Ali Riza Babaoğlan

Webit Speaker, Entrepreneur

Ali Rıza Babaoğlan is a Senior Manager and Business Development Leader in the era of new technology and internet-based offerings.

Ali Rıza Babaoğlan is a well-know technology evangelist from Turkey. Up to now, Babaoğlanserved as Director of Turkish Speaking Territory at Linkedin EMEA HQ in Dublin, Ireland and Senior Sales Leader at SAP AG in Istanbul, Turkey. Before, he was working in IBM Turkey as a responsible of Public Sector Accounts in Ankara, Turkey.

Besides his various experiences in challenging environments of global players, Babaoğlan hasdeep Public Sector know-how which come into existence with important technologicaltransformation projects, such as Fatih Project (Mobility Transformation of Turkish EducationSystem).

He is a Diplomate of Turkish Informatics Association and volunteer-consultant at DigitalPolitics Academy of Turkey (NGO) where he spoke in different events about new technologydevelopment areas of Turkey and Technological transformation.

Ali Rıza Babaoğlan received his undergraduate degree from Başkent University of Ankara atComputer Engineer Department with full-scholarship degree. After that, Babaoğlan attenddifferent education programs about technology and public policy.

He worked in UN’s programs in a volunteer based roles at Mombasa, Kenya and Spoleto,Italy on 2008 and represented Turkey, in different platforms such as offical European Unionevents as an offical representer of Turkey in Strasbourg, Brussel and Rotterdam.

He was nominated to ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 from Internet Society (ISOC) andTurkish Public Authorities as an offical representer to watch the event which will be held inSouth Korea.

Babaoğlan’s interest is developing IT sector related policies in the working area of publicsector and government related issues – and seeking to prepare discussion platforms andagreement points related with new technology offerings with the regional management ofdifferent countries in Middle East.

Babaoğlan conducted researches on the role of social media on government administration,the effects of Internet on politics, digital citizenship, citizen satisfaction with digitalgovernment and the effects of social media on the decision of the voters. Also published abook titled “Gezi Parkı Sürecinde Dijital Vatandaşın Etkisi” that he co-authored with MeltemBanko.

Now, Babaoğlan is a board member of NGO named A New Leader Association and an angelinvestor in BIC Angels.

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