Rent the Runway, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet that enables people to rent a la carte, subscribe or shop resale from hundreds of designer brands, has announced details of an event taking place on April 19 at 6pm, in Galway’s PorterShed new city centre event space.
Anushka Salinas, President and COO of Rent the Runway will, as part of her visit to the Galway office, take part in a live fireside interview that will explore the intersection of technology and fashion. Titled ‘Rent the Runway: Technology and the Future of Fashion’, the interview will be hosted by Irish Times Business and Technology journalist, Ciara O’Brien.
The evening will explore topics ranging from innovations designed in Rent the Runway’s European Technology Hub in Galway, to AI and data journeys undertaken by the company to disrupt the trillion-dollar global fashion industry.
Audience numbers are limited and admission is free. The event is strictly ticketed and early eventbrite registration is advised. Closing date to register for tickets is April 5t
Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019. Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth.
The Galway office is Rent the Runway’s first international office outside the US and enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint.
Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology. Attendees at the fireside chat will have the opportunity to meet and chat with many of the Rent the Runway team, including the site lead and Managing Director of the Galway office, Dorothy Creaven.
Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet.
RTR’s mission has remained the same since its founding: powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer brands.
The Closet in the Cloud offers a wide assortment of millions of items for every occasion, from evening wear and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear.
RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers and differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics and technology. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World” and as one of People Magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”
