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Hakan
Güldağ
Journalist, Writer
Biography
Hakan Güldağ is a name that has been promoted to management by stepping up one by one in the journalism profession. Dünya Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hakan Güldağ gives remarkable speeches Turkey’s economy, economics journalism, freedom of press and journalism.
Güldağ’s acquaintance with publishing dates back to 1985, he has strong news sources with its up-to-date information and equipment especially in production, agriculture and services in Anatolia, holds the pulse of the country in terms of sectors and business lines. He is known for his accuracy in his analysis .
He served as the Secretary General of the Istanbul Branch of the Economics Reporters Association. In 2005, he was elected to Brussels-based European Economic Press Federation (EBP) Executive Committee Member. Since October 2010, Turkey Journalists Association of Vocational Monitoring Committee members and Turkey Media and Communications Assembly of Turkey (TOBB MIM) serves as President.
Gülfem Saydan
Sanver, Dr.
Political Communication Strategist
Biography
Gulfem Saydan Sanver has a Master’s degree and PhD on political communication from the University of Panthéon Sorbonne/ France.
Ms. Sanver is the author of two books, both published in France. “A Comparative Study of the Election Campaigns in Turkey” was published in 2013 and her second book “Interpretative Communities: Socio-economic and cultural impacts on the perception” was published in 2014.
Directing strategies and campaigns, she works with members of the parliament and local mayors. Sanver has been awarded with Pollie Award by American Association of Political Consultants at the Pollie Awards 2015, with Polaris Awards by European Association of Political Consultants in 2017 and was elected to “100 Class of 2017” (The Hundred most influential political professionals of the year 2017) by Com Pol magazine located in Washington DC .
Dr. Gulfem Saydan Sanver is a member of the International Association of Political Consultants and European Association of Political Consultants.
Who is Dr. Gülfem Saydan Sanver?
Gulfem Saydan Sanver is the founder of Element Strategies, an Istanbul/Turkey based consulting firm specialized in political campaign strategy and management.
Speech Topics
- Perception Management?
- Elections & the power of a campaign
- Designing Campaign Strategy
- Political communication and Turkey
- Development in Technological vs Development in Democracy
- Active Citizenship
- Youth and Politics
- Women and Politics
- Gender and Perception
- Definition for a successful leader?
Coşkun
Aral
Journalist, International War Photographer, Documentary Producer
Biography
“Travelling around the world as a documentary photographer capturing incredible moments, the question foremost on my mind was what more can be done to convert all the experiences and information of these moments into some form of document?”
Welcome to Coşkun Aral’s World!
Coşkun Aral is an experienced journalist, international war photographer, adventure seeker, explorer, traveller, and documentary producer; there may not be words enough to describe him. He travels all around the world, contemplating and sharing what he witnesses. He is now part of Indeks’ Speakers Agency as a solution’s partner, offering unique opportunities to those who wish to pay a visit to his extraordinary world, even if for a short period of time.
He has travelled to countless countries and has visited almost every corner of Turkey. Some of the places to which he has travelled we were not even aware existed!
Aral organizes trips to special cities and regions all around Turkey and the world and reveals the beauty and the uniqueness of the destination, offering a once in a lifetime experience for the participants. You can either stick to Aral’s plan or choose your own route. Are you ready to rediscover the world with Coşkun Aral?
Some interesting destinations in Turkey
Bursa: Horses and the “Kangal” dogs at Karacabey
Denizli: The secret face of Hyrapolis
Antalya: The hidden face of Saklıkent and the lost cities
Şanlıurfa: Exploring Mesopotamia in Halfeti, the land of black roses
Gaziantep: Zeugma’s magical dinner tables
Kilis: From the fields of death to the forests of life
Mardin: Alexander’s dreamland – Dara
Kayseri: The legends of Erciyes
Çankırı: The world’s largest salt cave
Some adventures abroad
India: A symbolic wedding at Rajasthan, discovering heaven in Kashmir
Nepal: A journey from the foothills of Mount Everest to the jungle
Sri Lanka: Extraordinary festivals
Czech Republic: Turkish faces in Prague
South Africa: Walking in the footsteps of our ancestors
Laos-Cambodia: Lost civilisations
Peru: Amazonian and Incan civilisations
Egypt: Journey through a mysterious world
In his presentation, “Wars of Men, Men of War,” Coşkun Aral blends his stories with images of events and people he encountered during his career as a war correspondent and documentary producer. His impressive presentation is masterfully complemented by his speech, in which he emphasizes that there is a way to achieve everything even if the goals seem impossible.
