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Graduated from Middle East Technical University, Computer Engineering Department. I started my career as Analist & Developer in Aselsan, worked in Central Bank of The Republic of Turkey and Yapı Kredi Bank under different roles and responsibilities such as Systems Architect, Project Management, Managing IT infrastructure, Architecture and Operations.
Currently, I am the Technical Leader of IBM Turkey leading Technical Strategy, Business and Ecosystem Development, IBM Client Center and University Relationship business. I have broad knowledge of IT strategy, innovation, technology, business and IT digitilization, modernization, architecture, operation, management of transformation programs and strategic projects and sales.

Passionat for Creativity & Innovation. Authentic Result-Driven Decision Maker, Pragmatic. True Believer of Team Sinergy, Ambition to Mentor/Coach Young Generation, Evangelist of IBM Enterprise Systems/Mainframe, Guest Lecturer in Academia, Speaker.

Entrepreneur and business model innovation expert. He has almost two decades of experience working with corporate partners such as Mastercard, Alior Bank, PKO BP, Orbis, EY and more. Tomasz is a frequent speaker and workshop facilitator in the field of corporate-startup collaboration, innovation & entrepreneurship. Top rated (#1) Founder Institute mentor. The Heart is a single point of contact for corporate innovation leaders who want to engage with ready-to-scale startups in Europe and Israel.

Şant Manukyan who completed his undergraduate studies in English Business Administration at Istanbul University and has an MBA from Cornell University. In 2002, he started to work at İş Yatırım International Markets division and, in 2007, he was appointed as the Assistant Manager of International Markets. Shant Manukyan, a Global Strategist, has been working as the Director of International Markets as of November 2012. At İş Yatırım, he is responsible for determination of foreign stock and commodity trading strategies and the creation of investor advices in line with these strategies by reflecting the global economic situation to investors.

Soner Canko, PhD, who graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, in 1990, has master’s degree and PhD from the Faculty of Economics of the same university. Soner Canko, PhD, who started his career at Dışbank, worked at different positions at Procter & Gamble, Citibank, Hewlett-Packard and Bileşim A.Ş. After working as the Founding General Manager at First Data Turkey, Canko, PhD, who worked as the Assistant General Manager at Ziraat Bankası, has been working as the General Manager of the Interbank Card Center (BKM) since 2011.

Gökhan Seçkin worked for  Bogazici University as Researcher and has MSC in Chemical Engineering. Later he worked GE Aviation , Sandoz as engineer. He  focused on online  technologies and worked for digital advertising technology companies such as Zanox and Engageya as Country Manager. He advised many startups in BUMED Business Angels Network on digital marketing technologies. He is co-founder & CEO of Kimlic which is one of the first blockchain companies in Turkey. Kimlic focuses on solving know-your-customer (KYC) problem of banking and crypto world. Gökhan is a believer that blockchain technology is here to stay and industries need to adapt.

Hi, I’m Vlad. I live in Lausanne and I love life, food, art and technology.

Currently, I’m leading the Swisscom Digital Lab at EPFL. Previously, I was co-founder and chief of product officer at EVRYTHNG, a startup that makes products smart. In previous lives, I built acoustic sensor systems to help biologists study bird communication in the forests of Mexico and California; neural models of sensory-motor coordination for humanoid robots in Japan; or urban computing platforms to collect and analyze massive amounts of real-time data in Singapore. My forté is making interactive physical objects that connect to the Web and I learned my trade as an engineer and researcher at MIT, UCLA, SAP and EPFL. I graduated with a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich, but no need to call me “doc”.

Dr Jens Binder is a Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK, where he specialises in Cyberpsychology, particularly in the use of social media and other social-interactive technologies. Having studied in Germany and the US, he previously worked at the Universities of Sussex and Manchester on projects concerning human socialising and social networks.

His research covers three broad themes: Social media use and social networks (How we build, navigate and understand online interconnectivity); Deception, Disclosure and Security (How we manage strategic information exchange in digital environments); Social Relating with and through technology (How we bond with each other and with digital devices)

He draws on a wide range of methods and theories in between social, evolutionary and cognitive psychology. His research has been published in top journals in the field, and he is in much demand as an expert evaluator, journal editor and book series editor. He has also supervised several PhD projects in Cyberpsychology.

Tamara McCleary is the CEO of Thulium, a marketing and digital consulting agency specializing in social media, brand amplification, influencer marketing and account-based marketing.

As an internationally recognized expert in new technologies, branding, storytelling, and social influence,Tamara McCleary is the world’s leading female technology influencer, at or near the top of every digital and social media ranking in key technology disciplines, ranging from AI to Robotics, Big Data to Digital Transformation, Blockchain to Augmented Reality. In addition, Tamara was named the Most Influential Woman in Martech (Marketing Technology) by B2B Marketing and was named to the Irish America Business 100 in 2016 and 2017.

An in-demand international speaker, delivering over 20 big stage keynotes per year for organizations such as SAP, IBM, and Gartner, Tamara is also a unique advisor and consultant to a variety of leading global technology companies such as Verizon, IBM, Mercer, SAP, Dell EMC, Huawei and Ericsson. Her reputation for creating powerful digital brand recognition is unparalleled.