Dr. Hannele Lampela is a Senior Research Fellow in Industrial Engineering and Management research unit at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has 20 years of experience in university teaching and research, with diverse topics in information and knowledge management, innovation management, distributed knowledge work, competence management, and inter-organizational learning. Her current research interests focus on information and knowledge-driven transformation in different industries, metaverse and collaborative virtual environments, and AI in education. In addition to her teaching and research experience, Dr. Lampela has extensive project experience by being involved in several EU and nationally funded research projects, most recently as a project manager for Erasmus+ co-operation project “Personalized Project Management Learning with Chatbots”.