MAIN CONFERENCE

Wednesday, June 10^th


10:00 - 10:05	Welcome To Data Science Days by smartcon Başak Tulga Önen – Analytics Center & smartcon Board Member, Mentoro Platform Co-Founder
10:05 - 10:20	Opening Speech Faruk Eczacıbaşı – Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV), President
10:20 - 10:40	Scale The Value Of Data Arzu Sözen – IBM Turkey, Software, Cloud and Cognitive Country Leader
10:40 - 11:20	PANEL: Data Analytics Talent: How To Recruit, Hire, Train, and Retain Hakan Aran – İş Bankası, Chief Technology Officer Hakan Yılmaz – Yapı Kredi Bankası , Chief Data Officer Okan Çetinkaya – Denizbank, Business Analytics & CRM Senior Vice President Tankut Turnaoğlu – P&G Turkey, Vice President and General Manager Turkey/Caucasus & Central Asia Moderator: Ömer Nadirler – SnA Consulting, Founder
11:20 - 11:40	Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:00	How AI Can Help Society & Understanding Real Value In AI Companies Chris Farmer – Afiniti, Chief Marketing Officer
12:00 - 12:30	On Today and Tomorrow: Nuria Oliver on the Global Data Science Agenda Nuria Oliver, Chief Scientist at Data-Pop Alliance, Chief Scientific Advisor at Vodafone Institute, Board Member at European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
12:30 - 13:20	Lunch Break


13:20 - 14:00	PANEL: Maximizing The Value of Data You Have Attila Bayrak – SabancıDx, Chief Analytics Officer İsmail Cingil – Hitachi Vantara, Data Analytics and IoT Sales and Business Development Manager Ebru Kılıç Eker – Software AG, Country Manager, Turkey and Qatar Moderator: Hamit Hamutcu – Analytics Center & smartcon Board Member, Founder
14:00 - 14:30	Data Visualization Best Practices Kate Strachnyi – Founder DATAcated Academy & Story by Data
14:30 - 15:00	Deep Learning and AI From Astrophysics To Epidemics Bülent Kızıltan – StealthX, Chief Data and Analytics Officer / Chief Scientist