Sezen Tarakçı has a bachelor's degree from Istanbul Technical University, Department of City and Regional Planning, her master's degree from Bahçeşehir University Urban Systems and Transportation Management Program with her thesis titled "Examination of transfer centers as a public space within the scope of public interest, the example of Bağcılar Square transfer center" and a master's degree from Istanbul Technical University City and Region She received her doctorate from the Department of Urban Planning with his thesis titled “Method proposition for bringing the land value increases in urban renewal areas to the public: Fikirtepe example”. In her doctoral thesis supported by the Union of Marmara Municipalities, Tarakçı examined the gain to the public of the value increase resulting from the investments and decisions of the public in urban renewal areas and developed a model for urban renewal applications. With the aforementioned doctoral thesis, Tarakçı received the "ITU 2021 Most Successful Doctoral Thesis" award. Her fields of study focus on the legal and administrative problems of urban areas, urban transformation practices, and the acquisition of value increase. Between 2007 and 2010, she took part in zoning plans and urban transformation project studies at the Bağcılar Municipality Directorate of Development and Urbanization. She worked as a research assistant at Istanbul Arel University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture between 2011 and 2012, and as a lecturer between 2012 and 2021, where she lectured "Zoning Law", "Urban Transformation and Urban Identity", "Settlement Planning and Design". Tarakçı has been working as a faculty member at Istanbul Kent University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Interior Architecture since 2021. At the same time, she is working as a researcher on the project titled "The Sustainable Development and Transformation Model of Manufacturing Industrial Zones in Cities: The Case of Istanbul Bağcılar District", which was entitled to be supported within the scope of TÜBİTAK 3501 program in 2022. At the congress held in Lisbon in 2017 by AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning), Prof. Dr. Tarakçı, who won the AESOP Best Congress Paper Award 2017 with her statement titled "Flexibility in Urban Renewal Practices: The Case of Turkey", which she prepared with Şevkiye Şence Türk, has many international and national publications.

Prof. Dr. Melih BAŞ / Istanbul Arel University, Consultant

Melih Baş received his bachelor's degree from Ankara İ.T.İ.A. Faculty of Business Administration, and his master's and doctorate degrees from Ankara University SBE Business Administration Department. He became an associate professor of finance and accounting in the department of business, and then a professor of finance. He completed his doctorate on efficiency in enterprises. He worked at the National Productivity Center between 1986-1993. During his membership in the Quality Association (KalDer) Environment Commission and İSMMMO Environmental Commission, he started environmental economics and sustainability studies and published books, papers, articles, etc. on this subject. Various publications are available. While working at MPM, he took part in many sectoral study projects. METU, Kadir Has, Yeditepe etc. Baş, who has taught at universities, still works as a faculty member in the Department of Business Administration at Istanbul Arel University. In addition, he continues to provide training and consultancy to some businesses and business world organizations.

Prof. Dr. Nurdan ÇOLAKOĞLU / Istanbul Arel University, Consultant

Prof. Dr. Nurdan Çolakoğlu graduated from Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics in 1991. After completing his master's degree by preparing her thesis titled "Structural Analysis of Foreign Trade in Turkey (1980-1991)" in the Department of Quantitative Methods of the Institute of Social Sciences of Istanbul University in 1993, she completed her doctorate in the same department and presented the thesis "Examination of Financial Indicators with Factor Analysis" in 2000. Between 2006 and 2011, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Beykent University and held administrative duties as the Head of the Program during his tenure. Çolakoğlu, who started to work at Istanbul Arel University in 2001, served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, Head of the Department of Business Administration, and Department of Business Administration. Çolakoğlu, is an expert in Decision-Making Techniques, Numerical Methods, and Statistics, at the undergraduate and graduate levels; She teaches courses such as Statistics, Operations Research, Decision Making Techniques, Research Methods, Advanced Research Methods, and Data Science. She contributes as a referee and Statistics Editor in many journals in the field of Medicine, Psychiatry, Science, and Social Sciences. Working on Structural Equation Models and Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques, Çolakoğlu is still working as the Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.

