual creative industry conference. Róisín is a member of the An Dúlra Coop board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761247901799-6J2U8V88W2DMY2WYVKS3/Jerry+O%27Sullivan-Headshot.jpg 2025 Speakers - Jerry O'Sullivan Jerry O'Sullivan is a Kenmare native and a multi award winning broadcast journalist with almost 30 experience in radio. Having started out in Radio Kerry then moved to Dublin, part of the team that set up Newstalk. While there he won several national radio awards for news and sports coverage and was appointed the station's sports editor in 2006. In 2010 he returned to Kenmare and to Radio Kerry where he has presented the flagship current affairs show Kerry Today for the past 15 years. This year he won a silver award at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for his documentary 'Gloryhunter - Kerry's Indian Killer'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250057206-J86CQCJ53GE9NHY8QW0R/Linda-Brownlee.jpg 2025 Speakers - Linda Brownlee Linda Brownlee’s work, as both photographer and director, moves between the worlds of portraiture, fashion,and documentary. Her work has been shown in group shows at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Photo Museum Ireland & IMMA. Linda’s monographs include ‘Achill’ published in 2010 by Eighty One Books. Her photography has featured regularly in publications such as British Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed & Confused and the Guardian magazines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250048285-L1WEAEG9BB6PN34LUEA5/annie-atkins.jpg 2025 Speakers - Annie Atkins Annie Atkins is best known for her work as a graphic artist in the film industry, having designed for many Oscar-nominated-and-winning movies, such as Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, as well as Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. Her first book prompted Jeff Goldblum to write that “Annie makes the unreal seem hyperreal, and the real more supremely alive and utterly magical”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250592244-NY9TNE4YFB5MIP2NN1X1/RICH_GILLIGAN.jpg 2025 Speakers - Rich Gilligan Rich Gilligan is a photographer from Dublin. He began making his own zines as a teenager and went on to become a skateboard photographer. He now shoots a wide range of commissioned projects while continuing to pursue his own personal work. From 2015-2021 Rich was based in New York. He is now based in Wicklow where he continues to work on projects worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250061702-F9M5FYKW591HSBQRSTBX/Maser.jpg 2025 Speakers - Maser Dublin-born artist Maser, who first made his mark in the graffiti scene in 1995, has risen to prominence in the international art world. His career, rooted in a deep connection to urban environments and their communities, showcases his journey from the streets of Dublin to global acclaim. Maser’s educational background in fine art and visual communications, highlighted by an award from the International Society of Typographic Designers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250527253-Y87UW8T4O22FKNL696FE/AMANDA-B.jpg 2025 Speakers - Amanda Bone Amanda Bone Architect MRIAI Company: www.dta.ie www.amandabonearchitects.ie Architect Amanda Bone worked in Paris, New York and Dublin prior to establishing Amanda Bone Architects in 2000, a multi award winning architectural practice specialising in one-off individual houses ranging from contemporary new build to the refurbishment of protected structures. Since 2020 Amanda has also been working with DTA Architects, a design oriented practice with particular expertise in high density sites and typological innovation, and recognised as a leading practice in residential design and sustainability across various scales and sectors for both public and private clients. Amanda is also a judge on the RTE series Home of The Year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250048248-AT0OM6Q5043OIXZW2XNU/Bryan-OSullivan_.jpg 2025 Speakers - Bryan O’Sullivan Bryan O’Sullivan Studio was founded in 2013 and today has teams established in both central London and New York City. The studio works with clients globally to produce contemporary, liveable design informed by an elegant and eclectic European point of view. Projects span residential, hospitality, restaurants, bars and maritime. Bryan finds exquisite details and inspiration everywhere he goes absorbing the nuances and details that make everyday living exceptional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250057031-YOSEIS6HF8XOKYCLO5OI/Jenny-Huston.jpg 2025 Speakers - Jenny Huston Jenny Huston is an Irish-Canadian radio DJ, author, and award-winning jewellery designer. After a decade on Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ 2fm, she launched Edge Only in 2014, her multi award-winning sustainable fine jewellery brand. Known for bold, minimalist statement pieces crafted in 100% recycled gold and sterling silver, Edge Only champions clean, genderless design and ethical luxury — precious metal jewellery with a point of difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250058139-ZGSQP609B6VTAB88D3L6/Marc-Fish.jpg 2025 Speakers - Marc Fish Marc