What's Next, Map Your Skills & Plan Your Move

Jane Vita is a design, customer experience, and product leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprises, consultancies, agencies, and startups, including Metso, Zurich, VTT, Digitalist, Fjord/Accenture Song, and Futurice. She has led and contributed to multinational projects across continents. Today, Jane builds and ships AI-native products, including a career agent that analyses job posts and creates tailored, honest application materials. This hands-on work gives her a practical view of where AI adds value and where it can mislead. In her workshops, reflection remains analog. AI widens options and stress-tests plans, but career decisions stay with the individual. Jane brings a responsible-innovation perspective informed by her doctoral research into engaging people in responsible technology innovation. She has taught at PUC Digital, Aalto University, Laurea, and the BMW Summer School, leads and contributes to design communities, and speaks on co-creation, pluriversal design, responsible innovation, and the human cost of AI velocity.

Eerika Minkkinen is a service designer and UX researcher with a background in human-centered design, systems thinking, research and visual storytelling. She spent four years at international service design consultancy Hellon, working across private and public-sector projects to develop services, customer experiences, organisational processes and strategies.

Alongside her professional work, Eerika completed her master’s degree at Aalto University, where she explored emotional intelligence in consultancy environments. Her research focused on the human skills that help people build trust, collaborate across different perspectives and work well together in complex projects.

Having studied in Finland, Milan and Iceland, and now based in Switzerland, Eerika brings an international and cross-disciplinary perspective to her work. As a facilitator, she enjoys bringing different perspectives together and uses empathy, curiosity and systems thinking to help people make sense of complex challenges.

Maria Carla Sarrecchia is a service designer working in international consulting. Italian by origin and based in Switzerland, she has spent the past decade across financial services, IT consulting and digital transformation – mostly in the space where a strategy document meets the people who have to live with it. Much of her recent work concerns AI adoption inside organisations and its impact on people and teams. She builds and tests things herself, on the principle that opinions about AI age badly unless you’ve had your hands in it. Her current focus is what happens to individual skill when work changes faster than anyone can retrain for: which capabilities quietly stop mattering and which ones become newly scarce. She also writes about work, method and domestic life, on the suspicion that the two explain each other more often than either subject admits.