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A lively calendar, from Code & Coffee meet-ups to corporate technical visits and “Behind the Code” talks.

Upcoming Events

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  1. Past

    Code & Coffee Featured

    Code & Coffee: Meet-up and Networking

    At the first get-together of the term, engineering and IT students meet to connect with their peers and join the club teams.

    Venue
    Mahmutbey Campus / Partner Social Space
    Capacity:
    60 people
    Add to Calendar: Code & Coffee: Meet-up and Networking (opens in a new tab)
  2. Past

    Behind the Code Talk Featured

    Behind the Code: Modern Web & Microservice Architectures

    An interactive architecture conversation and Q&A session with invited system architects and tech leads from the industry.

    Venue
    Mahmutbey Campus Conference Hall
    Capacity:
    120 people
    Details
    Speaker:
    Guest Industry Architect (TBA)
    Topic:
    Enterprise System Architecture & Distributed Services
    Evaluation:
    Moderator Review
    Outcome:
    On the Day
    Add to Calendar: Behind the Code: Modern Web & Microservice Architectures (opens in a new tab)
  3. Past

    Technical Training Camp Featured

    C Fundamentals & Midterm Exam Camp: Hands-on Coding

    A lab session for first-year engineering students focused on algorithmic thinking and midterm exam preparation.

    Venue
    Engineering Computer Lab
    Capacity:
    45 people
    Add to Calendar: C Fundamentals & Midterm Exam Camp: Hands-on Coding (opens in a new tab)

Current Work

Dates will be added to the calendar once confirmed.

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C Language Training

First Technical Event

Preparations are under way, led by EVA Team Software Captain Talha Gahya and run entirely as peer-to-peer learning.

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Technical Visits

After Midterms

Preparations continue for the planned field visits, including Onsa Refinery, Beşiktaş Customs Brokerage and the Fatih District Governorship.

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105 New Members

Back to Uni

105 new members joined the club at the Back to Uni festival, and our first technical event starts on that momentum.

Event Types

  • Young women chatting around a round table in a café

    Code & Coffee

    Meet-up and Networking

  • A student working on code on a computer screen

    Technical Training Camp

    Hands-on Coding & Workshops

  • A long, brightly lit corridor in a modern glass-fronted corporate building

    Corporate Technical Visit

    FinTech & Technology Hubs

  • A crowd watching a speaker on stage in a large hall

    Behind the Code Talk

    Interactive Q&A with Industry Leaders

  • A participant sitting on the floor coding on a laptop at a crowded hackathon

    Hackathon / Ideathon

    24–36 Hour Build Marathon

  • A team holding a review around a table in a glass-walled meeting room

    Sprint Review

    Monthly Member Consultation and Feedback

  • A large community meet-up gathered on the steps of a wide atrium

    External Ecosystem Meetup

    Open Source, GDG & Conference Trips

Activity Plan

2026-2027 Academic Year

  1. Code & Coffee: Meet-up and Networking

    The first get-together of the term, held in a partner space near campus with 50–60 participants. Students from different years of software, engineering and IT will connect with their peers and join the club teams.Leads: Zülâl Kılıç, Emre Yıldırım, Sefer Öner

  2. Corporate Technical Visits (FinTech & Technology Hubs)

    The aim is for students to see corporate working dynamics and white-collar office culture first-hand. The first visit is planned at Dgpays (Ataşehir office) for 20–25 people, covering FinTech infrastructure, an enterprise network/system security perspective and an HR career session. We aim to visit at least one technology hub every month during the term.Leads: Burak Kaan Özdemir, Sefer Öner

  3. AU Innovation Hackathon & Ideathon (Flagship Summit)

    A 24–36 hour build marathon organised as a joint consortium with Altınbaş AI Club and partner technical communities. It has two tracks: rapid product ideation (Ideathon) and building a working prototype (Protohack). Technical teams will provide infrastructure, database and security mentoring.Leads: Burak Kaan Özdemir, Çağan Irmak, Sefer Öner, Talha Gahya

  4. TÜBİTAK & R&D Project Teams Working Group

    Setting up in-club project teams for TÜBİTAK 2209-A/B undergraduate research projects and national technology competitions, and coordinating applications, proposal writing and technical documentation.Leads: Sefer Öner, Talha Gahya

  5. “Behind the Code” Industry Panels & Talks

    Interactive Q&A sessions with software leaders (tech leads), system/security architects and product managers working in the industry. The best question from a pre-event survey earns its author an invitation on stage (alternating between the Mahmutbey & Gayrettepe lecture halls).Leads: Zülâl Kılıç, Emre Yıldırım, Zeynep Sude Yıldız

  6. External Ecosystem, Tech Summits and Community Trips

    Regular group participation in open-source meet-ups, Google Developer Groups (GDG) events, DevOps Days and cybersecurity conferences across Istanbul, through in-club places opened via sign-up forms.Leads: Çağan Irmak, Sefer Öner

  7. “Sprint Review” Monthly Member Consultations

    Transparent 45-minute meetings at the end of each month to summarise the past month’s output, collect member feedback and bring active, motivated members into sub-committees and operations.Leads: The Whole Board

  8. Media, Publishing and Digital Visibility

    Managing the club’s digital presence and university-wide brand through bite-sized tech tips, technical visit vlog/reels series, workshop recaps and official announcements on Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok.Leads: Zeynep Sude Yıldız, Melike Uzun