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Serhan
Bali
Writer, Musician
Biography
Bali is the founder and editor in chief of the Opera and Ballet newspaper of the State Opera and Ballet Directorate of Turkey since 2011. Writing for the national press for over 10 years, Bali has also been the classical music columnist of the Radikal newspaper in Turkey since 2002. Also working as an editor in the music publishing field, Bali was the editor of pianist Fazıl Say’s latest book in Turkish named Yalnızlık Kederi-The Sadness of Loneliness. As an active radio producer, after working in Turkish Radio Television-TRT for several years, he now spends his time in producing and presenting music programs on Borusan Klasik, a 24 hours classical music radio channel in Istanbul. Bali took part in the advisory board of the Istanbul Music Festival between the years 2007-2009. During the previous years Serhan Bali has been an active participator in the meetings, conferences, panels all over the world in which the rich classical music tradition and the active classical music life in Turkey is being assessed. One of these recent meetings was organized by the BBC Radio 3 on 29th of July, 2014 in the Royal College of Music where Bali was one of the panelists talking about the recent developments in the classical music life of his country with good and bad aspects. Alongside the editorship of the Andante, Serhan Bali continues to write for the national and international press including the Opera magazine of UK of which he’s a regular contributor from Turkey. He’s also the presenter and scriptwriter of a documentary series on the Turkish channel IZ TV which has the topic of great composers and their birth cities.
Who is Serhan Bali?
Born in Ankara in 1973, Serhan Bali, after graduating from the Political Science and International Relations department of Istanbul University in 1995, finished his master thesis in the field of late diplomatic history of the Ottoman Empire. After working several years as a professional in the private sector, he began publishing the only nationwide classical music periodical in Turkey named Andante in 2002. As both the publisher and the editor in chief of Andante, Serhan Bali, alongside other respected editors and classical music journalists of several European countries, is among the jury members of the International Classical Music Awards-ICMA (www.icma-info.com) which gives awards to the best classical music recordings every year.
Speech Topics
Archive Culture in Classical Music
Baroque Period
The Birth of Piano
Classical Period in Music
Love and Sexuality in Classical Music
Romantic Period in Music
National Schools and Intercultural Interaction in Classical Music
Coşkun
Aral
Journalist, International War Photographer, Documentary Producer
Biography
“Travelling around the world as a documentary photographer capturing incredible moments, the question foremost on my mind was what more can be done to convert all the experiences and information of these moments into some form of document?”
Welcome to Coşkun Aral’s World!
Coşkun Aral is an experienced journalist, international war photographer, adventure seeker, explorer, traveller, and documentary producer; there may not be words enough to describe him. He travels all around the world, contemplating and sharing what he witnesses. He is now part of Indeks’ Speakers Agency as a solution’s partner, offering unique opportunities to those who wish to pay a visit to his extraordinary world, even if for a short period of time.
He has travelled to countless countries and has visited almost every corner of Turkey. Some of the places to which he has travelled we were not even aware existed!
Aral organizes trips to special cities and regions all around Turkey and the world and reveals the beauty and the uniqueness of the destination, offering a once in a lifetime experience for the participants. You can either stick to Aral’s plan or choose your own route. Are you ready to rediscover the world with Coşkun Aral?
Some interesting destinations in Turkey
Bursa: Horses and the “Kangal” dogs at Karacabey
Denizli: The secret face of Hyrapolis
Antalya: The hidden face of Saklıkent and the lost cities
Şanlıurfa: Exploring Mesopotamia in Halfeti, the land of black roses
Gaziantep: Zeugma’s magical dinner tables
Kilis: From the fields of death to the forests of life
Mardin: Alexander’s dreamland – Dara
Kayseri: The legends of Erciyes
Çankırı: The world’s largest salt cave
Some adventures abroad
India: A symbolic wedding at Rajasthan, discovering heaven in Kashmir
Nepal: A journey from the foothills of Mount Everest to the jungle
Sri Lanka: Extraordinary festivals
Czech Republic: Turkish faces in Prague
South Africa: Walking in the footsteps of our ancestors
Laos-Cambodia: Lost civilisations
Peru: Amazonian and Incan civilisations
Egypt: Journey through a mysterious world
In his presentation, “Wars of Men, Men of War,” Coşkun Aral blends his stories with images of events and people he encountered during his career as a war correspondent and documentary producer. His impressive presentation is masterfully complemented by his speech, in which he emphasizes that there is a way to achieve everything even if the goals seem impossible.
Who is Coşkun Aral?
Coşkun Aral was born in 1956 in Siirt. He started his professional career as a press photographer in 1974. His name spread across the globe via Sipa Press thanks to his photographs of Turkey’s “Bloody May 1st, 1977”. He worked as Sipa Press’ Turkey reporter as well as as a freelance photographer for a number of Turkish media outlets, such as Turkish News Agency, Milliyet and Hürriyet. He started photographing wars in countries such as Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Chad and the Far East in 1980. In 1980 he conducted the first ever interview in history with the hijackers of a hijacked airplane. He is the founder of İZ TV, the first ever Turkish documentary channel. Aral continues to work as a war photographer for periodicals such as Time, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Stern and Epoca. He also continues to work as the producer of his TV documentary program, Haberci.
