University Collaborations, Events & Enterprise AI Trainings
At RuneLab, we bring our field experience from enterprise AI projects to academic institutions like Boğaziçi University (BÜYEM) and Üsküdar University, ecosystem partners like İşbank & Softtech (Pupilica), WTECH & SAP, and QNBEYOND & Humaix, and over 30 leading organizations including Yapı Kredi, Şişecam, TRT tabii, Türkiye Finans, Fiba Retail, Luwi, and Linktera.
RuneLab Akademi & NexTech
Our Consultants' Former Clients
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30+ Enterprise References
Enterprise Training & Consulting References
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BÜYEM & University
Academic Certification & Alumni Partnerships
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12+ Expert Talks
Global Expert Talks Sessions (NVIDIA, DeepMind, Anthropic, AWS)
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3 Open Turkish Models
Open-Weight Turkish Enterprise AI Models (Hati, Vör, Kenning)
Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center partnership
Upon your request, any corporate training can be organized in coordination with the Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center, with participation and achievement certificates issued.
Our University, Academy, Association & Digital Platform Collaborations
Certified artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and product development programs delivered in partnership with university lifelong learning centers, alumni associations, technology foundations, and leading digital learning platforms.
Boğaziçi University (BÜYEM) Certified AI Courses
Individual and corporate certified programs run in partnership with Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center (BÜYEM), taught by Engin Deniz Alpman and Dr. Hüseyin Oktay Altun:
- Future AI Workflows: Apply AI to Business Processes YZE-001 · 6th Cohort · 15 Hours Live Online
- Prompt Engineering 12 Hours · 4-Week Hands-On Program
İşbank & Softtech — Softtech Academy, Pupilica, Road to Tech & Talent Generation
Comprehensive training series led by Engin Deniz Alpman and Enes Fehmi Manan across Softtech Academy, Pupilica, Road to Tech, Talent Generation, and the 'Today for Tomorrow' 21st Century Skills webinar series:
- 30-Hour Prompt & Context Engineering and Harness Engineering: Designing the execution harness for AI coding agents and developing software without technical debt via Vibe Coding.
- n8n Automations & From Idea to Product with No-Code / Low-Code: Problem definition, persona building, MVP design, and hands-on AI workflow automation across business processes.
WTECH (Women in Technology Association) & SAP — 30-Hour Big Data & GenAI Bootcamp
A 5-week (10 sessions, 30+ hours) hands-on bootcamp taught by Engin Deniz Alpman and Enes Fehmi Manan under the 'Strong Women, Digital Tomorrows' and Wtech Platform initiatives in partnership with WTECH and SAP:
- End-to-End Big Data & Data Engineering: Relational database modeling & SQL, Python EDA, Linux/Git/Docker, Apache Spark & PySpark, Apache Kafka event streaming, Apache Airflow, and Power BI DAX modeling.
- Generative AI & WTECH AI & Humanity: LLM fundamentals, prompt and context management, CV review sessions, and responsible AI governance contributions at the WTECH AI & Humanity summit.
Üsküdar University × RuneLab.ai — From Idea to Production: Developing AI Solutions
In this hands-on training organized with the Üsküdar University Alumni Association and RuneLab.ai, participants practice end-to-end solution development from defining a business problem to building and deploying a live AI prototype.
- Focus Areas: Use-case selection, LLM and RAG architecture, rapid prototyping, and production deployment.
- Target Audience: Engineers, product managers, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs.
Our Field Enterprise AI Training Case Studies
Selected enterprise training and consulting engagements tailored to each organization's industry, technical stack, and real business challenges rather than generic slide decks.
