Born in the Pazar sub-province of Rize in 1965, schooled at Pazar Sivritepe Village Primary School, Pazar Secondary School and Pazar High School. Professor Şahin graduated from the Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry (Geomatics) Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, İstanbul Technical University in 1987 at the top of his class.
Professor Şahin received his master's degree from University College London in 1991, and his PhD degree from University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1994. He started his academic career in 1988 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Surveying Techniques at Istanbul Technical University and advanced through the ranks of assistant professor and associate professor. In 2002, he became a tenured Professor in the Department of Surveying Techniques at Istanbul Technical University. He was a short-term visiting fellow at Graz Technical University in 1997 and at Berlin Technical University in 2000.During the years 1996-2004 at Istanbul Technical University, he assumed several administrative positions such as Advisor to the Rector, Director of the School of Foreign Languages, Chairman of the Department of Surveying Techniques, and Coordinator for the Graduate Program in Advanced Technologies.Professor Şahin is a member of various national and international engineering societies and he has 14 international SCI articles and 73 international papers.Professor Şahin was appointed as the Rector of Istanbul Technical University on August 6th, 2008 and his tenure ended on August 6th, 2012. In 2009, Prof. Şahin was the first and only rector from Turkey to be elected as a member of the Board of Directors of CESAER (Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research), based in Belgium and including the most prominent engineering universities in Europe. In February 2012, Professor Şahin was nominated and elected unanimously to the four-member Executive Board of CESAER on account of the contributions he had made to “Research and Strategy Management at Universities”.
Professor Şahin is a member of the Advisory Board on Earthquakes of the Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, and a member of the Board of Directors of Foundation for Citizens from Rize and Black Sea Region. Between August 2008 and August 2012, he was the Chairman of ITU Foundation and ITU Development Foundation, Chairman of ITU ARI Technocity Board of Directors, Founding Representative of ITU Development Foundation Schools and an Honorary Chairman of ITU Alumni Council.Professor Şahin is married to Neşe Şahin, a textile designer, and has two children: a son named Efe, born in 2002, and a daughter named Defne, born in 2009.
Professor Şahin is the founding rector of MEF University and has been in position since March 2013.

Dr. Kursat Cagiltay is Professor of the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. He earned his BS in Mathematics and MS in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University. He holds a double Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, Bloomington USA.
He is the director of METU's Audio Visual Systems Research and Development Center and coordinator of the Instructional Technology Support Office.
His research focuses on, Human Computer Interaction, educational Technology, game based learning, socio-cultural aspects of technology, technology enhanced learning, Human Performance Technologies, Educational Neuroscience/Neurotechnology.

Oya Yerin Güneri is a professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at Middle East Technical University (METU).. She received her B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees from METU Educational Sciences Department, Guidance and Psychological Counseling Program. During her PhD in 1997, she was a visiting scholar at Minnesota University with TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) joint PhD grant.  She was also a Fogarty /NIH International Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Program Fellow at Harvard University in summer of 2010. She was a director of METU Learning and Student Development Office between 2009-2015.  She also took leading role in the establishment of METU Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching in 2015. Her current research interests include counseling services in higher education, faculty professional development, career counseling and mindfulness. She is currently the Campus Vice President of the METU Northern Cyprus Campus. 

He received his BA in International Relations (1998) from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences and his master's degrees in European Law from Marmara University European Union Institute and in Information Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales. He joined Sabancı University in 2005. After several duties in the Information Center, he has been appointed as Director in May 2013. He has also been acting as a board member of Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS).

Cable works with the global open education community to leverage open licensing, open content, and open policies to significantly improve access to quality, affordable, education and research resources so everyone in the world can attain their education goals. He’s a leading advocate for open licensing policies that ensure publicly funded education materials are freely and openly available.Cable helps lead the global open education movement and is the Director of Open Education at Creative Commons (CC) - a nonprofit organization at the center of an international movement to promote sharing of creativity and knowledge. CC provides the well-known suite of open licenses that have become the global standard used by governments, institutions and individuals across culture, education, and science, to promote sharing, collaboration and innovation. The CC licenses are everywhere—1.3+ billion are in use across 9 million websites—making it easy for anyone to freely access and use open educational resources. Cable has 20 years of academic technology, online learning, and open education experience and helped establish the Open Course Library. Cable holds a PhD in educational psychology from Ohio State University, and enjoys motorcycling and playing in the mountains with his family. He lives in Olympia with his wife and two boys.

