Dr. Johanna Pirker is professor for media informatics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany and Ass.Prof. at TU Graz in Austria, leading the research group Game Lab Graz, and researches games with a focus on AI, HCI, data analysis, and VR technologies. She has lengthy experience in designing, developing, and evaluating games and VR experiences and believes in them as tools to support learning, collaboration, and solving real problems.