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TÜRKİYE: Women Working in the Security and Defence Industries

TÜRKİYE

Women Working in the Security and Defence Industries

12-13 May 2022  

WINNOVATION innovation camp on “Women Working in the Security and Defence Industries” was hosted by HAVELSAN on 12-13 May 2022 in hybrid format due to COVID restrictions in Turkey with 27 participants: The onsite sessions were held at HAVELSAN Technology Campus Conference Centre in Ankara, while the online sessions were run by the help of the Discord application that was used for interactive communication between teams and mentors.  

Winning team & solution:

DevWomen - a platform that connects its users to start-ups who are led by female managers only. 

© Fatma Melisa Keklik (Mechanical engineering student) and Egemen Palabıyık (Mechanical engineering student)  

The winning solution is a platform that connects its users to start-ups who are led by female managers only. Through this platform, “women entrepreneurs don’t need to prove themselves but to prove their projects and their projects only”. The platform is called DevWomen.