Dear Colleagues and Students,

 

IEEE Türkiye and Özyeğin University present you Dr. Çağlan Aras, a Silicon Valley executive. He will join us from Silicon Valley on Zoom tomorrow and give us a seminar titled:

 

 

17:30-18:30 Turkish Time

 

on Zoom:

 

Everybody is welcome. The seminar will be mainly in English.

 

Regards,

 

Prof. H. Fatih Uğurdağ

Dean of Engineering and Director of Grad. Studies in Sci. & Eng., Özyeğin University

Former Chair of IEEE Türkiye Section

 

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What is the seminar about:

 

Silicon Valley has been the Mecca of the global hardware and software industries. Time and time again, it reinvented itself. An overcrowded geography, high living expenses, especially ultra-high real-estate prices, Covid, globally distributed teams, therefore the trend/possibility of remote work could not displace Silicon Valley from its position as the world's high-tech capital. Sİlicon Valley withstood all such challenges.

 

Dr. Çağlan Aras will tell us what still makes Silicon Valley a favored eco-system despite its several shortcomings. The question is that what is it that Silicon Valley has but others do not have.

 

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Biography of Dr. Çağlan (Chalan) Aras

 

SVP and GM, Acceleration

Riverbed Technology
San Francisco, California

Chalan Aras joined Riverbed in January 2024 as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Riverbed's Acceleration business. He is responsible for the entire Acceleration portfolio and business, overseeing engineering and product management. Dr. Aras brings over three decades of experience in B2B technology, including leading product organizations and divisions at renowned companies such as Deloitte, Citrix Systems, Cisco, and Polycom. Aras most recently served as Chief Product Officer and Managing Director for Deloitte’s Cyber Security Services. Prior to Deloitte, he spent nine years at Citrix in VP and GM roles leading products that included Cloud Network and Security Services, SD-WAN and WAN Optimization. Aras holds a BS degree in EE from ODTÜ, an MS degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State (NCSU); an Executive MBA in Strategy and Marketing from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School as well as a PhD in Computer Engineering from NCSU.

 

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