Yapı Kredi — AI in Banking, Local Models & RAG Training
Customized training with the Yapı Kredi team on enterprise AI use cases in banking, data sovereignty, and on-premise local models:
- Capabilities and limitations of modern LLMs in banking workflows
- Customizing models on local internal data and ensuring data sovereignty
- Enterprise RAG architecture, prompt engineering, and context management
Şişecam — Enterprise Prompt Engineering & AI in Business Workflows
Hands-on Prompt Engineering and business workflow integration program delivered with global industrial leader Şişecam:
- Core operating principles of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Effective prompt engineering techniques and enterprise best practices
- AI use cases across business processes with interactive live demos
TRT tabii — Media, Translation, Audio Analysis & RAG Prompt Training
Advanced training tailored for TRT's global streaming platform tabii, focusing on multilingual content production and AI-assisted translation:
- Using RAG systems in multilingual translation and localization pipelines
- Speech transcription models, speaker diarization, and gender-aware voice analysis
- Contextual AI translation integration via video scene frame analysis
Türkiye Finans — Fine-Tuning & Advanced RAG for HR and Tech Teams
Dual-track transformation program at Türkiye Finans customized separately for HR business units and software/data engineering teams:
- HR Teams: AI literacy, token/context/cost sizing, Chain-of-Thought prompting, and RAG
- Tech Teams: Transformer encoder-decoder architectures and Quantization methods
- Fine-tuning with LoRA, QLoRA, and DoRA plus advanced context and RAG engineering
Softtech & Linktera — Agentic AI, Advanced RAG & n8n Workflow Automation
Production-oriented engineering and workflow automation trainings delivered with Softtech software teams and Linktera consultants:
- Prompt versioning paradigms, conversation branching, and Agentic AI architectures
- Advanced RAG vs. Fine-Tuning, vector databases, chunking strategies, and hallucination control
- Linktera AI Journey: Context engineering, Google Stitch, and CV screening automation with n8n
Luwi & Protalya (Antalya 4-Day LLM Bootcamp) and Fiba Retail Group
4-day intensive LLM engineering bootcamp in Antalya with Luwi and Protalya teams, plus our retail generative AI program with Fiba Retail Group:
- Luwi & Protalya: 4-day deep dive into Local LLM deployment, RAG evaluation, and fine-tuning
- Final-day hands-on architecture consulting on the team's own data and production use cases
- Fiba Retail Group: Safe generative AI adoption and context management in retail operations
Our Conferences, Sponsorships, Media Broadcasts & Community Workshops
We share real-world production engineering insights across leading technology hubs, fintech innovation centers, national television broadcasts, and open-source community workshops.
QNBEYOND (Kristal Kule, Istanbul) & Humaix / İzLab (Tarihi Havagazı Fabrikası, Izmir)
Organized by Humaix with support from Turkish AI Community, Istanbul & Izmir Data Communities, and Izmir Innovation & Technology Inc., we took the stage in Izmir (Tarihi Havagazı Fabrikası / İzLab) and as an official sponsor in Istanbul (QNBEYOND Kristal Kule):
- From API to Local: Build Your Own LLM Infrastructure (Enes Fehmi Manan): GPU capacity planning for open-weight models (DGX Spark, RTX 5090, RTX 6000 Pro, H200), concurrency sizing, and enterprise on-premise inference cost.
- From Automation to Your Own Model: Where It Pays Off and Where It Doesn't (Onur Polat): Which step in an n8n workflow should be solved with deterministic rules, an off-the-shelf API, or a fine-tuned open-weight model.
SÖZCÜ TV — AI Literacy, Output Reliability & Digital Security
Joining Deniz Türkeri live on SÖZCÜ Television, we discussed information verification in the AI era, organizational and public AI literacy, and cybersecurity:
- AI Literacy & Output Verification: How to evaluate and verify generative AI outputs, manage hallucination risks, and scale AI literacy from schools to enterprises.
- Cybersecurity & Protection Against AI Fraud: Individual and enterprise defense practices against voice cloning, deepfakes, and AI-powered phishing.
RuneLab Data Science & Machine Learning Hands-On Workshop Series
Our hands-on community workshop series taught by Selin Çıldam and moderated by Enes Fehmi Manan, with all Jupyter notebooks and datasets published open-source on GitHub:
- Introduction to Machine Learning: Regression Models: Supervised learning, train/validation/test splitting, Linear/Ridge/Lasso/Polynomial regression, MSE/RMSE/MAE/R² metrics, feature engineering, and hyperparameter tuning.
- Advanced Regression: Real-World Data, Interviews & Career: End-to-end modeling on messy real-world data, communicating results to non-technical stakeholders, live interview case studies, and GitHub portfolio design.
RuneLab Expert Talks — Live Sessions with Engineers from Global Tech Leaders
Since October 2025, our free and interactive Expert Talks series has connected our community with engineers and researchers building production AI systems at NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, AWS, LlamaIndex, deepset, and fal.ai:
- Guest Engineers & Researchers: Ahmet Erdem (NVIDIA), Beliz Günel (Google DeepMind), Uzay Macar (Anthropic), Eren Akbaba (AWS), Tuana Çelik (LlamaIndex), Bilge Yücel (deepset).
- Deep Technical Sessions: Gemini pre/post-training, Anthropic AI Safety & Mechanistic Interpretability, Haystack & LlamaIndex agent architectures, and fal.ai GPU inference optimization.
Our Global Seminar Series & Open-Weight Turkish AI Models
We connect engineers from global technology leaders with our community while publishing open-weight models for Turkish enterprise AI workloads.
