Ruth Lennon is an educator and evangelist for DevOps. She has been lecturer with Letterkenny Institute of Technology for 20 years but spends much of her time working with industry in conferences or on research. She currently focuses on cloud computing through Software as a Service particularly the development of Web Services for large-scale secure software development. Ruth actively works on course development to meet both the long and short term needs of industry. Ruth is a member of the ACM, IEEE and is member of the IEEE P2675 DevOps Standard Working Group as well as the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 Working Group. Ruth is the Chair of the ACM-W Europe.

Aytül Erçil has received a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University in 1979, MS and PhD in Applied Math from Brown University in 1980 and 1983 respectively. She has then worked at General Research Laboratories for five years as senior research scientist and staff research scientist . She has been a faculty member and founding director of BUPAM Pattern Analysis and Machine Vision Laboratory at Boğazici University in 1988-2001 and has been a faculty member and founding director of VPALAB Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory at Sabancı University since 2001. Prof. Erçil has directed many international projects (Nato, FP4, Eureka, NSF, FP6, Nedo, FP7). She has been the founding president of TOTIAD – Turkish Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Society and executive board member of IAPR, International Association of Pattern Recognition. Her work has received many awards including International Achievement award, Eureka Success story, Endeavor Entrepreneur, technology award finalist, Veuve Clicquot high impact female entrepreneur of the year award – Turkish representative, first prize in Machines and Accessories Production Technologies award, ‘Turkey’s female entrepreneur’ award, ‘Crystal Tree woman entrepreneur of the year’ award, ‘ANSIAD academician of the year’ award, “Microsoft Woman leader in Information Technologies” award. Prof. Ercil was the founding partner and CEO of Vistek since 2006 which was acquired by ISRA Vision in 2013. She is currently a co-founder of Rebuslabs and co-founder and CEO of Vispera.

Şule Yıldırım Yayılgan is an associate professor from NTNU at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK) since 2009. She received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Enginnering in 1995, and a dr.ing. degree (Ph.D.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science in (2002). She has worked more than 25 years in academia, and served as Head of the Department between 2005-2009. Her main fields of competence are artificial intelligence, machine learning applications, digital crime evidence collection and ontologies, image processing, document classification and biometrics. She has participated in projects funded by EU Horizon 2020, Eurostars, Erasmus+ programs, the Research Council of Norway, the Regional Research Council of Norway and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway. She belongs to the Center for Cyber Information Security (ccis.no) and the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory. She is a steering committee member of Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society, branch of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), member of the Norwegian Association for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (NOBIM), and member of the Research Ethics board of NTNU. She has been supervising students at different academic levels and has been publishing more than 100 journal and conference papers. She actively takes part as programme committee member and reviewer in conferences and acts as reviewer in several journals.

Sena Aydoğan is a Strategic Business Development Manager at Oracle, currently responsible for managing and driving Oracle’s engagement with technology-based entrepreneurs and startup ecosystem including prominent startup companies of all sectors, accelerators and incubators in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and North Africa region. Besides, she is managing Oracle’s global philantrophic educational program, Oracle Academy in Turkey and she implements Oracle workforce readiness and digital skills development projects by developing key collaborations with educational institutions, universities, NGOs, public sector institutions and non-profit organizations.Sena graduated with a BSc degree in Computer Technology and Information Systems from Bilkent University in 2013. She is passionate about technology, innovation, knowledge-sharing and women’s empowerment.

Ayse Tosun is an assistant professor at Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to joining ITU, she worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland. She received her PhD in 2012, and MSc degree in 2008 from Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey. During her PhD, she was a research intern at Software Reliability Lab, Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. As a postdoc, she was also a visiting researcher in UPM, Madrid and Rochester University, USA. Her research interests are empirical software engineering, more specifically mining software data repositories, software measurement, software process improvement, software quality prediction models, and applications of AI on building recommendation systems for software engineering. She is a professional member of ACM and IEEE, and the academic advisor of ACM Student Club at ITU.

Nazlı Özçevik is a computer scientist currently working as the Finance Account Manager at Cisco Systems since 2008. Throughout her professional life she had experience at various leading companies. After completing her studies at Bilkent University, Ankara and La Salle University, Philadephia her first workplace has been Unisys Corporation’s IT System Operations Department where she served as a Software Programmer. Later on she worked for Oracle Corporation as a Systems Engineer, Senior Sales Consultant and Account Manager for more than 6 years. Nazlı Özçevik is married and has two children and her major hobby is sports, especially playing tennis.

Pınar Yanardağ completed her PhD at Purdue University, Department of Computer Science in 2016, and her postdoc at MIT Media Lab in 2018. She focuses on the creative applications of AI in fashion and art, and her research is covered widely by international media including TIME, CNN and BBC. She is currently working as a principal investigator under TUBITAK 2232 program at Bogazici University.

Buket Yüksel received her B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Yaşar University, Izmir and currently is a Ph.D candidate and instructor in Computer Science and Engineering Department of Koç University, Istanbul. Her current research is about computer vision and deep learning. Buket is working on object tracking using mainly reinforcement learning.
Ms. Yüksel attended Women in Computer Science events for many years during her Ph.D studies. She presented a poster at the first European ACM Celebration of Women in Computing, namely womENcourage event in Manchester, UK in 2014 at which she had the great opportunity to network and share different perspectives. Additionally, Buket recently worked as an area chair in WiML (Women in Machine Learning) workshop in NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver, Canada.

Rukiye Altın is working at METU College Schools in Ankara, Turkey as ICT teacher. She is not only teaching but also couching students to both national and international computer science activities such as FIRST Lego League, TUBITAK Science Projects and Bebras International Challenge on Informatics and Computational Thinking. Besides her teaching career, she is also pursuing her PhD studies at the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology of Middle East Technical University. Her research interests include programming, computational thinking, virtual worlds, computer science in education, gamification, digital citizenship, information ethics, educational technology, and robotics. Rukiye Altin first met ACM-W when she was an undergraduate student at Bilkent University. She worked as the Chair of BILWIC (Bilkent Uiversity Women in Computing) Student Club which was the first non-US ACM-W Student Chapter in the world and the first ACM-W Student Chapter in Europe. Currently she is a member of the Steering Committee of womENcourage which is the major European ACM Celebration of Women in Computing of she has been responsible as Registration Chair last two years.

Gönül Aycı received her B.Sc. degree in Mathematics department at Marmara University and M.Sc. degree in the Computer Science department at Ozyegin University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Engineering department at Bogazici University. Her research interests include privacy in online social networks, machine learning, and uncertainty. She is one of the organizers of Django Girls Istanbul workshops and PyCon Turkey 2020. Gönül is a member of inzva and Python Istanbul community. She is most impacted by the women’s interest in learning about computing in a safe environment and very motivated for sustainable support for girls and women in computing.