Who is Coşkun Aral?
Coşkun Aral was born in 1956 in Siirt. He started his professional career as a press photographer in 1974. His name spread across the globe via Sipa Press thanks to his photographs of Turkey’s “Bloody May 1st, 1977”. He worked as Sipa Press’ Turkey reporter as well as as a freelance photographer for a number of Turkish media outlets, such as Turkish News Agency, Milliyet and Hürriyet. He started photographing wars in countries such as Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Chad and the Far East in 1980. In 1980 he conducted the first ever interview in history with the hijackers of a hijacked airplane. He is the founder of İZ TV, the first ever Turkish documentary channel. Aral continues to work as a war photographer for periodicals such as Time, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Stern and Epoca. He also continues to work as the producer of his TV documentary program, Haberci.
Speech Topics
“Information heals, information brings”
The topics included in “Wars of men, men of war” are decided according to the theme of the meetings. His presentations are full of inspiring examples of risk-taking, time management, leadership and team spirit.
Urban culture, life and architecture
Extraordinary tourism trails
Extraordinary lives
Unusual treatments
Extraordinary clothes / make-up / hair styles
Exceptional food and cooking methods
Extraordinary beliefs, rituals, weddings
Women and children of the world
Travel and adventure
360 degrees earth: from the first people to the present
Photo & Video Workshops
Coşkun Aral assists in photography & documentary productions, offering guidance based on his professional experience.
He offers travel advice from a journalist’s perspective and also provides technical assistance on specific travel trails.
Coşkun Aral afterwards evaluates videos and recordings produced during the event.
Get your own documentary!
We have been watching Aral’s fantastic documentaries with amazement for years now. His huge archive of documentaries is priceless. As a solution’s partner to İndeks’ Speakers Agency, he offers companies an opportunity to benefit from this precious archive. If needed, he can produce and shoot new documentary films according to companies’ wishes. Why not take part yourself in the production of a documentary film with the legendary documentary producer, Coşkun Aral?
Does your company have a 3D movie?
Coşkun Aral’s third project is preparing 3D films for companies to use for promotional purposes. These films are very useful, especially for trade fairs, where they can offer the target customers a real time experience. For instance, if a person is watching a 3D film of a hotel, they can actually take a tour inside the building and the hotel’s surrounding area. Simply by putting on the 3D glasses, you can experience the hotel without moving an inch.
Other projects
Coşkun Aral also has several other projects aimed at businesses. One of these projects is cooking workshops in which the company’s employees participate together and taste delicious foods from all around the globe. Aral does not forget to share the stories of the amazing dishes in these entertaining workshops. In another project, the experienced journalist prepares books for the companies, based on their specifications.
Akan
Abdula
Brand Consultant, Digital Strategist
Biography
Marketing professional with more than 17 years of work experience in advertising, marketing strategies, brand management and market research.
Founder of FutureBright Group of Companies (Istanbul&Dubai): FutureBright Research, Behavior Institute, ZMET Institute, House of Impact & Pure Input .
FutureBright Group of companies serve more than 400 global&local brands.
Outside of work he is often quoted by the media, speaks at several conferences a year and writes for marketing periodicals.
He joined Bilgi University, where he is currently instructing on Consumer Psychology and Behaviour to graduate students.
His strategic thinking was covered by many world known periodicals and newspapers, among which UK’s Famous Daily Telegraph.
He is a multiple Golden Effie receiver.
Metin
Çorabatır
President of Asylum and Migration Research Center, Media Analyst, Journalist
Biography
Metin Çorabatır is a policy consultant and an expert on asylum and migration issues, and is President of the Research Center on Asylum and Migration (IGAM), an Ankara-based think tank and NGO established in 2013. Previously, he worked for 18 years as the spokesperson and External Relations Officer of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Office in Turkey, until his retirement in 2013.
Mr. Çorabatır also has 18 years of experience in journalism, working for print media and TV as a diplomatic correspondent, foreign news correspondent, news editor, and producer.