Fish is a British designer and maker celebrated for pushing the boundaries between fine furniture, sculpture, and design art. Blending meticulous craftsmanship with experimental techniques, Fish creates works that explore the relationship between nature, form, and material innovation. His practice sits at the crossroads of traditional woodworking and contemporary design, with a particular focus on layered construction, biomorphic forms, and the tactile elegance of natural materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250053086-OXWRNRNQIJOXJU1FGUJH/Fingal-Ferguson.jpg 2025 Speakers - Fingal Ferguson Fingal Ferguson is a world renowned knife designer. The West Cork farmer, food producer and knifemaker combines form and function in his handmade knives. Growing up as the fifth generation on Gubbeen Farm, Fingal learned that for every job there was a knife, and a good, solid knife was always an essential tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250060547-1PJLVUKF5W0T0IWLZN4E/paul-galvin.jpg 2025 Speakers - Paul Galvin Paul Galvin works at the intersection of design and sport. His design and storytelling examines everything from stadium architecture, seating plans, pitch lines and play designs in NFL to hurley-making, club crests, & victory-speeches. Language is used in a specific and culturally appropriate way to design, storytell and market his brand at Dunnes Stores. His latest story, BAS, communicates the essence of hurling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250324462-BEHA7N9YEZ8ADHCA8RHH/IN_DLC_Darrell_ImagesforSocial-11+2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Darrell Kavanagh Darrell Kavanagh is Managing Director of Image Now and co-founded the company in 1993. For the last three decades he has advised and directed clients on design strategies, becoming an internationally recognised authority on the strategic value of brand identity, and the role it plays in business, culture and society. Darrell has established a remarkable track record for Irish design including the iconic Riverdance identity system, MTV, Sony Playstation and the UN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250323914-0I6XDSF8Q5SZBUMNJ4WL/James+O%27Neill.jpg 2025 Speakers - James O’Neill James O’Neill bridges the commercial and creative worlds, with a career spanning music, fashion, and design. Beginning in Dublin as the frontman of electro-pop band Bitches With Wolves. Moving to London with time in PR and fashion, he joined Bryan O’Sullivan Studio nearly a decade ago, where he is now Commercial Director, overseeing strategy, operations, and client relations for the internationally recognized design practice. Alongside this, James has recently returned to music under the project Chimera, with his single Tokyo Love Motel released in September and more tracks set to follow in 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250753840-T7VROHQSWBFMEBCHNEBG/Grainne-Kavanagh2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Gráinne Kavanagh Gráinne Kavanagh opened the Coach House in 2012 with a desire to bring the very best of Irish design & craft to Dingle. Her passion for interiors & Irish design has seen the shops offering expand to now represent over 40 Irish makers & designers. A passionate Irish speaker who uses her native language daily in her interactions in The Coach House where customers are encouraged to share the cúpla focal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250316079-0UWV3JDWXO0S5UJRF6NG/image0.jpeg 2025 Speakers - Mark Joyce Mark Joyce owns and manages Joyce’s Craft Shop in Connemara. The shop was established in 1895 and has been trading for over four generations. Joyces prides itself on showcasing the work of Ireland’s best craftspeople and finest makers. The craft shop also celebrates more established makers and designers with the ‘Connemara Design Story’ project. Mark also works as a writer and illustrator. His books ‘Mythical Irish Beasts’ ‘Mythical Irish Wonders’ and ‘Mythical Irish Places’ are available in all good bookshops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250737428-SS7538FMJ8I8YNXRQ8RB/Deirdra-McBeth2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Deirdra McBeth Deirdra McBeth is a brand strategist and creative industries consultant with over 18 years’ experience across luxury hospitality, drinks, design, and regional economic development. Formerly with Irish Distillers and Adare Manor, she now works at the intersection of design, tourism, and enterprise, helping businesses, local authorities, and creative founders unlock new value. Based in County Clare, Deirdra leads initiatives with the Institute of Designers in Ireland and the Western Development Commission to strengthen Ireland’s regional design ecosystem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250335583-WFDU4Z1OLXWMTYYZGCPO/Simon-Ronan-2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Simon Ronan Simon Ronan is founder of Simon Ronan Landscape Architects, a studio of 14 landscape architects based in rural Skibbereen, West Cork. The practice collaborates with some of the world’s leading international architects on landmark projects across the world. Its work spans luxury hotels, major