Bret has more than 20 years’ experience in content lifecycle operations, consulting, and structured authoring implementations, with expertise in the areas of scholarly publishing, enterprise content management, unstructured to structured content and workflow migration, technical publishing, multilingual information management, collaboration, knowledge management, and complex workflow design.

Bret has led some of the world’s largest organisations in developing and implementing publishing and information management strategies. He was instrumental in the early days of XML authoring and publishing and has helped many large organisations develop complex multi channel output methods.  Bret has written for many trade publications and speaks frequently on a variety of topics in the United States and Europe for such organizations and events as STM, London Book fair, Frankfurt Book Fair, local and national Society for Technical Communicators (STC) groups, Society of Scholarly publishing, Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA), Gilbane, and many others.

In his spare time, Bret is a member of Toastmaster international, an after dinner speaker, certified in NLP, coaching, and hypnotherapy and is one of Europes’ leading MMA and Boxing Ring Announcers.

1998 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümü’nden mezun olan İsmail ÇETİNKAYA, Yüksek Lisansını Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi İşletme alanında yaptı.
Orman Bakanlığı’nın Osmanlı Dönemi Ormancılığı Araştırma Projesi ve yayın çalışmasında Araştırmacı, Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı’nda Kütüphaneci, Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi’nde Okutman olarak çalışmış Çetinkaya, 2006 yılından bu yana Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanı olarak görev yapmaya devam etmektedir.
2007-2008 yıllarında TÜBİTAK Bilim İnsanı Destekleme Daire Başkanlığı tarafından yürütülen İlk ve Ortaöğretimde Proje Yürütme ve Bilim Danışmanlığı Eğitimi Projesi’nde (Eğitimde Bilim Danışmanlığı Çalıştayı) Bilim Kurulu Üyeliği ve Bilgi Okuryazarlığı dersini yürüten Çetinkaya, 2014 yılında da Yükseköğretim Kurulu Başkanlığı tarafından Üniversite Kütüphaneleri Çalışma Grubu Üyeliği (Üniversite Kütüphanelerinin İyileştirilmesi ve Standartlar Getirilmesi) görevi ile “2023’e Doğru Türkiye’de Üniversite Kütüphaneleri Mevcut Durum, Sorunlar, Standartlar ve Çözüm Önerileri” isimli raporu hazırlayanlar arasında yer almıştır.
2010 yılından bu yana ANKOS Yönetim Kurulu Üyeliği görevini yürüten Çetinkaya, Kütüphanecilik alanında ulusal ve uluslararası birçok etkinlikte yer alarak mesleki bilgi ve tecrübelerini paylaşmaya devam etmektedir.

He graduated from the Department of Library Science, Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University. After working as a newspaper and magazine archivist, he worked at the Museum of Press and Library of Physics of Istanbul University, Faculty of Science. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Social Sciences, within the Department of Journalism. His master dissertation was son the discourse of newspaper caricatures and his doctoral thesis, which he completed at the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, was about the adaptation of literature works to animation. Hünerli started to work as a research assistant at the department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Faculty of Communication at Istanbul University in 1997. In 2006, he was assigned as assistant professor at the department of Communication Design at Istanbul Kültür University, Faculty of Arts and Design and he became a professor in 2012. He has been working as the head of Computer and Instructional Technologies Department of Istanbul University, Faculty of education since 2014. Hünerli researches and instructs on animation, caricature, graphic design, communication and semiotics.

