# CREW: Where Creativity Means Business > Empowering Ireland’s digital and creative industries\. Join CREW to access mentorship, coworking, and programs that help startups grow\. 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Keith Lawler is a creative director and sonic branding specialist who helps make brands memorable through distinctive sound and advertising\. Across an 18\-year international career, Keith has worked with agencies including VML, Saatchi \& Saatchi and TBWA Worldwide, creating work for brands such as Heineken, Google, Vodafone, Adidas, An Post, PlayStation, Nissan and The National Lottery\. Today, he runs two independent creative businesses\. LAUDHAUS is a specialist sonic branding studio, using strategy, music and sound to build distinctive audio identities for brands\. Keith Lawler \& Co works across advertising, brand and culture, bringing together bespoke creative teams around each project\. His work has been recognised at Cannes Lions, the New York Clios, D\&AD, Eurobest, the Effies, International Sound Awards and the Transform Awards, alongside more than 24 ICAD Awards and six Sharks\.A former touring musician as well as a creative director, Keith’s work sits naturally between music, ideas and commercial creativity\. - [AI Accelerator Programme by AIM](https://crewdigital.ie/event/ai-accelerator-aim-2026/): Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future consideration, it's becoming a key driver of productivity, competitiveness and innovation across every sector\. The National AI Studio at AIM Centre is now recruiting for the next cohorts of its AI Accelerator Programme, designed to help manufacturing and professional services companies move from AI strategy to practical implementation\. Last year, more than 20 companies completed the programme, identifying over 50 high\-value AI opportunities across their organisations\. Over six weeks, participants will identify AI opportunities within their business, prioritise the initiatives with the greatest commercial impact, work with AIM Centre's technical team to develop a working AI demonstrator using their own business data and leave with a practical roadmap for AI implementation and scaling\. - [CREW Virtual Open Office Hours](https://crewdigital.ie/event/crew-virtual-open-office-hours/): Have a creative business idea you’re ready to grow? Let’s talk\! Join Ainslie Peters, CREW’s Director of Programmes and Projects, for our next virtual office hour taking place on Tuesday 11 August from 12\-1pm\. These relaxed, informal Zoom sessions are an opportunity to talk about your creative business, explore your ideas and discuss where you would like to go next\. Click on the 'Register' button below to be taken straight to the Zoom link for the session\. - [Design Mingle: Creative Connections July](https://crewdigital.ie/event/design-mingle-creative-connections-july/): We are delighted to welcome Karen Pappin as our guest speaker in the Design Mingle Series: Creative Connections supported by Galway City Council aligning with Galway's Cultural \& Creativity Strategy 2023–2027\. Karen Pappin is a brand strategist and storyteller, and the founder of PointZero, a brand strategy and visual storytelling studio based in Kinvara, Co\. Galway\. Her belief is a simple one: every business already has the story it needs\. Most are just too close to it, or too busy running things, to tell it well\. That is where she comes in\. Karen has spent 26 years in the creative industries, working across graphic design, branding, print production and visual communications for everyone from sole traders to national brands, including 13 years with Brown Thomas, building and evolving the brand behind the shop floor\. She began her career in design and print, trading for years as Kaz Productions, before rebranding her practice as PointZero in 2020, a deliberate return to first principles that gave the studio its name\. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Design Practice from TUS \(LSAD\)\. She has produced design for Áras an Uachtaráin, including President Higgins' Machnamh 100 centenary series, and serves as Brand and Creative Lead across three connected Irish tech initiatives: the Limerick IT Summit, Startup Atlas and MidWest TechFest\. She is co\-founder of Women Unbranded, an Irish community and media platform championing women over 40, and works closely with artists, makers and creative businesses helping them find the words for what they do\. Karen is also a regular tech panel moderator and emcee, sits on assistant lecturer panels at ATU and TUS, and is deeply embedded in her own community, from leading communications for the Kinvara Plein Air Festival to founding the local Grow Remote chapter\. She has worked remotely from Kinvara for over 20 years, proof that a creative career in Ireland does not have to run through Dublin\. - [Tax Relief in the Creative Industries \- Info Session \& Office Hours](https://crewdigital.ie/event/tax-relief-in-the-creative-industries-info-session-office-hours/): Please join us on Thursday August 20th at 2pm for an information session and office hours exploring Creative Industries Tax Relief with Andrew Smythe of PGR Advisory\. Andrew is Head of Startups \& Scaleups at PGR Advisory, leading innovation funding specialists who help companies across Ireland and the UK with grant funding, R\&D Tax Credits, Patent Box and Knowledge Development Box, and Creative Industries Tax Relief\. ## Programmes - [Cross\-Industry Collaboration ](https://crewdigital.ie/programme/cross-industry-collaboration/) - [CLIMB Accelerator Bootcamp](https://crewdigital.ie/programme/climb-accelerator-bootcamp/) - [Creative Entrepreneurship \& Enterprise Development](https://crewdigital.ie/programme/creative-entrepreneurship-enterprise-development/): The CREW CEED incubation programme will help turn a creative idea into a sustainable business in a variety of disciplines - [CLIMB Programme](https://crewdigital.ie/programme/climb-programme/): The CLIMB Programme is a dynamic two\-year initiative designed to empower creative entrepreneurs to scale their businesses, embrace innovation, and strengthen their leadership capabilities\.  - [CLIMB Mentorship Programme](https://crewdigital.ie/programme/climb-mentorship-programme/) ## Projects - [Design Mingle: Creative Connections](https://crewdigital.ie/project/design-mingle-creative-connections/): Design Mingle: Creative Connections is a six\-part networking and speaker series led by CREW \(Creative Enterprise West\), designed to strengthen Galway’s creative community through connection, knowledge\-sharing, and public engagement\. - [Regional Entrepreneurship Partner Programme ](https://crewdigital.ie/project/regional-entrepreneurship-partner-programme/): Delivered by CREW in partnership with Údarás na Gaeltachta, this Regional Entrepreneurship Training Programme brings high\-impact training opportunities to creative and innovation hubs across the west of Ireland\.\.\. - [Irish Games Talent Incubator Programme  ](https://crewdigital.ie/project/irish-games-talent-incubator-programme/): The Irish Game Talent Incubator aims to develop the creative and entrepreneurial skills that video game developers will require to navigate the professional games industry\.\.\. - [Empowering Creative Circular Entrepreneurs](https://crewdigital.ie/project/empowering-creative-circular-entrepreneurs/): In partnership with Roscommon LEADER Partnership \(Ireland\), and project partners Momentum \(Ireland\), Global Impact Grid \(Germany\), Academy of Entrepreneurship \(Greece\), and the European E\-Learning Institute \(Denmark\)\.\.\. - [Cybernate](https://crewdigital.ie/project/cybernate/): The second residency programme between Ireland and France for digital artists with a background and expertise in the use of immersive technologies and many types of digital media for creating future narratives for immersive storytelling\.\.\. ## Statuses - [Current](https://crewdigital.ie/content_status/current/) - [Past](https://crewdigital.ie/content_status/past/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://crewdigital.ie/sitemap_index.xml)