Aras Bilgen

Aras Bilgen -- Aras provides design training and coaching for designers, business analysts, and executives. He held design leadership roles in finance and e-commerce domains. He was the Senior Vice President of experience design and front-end deveopment at Garanti Bank, the Product Director for ÇiçekSepeti (the largest flower and gifting site in the world), a Product Group Manager at Monitise, and a UX planner at Intel for MeeGo and Tizen. He speaks at international design conferences, and the products he worked on have reached more than 160 million users worldwide.

Aras holds an MSc in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, a BSc from Bilkent University and currently pursuing a BA in Sociology from Anadolu University. He completed research internships at Microsoft Research Cambridge and Lancaster University, United Kingdom.