Ayça Uysal Üner

SAMPAŞ is an SME company that has expertise in digital twins, information technology solutions (building energy management systems, government software, geographical information systems, etc.), smart cities, and large-scale urban transformation consultancy. The company was established in 1981, and has been providing city and citizen-focused IT & Engineering solutions from design to installation, operation to maintenance to over 500 municipalities. With over 50 strategic partnerships with national and international giants, SAMPAŞ has been involving large-scale projects with its expertise in Digital Twins, IT Solutions, Project Management (government software, intelligent water management systems, payment systems, Geographical Information Systems, urban projects management, SaaS solutions, and smart card projects). With this, Sampaş has been contributing to Turkiye’s transformation process towards becoming a new model in terms of sustainability, resilience both spatially, economically, and demographically, and the transition process to governance for cities and regions. In favor of its enhancements in software development processes, SAMPAŞ has received the TSE ISO /IEC 12207 Standard for Information Technology - Software Life Cycle Processes, ISO9001, ISO20000, and ISO27001 quality certificates. SAMPAŞ has the CMMI Level 3 as a result of investment and improvements in software development methods and provides high-quality solutions to its customers. SAMPAŞ has joined several collaborative R&D projects as a coordinator, WP Leader, and national coordinator at both international and national levels, is very active in EU projects; 4 H2020 projects and 1 Horizon Europe project are ongoing and more than 10 are completed. The ongoing projects which granted exceed the total of € 40M EU contribution. SAMPAŞ has been offering various services within different projects such as; • Digital Twins • Integrating and deploying state-of-the-art (iot, AI, cloud and Big Data and blockchain innovations to create technological solutions to enable the energy sector to harness smart grid and flexibility opportunities • Smart City and Smart Energy solutions • Mobile solutions, e-Participation, Platform development • Social Platforms and Citizen Engagement Tools • Recommendation services • Smart City and Smart Building solutions • Intelligent City Automation Solutions, Management Information Systems (MIS), • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) solutions, • Open Data Platforms • Data collection and data analysis • Machine learning • CPS & Sensors