Esther O'Callaghan OBE's Linkedin Analytics

Focused on how frontier tech and innovation, including a decentralised, immersive and open Metaverse can be used for positive societal impact and to ensure the critical, growing skills gap is closed for young people worldwide, grounded in more than two decades working in youth issues. Her work focuses on the future of learning and work and Esther engages regularly with Government, IGO's, C-Suite leaders, educators and policy makers about the need to rapidly rethink skills, learning and hiring in the fourth industrial revolution. Esther is regularly asked to speak at major international events including; SXSW, Athens Democracy Forum, UNESCO LearningPlanet and SLUSH - world’s leading startup event. Prior speaking engagements also include Taylor Wessing; Enter the Metaverse, Richmond Finance & IT Directors Forum, Zeno Group and Coca Cola Europe. An expert contributor to papers including the UK House of Lords ‘Skills For Every Young Person’ Select Committee report (2021) Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies; Metaverse Delphi (2022), and World Economic Forum Centre for New Economy and Society (2023), Esther has most recently been featured in The Tech Capital, Tech Exec and Elite Business magazine. Awards & Recognition: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Services to the Voluntary Sector | Freeman of the City of London | Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers | Clarins & YOU mag 'Most Dynamic Woman of the Year' Alumni | Barclays Women of the Year Alumni | SIA Global Power List 150 Alumni | International Women In Staffing Top 50 Alumni | Rising Star 2023 - Computer Weekly