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Murat Yülek
Prof. Dr.
Economist, Professor of Economics at Istanbul Commerce University
Biography
Dr. Yulek is a professor of economics at Istanbul Commerce University. Murat holds and has held high level executive responsibilities in financial institutions including director and chairman in financial and non-financial institutions. He is also a partner at PGlobal Global Advisory and Training Services Ltd, an Ankara based international advisory company. He has project, corporate finance and economic development experience in various countries in Europe, Africa, North America and Asia with tenures at institutions including the International Monetary Fund, the Islamic Development Bank and the Turkish Prime Ministry.
He has taught at Georgetown and Yale Universities. Previously, he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at THK University in Turkey. He authored a number of books and articles in economics, development and finance. His most recent book has been published by Springer, New York. This book, edited by Dr. Yulek and Dr. Travis Taylor, discusses suitable design of procurement policies aiming at increasing the technological level in emerging countries. Murat also writes columns at newspapers and financial journals and is a frequent speaker at various for a organized by institutions such as Global Economic Symposium, Yale University, Duke University, Prime Ministry of Turkey, COMCEC, Economic Cooperation Organization, Dubai Economic Council, CFO Forum-Vienna, The Economist Round Table, Wirtshaftsrat. He is actively involved in the organization of Istanbul Finance Summit (Chairman of the Advisory Board) and Sarajevo Business Forum (Member of the Advisory Board). He sits in the advisory boards of various other national and international institutions, platforms and academic journals.
He holds an MBA degree from Yale University, Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from Bilkent University, an MSM (Management) degree from Boston University and a B.Sc. degree from Bogazici University.
Speech Topics
• Turkish and World Economy
• Development & Growth
• Policies of Industry, Science and Technology
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Assessment of the Value of the Firm
Yıldız
Özer
Dijital Pazarlama Uzmanı, Kurucu Fooders
Biyografi
Yıldız Burçin Özer, Stratejik Planlama, İnternet Pazarlama ve Online Marka Yönetimi Uzmanı. Satışın 10 emri internet, internet, internet… diyor. Yeni dönem markalara yeni olanaklar, yeni zorunluluklar, yeni eğilimler sunuyor. Sunuyor diyoruz aslında zorunlu kılıyor demeyi yumuşatmak istiyoruz.
Dijital iletişim, dijital pazarlama
“Dijital iletişim tüketiciyi can evinden vurmak zorunda” diyor Özer, “…gün, marka algısı ve tüketici, ürünü marka üzerinden tercih ediyor.” diye ekliyor.
Lisans eğitimini İngiltere’de, “University of Kent”te, İletişim (“Communications & Image Studies” – İletişim, İmajların ve Yeni Medyanın Toplum üzerindeki etkisi) alanında tamamlayan Yıldız Özer, 2000’li yılların başında yaygınlaşan internet kullanımı ile birlikte profesyonel kariyerini farklı bir yöne evriltti.
Stratejik planlama
İş hayatına Total İletişim’de reklam dünyasının önde gelen kurum ve reklamcılarıyla çalışarak başlayan Özer, takiben Saatchi & Saatchi Güzel Sanatlar’da büyük markaların stratejik planlama uzmanı olarak görev yaptı. Kariyerini yıllarca stratejik planlamasında destek verdiği reklam veren tarafında sürdürme kararı alarak, Türkiye’nin lider internet portali Mynet ile yolunu kesiştirdi. Kurum tarafında, uluslararası markanın içinde çoklu ve çeşitli ürün strateji yapılanmasını Yıldız Holding bünyesinde deneyimledi. Türkiye’de internet pazarlamasını en etkin kullanan şirketlerden biri olan Yıldız Holding çatısı altında, lokal ve uluslararası birçok markanın yeni pazarlama iletişimi dünyasına hızla adapte olabilmesi ve liderliğini devam ettirebilmesi için dijital stratejiler geliştirip, teknoloji odaklı projeleri hayata geçirdi. Sürekli değişim gösteren dinamik ortamlarda, dijital pazarlama stratejilerinden sorumlu üst düzey rollerde uzun yıllar çalıştı.
2014-2018 yılları arasında, internet sektörünün tek meslek örgütü IAB Türkiye’nin (Internet Advertising Bureau) internet pazarlama grubunda aktif görev alarak, çeşitli projelere katkı sağladı.
Konuşma Konuları
- Tek Yol Dijital, İleri; Reklamın Yeni Yüzü
- Dijital 10 Emirle Emrediyor: Meşhur Marka Ol
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®)
Şeref
Oğuz
Journalist, Writer
Biography
Şeref Oğuz, Turkey’s leading economic journalists and economists from journalists.
