Tech Powered Luxury

Welcome to Season 7 of Tech Powered Luxury!Tech Powered Luxury is hosted by luxury and tech entrepreneur Ashley McDonnell. With 10 years of experience working at the crossroads of luxury and technology, Ashley carved out a career across Paris, Dublin and Geneva, working at LVMH, Dior, Google and luxury group PUIG. The podcast is also taught as a module at leading business and design schools around the world, with the goal to share insightful and actionable stories and experience from industry leaders.

Tech Powered Luxury is a business podcast hosted by Ashley McDonnell, with 93 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ashley McDonnell hosts Tech Powered Luxury, a business show with 93 episodes published.

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  Former Meta Luxury Chief Morin Oluwole on Why Leadership, Not AI, Will Define Luxury's Future

  Aug 3, 202646 min

  The organisations that outperform don’t react to disruption. They build cultures that anticipate it. Luxury’s digital transformation succeeded because it was a cultural transformation before it was a technological one. AI will increase the value of human judgement, creativity and trust rather than replace them. Technology should solve business problems, not become the strategy itself. Transformation isn’t another corporate initiative. It has to become part of an organisation’s DNA. Global leaders build perspective before they build influence. Luxury’s greatest competitive advantage will remain profoundly human.

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  Live from Cannes Lions: Federica Labanca and Vicky Owens on How Luxury Lost 60 Million Customers 🎙️

  Jul 13, 202631 min

  Luxury has not only lost customers. It may have lost relationships. The industry’s problem is emotional, not only commercial. Consumers have not necessarily lost spending power, but they are becoming more cautious about where they invest emotionally. Creators are now part of the marketing engine. They are no longer a nice-to-have or an afterthought. They are shaping taste, trust, community and purchase decisions. Luxury needs to become more culturally agile. The brands that move too slowly, over-polish everything or refuse to adapt to platform behaviour risk becoming irrelevant. Personal brands are becoming business infrastructure. For founders, designers and emerging luxury brands, the fastest way to build trust may be through the person behind the product. Real-life connection is back. After years of mass linking and online-only growth, creators and consumers are craving experiences, dinners, community and physical touchpoints. The future belongs to brands that can explain themselves simply. If a brand cannot say what makes it different in one sentence, it will struggle to be remembered.

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  From Beyoncé Wearing Cult Naked on Tour to the Loneliness Pandemic Reshaping Luxury: What Happened When Tech Powered Luxury Brought Its Biggest Panel Yet to Dublin

  Jul 6, 202651 min

  For this episode Ashley hosts a live panel at Café en Seine in Dublin with Mary Furtas, founder of Cult Naked, Alana Murrin, founder of Saint Studios, Carlotta Rodben, founder of Beyond Luxury Group, Jonathan Siboni, serial entrepreneur and luxury data expert, and Lynn Kelly, content creator and influencer. Nobody in the room agreed on a single definition of luxury. That was the point. Beyoncé has worn Cult Naked six times on her current tour. Mary built that without a PR budget, a label on her clothes, or a plan B. One in four people feel lonely. Carlotta argues this is the most important stat in luxury right now. Luxury is no longer about what you own. It is about how you live, how you feel, and who you share it with.

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  Live from FASHIONOLOGY in New York: Amira Linson on Scholarships, Sales and Building a Career in Fashion Tech

  Jun 29, 202611 min

  Amira’s journey starts far from the traditional fashion capitals. Originally from Kansas , she studied in Texas before moving to New York to build a career in fashion. Scholarships changed the direction of her life. Through the Fashion Scholarship Fund, Amira was awarded the Virgil Abloh Postmodern Scholarship and later won support a second time, opening doors to industry networks, international experience and new possibilities. Her career has moved across the business of fashion. From e-commerce at Dickies to wholesale markets, Loewe in Paris, Kate Spade in New York and major department store accounts including Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom , she has built a strong understanding of how fashion actually works commercially. Paris changed her view of the industry. Her internship at Loewe gave her a first look at global fashion, international markets and the difference between understanding fashion through an American lens and seeing it through a more global one. The next generation needs creative and technical skills. For Amira, the business side of fashion is increasingly about data, Excel, numbers, speed and adaptability as much as taste, relationships and storytelling.

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  Episode #11

  How Ilaria Resta Is Leading Audemars Piguet Into Its Next Century: Circular Leadership, Royal Pop and the Future of Watchmaking

  Jun 22, 202640 minS7

  For this episode, Ashley sits down with Ilaria Resta , CEO of Audemars Piguet , to discuss heritage, innovation, circular leadership, sustainability , and one of the most talked-about watch collaborations of the year. The mission is bigger than any one CEO . Ilaria sees herself as part of a 151-year story, with a responsibility to protect the manufacturer’s founding values while adapting to a changing world. Circular leadership is not a metaphor . It is a way of keeping decision-making close to the people who know: watchmakers, clients, artisans, suppliers and markets. Royal Pop was not a marketing stunt. It was an education strategy, a cultural opening and a call to protect the future of mechanical watchmaking. The biggest threat to watchmaking is not technology. It is irrelevance.

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