THE METALOCAL MINDSET
FUTURE SKILLS FOR A HYBRID WORLD

Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Pleinert & Partner; a consultancy helping organizations and individuals achieve competitive advantage in the world of new work, with remote and hybrid work as focus areas among others; Member of the Academic Council of UIBS, a business school; Alumna of the Institute of Management Development in Lausanne (IMD); PhD in the Technical Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Masters in Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien); fan, reader and writer of science fiction, gamer (PvP!) and collector of stuffed animals.

Sean Keogh is a Hamburg-based digital product leader with more than 25 years spent building and scaling products in consumer and B2B markets. He sits on the board of nextReality.Hamburg, the non-profit advancing extended reality, and co-organises the nextReality.Festival. Through his XR consultancy headroom he works on spatial computing in practical settings: product visualisation for technical sales, VR in university teaching, and distributed teams that meet in headsets rather than on a video call. He is a native-bilingual British-German operator with an eye for product quality, rather more interested in what the technology already does well than in what it promises.