Abstract: 

Turkcell is a leading converged telecommunication and technology services provider. Operating within Turkey and internationally, Turkcell currently serves close to 48 million customers with a wide range of communications and digital services offerings. AI has been integral to Turkcell’s strategic vision, covering areas such as computer vision, natural language processing and intelligent automation to help transform customer experiences, drive operational efficiencies and bring a greater diversity of consumer and business innovations to market faster.

In this keynote, Turkcell and Red Hat will provide an overview of Turkcell’s AI use cases, and how they went about building a flexible, secure cloud platform to accelerate AI development, and associated delivery of intelligent applications. Technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift, JupyterLab, NVIDIA GPUs helped provide the much needed execution agility for Turkcell’s AI strategy.

You will also hear lessons learned across people, process, and technology transformation to help operationalize Turkcell’s AI strategy, and how these lessons have helped enhance work for data scientists, software developers, DevOps , and IT operations teams.

Bio: 

Abhinav Joshi is a Senior Manager, Product Marketing in the Cloud Platforms Business Unit at Red Hat. He and his team are focused on cloud-native workloads on OpenShift, including AI/ML, data analytics, databases, etc. Abhinav has over 20 years of industry experience around Hybrid Cloud, AI/ML, Data Analytics, Digital Workspace, and Software Defined Data Center focused products and solutions. Throughout his career, Abhinav has held strategic roles in Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, and Consulting Services at Red Hat, VMware, Cisco, NetApp, etc. He holds MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, Strategic Management Graduate Certificate from Harvard University, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University, India. is a Senior Manager, Product Marketing in the Cloud Platforms Business Unit at Red Hat. He and his team are focused on cloud-native workloads on OpenShift, including AI/ML, data analytics, databases, etc. Abhinav has over 20 years of industry experience around Hybrid Cloud, AI/ML, Data Analytics, Digital Workspace, and Software Defined Data Center focused products and solutions. Throughout his career, Abhinav has held strategic roles in Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales, and Consulting Services at Red Hat, VMware, Cisco, NetApp, etc. He holds MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, Strategic Management Graduate Certificate from Harvard University, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University, India.