His spirit, does not fit into the economy, has led him to play critical roles in informatics and technology. For example, Şeref Oğuz, who signed the world’s first virtual rally (1996), produced numerous articles, writings and interviews on “freedom and virtual culture”. Seref Oğuz, who traveled around Anatolia, giving New Economy Conferences to SMEs, worked as Economy Manager and columnist for Sabah Newspaper for many years.
Oğuz is a graduate of Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, he completed his master’s degree and economics at the same university. He made researches at the University of London and started journalism. Oğuz, known for his research on information economy, new economy and change, is one of the founders of Internet Society. Oguz, who took a break from journalism over the years, took on the role of Koç Holding New Economy consultancy in 1999. Oğuz served as Koç Holding Information Group Consultant. He gave Virtual Culture classes at Bilgi University e-MBA academic staff. National Competitiveness Research Institute, makes Turkey Intelligence Foundation Board membership. Oguz, Turkey Chess Federation Board of Directors at the same time, the Internet Committee member. Şeref Oğuz was also a member of the Assembly Information Group outside the parliament.
Ebru Baybara
Demir
Social Gastronomy Chef, Social Entrepreneur
Social Gastronomy
Sustainability
Success story
Teamwork and leadership
Biography
Chef Ebru Baybara Demir, the winner of the 2023 Basque Culinary World Prize (BCWP), which is called the Nobel of the gastronomy, became the first chef to bring this honoured award to Turkey. Recognized for her remarkable contributions to social gastronomy over the past two decades, Chef Baybara Demir has been acknowledged for her innovative solutions to societal challenges and needs, especially the socioeconomic repercussions of the migrant crisis, combating the impact of climate change on soil rejuvenation, and promoting local development through the perspective of gastronomy. Prior to her first prize, Chef Baybara Demir was ranked among the top 10 best chefs in the world at the Basque Culinary World Prize two consecutive years.
Ebru Baybara Demir has moved to Mardin in 1999 after completed her bachelor’s degree in Marmara University, Department of Tourism Management. Ebru Baybara Demir took the road to Mardin with a dream to meet the city with tourism and established the very first touristic restaurant in Mardin by the change she created, Cercis Murat Konağı, with twenty-one women who believed in her. Demir, who has conducted extensive research on Anatolian cuisine for more than 15 years, has made many social gastronomy projects happen in the region, especially in Mardin, beyond being a chef, with the philosophy of “The taste of the meal on the table comes from the soil it takes and from the lives it benefits”. Within this period, she achieved loads of prizes on both national and international levels. She presented Turkey in World Gastronomy Tourism Forum held by UNWTO and 5th Food on the Edge Summit that brought gastronomy elites and authorities together via the projects she conducted in the field. Realizing the firsts in the field of social gastronomy with measurable results, Demir also draws attention to the creation of sustainable local economies from the protection of the natural balance of seed, soil and water in its projects, and the ability to create a livelihood for everyone who works from the process in which the product reaches the consumer from the soil. Ebru Baybara Demir, under the roof of Soil to Plate Agricultural Development Cooperative, of which she is among the founders of Mesopotamia’s oldest wheat, Sorgul Wheat, Şemim Soaps, El Ele Elden Ele (Hand in Hand) Store and online sales platform, as well as local products with new initiatives to be implemented in a short time. She continues to work for the ideal cooperative model that brings together local cuisine and local human resources to create a role model in the national and international arena.
Ebru Baybara Demir carries out the Biodegradable Waste Project, which started in Diyarbakır and spread to many provinces of the country under the “We Are Healing Life” motto. “Biodegradable Waste Management Project from Soil to Soil” is a regenerative agriculture project that includes improving the soil, supporting the farmer and contributing to the production of healthy food by transform the biodegradable food waste consisting of vegetables and fruits in the market into compost. Within the scope of the project, the usable foods collected in the marketplaces are brought to the soup kitchens and inspected under the supervision of a food engineer and are used with a 2-stage production as “Canned and Packaged Products” and “Hot Meal Production”.
She is the only Turkish Chef that her documentary “12 Zero-Waste Chefs of the World” was made by HBO Max which is American online content platform. Ebru Baybara Demir was awarded the Aenne Burda Creative Leadership Award at the DLD Munich Conference held in January 2023. Demir has been presented to women with brave, optimistic, innovative, creative and inspiring qualities since 2006.
Speech Topics
- Social gastronomy
- Sustainability: Biodegradable Waste Management Project from Soil to Soil
- Social entrepreneurship: Respect for the local
- Producing women
- Success story
- Teamwork and leadership
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
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.
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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