Silicon Valley Turks in AI Summit
We are celebrating Cumhuriyet Bayramı (Republic Day) together with the Turkish AI diaspora. Silicon Valley Turks in AI Summit will be at the Stanford Faculty Club on October 31.
The summit will feature panels and networking opportunities across AI Frontiers, Entrepreneurship and Investment.
PROGRAM
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Registration, Coffee & Networking
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM | Opening Remarks
Organizing Committee · Consulate General of Türkiye in San Francisco
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Panel 1: Founding, Funding and Scaling AI Unicorns
Aydın Şenkut (Felicis) · Ekin Doğuş Çubuk (Periodic Labs) · Görkem Yurtseven (fal) Moderator: Çağla Kaymaz (Category Ventures)
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM | Break
12:10 PM – 1:00 PM | Panel 2: AI Transformation and Investment: Successes and Failures
Magdalena Yeşil (SoFi) · Murat Kılıçoğlu (Cota Capital) · Derya İşler (Salesforce) · Didem Ün Ateş (LotusAI) Moderator: Dilek Dayınlarlı (ScaleX)
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM | Lunch Break
1:50 PM – 2:50 PM | Panel 3: AI Leadership: From Research to Enterprise
Ece Kamar (Turing) · Serdar Kadıoğlu (Northwestern Mutual) · Ruhi Sarıkaya (Amazon) Moderator: Ayhan Sebin (IBM)
2:50 PM – 3:00 PM | Break
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Panel 4: R&D Frontiers: What's Next
Kaan Ertaş (Anthropic) · Murat Yeşildal (OpenAI) · Kaan Oktay (fal) · Mert Cemri (UC Berkeley) · Batu El (Stanford) Moderator: Beliz Günel (Google DeepMind)
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM | Coffee Break
4:20 PM – 5:10 PM | Panel 5: Engineering the AI Stack: From Infrastructure to Applications
Elif Albuz (Cerebras) · Umur Çubukçu (Ubicloud) · Fatma Özcan (Google) · Fatih Boyacı (YouTube) · Fatih Kurtoğlu (Scale AI) Moderator: Emre Okçular (OpenAI)
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM | Break & Networking
5:30 PM – 6:10 PM | Panel 6: Investing in AI Diaspora
Arda Kırkağaç (Bek) · Can Bakır (AI Startup Factory) · Burak Arık (Maxitech) · Aslı Kurul Türkmen (Endeavor Türkiye) Moderator: Oğuzhan Aygören (UC Berkeley)
6:10 PM – 6:20 PM | Break
6:20 PM – 7:00 PM | Panel 7: Building AI Native Türkiye: Challenges, Opportunities and Roadmap
Nazım Kemal Üre (Stanford) · Tunga Bayrak (Freya) · Attila Dikbaş (İTÜ ARI Teknokent) · Yiğit Canay (TAİK) Moderator: Mustafa E. Say (iLab)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Dinner & Networking Reception
Organized by Turkish Student Association Global · Caltech TSA · Global Turks AI · MIT TSA · UC Berkeley TSA
Supported by Bek · iLab · Maxitech · Yapay Zeka Fabrikası · fal · Borusan Ventures · Türk Telekom Ventures · İTÜ ARI Teknokent · ScaleX
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