Keynote Speakers
- Ayse Ozmen, University of Calgary
- Aytul Ercil, Vispera, Sabancı University
- Bahar Kinay Erguney, CISCO
- Baris Surucu, Middle East Technical University
- Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Poznan University of Technology, Adviser to EURO Conferences
- Erkal Biyiklioglu, Tam Factoring
- Hamparsum Bozdogan, University of Tennessee
- Selim Deliloglu, Vodafone
- Sotiris Bersimis, University of Piraeus
- Umut Satir Gurbuz, IBM
Short-Course Speakers
- Arzu Baygul (Koç University), Cagdas Aktan (Beykent University) and Neslihan Gökmen (Istanbul Technical University): Medical Analytics/Bioinformatics (Clinical Research Statistics, Medical Informatics, Validation Studies with potential discussion of cancer molecular)
- Aytac Atac (Supply Chain Wizard): Innovation in Germany (with potential emphasis on Internet of Things, Supply Chain Analytics)
- Balaji Raman (Cogitaas Inc.): Retail analytics with dynamic linear models using R (Introduction to DLM and Kalman filter, Setting up DLM in R using packages astsa, dlm and INLA, Real-life applications)
- Erkan Sirin (Impektra, Gazi University): Big Data: Introduction to Hadoop big data ecosystem, Introduction to Apache Spark, Data analysis and Machine Learning with Apache Spark
- Fulya Gokalp (ODTU): Hands-on Introduction Course in R(Acquiring data from different sources on command line and R, data pre-processing, a map package to map one of the up-to-date data (potentially with 2019 Turkish local election data), SQL in R
- Rahim Mahmoudvand (Hamedan University): Visualization with QlikView (How to make dashboards)
- Tahir Ekin (Texas State University): Fraud Analytics
- Tuba Yilmaz-Gozbasi (Optiyol, Ozyegin University) and Ozan Gozbasi (Optiyol, Bosphorus University): Real world applications/cases of transportation analytics-optimization with a potential demo