BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, SMART CITIES Derya Dilara is an expert in finding creative city solutions such as urban social cohesion and resilience by using a multi-disciplinary and multi-level approach. Previously, Derya Dilara worked on a project on Sharing and Re-creating Urban Public Spaces in Global Cities, in Berlin, Germany. She is now working on several indexes for various global bodies, including publishing creative data on urban issues relating to diversity, security, sustainability, resilience, and social connectivity in global urban public spaces. Derya Dilara holds a doctoral degree in Political Science and Government from Monash University.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, ALGORITHMS

Simon is an expert in algorithm and software development. He has an extensive expertise and experience in developing a wide range of algorithms (machine learning, genetic, tabu search) to model and optimise large scale systems. He holds a civil engineering degree from Université catholique de Louvain, where he specialised in computer science. Additionally, he obtained a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from UCL. Previously, he worked as a software engineer to build smart grid applications.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, BIG DATA

Omer is an expert in statistics and machine learning algorithms. He has broad knowledge and experience in supervised and unsupervised learning methodologies for predictive analysis and classification purposes. He obtained Master’s degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Management with a specialisation in statistics and machine learning and Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Mimarsinan University in Istanbul. Previously, he worked as a price modeller and risk analyst in economic applications.