Dr. Firat Gonen is the Data & Analytics Director at Allianz. Gonen leads the data teams delivering innovative and cutting edge Machine Learning projects. Before Allianz, Dr. Gonen was managing quick-commerce decacorn app Getir and Vodafone Turkey’s AI teams. Prior to those, he was the Principal Data Scientist at Dogus Group (one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates). Gonen holds extensive educational qualifications including a PhD degree in NeuroScience and Neural Networks from University of Houston and is an expert in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Visual Attention, Decision-Making & Genetic Algorithms with over more than 10 years in the field. He has authored several peer-review journal papers. He’s also a Kaggle Triple GrandMaster and has more than 10 international data competition medals. He is also selected as the HP / NVIDIA Global Data Science Ambassador since 2020.