In 1990, he started to be a librarian in the ODTU Library. After working in the library inventory, collection security, lending and information fields, he continued to work as an specialist since 1994. He was involved in the process of establishing a joint document service for various universities in Ankara. It was included in the performance-based budgeting studies conducted by the ODTU Library with the KALDER and the Ministry of Finance. It has taken duties and responsibilities in providing and cataloging, reference, interlibrary loan system, electronic access serves of master and PhD theses and establishment of ODTU Northern Cyprus Campus. Since 2007, he has been ODTU Library Director and ANKOS Board Member.

Sarper Arıkan was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1984. He currently works as Visually Impaired Services Librarian at Akdeniz University Library. He received his bachelor degrees from Akdeniz University in Public Administration and Anadolu University in Social services.
Within the scope of the electronic library project for blind and visually impaired students at the Akdeniz University Library, he undertakes projects in order to provide screen reader training for visually impaired students and establish a distance education platform.
Sarper Arıkan has two books titled "Görme Engelli Destek Teknolojileri Rehberi" and "Görme Engelli Destek Teknolojileri, Engelsiz Teknolojiye Dokunuş " published in 2012 and 2013. And, he also has two awards in the field of education and web applications dated 2013 and 2014.
He is presently in charge of project implementation of the support platform for assistive technology of Universities without disabilities since 2015

Lisans eğitimini İstanbul Üniversitesi  (İÜ) Edebiyat Fakültesi Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi (Kütüphanecilik) Bölümünde 1991 yılında tamamladıktan sonra aynı üniversitede Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Avrupa Birliği Anabilim Dalı’nda yüksek lisans ve doktora eğitimini tamamlamıştır. 2012 yılına kadar, İÜ Hukuk Fakültesi’nde Avrupa Birliği Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi Koordinatörü ve Kütüphane Müdürü olarak çalışmış ve alanıyla ilgili derslere girmiştir. 2012 yılından bu yana İstanbul Üniversitesi Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanı olarak görev yapmaktadır. Çeşitli ulusal ve uluslar arası toplantılarda sunulan tebliğleri ve yayınları bulunmaktadır. Evli ve 2 çocuk annesidir.

Batu has a broad range of experience on data protection and telecommunications law and is valued by clients for his technical knowledge and dedication.
Batu is a senior counsel and attorney-at-law at BTS&Partners.
He advises clients on a wide range of issues, including data protection, information privacy, cybersecurity, e-commerce and telecommunications law. His expertize also includes copyright and open source software licensing.

Batu has a diverse client base that includes domestic and international software, telecommunications, e-commerce companies and payment service providers as well as leading NGOs in the technology sector. He directs various regulatory compliance projects. Batu also advises clients on public procurement projects relating to information and communication technologies.

Batu has articles published in international refereed academic journals on subjects ranging from copyright to internet regulation.
Batu is a graduate of Robert College and Istanbul University Law Faculty. He holds an LL.M. degree in Innovation, Technology and the Law from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Batu works in Turkish and English.

Ertuğrul Çimen is the Library Director of MEF University.
 
He has an active role in NGO’s and professional organisations at national and international level. Mr. Çimen has been serving Coordinatior of ANKOS Academy and ANKOS Collaboration Study Groups, he is also the member of IFLA Document Delivery & Resour​c​e Sharing Standing Committee.
 
Mr. Çimen is the editorial board member of Interlending & Document Supply Journal (Emerald Publishing, England) and International Journal of Knowledge Management & Practices (IJKMP, India). He has several presentations and published papers about resour​c​e sharing & document delivery, library consortiums, collaborations, staff exchange programs, electronic resources management, library consortiums, social media in libraries.

Afif Rustom is a Senior Business Development Manager at VitalSource handling Europe and Middle East, working closely with local partners, institutions, publishers, & ministries of education to support the digital educational transformation with 21st century tools and technology.

Sami Cukadar is the Library Director at Istanbul Bilgi University Library and e-Resources in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also an academic staff at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and teaches “Research Methods and Accessing Legal Information Resources” to the first year Law School students.
Mr. Cukadar has been serving as Coordinator of UNAK-Turkish Platform of Law Librarians, member of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium Steering Committee. He has written on Total Quality Management in Libraries and Distance Learning and University Libraries. His current research focuses on Legal Information, Information Literacy, distance education, consortiums and ERM