Rose Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab in London. Rose is also Director of EDUCATE: a London hub for Educational Technology StartUps, researchers and educators to work together on the development of evidence-informed Educational Technology.
Faruk Eczacıbaşı is the President of the Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV) which he co-founded in 1995 to assist in Turkey’s transformation to an information society. In this role, he is contributing to the preparation of numerous studies on related issues as well as shaping of the policies regarding this issue.
Professor Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at Oxford University. He has directed more than 40 research projects funded by ESRC, various central and local government sources, The Lottery, The Nuffield Foundation and the EU.
Prof. Dr. Karadeniz has research interest in digital citizenship, computational thinking, blended learning and technology integration into education. She served as consultant and researcher on national and international projects for Scientific Research Council of Turkey, Ministry of National Education, UNICEF and European Union.
Prof. Soner Yıldırım has been an international expert in instructional technology projects at various international foundations. He has involved in World Bank since 1988, European Council in Strasbourg between 2002-2006, and in various projects of European Union Education Foundation since 2004.
In 1995, his career started as a journalist in an editorial service while he was working in the founding team at Posta. Until 1996, he was the editor of Science-Tech page.
On September 19, 2018, he was appointed as the General Director of Innovation and Education Technologies of the Ministry of National Education. He is the board member of World Confederation of Productivity Science, the National Nanotechnology Research Center, Turkish Information Association, Turkey Quality Association, the Monitoring and Evaluation Association board member.
Arıboğan received her bachelor’s degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, International Relations Department in 1986. She then completed her master’s and PhD at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. In 1995 Arıboğan finished the Summer School for International Security and Terrorism, at St. Andrews University.
The last decade, he has focused on how to teach children coding, 3D design, circuit design, entrepreneurship. He started the enterprise Bilişim Garajı to reach all children in Turkey.
Uğur Batı writes for a number of magazines including Harvard Business Review Turkey, Bloomberg Businesweek Turkey, Brand Map, Radikal 2, www. Milliyet.com.tr, Gennaration, Pazarlama İletişimi, Pazarlama Dünyası, The Brand Age, Grafik Tasarım, Sivil Toplum, Martı, Adam Sanat and Adam Öykü periodically and has numerous articles published in national and international refereed journals.
Sevinç Atabay, the General Principal of the Turkish Education Board and TED Ankara College Schools accordingly, has been a member of the TUSIAD Education Committee and EU presentation of EU group, TOBB Education Council and many other nongovernmental organizations.
In addition to his academic activities and individual applications in the field of neuroscience, Dr.Kerem also provides training and seminars on effective use of the brain, ways to protect from industrial psychology, psychiatric diseases, technology dependency, success in life and in the field of neuroscience.
Yasemin Allsop worked as an ICT Coordinator in primary schools in London for almost 10 years.She is the founder and co- editor of an online magazine called ICT in Practice (www.ictinpractice.com) where educators from around the world share their experiences of using technology in education.
Asst. Prof. İrfan Şimşek the Vice Dean of Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education and academic at Computer and Instructional Technologies Department studied on online education and 3D virtual learning environments at Melbourne University, where he worked as an invited researcher in 2008.
His research interests are on using educational games for learning and instruction (@oyuntasarimi), gamification in education, educational game design, digital game design, game addiction and (digital) game based learning.
Zehra Öney, who is a futurist, mobile transformation specialist, investor, pragmatist and speech-giver, was born in Istanbul, in 1964. After studying Economy at İstanbul University, she worked for 10 years in senior positions in Turkey’s leading agencies in the tourism sector.
Kocabas was the first female President of Peryon Human Management Association which happens to be the oldest civil liberties organization in Turkey.Currently she is involved in the public services department of the same establishment.
Usta is also co-author of the Blockchain 101 which is the first book about Blockchain technology in Turkish. Usta is a professional keynote speaker, lecturer and advisor in Turkey about Blockchain technology.
She holds a master's degree in Development Economics from SOAS University in London and a degree in Engineering and Middle East Research from Princeton University. Among the other social responsibility projects she has participated in are the Board of Directors of Endeavor which is from the founders of Turkish British Chamber of Commerce and Digit4Turkey.
He directed the play called “ Kurt Adam” written by Kosta Kortidis and also acted in it. He acted in a play “ Baba N’aber” which he wrote together with Sebnem Seçkiner in 2018 season. He acted in the musical, “Avare”, directed by Taner Tuncay.
Robots in Education of Children with Autism, Using Robots in Foreign Language Education and Robotics Education for Children. He has also worked as a researcher on several projects, one of which is the European Union project.
Tim Thompson taught at three universities over fifteen years, including eight years at KAIST, before founding Archer English Consulting in February 2016. He provides communication skills training and editing services for universities, research institutes, and government agencies around Korea.
He is currently working as a faculty member at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Bahçeşehir University and the director of the Distance Education Unit. His core areas of study are educational data mining.
