Filiz Yilmaz

Country:	Turkey
Email:	filiz.yilmaz [at] icann.org
Website:	[koalafil.net koalafil.net]
LinkedIn:	[Filiz Yilmaz Filiz Yilmaz]
Twitter:	@koalafil
Currently ICANN Staff Currently a member of ICANN's ASO Featured in the ICANN 42 - Senegal playing card deck Featured in the ICANNWiki Quick Guide

Filiz Yilmaz works in Network Development EMEA for Subspace. She was the Senior Director of Participation and Engagement at ICANN from 2010 to 2013. Inspired by her own experience as a first-time ICANN meeting attendee at ICANN Seoul, Filiz established the Newcomers track and lounge in order to make the experience less overwhelming for future first-timers.

Filiz participates in RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AfriNIC, ARIN, ISOC Turkey, and other IT groups in Turkey.

Career History

Filiz Yilmaz also currently runs her own firm ​goodnets.net​, a boutique consultancy focused on relationship management, partnership and business development, event and training organization, Internet infrastructure resource management, Internet policy, and telecom regulation. Before that, She engaged in business development for ​Asteroid International​. From 2014-2018, she held the positions of Director of Network Operations and Sr Manager Network Strategy EMEA at Akamai Technologies. Prior to joining ICANN, Filiz was the Policy Development Manager at RIPE NCC, where she was responsible for developing work plans, managing the activities of the Policy Development Office, and coordinating the bottom-up, consensus-based Internet policy-making processes used by RIPE and RIPE NCC. From 2001-2006, she was the IP Resource Coordinator at RIPE NCC.

Yilmaz previously worked with the company that brought the Internet to Turkey.

She started her career working at Middle East Technical University in 1996 as the User Support and Informatics Group Assistant Manager and then as a Research Assistant. Her thesis, "A Computational Analysis of Information Structure in Turkish," was recognized as the Institute's thesis of the year.

Education

She holds a BSc. degree in Mathematics and an MSc in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi. Her interest lies in the interplay between humans and technology, and making the internet more humane and relatable.

Presentations

• RIPE Policy Development Process with Current Policy Discussions

External Links

• Interview with Filiz Yilmaz
• Filiz Yilmaz on Flickr

Special Caricatures

Filiz was featured as the Queen of Diamonds in the Senegal Playing Card Deck.