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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?
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
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
Aslı
Zuluğ, Dr.
Food Engineer, Academician, Entrepreneur
Biography
Dr. Aslı Zulug obtained her B.Sc. degree from Ege University Department of Food Engineering in 2003 and M.Sc. degree from Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICH) Greece in 2006 about Business Management and Economics and, her Ph.D. degree from Ege University, Department of Agricultural Economics in 2010 and studied about consumer preferences on country of origin food products. Since 2008 she had worked as a food safety team leader in Swissotel the Bosphorus. During her sectoral activities she was giving part time lectures about food safety, nutrition, food politics and food and beverage management subjects in state and foundation universities. Since 2015 she is writing the column magazine about food hygiene and food economics subjects in “Gıda Türk”.
Abdurrahman
Yıldırım
Author, Commentator
Biography
Who is Abdurrahman Yıldırım?
Abdurrahman Yıldırım is a competent journalist and economist with to the point estimates on Turkish and global economy. He is among those who set the debate through TV shows, articles and commentaries.
Abdurrahman Yıldırım, graduated from Marmara University’s Press Institute, wrote articles on economy at Anadolu Ajansı, Cumhuriyet, Sabah, Yeniyüzyıl and Habertürk daily newspapers. He is known as a very good analyst and followed up by many people. Yıldırım also works on a number of books. He has 4 books on capital markets.
Yıldırım was granted with the ‘Economy Columnist’ award at the Economy Press Achievement Awards by research institutes and NGOs almost every year of his career.
Abdurrahman Yıldırım writes on the economy’s roadmap and markets and interprets hard-to-grasp analyses as easy as it can be done.
Yıldırım often analyzes the global and Turkish economy, future estimations and a sustainable economy using objective data and is known for building his estimations on facts.
Yıldırım makes solid arguments on the ever-changing FX markets and stock exchange and money markets. Yıldırım is focused on objective estimations passed with constructive suggestions and to the point analyses of the current situation.
Abdurrahman Yıldırım meets the TV audience at Habertürk and Bloomberg.
Speech Topics
- Turkey and the World Economy
- Economic Analysis and Forecasting
- Sustainable Economy
- Foreign Exchange Market, Stock Exchange and Money Markets
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
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
Eren
Kantarlı
Vice President, Google Turkey
Biography
After a thriving life as a student, Kantarlı started his career in sales at Procter and Gamble and started to work for Google’s office in Turkey in 2007. In this term, he was assigned as the project leader for many digital marketing, consumer and commercial marketing projects in Turkey, Greece and Russia. Until 2011, he managed the marketing budgets of more than 45 countries and then, he was transferred to Google’s headquarters in California. He worked in product marketing of Google Offers and ‘Wallet’, a digital wallet service. Kantarlı also served as marketing consultant and manager at the Silicon Valley and currently serves as Senior Marketing Manager at Google Fiber. Significant products Kantarlı was involved in include Google Maps, Android Pay and Google Fiber.
Eren Kantarlı says that his dream is to return to Turkey and make use of the knowledge and experience he gained at the Silicon Valley.
Eren Kantarlı is also a professional sailor who competes at globally-known regattas including Rolex Big Boat Regatta and J24 Western Regionals.
Who is Eren Kantarlı?
Eren Kantarlı, born in 1981 in Ankara, was graduated as the first of his class from Ege University’s International Relations Department. He has an MBA in International Marketing from MDH Master Academy in Sweden and in Marketing Management from UCD Michael Smurfit Business School in Ireland. Eren Kantarlı has a professional career in many well-known global companies and currently works for Google Fiber as the Senior Marketing Manager.
Speech Topics
- Marketing communication
- Creative marketing
- Product marketing
- Product management
- Motivation
- Silicon Valley and how it is different from Turkey
- Entrepreneurship
- Personal success story
- Programmatic media
- Technology for the greater good
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