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Haluk
Gürgen
Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Bahçesehir University
Biography
“Communication calls for an insight into society whereas marketing requires an understanding of the dynamics of change in the society. Keeping pace with the change is the first prerequisite of successful marketing.”
The pace of life
Prof. Haluk Gürgen is a communications professional who has long carried out communication campaigns for a large number of private and public institutions. Prof. Gürgen describes the qualities of contemporary marketing as follows: “the pace of life is a key factor in triggering social change. We strive to exist within this fast cycle of life, identifying and fulfilling our needs faster every day, and consuming more rapidly to discover and consume new needs, again rapidly. Therefore, the key to successful marketing is to create brands that can cope with this dizzying speed. This means creating strong brands. Corporate brands are created through the correct management of corporate communication and reputation. The need to feed off the strength of corporate brands they belong to becomes more and more important in the creation and development of strong product brands.”
Who is Haluk Gürgen?
Prof. Haluk Gürgen has been serving as the dean of the Faculty of Communications at Bahçesehir University since 2006. Gürgen has conducted communication projects for the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Customs, the Directorate General for the Status of Woman, Vakıfbank, Mesa, Coskunöz Holding and Erciyas Biracılık. He also offers training sessions to multinationals, Turkish organisations and banks.
Speech Topics
• Corporate Communications
• Crisis Communication
• Reputation Management
• Interpersonal Communication
• Existence and Communication
• Sharing, Responsibility and Communication
Cenk
Tezcan, Dr.
Futurist, Medical İnformatics, Keynote Speaker
Biography
Cenk Tezcan is co-founder of B-Wise that is interested in process of founding the Collective Wisdom Platform that unites experts and boutique service providers to corporations seeking growth with wisdom economy build aspiration.
Being a medical doctor with a MBA, Dr. Tezcan has over 25 years of experience in healthcare field. He took part in almost 30 turn-key healthcare projects all around the world. Medical equipment planning and hospital design are his expertise.
He worked at Intel Corp. as Healthcare BDM. He got involved in many HIT and digital health projects and mHealth. He managed the first mHealth pilot project on behalf of SGK (Social Security Assc. Of Turkey) in 2014-2015.
He is a key-note speaker on mHealth, Health (supported) tourism, Future of Healthcare, Wellness, Wellbeing and Futurism.
He works with start-ups focused on healthcare and give mentorship support for product optimization and commercelization.
At B-Wise (www.b-wise.guru) ; working on corporate wellness as a co-founder. ‘B-Engaged’ Wellness & Happiness platform for employees is his main interest. Also ‘Strategic Future Design’ for companies & Institutions is one of his professions.
He lectures at METU, Bilgi and Medipol Universities on “Wellness”, “Medical Informatics” and “Future Studies”. He directed a TV program named “Future Vision” in 2012 for TRT. He is the author of the book “A Visionary Approach to Healthcare; mHealth” that is published by TUSIAD (Turkish Employers’ Assc.) in March 2016.
Speech Topics
- Futurism
- Vision for the future of healthcare
- Health technologies
- Technology for home care and Well Being
- Changes in behaviors
- Living an Active Life
- Health tourism
Volkan
Öge
Digital Marketing Expert and Youtuber
Biography
He graduated from Istanbul Technical University with BSc in Civil Engineering in 2004 and with MSc in Transportation Engineering in 2006.
Along with his engineering career which spanned 5 years from 2004 thru 2009, he published various videos on a YouTube channel that he started under the name of Batesmotelpro in 2006.
Thanks to the great interest and on-line activity by the channel, he created some of Turkey’s first commercialized viral digital video projects for major businesses.
In 2009, he made a career shift and started working as a copywriter at the advertising agency 41?29! where he wrote scripts for a period of 4 years and simultaneously continued to create his own video projects at Batesmotelpro.
In 2012, he wrote and starred in a comedy motion picture called “Patlak Sokaklar”.
With the funding he received after the release of “Patlak Sokaklar” he converted the Batesmotelpro channel into a digital video agency and created numerous digital video ads. This online media firm actively continues to create acclaimed digital ad content for a wide range of commercial clients, all with a unique sense of humor.
