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Tolga
Tanrıseven
Co-Founder & CEO at GirlsAskGuys.com
Biography
Tolga Tanriseven is the co-founder and CEO of GirlsAskGuys, digital community connecting girls and guys to help each other by sharing their experiences & opinions. GirlsAskGuys & KizlarSoruyor connects people with passion on a topic, micro-influencers, to people who are seeking that knowledge from passionate people.
Tolga was born in Turkey and moved to US, St. Louis, in 2001 to receive his graduate degree in computer engineering at SIUE. After working in the e-commerce industry and leading engineering teams, Tolga took his side project GirlsAskGuys to the next level by raising $2M. GirlsAskGuys, also available in Turkish as KizlarSoruyor.com and in Spanish as EllasSaben.com, reaches 22M unique visitors per month and Tolga has been featured in various media including Forbes, Mashable, Huffington Post and Channel 5 KSDK.
Speech Topics
- Entrepreneurship
- Social Media
- New Rules of Marketing
- Technology
- Innovation
Hakan
Çelik
Journalist, Columnist, Radio and Television Presenter
Biography
Who is Hakan Çelik?
He was educated in Communications at Istanbul University. He completed Master’s degree programs on “Science fiction cinema” in the Faculty of Communications and on “Political structure of the European Union” in the Faculty of Political Science at his alma mater. He had an apprentieship at the BBC, Glasgow – 1990. Çelik was granted scholarship from the British Foreign Office.
Hakan Çelik
He entered media; Günaydın-1988, became one of the first private radio broadcasters in Turkey, Later, he joined Hür FM, a Hürriyet Radio, and produced shows for Show Radio. He produced and presented the TV show “Weekend” Haberturk TV, weekend moderator of the morning shows Kanal 24. He was the commentator TRT Radio 1 program “Gündem”, and representative of CNN Türk, Kanal D in and also Posta Ankara. He is a co performer at Parametre, and is producing CNN Türk Hafta Sonu Keyfi.
Eralp
Caner
Therapist and Change Manager
Biography
Who is Eralp Caner?
Eralp Caner is the founder and director of the Healing Hall Holistic Clinic in Istanbul and serves as the general secretary of the Life without Cancer Society of Turkey.
Eralp Caner
He is a Certified PSYCH-K® Instructor and Facilitator, who has worked with over a thousand clients throughout the world. His focus is Psycho-energetics and Neuroscience, specifically, teaching and facilitating Subconscious Mind Change. His services are highly sought out by individuals as well as corporate clients.
He is also a Diploma Level Domancic Bioenergy Therapist, certified Reconnective Healing and Reconnection practitioner, and OSHO Constellation Therapist, among others.
He works with clients in person and via Skype and teaches PSYCH-K® workshops worldwide.
Speech Topics
- Brand new ME
- Corporate Mind
- Perception Reframing for Success (PRS®)
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.
Olcay
Silahlı
Social Enterprenuer,Co-Founder & CEO at Fazla Gıda
Biography
Who is Olcay Silahlı?
Graduated from İstanbul Teknik University Management engineering co-founder and CEO at Whole Surplus firm, a B2B Tech Platform enabling retailers manage their unsold inventory with best financial and environmental recovery value. The platform of B2B waste, help companies decrease the financially non sold stock resource and environmental nonefficients.
Silahli prior to forming his own company has worked as trade marketing manager and food brand manager for various products at Unilever. He has wide experince in social work and youth projects, such as Coordinating Ambassador Europe & Returning Ambassador Bangkok’15 Su
Speech Topics
- Waste Food Management
- Fight Against Hunger and Poverty
- Setting a Social-Technology Initiative
- Suggestions for Social Entrepreneurs
Yılmaz
Argüden
Chairman, ARGE Consulting
Biography
“In order to make corporate change happen, there should be role models at every level of the organisation united around the same goal.”
The anatomy of change
Yılmaz Argüden is a successful name, well-known to the Turkish and foreign business world. The man behind a number of projects that are now used as models world-wide, Dr. Argüden continues to carry out effective projects in international organisations and establishments. He is an executive who has attracted a lot of attention for his volunteer activities and social responsibility initiatives, in addition to his professional work. He believes that progress is impossible without focusing on change and without desiring to renew that which exists. “To make corporate change happen, first the corporation should be persuaded of the necessity and urgency of the change. An effective way to do that is to ensure that performance is compared against external best examples rather than internally. In other words, it is to make benchmarking part of the corporate culture.” According to him, for change to happen, first an impressive vision needs to be manifested, which he describes as “a fantasy that portrays an attractive dream about the future which is target-oriented so as to provide guidance for decisions, but flexible enough to encourage initiative-taking. It must also be easily to explain and realistic enough to create excitement in those subject to the change.”
Who is Yılmaz Argüden?
Serving as the chairman of ARGE Consulting and Rothschild in Turkey, one of the leading investment banks in the world, Dr. Argüden was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum for his commitment to improving the state of the world. His has a wealth of experience in a broad range of areas, from the private to the public sector, as well as in international organisations, NGOs and academia. Holding seats on the boards of directors of various organisations, Dr. Argüden also shares his experience by teaching a strategy class on Bosphorus University’s and Koç University’s MBA programs, as well as through his books and newspaper columns.
Speech Topics
• Strategy
• Institution Building
• Change Management
• Board of Directors
• Governance
• Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Management
• Shaping the Future
Erkan
Yıldırım
Founder and CEO at alwiser, Digital Transformation and Innovation
Biography
Erkan Yıldırım is the owner and the founder of alwiser Digital Transformation Management Consulting. He is also an investor and senior partner at Medron Teknoloji, a leading IoT company that develops sensors, gateways and smart object tracking solutions.
He has been in company boards as a COO for the last 6 years, including top e-commerce companies in Turkey such as 1V1Y.com and trendyol.com. While Mr. Yıldırım was GM Deputy at Boyner Retail Group, he constructed a digital transformation program for Beymen,
composed of numerous company wide projects and applications that yielded seven-fold growth in e-commerce revenues within few years that carried the online revenue ratio to 15% from 3% within three years. As a senior manager at Mercedes-Benz Turk A.Ş. and Danone Turkey, he was responsible for managing supply chain and
logistics operations in Turkey.
Mr. Yıldırım works with corporations to help them in creating company wide digital transformation programs. His specialty is to build omni-channel transition programs for retailers and e-commerce strategies for startups or grown companies. As a consultant, he has built, developed and re-organized companies and strategies,
including mid-size e-commerce companies, e.g. ciceksepeti.com, incehesap.com. In a recent project at Tekzen A.Ş. a home and appliances company with more than 100 stores, Mr. Yıldırım is building the omni-channel digital transformation roadmap, by
applying a unique framework developed within alwiser Consulting Group.
Mr. Yıldırım earned his MSc in Industrial Engineering and Operation Research with Technology Management emphasise from University of California at Berkeley in 2002, upon a BS from Boğaziçi University in 1998 and an MSc from University of Pittsburgh in 2000. He tutored Ph.D. level classes at Pittsburgh and Berkeley.
Speech Topics
- Digital transformation
- Corporat Transformation Strategies
- Creating Business Models
- Leadership
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?
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