speaking & events

Keynote IT- & Beratertag 2019, Hofburg

Johanna loves to talk about her passion and is an experienced public speaker. She has given public appearances such as keynotes and panel discussions to a wide range of audiences, including TEDx or GDC.

Contact Information 

For speaking or consulting inquiries please contact me jp [at] gamelabgraz.com

Corona Updates: During the Lockdowns, Johanna was currently working on own projects to spread knowledge. She streams on Twitch regularly her lectures and records discussions with game developers which can be found here. She is open for speaking inquiries again. 

  • Nov 12, MQ-Summit Audi, (Keynote), Digital
  • Jan 27, Health-Tech-Hub Conference, Graz (Keynote) 
  • Jan 21, Mountain Peak and Winter Sports Summit – Mastercard, Panel with  Axel Lund Svindal, Verena Bentel­e and Daron Rahlves, Kitzbühel (Panel) 
  • Dec 17, ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, London (Keynote)
  • Dec 4, TrendIT, Vienna Hofburg (Keynote) 
  • Nov 30, Slovenian Games Conference, Ljubljana (Talk)
  • Nov 21, Mastercard (Talk)
  • Okt 17, TrendIT, Graz, Keynote
  • Okt 10, FrauenWIRTSCHAFT, Stadt Graz (Panel)
  • Sept 26, Akademischi Integrität, Vienna (Talk) 
  • Sep 19, BBB-Kongress, Graz (Talk)
  • Sep 6-8, Game Dev Days (Organizer)
  • Aug 26-30 FDG Conference, San Luis Obispo, CA (Programme Chair)
  • Jul 1-3, Dagstuhl Seminar RealVR, Dagstuhl, Germany
  • Jun 24 – 28, iLRN Conference, London, UK (Keynote)
  • Jun 5-7 Pfingstdialog Geist & Gegenwart, Schloss Seggau, Austria
  • May 30 – Jun 5 Game Days, Trnava, Slovakia (Talk)
  • May 16 FTF, Klagenfurt, Austria (Talk)
  • May 10 100 years women at TU Graz, Graz, Austria (Talk)
  • May 6 Mission Innovation Austria, Stegersbach, Austria (Keynote)
  • Apr 12th Next Media Conference, Miami
  • Marc 16-20, GDC, Talk: Tackling Audience Experiences in Games, San Francisco CA
  • Feb 23 TedXLend, Graz, Austria
  • Jan 31-Feb Ludicious, Zurich Switzerland
  •  Okt 10, FrauenWIRTSCHAFT, Stadt Graz (Panel)
  • Sept 26, Akademischi Integrität, Vienna (Talk) 
  • Sep 19, BBB-Kongress, Graz (Talk)
  • Sep 6-8, Game Dev Days (Organizer)
  • Aug 26-30 FDG Conference, San Luis Obispo, CA (Programme Chair)
  • Jul 1-3, Dagstuhl Seminar RealVR, Dagstuhl, Germany
  • Jun 24 – 28, iLRN Conference, London, UK (Keynote)
  • Jun 5-7 Pfingstdialog Geist & Gegenwart, Schloss Seggau, Austria
  • May 30 – Jun 5 Game Days, Trnava, Slovakia (Talk)
  • May 16 FTF, Klagenfurt, Austria (Talk)
  • May 10 100 years women at TU Graz, Graz, Austria (Talk)
  • May 6 Mission Innovation Austria, Stegersbach, Austria (Keynote)
  • Apr 12th Next Media Conference, Miami
  • Marc 16-20, GDC, Talk: Tackling Audience Experiences in Games, San Francisco CA
  • Feb 23 TedXLend, Graz, Austria
  • Jan 31-Feb Ludicious, Zurich Switzerland
  • Dez 13 Moviel Panel “SPACED OUT!” with Virgil Widrich & Leonhard Lass, Vienna, AT
  • Nov 18 Game Developers Session “Big Data and Small Data – The Future of Data Analysis in Games”, Prague, CZ
  • Sep 20-22 Panel with Kate Edwards, Tara Brannigan (Flaresgames) “How to survive in our industry – The state of the games industry” European Games Executives Summit, Spain
  • Sep 1-3 Game Dev Days Graz 2017, Graz, Austria
  • Sep 1 VR Panel with Tristan Schulze, Alen Ladavac, Reni Hofmüller, Kris Staber, Robert Glashüttner “The Future of VR” Playful Art, Graz, Austria
  • Aug 20 “Social Network Analysis 
in Games and Communities” Respawn @ Devcom, Cologne, Germany
  • Jun 26-29 “Local-based App Presentation” ILRN 2017 Coimbra, Portugal
  • May 9 Keynote “Games: The Future of Hollywood” at ct-v conference, St. Poelten, Austria
  • Apr 24 Talk “Designing Games for The World after Playing Games from the World” Quo Vadis Conference, Berlin, Germany
  • Mar 31 Diagonale Graz (Film Festival), Panel “Vr – Hype or Future“, Graz, AT
  • Mar 15-16 Talk about Maroon REV 2017 Columbia University, New York
  • Feb 27-Mar 3 Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • Feb 26 Talk “Social Network Analysis of the Global Game Jam Network” ICGJ 2017 Github, San Francisco, CA
  • Jan 19-21, Workshop at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • Jan 13, Workshop at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Talk Workshop : Every few months I organize a small (free!) workshop for people who would like to give a talk in the future (e.g. about game dev) but perhaps don’t quite have the heart yet or don’t know exactly how to do it or where to start.  The workshop is intended to encourage more people from underrepresented groups to give talks, but everyone is welcome register. Registration