cultural landscapes, and visionary masterplans, always with a focus on creating places that are pushing the boundaries of contemporary design and ecologically attuned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761250318228-IOAISWV0MGQTE6QFYE5O/irish-design-shop-2.jpg 2025 Speakers - Clare Grennan and Laura Caffrey Clare Grennan and Laura Caffrey established Irish Design Shop in 2008 as a space to celebrate the very best in Irish craft and design. The shop ethos has always been to represent traditional heritage crafts and makers from all over Ireland. Clare and Laura to collaborate with skilled craftspeople on special collections developed exclusively for Irish Design Shop.Their high level of retail experience is carried through to the website, where importance is placed on high-quality photography, styling, and usability. 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the Names jewellery brand, created by Clare and Laura in 2015. 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Best known for their captivating environments and uncompromising, deliberate detail focus in their interior architecture. Projects range from high end residential, to hotels, one of a kind work environments, beauty experiences, members clubs, installations and restaurants, spanning international locations including Nashville, Miami, New York, Ireland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381533665-Y0WJQX2RXMXDSOME6I8G/Bryan-OSullivan_.jpg 2026 Speakers - Bryan O'Sullivan Bryan O’Sullivan Studio was founded in 2013 and today has teams established in both central London and New York City. The studio works with clients globally to produce contemporary, liveable design informed by an elegant and eclectic European point of view. Projects span residential, hospitality, restaurants, bars and maritime. Bryan finds exquisite details and inspiration everywhere he goes absorbing the nuances and details that make everyday living exceptional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874925205-26A1A4ST53Z26UKHJ8HV/Holly-PhotobyRuthMedjber-%40ruthlessimagery-0035.jpg 2026 Speakers - Holly Pereira Photo credit: Ruth Medjber / @ruthlessimagery (instagram) A Singaporean-Irish illustrator and muralist based in Dublin, Ireland, Holly Pereira creates bold, colourful work that transforms spaces and invites people to engage with their environment. Working across murals, illustration, lettering and animation, her practice is rooted in a fascination with colour, form, typography, and the ways visual language can shape how we experience a place. Her work brings energy and character to walls across Ireland and internationally, often using large-scale colour and graphic forms to create environments that feel playful, welcoming and alive. Lettering and typography often sit at the heart of her illustration practice. By combining words with imagery, she creates work that communicates with clarity and impact—using language not simply as text, but as a visual form in its own right. Pereira studied Fine Art and Animation in Dublin, developing a practice that moves fluidly between the static and the moving, the personal and the public. She is also a proud member of The Minaw Collective, an Ireland-based collective of muralists, street artists and graffiti artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874922278-MXUDWF99GN22EZLKL3PP/Colin+BW.jpg 2026 Speakers - Colin Farmer Colin Farmer is co-founder and Managing Director of Unthink, an independent design studio based in Dublin. Since founding the studio in 2006, he has led major branding and digital projects across the cultural, educational and commercial sectors, with a particular focus on creative strategy, user experience and helping organisations navigate complex change. Alongside his work at Unthink, Colin is an active member of Ireland’s design community and currently serves on the Executive Board of ICAD. He has taught and lectured in visual communication at IADT, TU Dublin and internationally, as well as mentoring emerging designers through programmes including DesignWest. His work with Unthink has been recognised by ICAD, the 100 Archive and ISTD, and he has spoken at design and creative industry events in Ireland and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874927416-C7H40Y4NLDGN3PIN3DKQ/AMANDA+B_17505.jpg 2026 Speakers - Amanda Bone Amanda BoneArchitect MRIAI Company: www.dta.iewww.amandabonearchitects.ie Architect Amanda Bone worked in Paris, New York and Dublin prior to establishing Amanda Bone Architects in 2000, a multi award winning architectural practice specialising in one-off individual houses ranging from contemporary new build to the refurbishment of protected structures. Since 2020 Amanda has also been working with DTA Architects, a design oriented practice with particular expertise in high density sites and typological innovation, and recognised as a leading practice in residential design and sustainability across various scales and sectors for both public and private clients. Amanda is also a judge on the RTE series Home of The Year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756982869764-KSU0F6ADRIIZEJN6SP59/paul-galvin.jpg 2026 Speakers - Paul Galvin Paul Galvin