OpenText Summit Türkiye 2025

In today's business world, it has become inevitable to benefit from the power of information and artificial intelligence in order to keep up with the times.

We will discuss the trends shaping the business world of the future; We will meet you at OpenText Summit Türkiye, in Istanbul, the heart of global commerce, where we will explore information management solutions including IT automation solutions, cloud, cyber security, generative AI and more.

You will have the opportunity to listen to our panel where our customers, with whom we have undertaken many successful projects, will share their predictions about the future business world, and the presentations of our speakers from abroad who will share global technology trends in this unique event.

We invite you to our event to discover what benefits and advantages our new generation solutions focused on the future of the business world, such as our generative AI solution OpenText Aviator and our cyber security solutions that ensure your information management and security end-to-end, will provide to your business processes.

Come design your information management processes with us to increase the potential of your company.

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Registration and Welcome Coffee in Information Reimagined Central

9:30 AM - 9:40 AM

OpenText's Türkiye Market Vision

Zafer Akın, Managing Director, Türkiye and Azerbaijan, OpenText

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Welcome Speech

Harald Adams, Vice President, Emerging Markets, OpenText

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Welcome Speech

Suren Naidoo, Vice President, International Presales, OpenText

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

OpenText Aviator Demo

Karim Rizkillah, Regional VP Solution Consulting, Emerging Markets, OpenText

Rob Renna, Senior Principal Solutions Consultant, OpenText

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee Break and Networking

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

C-Suite Customer Panel moderated by Oylum Talu (MC) and Zafer Akın, Managing Director of Türkiye & Azerbaijan, OpenText

Bülent Akar, CIO, Sahibinden
Emin İslam Tatlı, CISO, Turkcell
Ömer Barbaros Yiş, General Manager, Karaca International
Özkan Demir, Deputy General Manager, Yapı Kredi Technology
Galip Tütüncüoğlu, Co-founder, Konsalt
Zafer Akın, Managing Director, Türkiye and Azerbaijan, OpenText

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

OpenText Story

Karim Rizkillah, Regional VP Solution Consulting, Emerging Markets, OpenText

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch and Networking

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Analytics Hub:
Decisions reimagined

Decisions Reimagined

Hamza Akbulut, Solutions Consultant, OpenText

Content Hub:
Knowledge reimagined

Knowledge Reimagined

Ersin Işık, Solutions Consultant, OpenText

Cybersecurity Hub:
Security reimagined

Security Reimagined

Petr Hnevkovsky, Sr. Manager Solutions Consulting, OpenText

ITOM Hub:
CloudOps Reimagined

CloudOps Reimagined

Alvin Barnard, Solutions Consultant, OpenText

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

Advanced Analytics in Finance: Insights and Lessons from VerticaPy

Nimet Ayhan, Senior Data Scientist, Kredi Kayıt Bürosu
Büşra Hazal Ayten, DevOps Engineer, Global Maksimum

OpenText Banking Use Cases

Monica Hovsepian, Sr. Industry Marketing Strategist, OpenText

DevSecOps and SAST: Ensuring Security in Software Development Processes

Görkem Karadeniz, Application Security and Vulnerability Management Manager, Yapı Kredi Technology
Oktay Şahin, Application Security and Vulnerability Management Group Manager, Cyberwise

Our AIOps Journey Aiming for Operational Excellence

Hüseyin Onur Köse, Infrastructure Management Tools Department Manager, Yapı Kredi Technology
Ercan Uzundal, Group Manager of DevOps and Security, Konsalt

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

From Analytics Sandbox to Full DWH

Mustafa Ömer Güçlü, Data & Analytics Tech. OPs Lead, HepsiPay

Metro Istanbul Corporate Asset Management System

Cihat Yediyıldız, Information Systems Manager, Metro İstanbul

Payment Systems Security Tokenization Technology

Sami Arvas, Information Security Management and Compliance Manager, Turkish Airlines

SMAX Success Story

Tayfur Kılıç, Chief/Commercial Package and Application Management, Turkish Aerospace

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

EnerjiSA Data Transformation

Özgür Önçek, Data Engineering Senior Expert, EnerjiSA

OTMM Customer Success Story - Eczacıbaşı Group

Turkcell Managed SOC Services

Erdal Keskin, Product Manager, Turkcell

Operational Processes & AIOPS with uCMDB

Ömer Faruk Albayram, Senior Specialist, Turk Telekom

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Coffee Break

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Data Analytics with Vertica

Şenay Çelebi, Data Analytics Team Lead, Sahibinden.com
Emre Yahşi, Expert Data Engineer, Tech Lead, Global Maksimum

Effective Document Management with OpenText: Improvements Implemented

Kübra Oral, Management Systems Specialist, Trakya Electricity Distribution

Discovery Requires an Explorer, An Automation Story

Bora Üzüm, Director of Analytics & Data Governance, Yapı Kredi Technology

A New Era in Our 15-Year ITSM Journey: Towards the Future with SMAX

Dilara Akbaş, Product Owner, Vakıfbank
Kubilay Konan, General Manager, Rigosis

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Accelerating Analytics with Vertica

Süleyman Özer, Data Platform Team Leader, SunExpress

Revolutionizing Customer Journey with Digital Experience

Ersin Işık, Solutions Consultant, OpenText

Trace of Data in the Telecom World

Nergiz Gümüş, Data Management Senior Manager, Vodafone
Gökhan İnal, Senior Group Manager, Kafein

Our Operational Transformation Journey: OpenText SA and OO at the Center of Automation

Oğuzhan Yanar, IT-Automation and Monitoring Infrastructure Engineer, Kuveyt Türk

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM

Maximize Your Data LakeHouse with Pure Storage

Onur Budak, Field Solution Architect / EMEA - Emerging Markets, Pure Storage

Garanti BBVA Technology Application Security Success Story

Batuhan Işıker, Senior Expert Security Engineer, Garanti BBVA Technology

Increasing Human Capital Efficiency while Driving Strategic Outcomes

Betül Palabıyıkoğlu, Senior Enterprise Project Manager, Kredi Kayıt Bürosu