Bulent Ozel

Unlike the common buzz, I believe, data is not the new ‘oil’ and it is also different from typical labour and capital inputs of production. We need more practical solutions that consider the intrinsic nature and role of data in our privacy, designs, economy and in our relationship with nature.

Bulent Ozel is a two-time PhD holder, and is an entrepreneurial scientist who aims to bridge theory to practice. He received a Fulbright scholarship during his first PhD in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and has worked with diverse organizations across the globe. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lucidminds AI.

Lucidminds AI is an R&D collective and a resident member of the Dutch SDG House in Amsterdam. It creates AI frameworks and products such as the Augmented Collective Intelligence framework within the CivicAI initiative, or an agent-based Green Urban Scenarios framework and set of microservices for the TreesAI platform which has been featured by the World Economic Forum and COP26.