Together with his business partner Tolga Akış, he also founded the new media company “Hypers” in 2017, which operates in the field of influencer marketing, YouTube and other digital content creation and currently is the Creative Director for “Hypers”.
In 2019, he started his own Youtube channel “Volkan Öge Geliyor” where he continues to publish his individual videos and musical work.
Doğan
Taşkent
Electrical – Electrophysics Engineer, Innovation Consultant
Biography
“Incentive is like drug for the survival of a startup, issuing invoices is what entrepreneurs need. That is to say, large companies should use the products or services of that startup.”
Doğan Taşkent, member of the İndeks Speaker Agency, is one of the most eminent speakers on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, competition and startup ecosystem etc. He worked as R&D engineer, expert consultant and training expert during 1998-2005 at the fiber optic network systems division of Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories (New Jersey). During this period, he undertook the installation of electro-optic network infrastructure of Verizon, BT, Telia, Deutsche Telekom, Global Crossing, Qwest and UPC in different continents. He offered consultancy services to Lucent Worldwide Services in New York on the areas of “Knowledge Management”, “Competency Management” and “Telecommunication Technologies”. Taşkent, who has been working as the company-restructuring consultant for Arkan & Ergin Kurumsal Finansman on the telecommunication, renewable energy and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey since 2006, has played a major role in the birth of several business plan competitions and startup companies.
Doğan Taşkent, who gives us insight into the latest developments in entrepreneurship as a speaker at conferences, states that entrepreneurship also existed in the past but it was “incomplete”. Taşkent suggests that the six pillars of Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Culture, Law and Support used by all companies worldwide, as described in the Babson College model, are required for the creation of a sustainable ecosystem. Taşkent states that Turkey has demonstrated rapid progress in this area with the increased amount of investments in the Internet, gaming and mobile technologies during the last five years, but he also emphasizes that more effort should go into developing biotechnology, nanotechnology and green technology products.
Who is he?
Having completed his bachelor’s degree at the Electrical Engineering School of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich in 1993, he joined the master program of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then won a scholarship at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, and he began to conduct researches in the area of electrophysics, focusing in particular on the lasers. He received graduate degrees in electrophysics and technology MBA. Taşkent, the founding chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum Turkey, is also a member of the advisory board of Endeavor Turkey. Taşkent has been the Chairman of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey since 2012 and he is the Vice President of the Turkish-Swiss Business Council of DEIK (Foreign Economic Relations Board). In addition to Turkish, he also gives presentations in English and German.
Speech Topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- The secret for developing technology
- Industry 4.0; Any Good for Turkey?
- Dissociating techonology
- Operational efficiency; The Swiss model
- Entrepreneur; need to be a gladiator
- Formula for Turkish “Elon Musk”
- You are in the heart of Mahmutpaşa, not in the Silicon Valley!
- Technology-Life Cycle
- Strategic Thinking Over Chess
- Darwin, Feminism, Bazaar; catching the innovation link?
James
Dorsey
Journalist, Researcher
Biography
Well-known journalist James Dorsey is a renowned Middle East specialist. Reporting on current affairs from Turkey for many years, Dorsey’s journalism career keeps going from strength to strength.
A well-known journalist in the Middle East, Dorsey writes for Hurriyet Daily News, The Huffington Post and The Daily Independent. Dorsey is a Western Asia senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. He is currently working on a book that will share the title of his widely acclaimed and quoted blog “The Turbulent World of Middle Eastern Soccer.” Dorsey also sits on the executive board of the “Institute of Fan Culture” at Wuerzburg University.
