Invited Speakers
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Dr Burçin Önder İzmir University of Economics Speech Title: "What It Means to be Human in 2025" |
Burcin Onder was born in Istanbul in 1977 and graduated from Henry Munro Middle School (Canada), Gloucester High School (Canada) and Adnan Menderes Anatolian High School (Istanbul). She studied Business Administration and received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Business Administration in 1999. She worked as a Management Trainee right after she graduated. Until the end of 2002 she served as an assistant director and director within the Corporate and Commercial Marketing departments in HSBC. She worked as a founder and an administrator in Green Car Operational Fleet Rental Company for many years. In the same years she had also been employed as sales and marketing coordinator as in the automotive industry. She received her master’s degree in business administration from Izmir University of Economics in 2007. At present she is at dissertation stage in the doctoral program at Ege University. |
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Orhan KURT Tabit Smart Agricultural Technologies Speech Title: "Tabit Smart Agriculture Technologies" |
He completed his university education with Agricultural Engineering Agricultural Structures Irrigation Specialization. He worked as a project manager in 14 projects with Ozone company for big companies in the sector such as the Ministry of National Education, Türktelekom, Innova, Teknosa, Huawei, Vodafone, Turkcell. Türktelekom managed projects in 5 provinces (Antalya, Burdur, Konya, Karaman, Muğla) in the project of strengthening Schools with IT infrastructure in the Education sector in Turkey, breaking a new ground for Innova in the Fatih project. After various experiences in national and international companies, he accepted the offer of Tabit Akıllı Tarım Teknolojileri A.Ş. with the title of R&D Manager, he took part in the activities carried out in adapting the personnel to the projects and in obtaining the title of Turkey's first Agricultural Technologies R&D Center for the established R&D center. |
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Dr Benjamin Kille Norwegian University of Science and Technology Speech Title: "Building Large Generative |
He has completed his PhD at the Berlin Institute of Technology. His research focused on news personalization and contextualization. Besides working with Language Models, he has a vested interest in Social Robotics, Recommender Systems, and Applied Machine Learning. Together with his colleagues at NorwAI, he strives to introduce more AI into Norway’s industry, administration, and academia. |
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Dr Olgun Aydın Gdansk University of Technology Speech Title: "Can AI Model hurt you ?" |
Olgun Aydin finished his PhD by publishing a thesis about Deep Neural Networks. He works as a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in Nike, and works as Assistant Professor in Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. Dr. Aydin served as Vice-Chairman of Why R? Foundation and is member of Polish Artificial Intelligence Society. Olgun is a big fan of R and the author of the book called “R Web Scraping Quick Start Guide” and academic papers about the application of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning. He is passionate about statistics, new methods and always enthusiastic to share his experience with all interested in learning data science |
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Dr Göknur Giner Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Speech Title: "Rapidly Advancing CRISPR Systems Hold a Great Potential in Research on Drug Targets" |
Göknur gained her PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Izmir University of Economics on order statistics and exceedance probabilities. After which she completed a postdoc in Bioinformatics Division as a member of Smyth Lab at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) on gene set test methods for RNA-Seq experiments. During her postdoc, she also collaborated with Jane Visvader and Geoff Lindeman on projects to better understand the origins of the most invasive forms of breast cancer and to understand cancer metastasis as mediated by circulating tumour cells. In 2021, Göknur has jointly appointed as a senior postdoc in Papenfuss Lab in Bioinformatics at WEHI and in Herold Lab at Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre. Currently, she is working on designing guides for the latest modalities of CRISPR gene editing technologies and developing methods for the data produced by those technologies to unravel critical cancer driving and therapy resistance genes. |
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Dr Mustafa Can Öztürk Doruk Otomasyon Yazılım Speech Title: " New Trends in Artificial Intelligence" |
Mustafa Can Öztürk was born in Antalya. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Mathematics of the Middle East Technical University in 2002 with a double major. He worked on Artificial Intelligence during his Master and Doctorate education at the University of Florida. He has written many international articles and book units on artificial intelligence. After his doctorate education, he worked for 6 years in the R&D and Design Center of the American high-tech company Seagate, and won the Seagate Excellence Award and Outstanding Contribution awards. He has led many technology projects on next-generation data storage. It has over 15 patents and trade secrets. Between 2018 and 2021, he worked as R&D Director at Doruk Otomasyon Yazılım ve San.Tic.A.Ş. and led the products in the production sector using ProManage Cloud, predictive maintenance and image processing technologies. He has been appointed as the COO of America and international operations in 2021, leading ProManage's overseas expansion. |