works at the intersection of design and sport. His design and storytelling examines everything from stadium architecture, seating plans, pitch lines and play designs in NFL to hurley-making, club crests, & victory-speeches. Language is used in a specific and culturally appropriate way to design, storytell and market his brand at Dunnes Stores. His latest story, BAS, communicates the essence of hurling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874923548-QIO8CT002WGC4EARRNA5/Paul_OBrien_Modet_Headshot.jpg 2026 Speakers - Paul O’Brien Paul O’Brien is an award winning furniture designer and maker and the creative director of Modet. Modet is an Irish furniture studio and workshop located in Co. Cork, that produces contemporary furniture for both private and commercial clients all over the world. Modet’s furniture is defined by elegant, sculptural lines, hand carved details and meticulous craftsmanship. Modet has recently opened a showroom in Kinsale, Co. Cork and is also represented by the Roísin Lafferty Gallery in Dublin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1756381532637-2UY4Q2CTWUP6BWVTEIBB/Jenny-Huston.jpg 2026 Speakers - Jenny Huston Jenny Huston is an Irish-Canadian radio DJ, author, and award-winning jewellery designer. After a decade on Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ 2fm, she launched Edge Only in 2014, her multi award-winning sustainable fine jewellery brand. Known for bold, minimalist statement pieces crafted in 100% recycled gold and sterling silver, Edge Only champions clean, genderless design and ethical luxury — precious metal jewellery with a point of difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1759151633063-UPE8N1KJL4HMW28ALK6W/Darren-Kavanagh-2.jpg 2026 Speakers - Darrell Kavanagh Darrell Kavanagh is Managing Director of Image Now and co-founded the company in 1993. For the last three decades he has advised and directed clients on design strategies, becoming an internationally recognised authority on the strategic value of brand identity, and the role it plays in business, culture and society. Darrell has established a remarkable track record for Irish design including the iconic Riverdance identity system, MTV, Sony Playstation and the UN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874926251-BCXKRGJ6DOEVXV6YWTB5/EchoGav_Profile_Photo.jpg 2026 Speakers - Gavin Little ECHOLAB Founded in 2001 by sound designer and composer Gavin Little, Echolab is a creative audio studio dedicated to crafting distinctive soundtracks for both commercial and artistic projects with a unique perspective. Gavin’s innovative sound design for experimental art projects captivated brand creatives, ultimately leading to Echolab being commissioned to craft immersive, emotionally charged soundtracks for high-profile commercial campaigns. From immersive brand experiences to cinematic trailers, Gavin’s work has resonates across the globe - collaborating with iconic brands such as Nike, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Beats by Dre, Guinness, Nissan, Audi, Formula 1, Disney+, Netflix, and FX Network. His sonic style can be heard in trailers for Star Wars, Blade Runner 2049, Alien, Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian, Mad Max, Ex Machina, and many more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1760007470759-ZJDRUSW19CQB4MKWJAIA/Roisin+Buckley+Green+colour.jpeg 2026 Speakers - Róisín Buckley Communications expert Róisín Buckley is company director at creative agency Piquant. A former RTÉ Producer, Róisín has twenty years of communications, production and creative project management experience. Her vast experience includes strategic communications, video production, campaign management, social media marketing, and digital brand elevation. Róisín has lectured in film production at the Technological University of the Shannon and is co-curator of GASP! The Business of Digital Storytelling, a bi-annual creative industry conference. Róisín is a member of the An Dúlra Coop board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1761247901799-6J2U8V88W2DMY2WYVKS3/Jerry+O%27Sullivan-Headshot.jpg 2026 Speakers - Jerry O'Sullivan Jerry O'Sullivan is a Kenmare native and a multi award winning broadcast journalist with almost 30 experience in radio. Having started out in Radio Kerry then moved to Dublin, part of the team that set up Newstalk. While there he won several national radio awards for news and sports coverage and was appointed the station's sports editor in 2006. In 2010 he returned to Kenmare and to Radio Kerry where he has presented the flagship current affairs show Kerry Today for the past 15 years. This year he won a silver award at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for his documentary 'Gloryhunter - Kerry's Indian Killer'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874922272-TJGEJPOEI1CFXX4RDO2H/Noelle+BW.jpg 2026 Speakers - Noelle Cooper Noelle Cooper is co-founder and Creative Director of Unthink, an independent design studio based in Dublin. Since 2007, she has led award-winning work across branding, digital experiences, publishing and environmental design for clients in the cultural, educational and commercial sectors. Alongside