Dilara Eldaş Baş (Public Relations and Digital Communication Consultant) Bio;

Dilara Eldaş Baş, who has a license in Political Science and International Relations, worked as a journalist for many years at CNNTürk and NTV. She joined the New Media department, which was established for the first time at NTV, as an editor, and she prepared and presented news bulletins and programs that take the pulse of the internet industry at NTVRadyo. She received certificates in the fields of Digital Media, Citizen Journalism and Social Media. She moderated live broadcasts on Youtube about internet trends for a long time, each with expert speakers. His thesis for New Media Specialization was featured as an article in a book by international academic writers and published by the prestigious Peter Lang Publishing. In addition to her digital agency experience, she worked in the field of digital marketing communication in e-commerce. She received awards with the teams she worked with in mobile applications. She moderated the traditional New Media Conferences for years she. She still continues to give Public Relations and Digital Communication Consultancy in her own company.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca (İTÜ - Rektor 2020) Bio;

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca, born in Istanbul in 17.09.1957, graduated from the Department of Meteorology Engineering of the Faculty of Liberal Arts of Istanbul Technical University in 1979 and received his first MSc degree in 1981 from the same department. Prof. Karaca received his second master and doctorate degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1990 respectively.

Karaca has had an active role in the administration of ITU as he has held different academic and administrative positions throughout his career. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992 at the Department of Geological Engineering, and held the post of Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology during 1993-1996. Karaca obtained a Disaster Management certificate given by FEMA-USA, as a result of the alliance following the 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake.

He was rector’s adviser and feasibility study team head for ITU-ARI Technopolis between 1998 and 2000. Prof. Karaca prepared business plan for it. He acted as a member of the execution committee for TÜBİTAK-ÇAYDAĞ (Turkish Science Foundation) between 2001-2007. Positions held by Prof. Karaca also include the post of Dean at the Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology between 2002-2004 and Vice Rector of ITU between the years of 2008-2010, founding Rector of the ITU-Northern Cyprus between 20019-2010. Karaca has been holding various board memberships in TÜBİTAK, academic consultancy for National Geographic-Turkey and he is a member of the commission for the Elginkan Foundation Science and Technology award. Prof. Karaca’s research areas include are atmospheric and oceanic modeling; climate change, paleo-oceanography, paleo-climatology, disaster management and air quality modeling. Scientific research on these areas appeared in over 30 international and national journals in addition to chapters published in 6 edited books. Karaca is also a member of American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, National Geographical Society, World Wildlife Fund in Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca had been appointed as the rector of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) between 2012 and 2020 and has been as a member of the executive board of Turkish Patent and Trademark Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Turkey since 2018. He is also executive board member of special school for gifted students of Ministry of National Education of Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca has a wide range of interests, which include national and international music, cinema, history, football, basketball and gastronomy. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca, owns a wide range of records of Turkish Classical Music, jazz and eclectic music.

Prof. Karaca is married and has two daughters.

Dr. Sadi Vural (Ayonix - CEO) Bio;

Sadi Vural obtained M.S. degree at Ritsumeikan University, Japan in 2000. He obtained his Ph.D degree from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan in 2011. He worked as a software engineer in various companies like Rohm, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Sony. He is working at Ayonix Corporation, Japan since of 2007.

Specialties: • Company management • Project Management • Product Development • IT&Image Networking experiences • IP Camera management Professional • Teaching experience in University as Visiting Professor.

PayTR CEO Tarik Tombul Bio;

Tarık Tombul is the CEO of PayTR. Offering innovative products and solutions developed by Turkish engineers, PayTR facilitates the lives of consumers and over 35 thousand workplaces with the opportunities offered only by the company, in addition to the services it provides with its strong infrastructure, customer-oriented approach and experienced staff.

Tarık Tombul is also the Chairman of the Payment and Electronic Money Association (ÖDED) Security Committee and a TOBB E-Commerce Assembly Member.