Among his recent publications are a report that he coedited by the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre that maps the level of access to education for young Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq; a mapping of the data available on Turkish migration; and a template for Turkey’s annual migration report for the Directorate General of Migration Management.
Mr. Çorabatır is a PhD candidate at Bogazici University in Istanbul. His dissertation is on the role of international organizations in the reform processes of national asylum systems.
Sadi Uzunoğlu
Prof. Dr.
Ekonomist, Akademisyen
Yatırım Ekonomisi
Sermaye Piyasaları
Sermaye Araçları
Finansman Teknikleri
Makro Ekonomik Gösterge
Aktif Pasif Yönetimi
Biyografi
Sadi Uzunoğlu, ekonominin karmaşık yapısını basit bir dille halka aktarmasıyla ün yaptı ve para piyasalarını hem teorik hem de birbirinden ilginç yaşanmış örneklerle tarihsel bir perspektiften ele alıyor. Uzunoğlu’nun ekonomi dinletileri keyifle öğretiyor.
Ekonomist Prof. Dr. Sadi Uzunoğlu, Uludağ Üniversitesi İktisat Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. Sadi Uzunoğlu, akademik çalışmalarına 1985 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi, İktisat Fakültesi’nde Araştırma Görevlisi olarak başladı. Ekim 2001 tarihine kadar aynı üniversitede doçent olarak görevini sürdüren Uzunoğlu, akademik kariyerine İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi’nde devam etti. Sadi Uzunoğlu, çalışmalarını 2004 yılından bu yana Trakya Üniversitesi İİBF’de sürdürüyor.
Uzunoğlu, akademisyen ve ekonomist kimliğini kusursuz bir şekilde sentezlemesi sonucunda mikro ve makro ekonomiye dair isabetli öngörülerde bulunuyor. Güçlü bir ekonomik duruş sergilemenin yolunun üretimden geçtiğini kaydeden Uzunoğlu, ancak ve ancak yüksek teknolojiye sahip, katma değeri yüksek ürünler üreterek dışa bağımlılıktan kurtulmanın mümkün olduğunu her fırsatta dile getiriyor.
Dünyanın ekonomik sınavdan geçtiğine işaret eden Sadi Uzunoğlu, “Artık eski alışkanlıklardan kurtulup kendimiz ve dünyamız için daha bilinçli yaşama zamanı” diyor.
Uzunoğlu’nun konuşmalarında da sıklıkla ifade ettiği önemli bir tespitini şöyle özetleyebiliriz; “Sıklıkla yaşanan finansal krizler dikkatleri finansal piyasalar ve işleyişi üzerine yoğunlaştırdı. Bankalar, finansal sistemin en önemli kurumları olarak başı çekerek ön plana çıktı. Artık ekonomi denince akla maalesef, finansal sistem ve bankalar gelmeye başladı. Reel ekonomi ikinci plana itildi. Oysa reel ekonomi olmadan finansal sistemin var olması mümkün değil.”
Uzunoğlu, aktif bir yazar ve çok sayıda kitabı var; Para ve Döviz Piyasaları, Temel Ekonomi, Finans Matematiği Çalışma Kitabı, HP Uygulamalı, Güncel ekonomik Sorunlar: Dünya Ekonomisi, Güncel ekonomik Sorunlar: Global Kriz.
Konuşma Konuları
- Yatırım Ekonomisi
- Sermaye Piyasası ve Araçları
- Türkiye Ekonomisi ve Makro Ekonomik Göstergelerin Yorumlanması
- Dünya ve Türkiye Ekonomisindeki Gelişmeler ve Beklentiler
- Bankalarda Aktif – Pasif Yönetimi
- Yeni Finansman Teknikleri
- Bankalarda Kaynak Maliyeti Hesaplama Yöntemleri ve Finansal Matematik
Saffet Emre
Tonguç
Historian, Travel Writer, Professional Guide
Biography
“Passion for travelling comes from seeing the world as a jigsaw puzzle. Every trip will be a piece in this puzzle.”
Passion for travelling is genetic
Saffet Emre Tonguç travels, takes photographs and writes. Tonguç made it his profession to leave his home behind and travel. He explains his feelings thus: “passion for travelling is genetically coded into people. For me, this desire has broadened my horizons and perspectives. For most people life consists of working and acquiring property. For me, the important thing is to acquire mental affluence.”
