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After graduating from ODTÜ Department of Business, Emre Fadıllıoğlu who is the founding partner and CEO of App Samurai achieved an Executive Leadership degree from UC Berkeley. Afterward, he worked on the areas of finance, sales, and business development at PwC, Çukurova Holding, Enerjisa, and Oracle. Before App Samurai he founded Netvent (2013), a digital marketing agency which is still active today and Growth Tower (2015) which is a mobile marketing agency. Founded with these experiences App Samurai managed to take place in  Europe’s Best 100 Hottest Startups List of the Wired Magazine in 2018.

Abdi Serdar Üstünsalih started business life as a programmer at Vakıfbank in 1991, after serving as manager in different branches and departments of the same bank he worked as the director at EBİS, Retail Banking, Banking Operations, and Basic Banking Application and Development departments.

Üstünsalih who is still a Board Member at Güneş Sigorta A.Ş., Vice President of the Executive Board at Vakıf Enerji A.Ş., Board Member at VakıfBank Employees Private Social Security Services Foundation and Auditor at Türkiye Vakıflar Bankası T.A.O. Officers and Employees Retirement and Health Provident Fund Foundation assigned as Vice President in July.

Abdi Serdar Üstünsalih worked in many different foundations and associations.

Metin is the Head of Digital Strategy and Marketing at Arçelik. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s digital strategy and managing the digital communications and performance departments for Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Altus and Leisure brands along with overseeing and planning all digital platforms. Metin planned and launched Arçelik’s first responsive e-commerce platform. He is a member of the Omni-Channel/CX transformation management team.

Previously he acted as VP digital of LH TBWA and VP digital of Leo Burnett.

Geçtiğimiz 8 yıldır Avrupa’da teknoloji alanında görev alan Riccardo, markaların YouTube ve Twitter’dan sonra, şimdilerde görev aldığı Facebook Messenger üzerinde kendilerini en iyi şekilde ifade edebilmeleri için çalışıyor.

Messenger’ın EMEA bölgesindeki pazarlama stratejilerinin yönetiminden sorumlu olan Riccardo, görev alanı dahilinde yer alan ve mesajlaşmayı pazarlama karmasında önemli bir kanal olarak kullanmak isteyen marka ve firmaların sayısını artırmakla görevli. Facebook’a katılmadan önce Twitter’ın İtalya pazarına girişinden ve platformdaki anahtar rol oynayan işletmelerin büyümesinden sorumlu olan Riccardo, aynı zamanda Twitter’ın EMEA bölgesindeki Product Marketing fonksiyonunun da lansmanını yapmıştır.

Görevde bulunduğu süre boyunca aralarında Booking.com, Luxottica ve Valentino gibi dijital yerli oyunculara ve perakende markalarına danışmanlık yapan Riccardo, In-Stream video gibi yeni ürünlerin de EMEA bölgesindeki lansmanına liderlik etmiştir.

Uğur has EE Engineering BS degree from Middle East Technical University located in Ankara and has an MBA degree from Dokuz Eylül University located in Izmir.

He developed a series of consumer products e.g. digital devices, TVs, payment devices, and he took various roles as the software developer, project manager, and R&D Manager, before joining Arçelik Innovation Team in 2016.

At Arçelik Innovation, Uğur has been designing intelligent, networked products and online services since last 3 years. He has been leading global engineering and business designer teams, which are in İTÜ Arı/İstanbul Technopolis, METU/Ankara Technopolis and Taipei/Taiwan.

Uğur and his teams are developing service platforms, which reside on cloud infrastructure and which are powered by AI (machine learning and deep learning). He is collaborating with global, competent partners in research and development. He believes in prototypes that work, so he encourages quick prototyping and agile development. He experiments on the integration of business development and new business model creation activities; which are related to intelligent products and services.

At Arçelik Innovation, he challenges business opportunities that arise from new services in life sciences, mobile health, smart home, conversational interfaces, and vision intelligence.

He started his first business in 2010 after graduated as Computer Engineer from Istanbul Kultur University. Designing and building cloud infrastructures in 2010 to help SME’s business continuity. Currently, he is responsible for developing and maintaining the Reachpeople as CTO and Co-Founder. Reachpeople is an Estonian company providing Customer Data Platform and Predictive Marketing solutions as a service.

OktoPeople support inner awakening and awareness, memorize and reject routine; Therefore, in 2015, who established OktoPeople and burned the first spark, Işıl preferred running 7/24 to reach his goals in the morning to 9/5. (See, every day I’m hustling is the motto of Işılud.) to learn and develop every day to raise awareness and make the world home. In management, the principles of continuous development (kaizen), collective working culture, transparency, efficiency, and agile methods are the main principles; they are trying to apply them while learning. Artificial intelligence follows the new generation of technologies that shape the UX as VR, while at the same time it creates the strategic goals and course of OktoPeople with collective consciousness with its customer-oriented and boutique service approach. During her university years, Isil trained in basic art and graphic design. He played basketball scholarship in the American College. He worked with many coaches in different characters. Sometimes he thinks coaches are cruel; in business life, he learned the necessity of discipline and rules by himself. The fact that basketball was a team sport and team players completed each other in harmony with different roles, inspired Işıl in business life; For this reason, OktoPeople has formed a team of talented and beautiful people who are involved in different disciplines and who make the principle of cooperation.