Tombul, who started his professional career in the finance sector at Garanti Payment Systems in 2001, worked in the Authorization and Fraud departments. Continuing his career as the Merchant Fraud Prevention Manager within the Security Operations Department, which was established in 2007 under Garanti Bank's Board of Directors, Tombul took part in many important projects and working committees within the body of Garanti Bank and the Interbank Card Center (BKM). Managing the acquiring fraud relationship of the bank with licensing institutions such as Visa, MC, AMEX, JCB, CUP and Diners Club, Tombul took part in fraud prevention and PCI DSS trainings for member merchants and bank personnel. Saying goodbye to the banking sector in 2011 with the aim of working in the field of Fintech, Tombul took part in the establishment process of PayU in Turkey as one of the founding partners as Assistant General Manager. Established the organization's finance, fraud prevention, compliance, HR and operations processes. As risk manager responsible for MEA, he managed risk operations in Turkey, South Africa and Nigeria. He undertook the task of project leadership in the process of obtaining local payment institution licenses in Turkey and Nigeria.

Pınar Öncü (AtlasOffice- CEO) Bio;

Pınar Öncü is one of the founding partners of GarageATLAS Tasarım Teknoloji A.Ş., which operates in the field of XR technologies. Pınar Öncü, who started her career as an urban planner, brings a new perspective to the concept of living space by carrying her studies in the field of geographic information technologies to a different dimension today. By being the CEO of AtlasOffice, a company-specific 3D virtual work platform, she continues to support women entrepreneurship as one of the mentors of the WomenTech Network, while making the office concept independent from the urban scale.

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Dr. Alper Öner (Etiya Artificial Intelligence R&D Manager / Istinye University Software Engineering) Bio;

He received his PhD from ITU Control and Automation Engineering Department. During his doctorate, he worked for 1 year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on the decision mechanisms of multiple systems. After his doctorate, he worked on image processing, natural language processing, sales forecasting and bid systems in the private sector. He is currently working as Artificial Intelligence R&D Manager at Etiya. He also teaches Artificial Intelligence at Istinye University Software Engineering Department. Our teacher's field of study is "Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory".

Ceren Güzelgün (Senior ML Engineer & Shareholder at Insider) Bio;

Ceren Güzelgün completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Physics Engineering. During his studies in particle physics, he worked at the CMS experiment at CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) and at the DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. She joined Insider by ending her academic career journey due to her increasing interest in Machine Learning applications she used during these studies. Ceren Güzelgün, who has been a Senior Software Engineer at Insider for 2.5 years, is also a shareholder of the company.

Khaleq Al-Qasaily (CEO & Founder QR Global LTD, Venture Builder , Entrepreneurship and Innovation Specialist, Global Business Mentor) Bio;

*Presentation in English.

- Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Builder and Angel Investor

- Accredited and Qualified Global Mentor , WBAF

- Business Strategic Advisor and Consultant

- Business Management experiences in Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europa

-Creative, entrepreneurial, innovative, visionary leader with 18 years of experience in business management , focusing recently on Fintech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity , IoT, AI, Biotech and NanoTechnology.

- Mentoring , Coaching and Training for many companies, entrepreneurs and startups worldwide.

- International Trading, Coffee , Paper and Packaging, Raw materials, industry machinery and production lines, investment opportunities studies,

- Strong experiences on GIS Consultancy services and projects Management

-Strong communication and leadership skills.

-Organized, highly motivated, and detail-directed problem solver.

- Ability to direct complex projects from concept to fully operational status.

- Worked in many developmental Projects and in a variety of disciplines , to government, environment, transportation, energy, water resources, infrastructure, utilities, planning, forestry, oil & gas pipeline, security & defence industries; in agriculture, education planning, urban planning, natural resource management, water management, fisheries management, ..ect

- ESRI Authorized Trainer

Specialties: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Digital Transformation, Business Management, Programs /Projects Management, Investment Management, Consultancy and Training

Strategy Management, Marketing & Corporate Communication & Strategies,Business Development and Gig Economy.

Linkedin; https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdul-khaleq-al-qasaily-9462ba15

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Fehmi Darbay (EMYD & Perfortech Founder) Bio;

Fehmi DARBAY, who has been actively involved in e-commerce for 13 years, carries out various activities for the development and growth of e-commerce in Turkey, and serves as the E-commerce Director of large companies, in June 2019, EMYD AŞ, his own market management service company. has established.

The Perfortech Project, which was established within the body of EMYD in 2021, received an investment of more than 1.5 million TL and enabled it to come to life as a separate company. In addition, Aytunga, which has been serving in the field of education and activities since 2017, has been included among the founding partners of the project by incorporating EMYD.

