Martin is COO & Managing Director at Mipumi Games and was accepted as first official member of the Pioneers by the founding members during the initial constitutional meeting. He looks back at 20 years in the industry in various positions in different organizational units, from startups to large AAA studios working on award-winning and industry defining titles. Martin’s focus is organization and communication with a strong urge to mentor younger professionals with their first steps in games.

Eline is Producer at Mipumi Games and a Board Member of the Games [4Diversity] foundation. She has 10+ years of game industry experience, doing production and communications for indie game studios and incubator Dutch Game Garden. She joined the PGDA to make game development in Austria more visible, successful, and diverse. At PGDA, Eline’s main focus is on communications, diversity & inclusion, and the website frontend.

Julian is founder and CEO of stillalive studios GmbH. Since 2010 he has built up an internationally recognized studio and a team of talented experts focusing on cross-platform development of Simulation and Management games. Coming from a quantum theory research background himself, the team has a strong tech knowhow and consists of ~75 team members distributed across nine countries. Stillalive studios is best known for their very successful Bus Simulator franchise as well as own IPs like Drone Swarm and Rescue HQ.

Raff does a little bit of everything when it comes to game development. Since 2023 he is co-founder and CEO of reignite games, focusing on programming and production with a little hint of narrative design. Usually Raff can be found at game development related events around Vienna. At PGDA he is mostly involved with the organisation of the Monthly Calls, the Digital Mentorship Programme and the PGDAs online presence.