Tonguç has been on numerous expeditions and journeys to more than one hundred countries. He says that Turkey should in theory be one of the world’s premier travel destinations, but there are major deficiencies in the way the country is promoted abroad. “Turkey is the shortest distance between points A and B. For this reason, an amazing number of civilisations left their mark on the country. One of the most reliable guide books, Lonely Planet, says ‘If you want to see Greek ruins, go to Turkey, not to Greece; if you want to see Roman ruins, go to Turkey, not to Italy’. This is so true! But we are not aware of this and we don’t appreciate it. I have been to more than one hundred countries; of all these places, Anatolia made one of the greatest impressions on me.”
Who is Saffet Emre Tonguç?
Saffet Emre Tonguç started working as a tour guide in 1987 whilst studying tourism. Since 1990 his amateur photographs have appeared in various international publications, primarily in the USA and Australia. He was a narrator on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” In 2005, he received the Rotary Club’s Professional Excellence Award. He has travelled to around one hundred countries both for professional reasons and personal interest. He was named Turkey’s most well-travelled tour guide by the Turkish Association of Tourist Guides in 2005. He holds the award for “Best Travel Writer 2006.”
Speech Topics
- 101 places to see: In the World, in Europe, in the USA and in Turkey…
- Istanbul and night
- Wealths of Turkey
- Exclusive routes
Sercan
Çelebi
Co-Founder, Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond), Civil Society Volunteer
Biography
“A crucial development triggered by the Gezi uprising was a sudden change of topic in conversations among friends: from “Where is this country heading to?” to “So what are we doing, friends?” Youngsters from all walks of life—previously deemed apolitical—decided to become active agents in a process which touched their lives. For the first time, young people from my generation realized that they were not alone and could make a difference by acting together, revealing an immense energy for change.”
For several decades and their corresponding generations in Turkey, politics has been the least preferred career option for the country’s talent. However in the aftermath of the Gezi resistance, things began to change for Turkey’s youth and Sercan Çelebi was one of the central non-partisan figures who stood in the epicenter of the change.
Under Sercan Çelebi’s leadership “Oy ve Ötesi” (Vote and Beyond) movement was formed with three concrete, concise and objective targets that presented an opportunity to train country’s forgotten muscle of collaboration toward impact. Those three targets were voter turnout, transparency around individual candidates and independent election monitoring.
Furthermore, the “Ötesi” (Beyond) component of the foundation conveyed a clear glimpse of Sercan Çelebi’s vision that the fundamental approach and mechanisms of the foundation could readily be replicated into any area of civic engagement in democratic processes. A vision that indeed made “Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) the sustainable grassroot NGO that it is today after the last years’ elections marathon.
In the past five elections which took place within a space of only two years, Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) trained more than 170,000 volunteers across Turkey, monitored all five elections to different extents in the front lines and cross-checked the aggregated official results with a state-of-art software developed by Oy v Ötesi volunteers.
Who is Sercan Çelebi
A graduate of German High School in Istanbul and Yale University, Sercan Çelebi is the co-founder, spokesperson and chairman of Oy ve Ötesi Foundation (Vote and Beyond) – an independent and non partisan election monitoring organisation that emerged ahead of Turkish local elections in 2014 as a completely voluntary initiative. From tomato and pepper agriculture in İzmir to energy investments, from social media and big data analysis to management consultancy in New York, Çelebi has a vast array of multinational management experience in different industries. A McKinsey & Company alumni, Sercan Çelebi has done a significant number of project work for both multinational clients and public sector across continents. In his free time, he practices martial arts. Sercan Çelebi speaks English, German and Spanish.
Speech Topics
Leadership
What is leadership?
Creating value in people’s lives
Strategy
Team-work
Forming the dream-team
Team-coordination / System set-up
Motivating your team
Civil Society
Organizing volunteers
Motivating volunteers
Creating social value
Inheriting a sustainable NGO
The alchemy of “grassroot” movements in Turkey
Mass Communications
Engineering a winning mass communication strategy
Engaging masses in cause-related marketing campaigns
Ecological Entrepreneurship / Agricultural Start-ups
Social Entrepreneurship – An ecological perspective
Yale Graduates make great farmers
Startups
Are you ready to start your own business?
From a good idea to a good organization
What do #Startups need other than your money? Timely insights for investors
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