Upon the success of Fehmi DARBAY, who has provided marketplace-based services to nearly 80 companies to date, AliExpress Turkey delivered him the "AliExpress Turkey Official Trainer" certificate.

At the same time, it attracted the attention of Amazon due to its success. As of today, EMYD Partners, of which he is the founder, is a partner of Amazon as a Local Network Provider.

In May 2020, he became the Project Manager and E-commerce Director of Aliniyor.com, a new marketplace, founded by the ITU ETA Foundation.

Finally, he leads the e-commerce and e-export ecosystem as the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ELİDER, Turkey's most widely participated E-Commerce and E-Export community.

Güray Yıldırım (DevOps / DevSecOps Consultant. Author of 3 books. Seriously passionate about Kubernetes, Docker (container tech). Coding mostly in Python. @peptrnet - Founder) Bio;

DevOps Engineer with Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) skills focused on automation of all processes with 10+ years experience on GNU/Linux systems and 5+ years experience on container technologies (Docker and Kubernetes). Coding in Python for 10 years and Golang for 3 years, also writes shell scripts(in Bash). Ability to adopt & also already working with different environments both on cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-prem environments in addition to hybrid setups depending on the project needs. I have been helping companies to improve their development to production processes as well as reliability and scalability of production environments by integrating deeply on Docker and Kubernetes. The companies I helped as a consultant or worked at include examples in e-commerce, cybersecurity, telco, enterprise, insurance, government, IoT, and others. I have been working with developers who are coding in Python, Java, .NET , Golang, NodeJS, C/C++ developers as well as many other programming languages and frameworks.

Technical Background

Containers and Orchestration: Docker | Kubernetes | Docker Swarm Mode

Kubernetes Distros & Management: Dev & Prod - Rancher | Kubespray | GKE | EKS | AKS | K3s // Local - K3d | Kind | Minikube Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services | Google Cloud Platform | Microsoft Azure

Automation, CM, or Orchestration: Terraform (certified) | Ansible | Consul | SaltStack | CloudFormation

CI/CD Systems: Jenkins (Declarative, Groovy, and also freestyle) | GitHub Actions | GitLab CI | Azure Pipelines | AWS CodeBuild | Google Cloud Build | Tekton Pipelines | DroneCI | Travis | Bamboo

Version Control Systems: Git | SVN

Git Hostings Platforms: GitHub | GitLab (on-prem and hosted) | Gitea | Phabricator | Azure Repos | AWS CodeCommit | GCP Cloud Source Repositories | BitBucket

Kubernetes Related: Helm | Kustomize | Operator Framework

Container Image Registry: Harbor | Docker Hub | Docker Registry | Quay | GCR | ACR | ECR | GitLab Container Registry

SQL and NoSQL: NoSQL - MongoDB | ElasticSearch | Redis | Cassandra | CockroachDB | PostgreSQL | MySQL | InfluxDB | Prometheus

Monitoring: Grafana | Prometheus | Thanos | AlertManager | Telegraf | InfluxDB

Logging: ElasticSearch | Kibana | Loki | Grafana | Logstash | Fluentd

Coding and Scripting: Python | Golang | Bash

Books

Author of 3 books (in Turkish):

Containers and Docker

Introduction to Raspberry Pi with Hands on Applications

IoT Applications on Raspberry Pi with Python

M. Mustafa Bolat (IT Instructor / Software Developer)Bio;

After completing his undergraduate education in Economics, he went to the United States and started to work at Bank of America. Upon job offers from Turkey, he returned to the country and worked as a mid-level manager in various public and private banks. In 2009, he worked as a trainer at the Banks Association of Turkey. He developed comprehensive Dashboard projects with the Excel program so that corporate companies can better know and evaluate themselves. Thanks to his interest in software since his high school years, he specialized in many software and database languages ​​such as C#.Net, Python, SQL, PHP, VB.Net, SAP, SAS, Java, Angular, Bootstrap. He started working in the IT sector in Germany in 2017. In 2018, he organized office productivity trainings on Udemy. He became the instructor with the most students in his category. In 2019, he founded his own software company in Germany. He attended a master's program on Computer Programming at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2021, he founded his own company on software and training consultancy in Turkey. He continued to provide software training based on data science, data analysis and reporting. During his high school years, he won a degree in the Golden Note music competition. He took an amateur and professional interest in many musical instruments.

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