her practice, Noelle is an active contributor to the design community as a juror, mentor and speaker. In 2026, she served on the D&AD Awards jury and has been invited to represent Ireland on the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADC*E) Awards jury later this year. Her previous jury and industry roles include the ICAD Awards, Kinsale Sharks and the 100 Archive selection panel. She also contributes to design education through teaching and guest lecturing in Ireland and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874926793-LG9WF6WJH5XEO932IL4U/26M-24-KENMARE+DESIGN-NIALL+ROWAN-DTA-PORTRAIT.jpg 2026 Speakers - Niall Rowan Niall Rowan, a graduate of UCD of School of Architecture, is a leading architect in practice, a founding director, design lead and managing director since 2021 of DTA Architects, a Dublin based design-led practice with a commitment to and reputation for quality of architectural design. A proven ability to deliver appropriate and sustainable design solutions for complex building programmes in challenging contexts, with an emphasis on tectonic rigour, underpins the work, as recognised in numerous AAI, RIAI, EUmies, Net Zero Ireland, RTPI, UIA, IDI and other awards and nominations. In particular, DTA are recognised as a leading practice in residential design, with unique experience and particular expertise in density and typological innovation, having an inherent concern and successful track record with urban form, the public realm, place making and fostering the creation of long-term sustainable communities. DTA have been awarded the AAI Downes Medal and, uniquely, the RIAI Silver Medal for Housing, the highest award for housing design, on four occasions, 2001, 2007, 2015 and this year 2026 for Highfield Park Student Accommodation in Dublin. DTA have also been acknowledged for sustainable design excellence, winning the Towards NetZero Ireland Best Housing 2022, Design Practice of the Year 2023 and awards for Gloucester Street Hotel, a zero-emissions building which exceeds the Paris Agreement NetZero energy performance and carbon reduction targets for 2030 and achieved the highest BER rating for a hotel in Ireland to date. Current projects include public and private sector residential, mixed-use and cultural developments, including social and affordable tenure housing and regeneration for South Dublin County Council and Dublin City Council, a new public library in Youghal for Cork County Council and a new extension to the DTA-designed Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield Dublin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874923386-Y4MTQ4ZYODBQXPXNN6S8/Sonia+Reynolds%26Francie+Duff+STABLE+of+Ireland.jpg 2026 Speakers - Sonia Reynolds & Francie Duff We believe our Irishness is rooted in our cultural and vernacular heritage and specifically for what we do, in Irish textiles and craft. For us, Irishness is proud, warm and kind. It is wild, creative, beautiful and melancholy. It is our weather, it is our landscape. It is the very hands of the people who make and craft across the island of Ireland, north and south. Precious skills with natural materials in past centuries were honed out of necessity for daily life in rural communities and today our priority is to honour, respect and preserve this. We wish to present our Irishness through the lens of what we hold from these cultural, vernacular, craft and textile traditions while adding a fresh approach to the design of our collections in order to suit the way we live today. By doing this, with every piece we hope to highlight a vibrant new Irishness and the skills of a growing pool of creative talent working in craft on the island. A large focus for our work is to gain a deeper understanding of Ireland through what we make. Everything we do has a story; the history of the craft, the textile, the art, the location, the background to the wonderful people who make it with us. Each and every scarf, throw, piece of clothing or home accessory is deeply imbued with it all. For us, it is a pure joy to do what we do and our wish is that you feel it too. Everything we design and make is built to last, working with natural materials as close to us as possible. We strive to run our business ethically and sustainably every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874924549-SDGGASK9MC7A8JRRN0VA/Jim+Dixon+2Z3A3120-Edit-2.jpg 2026 Speakers - Jim Dixon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/688224207050e54b0e37a4f9/1788874925708-GTQF6R2N3D7BWPXTCQ65/Donnacha+Cahill.jpg 2026 Speakers - Donnacha Cahill Donnacha Cahill is a west of Ireland sculptor specialising in Bronze and Steel. Donnacha is renowned for his ability to create sculpture that tells a story but also allows the viewer to interpret the work with their own narrative. His work is highly collectible and is currently in private collections across the globe. He has been commissioned to create large-scale work for the public and private sector. He exhibits annually at the Chelsea Flower show and has exhibited nationally and Internationally. Donnacha believes in creating work that acts as a vessel to inspire and tell stories. 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