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Science, Research and Development – Innovation – Creativity

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Interdisciplinary rhetoric intertwined with science, research, development and innovation. We use all of them very often, unfortunately, we often add them to our sentences with false emphasis. Research and development; Indispensable for social sciences as well as engineering or medical science. Creativity is the way we meet our new generation needs in our developing life. Our speakers will open up your mind, reach out with out-of-the-box approaches, and make their subjects understandable with colorful examples. While they will help you interpret the developments correctly, they will give you tips to integrate creative thoughts into your own life.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_custom_heading text=”TECHNOLOGY – INNOVATION” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1591359590803{margin-top: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

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Science, Research and Development – Innovation – Creativity

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Başak
Özer

Technology Manager, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Strategy Consultant

Biography

Entrepreneurial executive with a track record of commercializing new technologies and leading VC-backed B2C & B2B businesses to successful exits and post-exit integration. Comfortable operating in startup, scale-up and turnaround situations and diverse geographies including Europe and Asia.
Functional expertise in product development, strategy, go-to-market, sales/business development and new market entry, marketing and incubating new businesses. Investor/Advisor to various start-ups.
Experience includes: Autonomous Vehicle Technologies, IoT, Sensors, Cloud, Location Based Services, Automotive, Product Innovation ‘from idea to full execution’. 2 major start-up exits, 2 GM roles at Fortune 50 companies with $100M+ P&L’s. Extensive global experience.

Gülsen
Çeliker

Innov’Coat Inc. Founding Partner, Vice Chairman, CTO

Biography

“Nanotechnology is going to change our lives. All we have seen so far of nanotechnology are prototypes. Numerous R&D projects are underway across the world, and significant budgets are being allocated for this.”

Gülsen Çeliker is a founding partner of Innov’coat which carries out projects for Turkey’s leading corporations working with or producing ceramics, white appliances, glass, aluminium and carpets. Since 2010, these companies have been able to offer innovative and multi-functional products in the market place thanks to the materials and coatings developed by Innov’coat. These products are also approved by international companies. These companies introduce these new materials through R&D alliances.

Çeliker takes an active role in her company’s collaborative projects on nanotechnology with various universities. As such, her company represents an important model in terms of university-industry cooperation. She considers that universities, government and the private sector should all unite around the “nanotechnology strategy.” Firmly believing that advanced technology will shape our lives in the future, Çeliker seeks to expand our horizons with several examples: future cars will be of different materials and have increased resistance against crashing. The cleanliness of ambient air will be controlled. Clothes will be cleaned by mere exposure to a UV lamp, which will eliminate the use of harmful chemicals used in cleaning. Actually, the essence of the matter is this: nanotechnology will change our lives. What we have seen, heard and lived so far is only the results of initial studies. A great number of R&D studies are being carried out all over the world; significant budgets are being allocated for advanced technology. Researchers like Çeliker are opening the doors to the future for us.

Who is Gülsen Çeliker?

Gülsen Çeliker received her Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from the Middle East Technical University (ODTU). She worked as a research assistant at ODTU between 1982 and 1987. She started her industrial career in Akzo Nobel as a research specialist. She transferred to Dyo in 1995. She first worked as a manager in the automotive and industrial paints section, followed by an assistant general manager position at Yaşar BASF, where she formed the R&D and quality team. She served as the R&D coordinator at the Yaşar Paint and Chemistry Group between 2004 and 2009. In 2009 Çeliker established her own company which develops, manufactures and sells nanotechnology coating and materials by entering into a partnership with Materis, Europe’s third largest paint company. Çeliker, currently, creates projects and develops innovative products for industrial firms each of which are a leader in their own sector.

Speech Topics

• Nanotechnology in Turkey

• What will the future bring?

• New functions and new markets

• New technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship

• Nanotechnology applications – opportunities in various sectors

Mete
Mordağ

Endüstriyel Ürün Tasarımcısı

Biography

Born 1977 in Istanbul.  After completing German High School in 1996, he received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bosphorus University in 2001. The will to unite his passion for creative arts and his ability in positive sciences guided him into the world of Industrial Design. He completed his MA degree on Industrial Product Design at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Returning to Istanbul in 2005, before launching Mordag Design he worked for Eczacıbaşı Vitra and T-Design as product designer. Mordağ has been designing permanent products, combining logic and beauty for a wide range of sectors. He thinks that the universe has proven its great expertise in esthetics, because its logical approach to creation is flawless. Without exception it has been introducing the stunning beauty, where every single curve, connection, dimension can be explained through rationality. Music, color, shape, each of them has a certain mathematics that leads to beauty. Design is responsible for learning and performing this mathematics in its unique field. Mordag aims to achieve beauty through reasoning, which he calls as rational art.

MORDAGDESIGN

Mordag Design, the Studio of Rational Art has been designing products for a wide range sectors that span span technology, housewares, accessories, industrial products, office wares, furniture, underwater, urban furniture, architectural installations. It offers industrial design & product development services from concept generation to manufacturing. Thanks to its innovative approach and engineering infrastructure, it has provided over 25 patented products and ideas to its customers. Within this broad spectrum Mordag Design won numerous awards in 6 different sectors. Millions of products with Mordag’s design signature meet its users in more than 25 countries.

Sevil
Atasoy

UN International Narcotics Control Board member, Owner of Kanıt Informatics Publishing and Consultancy Company, TV producer

Biography

Sevil Atasoy, immediate past president of the UN International Narcotics Control Board and elected as a member of the board for the 2017 – 2022 term, is also the vice-rector of Uskudar University. She also has a TV show titled Kanıt (Evidence) and owns a publishing and consultancy company named Bilişim.

“If your profession requires that you walk with the angels and the demons, what you live through is nothing like the scripts of crime movies. There are no cases which are researched by a handful of people or murders solved in a matter of days. If you work in a country without a DNA database on a national level, many crimes remain unsolved.” she says.

Prof. Dr. Sevil Atasoy was named as the science person of the year in Turkey for her contributions to crime scene investigation processes, forensic laboratories and DNA evidence processes. She shares her thirty-year experience with crime and introduces the audience to the challenging, thrilling and mysterious world of evidence hunters who are focused on facts and only the facts. Atasoy says, “There is no perfect murder. If the attempt were perfect, you would not even see the murder and assume death by natural causes or suicide. The trick is a good autopsy and proper evidence collection.” She served as the Ministry of Justice Chemicals Department Director for twelve years and Istanbul University Forensic Institute Manager for eight years.

Watch out! She has a mobile phone

Sevil Atasoy, represented by Indeks Speaker Agency, says that we as human beings, who have been careful about someone with a stone, stick, blade or pistol in hand, will be looking to hide when we see a mobile phone in the not-so-far future. New generation mobile phones have already been used as deadly weapons for perfect murders, it is just so few people are aware yet. It will be possible to remotely trigger a heart attack, induce a diabetic coma, trigger a traffic accident or induce the vagus nerve of the brain and trigger reflexes.

Speech Topics

• There is No Such Thing as a Flawless Murder; There Are Simply Murders That Are Close to Flawless

• A Guide to Arresting a Serial Killer

• A President Out of Water: Turgut Özal

• CSI: Sex, Lies and Larvae

• Mozart’s Skull, Beethoven’s Hair, Einstein’s Brain and Other Unimportant Things



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