As a prolific journalist, James Dorsey has become one of the most well-known writers in the Middle East. Dorsey has also been complementing his career in journalism with other roles for a while now. He writes an influential blog, where he looks at the Middle East’s soccer industry. He was the mentor to Klaus Schwab when he was the executive chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Summits of the World Economic Forum, held in Casablanca, Amman and Cairo between 1995 and 2004. He provided media training sessions for senior managers and important figures, including Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Minister of Foreign Trade and his senior staff, as well as teams working for the World Water Forum and the World Bank Institute. He has conducted seminars in many countries, including Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, South Africa, Ethiopia, Mali, Kenya, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, France, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Argentina. In September 2011, he was the moderator at the Singapore International Community Engagement Conference and in September 2012 he gave the opening speech at the 20th EU Conference on Sports Management, held in Aalborg, Denmark.
Who is James Dorsey?
James Dorsey studied economics at Amsterdam University and Tropical Agriculture at Wageningen Agriculture University. His 40-year career in journalism and consulting has taken him all around the world. Between 1983 and 1987, he worked for United Press International as the bureau chief in Athens, Ankara and Jerusalem and the senior correspondent in the Middle East and London offices. Between 1987 and 1991, he worked as a Washington-based diplomatic and national security affairs correspondent for Washington Times. Between 1993 and 2003, he worked for The Wall Street Journal as the senior correspondent for the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkans, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Riyadh. Dorsey lived in Istanbul for a long time during this period and he reported on current affairs from Istanbul. Dorsey speaks English, German, Spanish and Dutch fluently, and has a theoretical knowledge of Arabic, Turkish, French and Hebrew grammar.
Speech Topics
• Life in the Middle East, Turkey – Middle East Relations
• “Fan Club” management in politics and sports
• Security – soldier – civilian relations
• Political and economic analysis
• Sports and the economy of sports
• Relations between sports and politics
• Sexism in sports
• International politics and relations
• Macro interpretation of mass movements
• The Olympics, F1 – “mega events” and their effect on countries
• Media relations
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.
Gülden
Türktan
W20 Turkey President, Founding Member and Board Chairman of KAGİDER, OECD, BIAC-ELSA Vice President
Biography
Dr. Türktan’s life mission is to promote female entrepreneurship in Turkey as well as to strengthen the position of women economically and socially.
Dr. Türktan spent the first four years of her working life at New York University as an academic. She has also worked in positions where she had authority over auditing, human resources, quality and legal affairs, and took on various top level management roles. For many years she worked intensively in management positions in non-governmental organisations.
For a significant part of her career, Dr. Türktan took on various senior management tasks and also served as the only board member and vice chairman of the board at ABB Electric Industry, regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious companies. She put her backing behind many key decisions over the company’s journey from a value of $14 million to $350 million. Türktan now provides international training within the scope of her “Invitation to leadership” programme, the strategy and mission of which is to “train more leaders within companies.” She has also played an active role in training successful leaders both locally and abroad.
Türktan’s successful career has been thanks to the positive spirit and foresight that she applies to entrepreneurship, her well timed purchasing and sales decisions, her efficient analyses and her “win-win” investment techniques. She recently chose to put an end to her current business life and began managing a hotel in Bodrum. However, she was not able to completely let go of the world of business and took on positions on various boards and became the chairwoman of the Women Entrepreneurs Association. Under Türktan’s management the association has achieved its record highest number of projects and its highest ever revenue figures. She has given various training sessions and speeches on entrepreneurship and the basic economic principles for success in business life. She also presented recommendations on sustainability on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Who is Dr. Gülden Türktan?
After graduating from Bosphorus University’s Business School with BA and MA degrees, Dr. Gulden Turktan went on to receive post graduate degrees from New York University and Marmara University. She holds an MBA, an M. Phil and a Ph.D. She began her career as a research assistant and instructor at New York University. She then took on a top management position at ABB, a huge international power plant and electricity generation company in Istanbul. She worked at the International Investments Association (YASED) of Turkey for two periods as a board member and later as vice-chairman of the board. Dr. Turktan was the head of the Work Council of TUSIAD for Employment and Social Security Systems. She was one of the founders of Turkey’s Women Entrepreneurs Association KAGIDER and she served as its president.
Speech Topics
• Who is the leader?
• Manage upwards
• Create your own leader
• How much have we achieved in the women’s movement? How much is left?
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
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