Speaker Bio

Nukhet Kayahan is a Senior Data and AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, using her 20 years of technology, advance analytics, media, and telecom experience and research to build Telco, Data and AI solutions with partners. In her previous employment with Deloitte, she was engaged in various types of TMT clients leading strategy, architecture, technology, and systems development.

Before working at Deloitte, she worked for GroupM and Rakuten, where she specialized on optimization, modeling, and advance analytics, receiving the Kaizen Quality Award for developing scalable solutions.

Nukhet holds an MBA from NYIT and BA from the Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey and studied Computer Information Systems at Brooklyn College, New York.

She is a frequent participant and speaker at industry events and loves getting outside perspectives and meeting others in person.

She lives in NYC, credits her childhood and professional basketball years for creating a lasting love for being active in the outdoors and has a passion for traveling the world and exploring any new experience and cultures.