He has also managed and partnered in many projects like "Establishing the Virtual Campus of Istanbul University on 3D VLE," funded by Istanbul University Research Center and "CAMELOT", “YouRNI”, “TABLIO”, and “GUINEVERE funded by EU Lifelong Programme and Erasmus+.
Esat moved to Istanbul in 2012 and founded GLOBED (www.globed.co), an educational content distribution and consultancy company that serves over 500 schools in three countries
She has many articles and proposals in the field of “Futures of Education” and her “Futures of Education in Bangladesh” Project awarded by CGS- FES Fellowship on the Futures of Education-2018 by University of Dhaka and Frederich-Erbert Shiftung.
Sanlav, who is still working as the Director of Corporate Communications at İbn Haldun University, is also the member of International Social Media Association (USMED) executive board. He was the media coordinator of ETZ 14,ETZ 15 ,ETZ 16 ,ETZ 17 and the coordinator of “Education-Media-Social Media” sessions in each summit.
He is a Maths teacher in a private high school. He graduated with a first degree both from Sultanahmet Technical High School (1989) and Marmara University Mathematic Department (1994). He has been working as a Maths teacher in private institutions for 25 years.
She has two children books on the topics of game addiction and cybersafety and their names are “game monster” and “Defne’s cyber ID”. She believes that change starts with oneself and life gets better when we share our experiences.
Dinçer Demir has been working as teacher of English since 2007. He holds an M.A. in Educational Technologies. He has participated in many educational events as a speaker, trainer and participant.
Mert is a member of Executive Committee and Board of Directors of Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV), executing initiatives aiming to assist Turkey's transformation to an information society as aligned to the foundation's vision.
She has been teaching English at Florya College for 11 years and has been the Educational Technologies Coordinator for the last 5 years. She is a Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and completed the Educational Technologies certification program at the University of Houston.
She is an APLS( Apple Professional Learning Specialist), MIE ( Microsoft Innovative Expert), Google Educator and educational technology expert. She has taken place in many conferences, seminars, and educational summits.
He has undertaken several responsibilities in vocational education, accreditation and certification projects in many countries including Turkey, Belgium and France. For the last 7 years, he is the corporate sales director and product manager for PQI which covers vocational education, accreditation and certification.
Zeynep Özkan, who is the author of a book and book section for game design for children, families, teachers and pre-service teachers, is PhD students in Educational Technology Department at Bahçeşehir University.
Working as a teacher and coordinator of educational technology for many years she both gave the students an opportunity to learn about IT and led the educators to integrate vocational development with the technology in schools.
He got Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certificate from Netron IT Academy and The Leader Teacher BAUSTEM STEM Certificate from Bahçeşehir University. After working at software sector for a while he started to work as a teacher of mathematics and educational technologist.
He became interested in computer and technology when he started delivering trainings in “the Use of Technology in Education”. Uğur provides trainings in Microsoft 365 Services, Using the iPad in the Classroom, Smart Board Use, Web 2.0 Tools, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Arduino Programming, and STEM Education.
He has been teaching in various private schools for 15 years. He is currently working as a STEM coordinator and mathematics teacher on the Isik Schools and providing consultancy and training services on STEM and PBL to various private schools.
Sedef has been an English teacher for 19 years and has increasingly focused on the role technology plays in language learning and in education in general.
Oytun Çetin is CEO and Board member of Teknolist, a leading company operating in educational technologies sector in Turkey, develops content and infrastructures. Teknolist, founded in 2001, serves with the Okulistik and Taragoz brands in the sector.
Since 2018, she has been the coordinator of Educational Technologies and Head of ICT Department. She has been an active member of organization and executive committee of Educational Technology Summit (ETZ) since 2014 as well.
Meltem Demir graduated from Turkish Language Teaching Department, Dokuz Eylül University. She has been teaching at different grades for about 11 years. She continues her professional development by adding the latest developments in education to her own teaching methods.
She discovered the extraordinary effect and power of LEGO® bricks on children through the Smartkids (Development and Activity Center) she worked during her university years. She had the opportunity to apply the methodology she developed related to different themes by herself with pre-school children in accordance with the principle of hands- on learning.
He received the master’s degree from the Computer Engineering Department, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey,in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Engineering, Sakarya University, Turkey, in 2016.
He received the M.Sc. degrees in both mechanical engineering and, computer and information engineering with majors in sheet metal forming and, demand forecasting from the Sakarya University, Turkey, in 2010 and 2013. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer and information engineering, Sakarya University, Turkey, in 2017.
In his professional life, he has witnessed numerous international agreements and natural disasters such as coups, wars, migrations and earthquakes from dozens of countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Kosovo, Pakistan; he interviewed the prominent names of historical events.
M. Sencer Corlu, PhD (Texas A&M University), is an associate professor of mathematics education and the director of BAUSTEM Center at Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul-Turkey. Dr Corlu was a faculty member at the Graduate School of Education, Bilkent University between 2012 and 2016.