Assoc. Prof. Kerem Yavuz ARSLANLI / Istanbul Technical University, Consultant

Dr. Kerem Yavuz Arslanlı is currently working at Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences. He worked at ITU Environment and Urbanization UYG-AR Center between 2002-2012. In 2009, he won the Doctoral Session Grant from the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association AREUEA with his doctoral study titled “Spatial Autoregressive Housing Price Index Model”. In 2010, on the housing price index at the Institute of International Economics University of Alicante/Spain; In 2011, he conducted research on real estate investment trusts in the Finance Department of London Cass Business School. He has many publications in national and international journals and papers at conferences. He has been the 2016-17 President of the European Real Estate Society, which consists of academics and doctoral students on real estate research and education, and has been a member of the board of directors since 2013. In the study “Analysis of Istanbul House Prices: Spatial Dependency”, the analysis of house prices was modeled using spatial matrices. Istanbul's polycentric development; population density, distance from the city center, income level, and educational status variables were examined on the basis of districts and neighborhoods. Spatial dependence was identified as the most important explanatory factor in sub-centers. In addition, proximity to transportation alternatives has revealed variable results in different socio-economic areas.

Senior Urban Planner Didem Bıçkıcı / NETCAD A.Ş., PhD Scholar

Didem Bıçkıcı graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning in 2015. During his undergraduate education, he had the opportunity to receive education in the field of urbanism at Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa with the student exchange program. She completed her master's degree at Yıldız Technical University, Institute of Science, Urban Transformation and Planning program. She is continuing her doctorate studies in Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University Urban Planning program. Between 2016-2020, she worked in the field of Geographic Information Systems at Netcad Yazılım A.Ş. She had the opportunity to take part in different units in the process from the production of geographical data to the creation and follow-up of smart city application processes, to meeting the technical demands of public institutions. Maltepe Municipality took part in the follow-up of the project on the follow-up and sustainability of smart city planning applications. In the project, where earthquake risk buildings will be examined at Bimtaş A.Ş between 2020-2021, by developing applications based on geographic information systems; She took an active role in the development of application tools such as the management and monitoring of field data collection processes, systematic data collection, and the creation of summary panels. At the same time, she conducted a study titled “Large-Scale Organizations as a Tool for Urban Restructuring: An Evaluation of Istanbul” in her master's thesis. In the period following 2021, she continues to work in the field of geographic information systems and smart urbanism as a Technology Products Specialist at Netcad Yazilim A. is a part-time lecturer.

Senior Urban Planner Nur Kardelen Öztürk / Gebze Technical University, PhD Scholar

N. Kardelen Öztürk graduated from ITU Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning in 2017. She completed her master's degree in the ITU Graduate Education Institute Regional Planning program and continues her doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning program. As an urban planner in the Istanbul Spatial Address Registration System project carried out by IND Bilişim company in 2018, she worked on collecting spatial data with field studies and processing them on GIS. She worked as an urban planner at Zoning Planning company in 2019. In this process, she worked as the project coordinator of Model Development for Congregational Areas (CA) and Temporary Housing Areas (THA) within the scope of Increasing Istanbul's Urban Coping Power and had the opportunity to work on urban resilience, fragility, and sustainability. Between 2019 and 2021, she worked as a city planner at BİMTAŞ, a subsidiary of IMM, and improved herself in the fields of participatory process management and project management. During this period, she both took part in the writing phase and was the project coordinator of the Istanbul Vulnerability Map in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Epidemic project supported by the Istanbul Development Agency in 2020. Within the scope of the project, the fragility values of Istanbul's neighborhoods were visualized in the GIS environment through selected indicators based on social and spatial data. In her master's thesis, she conducted research on the rural areas of Istanbul and determined the factors and indicators for the resilience of rural areas in metropolitan cities, and created a model for Istanbul's Rural Resilience Index. In 2021 T.C. Preparation of Turkey Spatial Strategy Plan prepared in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and ITU III. He took part in the project team in the phase works. In the same year, she started his academic career as a research assistant at Gebze Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

İlayda Kılıç / İstanbul Kent University, MSc Scholar

İlayda Kılıç graduated from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Gazi University Faculty of Architecture in 2020. Subsequently, in 2021, she started her master's degree in the Department of Urban Planning at Istanbul Technical University. During her undergraduate studies, she completed internships at two institutions, one public and one private. Her first internship was at the Spatial Planning Department of the Iller Bank, where she contributed to the preparation of 1/5000 and 1/1000 scale zoning plans, participated in the analysis stages using the Netcad program, and assisted in the preparation of various zoning plan reports. Her second internship was at Planevi Urbanism Inc., where she contributed to pre-planning analyses and the preparation of research reports. Throughout her student years, she actively participated in summer camps, workshops, seminars, symposiums, and colloquiums organized by TMMOB Chamber of Urban Planners, various municipalities, and universities. In 2023, she began her academic career as a research assistant in the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Kent University Faculty of Arts and Design, where she is currently continuing her academic journey.