Global AI Seminar Series
RuneLab Expert Talks: Live Sessions with Engineers from Global Tech Leaders
Since October 2025, our free and interactive Expert Talks series has connected our community with engineers and researchers building production AI systems at global technology companies:
- NVIDIA: Ahmet Erdem (Senior LLM Engineer)
- Google DeepMind: Beliz Günel (Senior Research Scientist)
- Anthropic: Uzay Macar (Research Fellow)
- AWS: Eren Akbaba (Solutions Architect)
- LlamaIndex & deepset: Tuana Çelik & Bilge Yücel (Senior DevRel Engineers)
- fal.ai, Ciklum, Codeway & Prometa AI: Gökay Aydoğan, Olgun Aydın, M. Akın Yılmaz, Çağlar Subaşı
Open-Weight Turkish AI Research
Our Open-Weight Turkish Models Born from Enterprise Field Needs
Open-weight models we trained to solve the data privacy and Turkish accuracy challenges encountered in our enterprise RAG, legal-tech, and database querying projects:
- Hati-Glint-SQL-9B-v1: Highest Turkish Text-to-SQL accuracy among sub-10B open models (TURSpider: 73.2, BIRDTurk: 47.3) with 3x more efficient reasoning token usage.
- Vör-LateEmbed-TR v1 (0.6B): Token-level late-interaction (ColBERT) retriever for Turkish search and enterprise RAG; 97.49 score on XQuAD-TR.
- Kenning Turkish Legal V1 (0.3B): Legal embedding model fine-tuned for Turkish statutes, regulations, and contracts; 81.27 nDCG@10 on contracts in the Mizan benchmark.
Our Industry Enterprise AI Training & Transformation Matrix
Industry breakdown of the AI training programs, on-premise LLM deployments, and workflow automation engagements delivered by our consultants and instructors across 30+ leading organizations.
| Industry Vertical | Reference Organizations Served | Delivered Training & Consulting Programs | Key Business Outcomes & Technologies |
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| Banking, Finance & Capital Markets | Türkiye İş Bankası, Yapı Kredi, Borsa İstanbul, Türkiye Wealth Fund, Aktif Bank, Alternatif Bank, Türkiye Finans, Fibabanka | Local LLM Training, Enterprise RAG Training, AI for Executives | BDDK and KVKK/GDPR compliant air-gapped / on-premise LLM inference, high-accuracy Turkish RAG over internal regulations and credit/legal documents, and Text-to-SQL agents. |
| Insurance & Financial Technologies | Allianz Sigorta, Türkiye Sigorta, Neova Sigorta, Softtech, Linktera, Prometa.ai | AI in Business Processes, AI Automation with n8n, AI Readiness Assessment | Policy, contract, and claims file review automation, customer service assistants, department-level AI ROI roadmaps, and AI security guardrails (RuneGate). |
| Telecommunications, Media & Software | Turkcell, Türk Telekom, TRT, tabii, Etiya, AssisTT, Logo Yazılım, Amadeus, Pupilica, Luwi, Protalya, Codeway | Advanced RAG & Agentic AI, Prompt Engineering, End-to-End AI Projects | Large-scale code and knowledge-base retrieval (late-interaction ColBERT), multilingual content and voice processing (RuneVoice), and contact-center automation. |
| Automotive, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy & Public Sector | Mercedes-Benz, Şişecam, Vestel, Fiba Retail Group, EPİAŞ, Marmara Union of Municipalities, Azerbaijan Ministry of Health, Albert Health, Lösev | AI Awareness Training, AI in Business Processes (BÜYEM), Strategic AI Consulting | Production and energy market forecasting, technical maintenance documentation assistant (RuneDesk), organization-wide safe generative AI literacy, and BÜYEM certification. |
Frequently Asked Questions About Collaborations, Events & Corporate Trainings
Which universities and organizations does RuneLab partner with for AI training?
RuneLab Academy runs officially certified AI and prompt engineering programs with Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center (BÜYEM), hands-on AI solution development trainings with the Üsküdar University Alumni Association, digital training series with Pupilica (a Türkiye İş Bankası and Softtech initiative), a 30-hour Big Data & GenAI Bootcamp with WTECH and SAP, and conferences and workshops with ecosystem partners including QNBEYOND and Humaix.
Can we request a custom AI training program or keynote talk for our company, university, or association?
Yes. You can contact us via the form below or at info@runelab.ai for private corporate AI training cohorts, BÜYEM certified development programs, C-level executive seminars, hands-on Local LLM / RAG / n8n workshops, or conference keynotes.
Which AI topics are most requested in corporate trainings and events?
Our most requested enterprise programs are AI in Business Processes (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini), AI Strategy for Executives, Prompt Engineering, On-Premise Local LLM Deployment, Enterprise RAG Architecture over Internal Documents, and Workflow Automation with n8n.
Request a Corporate Training, University Collaboration, or Event
Fill out the form below to organize a custom AI training at your company, invite a speaker to your university or ecosystem event, or request a proposal for our BÜYEM certified programs—we respond within 1 business day.