Prof. Dr. C. Ruhi Kaykayoğlu is a Company Owner known as Kaykayoğlu Innovation Group(KiG) in İstanbul, Turkey with an experience in the framework of national and international creative and innovative projects. KiG is known and recognized with customer focused and centric business solution provider.
Mustafa Kodaz graduated from Hacettepe University in Biological Sciences Dept. Spend 17 years of his 22 year professional life as a Trainer, Coach and facilitator in Bayer Turk. Currently, works as a field Force Training Manager in Bayer Türk Consumer Health.
Aygün Çatak has been working as an English Teacher at The Koç School. She has foreign language teaching experience at both university and K-8 levels. She has specialized in differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) methods.
Paul Maglione was born in New York City, grew up in the United States, Italy and the Philippines, and obtained his BA in Economics from Brown University in Rhode Island, USA and his MBA from London Business School in the UK.
Tuncel, who was born in 1982 in Aydın, has an MBA. He started his professional career in Shubuo / Turkcell. After managing content and services of entertainment services such as ResimMelodi and ÇalarkenDinlet, he was transferred to Doğan Group to contribute to Turkey’s first Digital Music Project.
He World as a teacher of information technologies and the head of department in Adapazarı Enka Primary School. Ipad, e-portfolio, coding, robotics 3D designing and the use of technology are the fields he works on and gives educational sessions.
After graduating from Boğaziçi University Computer and Instructional Technology Department, she completed her master's degree in Science and Mathematics Education at the same university. She worked as a teacher and a head of the department at K12 educational institutions and gave various courses at the university.
Nihan Şehsuvaroğlu who is a graduate from Boğaziçi University, works as a coordinator of department of science in Hisar Schools with her 16 years of experience and interest in educational technologies.
Selin Bozkurtlar Peçe, who was born in 1991 in İstanbul and who completed her high school education in Rüştü Akın Anatolian High School, graduated from Yildiz Teknik University, Technologies Of Computer and Teaching in 2015.
Her learning journey started in Konyaalti College, which gives her life vision, foreign language and many skills. When she decided to become a kindergarten teacher, she studied Early Childhood and Child Development Education in Antalya Bar Association Anatolian Vocational High School.
Yağmur Gür has graduated from Yıldız Technical University CEIT Department. During her education at the same time she worked at the Turkey Education Volunteers Foundation and at Coderdojo training Center in Turkey. Again during her years of education she worked as an instructor in projects at LEGO Education EV3 supported by TUBITAK
Chris Kostas is the Business Development Manager with Dubai-based Alpha Publishing Company. A UK Master’s Degree holder of Communications and English studies, Chris has extensive experience in the publishing and global learning industries.
He has been working as the Principal in İzmir Anafartalar Primary school since 2014. During his years as Teacher and Principal, he has taken part and also lead many e-twinning, erasmus+, sodes and social responsibility projects. He voluntarily supported the projects of many non-governmental organizations.
Graduated from Yıldız Technical University at 1999, receiving a bachelor of mechanical engineering. Ilker ULUDAG has started his career in TEKYAZ, leading CAD/CAM company in Turkey, as a Product Manager for SOLIDWORKS 3D cad software.
Founder & Design Director of Wunder Innovation Studio, a multi-disciplinary design studio, bringing Technology, Design & Business capabilities under one roof. Ex-Consultant with Digital Strategy, System Integration and Management Consulting background.
He was born in 1975 in Mersin. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Tarsus. Graduated from Çukurova University, Department of Geological Engineering. After working in the fields of informatics, web and e-commerce, he gave instructor trainings on robotics. He holds a Master
He lead the Ae2 Project team. Having been a coding and robotics counselor to hundreds of laboratories for over 4 years, he also was a teacher trainer who coached more than thousand educators.
Burak Kuralkan is currently the Territory Sales Manager of Turkey and Greece at DASSAULT SYSTEMES. In this role, he develops and executes Business and Sales Plans across Value Added Resellers, accounts and verticals.
Merve Oflaz has been involved in teaching and teacher training. She is currently affiliated with ITDC, Turkey as the Sales and Marketing Director and Teacher Trainer . She is also a materials developer and a blogger.
He started his career as a Physics Teacher at Marmara College in 1994. During the 18 years he worked at Marmara College, he served as a leader in various departments and units. At the same time, Kulaberoğlu gave lectures at the Faculty of Education, Boğaziçi University.
Emre Fırat works as a Level Dean and a mathematics teacher at Robert College. After receiving his BS degree from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science Education at Hacettepe University, he completed his master’s degree in the Faculty of Education at Başkent University.
Her leadership at Bilkent Schools resulted in three computer laboratories. Two of them were for teaching with interactive white boards, printer and including 25 computers. The other laboratory was for the library. It was designed for students’ research projects.
Promobot ETZ BOT joins us this year as the host of the 6th Educational Technology Summit.