Bilge Kağan Özbay/ Pamukkale University, PhD Scholar

Bilge Kağan Özbay graduated from Istanbul University Department of Econometrics in 2018 and then completed his master's degree in Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Statistics in 2023 and started his PhD education in Marmara University Department of Econometrics. In 2019, he worked as a Scholar Researcher at Istanbul University Urban Policies Application and Research Center and took part in many projects. In 2020, he worked as an Econometrician at Istanbul Planning Agency affiliated to Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and took part in different projects analyzing district and neighborhood-based data in Istanbul. His research interests include econometric models and statistical methods. He is currently working as a research assistant in the Department of Econometrics at Pamukkale University.

Eda Gül / Istanbul Technical University, Undergraduate Scholar

Eda Gül graduated from Istanbul Üsküdar High School in 2017. She started her undergraduate education at Istanbul Technical University, Department of City and Regional Planning in 2018. She took part in the processes of archiving and transferring data to digital during her internship at Beşiktaş Municipality Real Estate and Expropriation Directorate in 2021. She first did an internship in the urban transformation unit of Odak Şehircilik in 2022. During this internship, she had the experience of observing the residential distribution phase in Fikirtepe and field detection in Esenler. After her internship at Odak Şehircilik, she started her internship at Kent Şehircilik. During her internship, she prepared information reports for the lands in the Mediterranean and Aegean regions. Can use ArcGIS, Autocad, Photoshop, and SketchUp programs. Gül, who has made different student projects from 1/50.000 scale to 1/1000 scale in Thrace Region, Kırklareli, Vize, Şile, and Tuzla, continues her undergraduate education at ITU.

Cem Aydın / Yıldız Technical University, Undergraduate Scholar

Cem Aydın, started his undergraduate education at Kırklareli University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning in 2019. After 2 years of education, he made a horizontal transfer between institutions in 2021 and transferred to Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning. Conversing with the concepts of smart cities and technological CIS systems, Cem Aydın started to study Computer Programming at Istanbul University as the second university in 2022. During his City and Regional Planning education, he did 4 different field studies. During her internship at the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, Department of Urban Transformation, he examined the urban transformation works in the Suriçi region of Diyarbakir. By doing his other internship at Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, he had the opportunity to assist in analysis studies in the Beyoğlu region. Since 2020, he has been working on the Esri Canada group, conducting a Python-Based CIS Analysis Certification training study and studies on the concept of city development with software. Also, Cem Aydın can use Rhino, Blender, Autodesk programs and CIS systems professionally.

Utku Metin Us / Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Undergraduate Scholar

Utku Metin Us, graduated from Emlakbank Süleyman Demirel Anatolian High School in 2019. In 2020, he started the Department of City and Regional Planning at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University. In 2022, he completed his first internship as an intern planner at the Directorate of Urban Renewal at Istanbul İmar İnşaat AŞ, a subsidiary of IMM. During the internship, during the design and reporting process in projects such as Bayrampaşa Prison Urban Renewal Project, Karadolap Urban Renewal Project, Şişli/Yayla Urban Renewal Project, Istanbul is Renewing; He took part in the field in processes such as meeting with citizens and turnkey delivery. Utku Metin Us, who was introduced to Scouting in 2013, actively worked as a senior scout in Izmir Scouting and Nature Athletes Club Association (İZDOS) until 2017 and in PİNA Scouting Club for a certain period after 2017. While actively scouting, he participated in national and local camps and acquired various specialties, and was awarded national and international certificates (Silver Award, Jamboree 2016-2017).

Tuğba Sert / Istanbul Technical University, Undergraduate Scholar

Tuğba Sert, who received her undergraduate education in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Istanbul Technical University, is doing a double major in Geomatics Engineering to gain an engineering and technical perspective. She developed her social responsibility side by taking part in many volunteering projects, as well as in projects with urban and design concerns such as Istanbul's Plan B and Solar Decathlon. She got degrees from competitions to generate ideas on sustainable energy, ecological cities, the climate crisis and its impact on cities, sustainable production and agriculture, and inequalities of opportunity. She improved himself in analysis and report studies with her private planning office internship experience. She took part in the project "The Relationship of Living Environments with Health Indicators and Quality of Life: A Community Participation Model Proposal for Healthy Cities" within the scope of the TÜBİTAK STAR program. Under the IMM Participatory Planning Coordinatorship, it contributed to projects that touched the public, artists, and tradesmen in the field. Tuğba, who won the first prize in the Middle Black Sea Development Agency National Idea Contest and the second prize in the Fatih Municipality Ideathon Contest, has been developing herself as a Fellow of the Turkish Entrepreneurship Foundation in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, where she has gained start-up experiences in addition to the leadership and entrepreneurship training she has received.