PwC partners with Platform94 to provide a new state-of-the-art Media Suite
21/11/23
The PwC Media Suite will help dynamic scaling businesses in the West of Ireland market and sell their products and services - enabling their growth on a global scale by producing their own state of the art marketing and media tools. The 550 square foot PwC Media Suite is specially tailored towards both video and audio podcasting, live-streaming, studio video recording and training (presentation and media training). As well as greenspace capabilities, the suite is comprehensively fitted out with leading edge broadcast equipment including high tech cameras and vision mixers, along with advanced editing equipment and innovative software.
Pictured left to right are: Mairead Connolly, Partner, PwC and Florita Dolly, Director, PwC Galway.
The Galway Technology Centre, established 28 years ago, is the largest and longest established social enterprise centre of excellence for the technology scale up sector in the West. Founded to meet the needs of an emerging cluster of ICT companies, it provides scaling enterprises in the region an opportunity to engage, collaborate and share ideas for future growth. Now rebranded Platform94, it has just completed an exciting extension project, providing 16 unique new office spaces for client companies to use as they develop their ideas to scale-up their businesses.
Mairead Connolly, Partner, PwC Midwest, said: “We are delighted to partner with Platform94 to launch the PwC Media Suite. This is a significant and very exciting investment for our firm in Galway. Through the PwC Media Suite we are providing tech enabled support to help scaling companies elevate their businesses to the next level, as they look to new markets locally and internationally.
“The West is known as a haven of entrepreneurial and scale up activities, particularly in the tech, med tech and creative industries. Through our partnership we also hope to support ‘Brand West’ more broadly as a choice location for investment.”
Platform94 Acting CEO, Noreen Conway, commented: “We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of our new PwC Media Suite. Platform94 is the centre of excellence for scaling businesses in the West of Ireland, and a place where businesses can access expertise and supports to help them grow effectively and create highly skilled jobs in the region.
“Platform94 is determined to assist our members in developing their storytelling capability and we see the new PwC Media Suite as a key enabling tool for this. Company founders are innovators and are constantly being asked to make their elevator pitch, and increasingly this will be digitally. The addition of the PwC Media Suite will enable SMEs to reach a global audience and to polish and refine their storytelling, in support of our commitment of Global Ambition, Local Support. I would like to thank Mairead Connolly and the wider PwC team for their support in making this happen.”
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Equipment in the PwC Media Suite
Powered by Dun Dara Productions, specific equipment includes Blackmagic Studio cameras, a Blackmagic Atem vision mixer, a Rodecaster PRO II audio recorder, four Rode Podmcs, studio lighting, a 24" iMac with DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro edit software as well as a wall mounted 75" Samsung television screen.
Bookings for PwC Media Suite
All enquiries for booking the PwC Media Hub can be made to info@platform94.ie or telephone +353 (0) 91730700.
About Platform94
Platform94 – formerly Galway Technology Centre (GTC) – is a fast growing technology hub for scaling technology companies across the West of Ireland and beyond. Innovators and specialists in supporting dynamic tech businesses, it enables companies to scale out of the region, reaching their full global potential. Platform94 provides a pathway for companies to scale
by offering exclusive access to funding support, tech communities, local and global networks, office space, scaling education, and events. Established by the Digital Task Force in 1994 to encourage the development of technology-based industry in the West of Ireland, it also acts as a soft landing site for multinationals looking to establish a base in the region. It is owned by non-profits Galway Chamber and WestBIC, and has developed key partnerships with Enterprise Ireland, Local Enterprise Offices, and IDA Ireland. Platform94 is headquartered in Galway, Ireland and currently has six employees. Since its establishment, it has supported over 300 companies, facilitated 3,000 jobs, and has generated at least €1.3 bn in GVA for Ireland’s West. For more information, visit platform94.ie
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