As part of Odine’s strategy to invest in new technologies in Türkiye, Bülent Kaytaz, the recipient of the Beetech R&D Pioneers Special Award, has been selected for the roles of Chief Scientist and Board Advisor.
In a recent announcement made by Odine Solutions Teknoloji Tic. ve San. A.Ş. on the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP), it was stated that former Silicon Valley CEO Bülent Kaytaz would serve as the Senior Executive in charge of Science, Technology, and Innovation, as well as Board Advisor at Odine.
The announcement stated, “Mr. Kaytaz will be responsible for R&D activities in artificial intelligence and 6G telecom infrastructures and for determining the strategic technology vision.”
Regarding his new position, Kaytaz commented:
“To realize Odine’s future vision, we have established significant strategies and objectives in our efforts related to 5G and 6G technologies. Our primary aim is to become an internationally recognized leader in AI technologies, specializing in the development of fully autonomous (zero-touch) network infrastructure products for telecom operators and private networks. To achieve this, we will concentrate on an orchestration product enhanced with AI capabilities, enabling programmability, forecasting, fault detection, control, and management, specifically for 5G and 6G private network communication infrastructures.
Utilizing this technology and our products, we aim to contribute to the advancement of our nation’s national and secure communication infrastructures. Furthermore, we intend to introduce these products to international markets, thereby contributing to the Turkish economy. We anticipate that the outcomes of these initiatives will transform Odine into a substantially larger and more profitable technology company in the forthcoming years. We firmly believe that these developments are crucial steps towards establishing Türkiye as a fully independent country in the field of technology.”
About Bülent Kaytaz
With over 35 years of leadership and management experience in international and national R&D companies in the telecommunications field, Bülent Kaytaz completed his undergraduate studies in electrical, electronic, information systems, and management sciences at Marmara University and his master’s degree at European University.
He has held significant positions in the R&D departments of telecommunications companies Nortel-Netaş and Alcatel-Teletaş. Returning to his country in 2000, Bülent Kaytaz has provided consultancy at various times to the engineering faculties of Koç University, Boğaziçi University, and Özyeğin University, and served as a guest lecturer in the Computer and Communication Engineering departments at Marmara University.
In Türkiye, he founded Oksijen Teknoloji and Argela; in the USA, he established Argela-USA/Netsia in California’s Silicon Valley, serving in these companies as CEO, CTO, Chairman/Member of the Board for many years.
Between 2001-2003, Bülent Kaytaz served as a “CTO Board Member” at GSMA, the world’s largest GSM organization, and was among the organizers of the “GSMA Plenary” meeting held in Istanbul in 2002.
He has been a thought leader and played active roles in many projects initiated within the Defense Industry and other state institutions and organizations in Türkiye, listed below:
- Establishment of the ULAK project and company, a local and national base station project, and the formation of its R&D group and management team.
- Initiation of the MİLAT project, aimed at creating a flexible and programmable national network infrastructure with enhanced cybersecurity measures.
- Establishment of the local and national DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) company OTAK.
In 2016, Bülent Kaytaz received the BEETECH R&D Pioneers Special Award. He holds numerous patents from the US patent office and has expertise in the development of smart grid infrastructure control software, signaling, software-based programmable network infrastructure products in wired and wireless networks, messaging with interactive avatars, emotion transmission and communication with avatars, wired & wireless network infrastructures beyond 5G, virtualization, cloud technologies, network orchestration, network management, machine learning/hyper data analytics.