Speech Topics
“Information heals, information brings”
The topics included in “Wars of men, men of war” are decided according to the theme of the meetings. His presentations are full of inspiring examples of risk-taking, time management, leadership and team spirit.
Urban culture, life and architecture
Extraordinary tourism trails
Extraordinary lives
Unusual treatments
Extraordinary clothes / make-up / hair styles
Exceptional food and cooking methods
Extraordinary beliefs, rituals, weddings
Women and children of the world
Travel and adventure
360 degrees earth: from the first people to the present
Photo & Video Workshops
Coşkun Aral assists in photography & documentary productions, offering guidance based on his professional experience.
He offers travel advice from a journalist’s perspective and also provides technical assistance on specific travel trails.
Coşkun Aral afterwards evaluates videos and recordings produced during the event.
Get your own documentary!
We have been watching Aral’s fantastic documentaries with amazement for years now. His huge archive of documentaries is priceless. As a solution’s partner to İndeks’ Speakers Agency, he offers companies an opportunity to benefit from this precious archive. If needed, he can produce and shoot new documentary films according to companies’ wishes. Why not take part yourself in the production of a documentary film with the legendary documentary producer, Coşkun Aral?
Does your company have a 3D movie?
Coşkun Aral’s third project is preparing 3D films for companies to use for promotional purposes. These films are very useful, especially for trade fairs, where they can offer the target customers a real time experience. For instance, if a person is watching a 3D film of a hotel, they can actually take a tour inside the building and the hotel’s surrounding area. Simply by putting on the 3D glasses, you can experience the hotel without moving an inch.
Other projects
Coşkun Aral also has several other projects aimed at businesses. One of these projects is cooking workshops in which the company’s employees participate together and taste delicious foods from all around the globe. Aral does not forget to share the stories of the amazing dishes in these entertaining workshops. In another project, the experienced journalist prepares books for the companies, based on their specifications.
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
Celal
Seçkin
Management Consultant, EFQM Trainer and EFQM Assessor
Biography
Celal Seçkin is a graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He worked as an engineer and manager in PTT ARLA (TELETAŞ) and Siemens for 17 years.
He has undergone a variety of business excellence, management and leadership training programmes and has attended many national and international symposia, congresses and forums in the field of quality and organisational excellence as speaker, moderator and organiser
He worked at Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer) in 1998-2000, as Manager of the National Quality Awards Program and four years at the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) in Oct 2000-Dec 2004, as Manager of the European Quality Awards Program (now known as EFQM Excellence Award) and worked as part of the development team for the EFQM recognition scheme “EFQM Levels of Excellence”, revision of EFQM Model and development of EFQM training programs.
As a qualified EFQM Excellence Assessment Team leader, he has participated and led numerous organisational excellence assessments both in public and private sectors in many countries. As a member of the EFQM Faculty, he has trained many hundreds of assessors in many countries.
Celal Seçkin is founder of Seçkin Consulting and Training Co. Ltd, a Turkey-based company in management consultancy covering organisational performance management, internal/external assessments, leadership, change management, strategic planning, process management, continuous improvement and teamwork.
He took part as an instructor in Professional certification programs jointly organised by KalDer and Bosphorus, Sabancı and Okan Universities.
He is highly motivated for continuous learning and passionate for working in multi-cultural environments and believes that the EFQM Excellence Approach is one of the key aspects that will contribute to a better future for human being.
Speech Topics
Stories of (Un)success in Corporate Excellence
What are similar about well-managed institutions? What are the barriers or facilitator en route to corporate excellence?
Sustainability, leadership and adaptation to change in corporate excellence.
Sharing of experience on corporate excellence.
Corporate Mirror: Self-evaluation; but how?
Why self-evaluation? How to ensure objectivity, fairness and clarity in self-evaluation? What are the strengths and areas of improvement available for determination by self-evaluation? How to benefit from the results of self-evaluation? What are the basic elements in designing the improvement process?
Diving Power Behind the Process of Change of Institutions: Leadership
What is the impact of leadership in corporate management, change processes and success? How to evaluate the relations between corporate culture, values & ethical perspective and leadership? What are the basic features of a successful leader’s profile? How to meet the expectations of the stakeholders and manage the relations as a leader?
How To Act at Inevitable Junctions: Change Management
The feeling of the need for change. Resistance and adaptation to change.
The role of leaders and leadership in the process of change. Corporate culture, values and change.
Management of change process. Role of stakeholders in change management.
That’s Life, But It’s Not Inevitable: Innovation
Why innovation? A need? A luxury? A requirement? A trend? A hobby? Making a difference? How? Relations with corporate culture and management approach. Examples of failure in innovation… Barriers, facilitators. Sustainability in innovation.
Let’s Work, Search, Understand and Solve Together: Moderation, Workshops, Management and Design of Search Conferences
Workshops on certain areas of focus for performance improvement and a better and more effective management approach?
Strategic planning.
Process management.
Employee satisfaction.
Customer satisfaction.
Social responsibility.
Change management.
Sustainability.
Ethics, corporate culture, values etc.
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
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.
Dilek Cindoğlu,
Prof. Dr.
Ph.D, Professor of Sociology and Acting Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Abdullah Gül University, Turkey
Biography
Previously, she worked at Mardin Artuklu University and Bilkent University. She is a graduate of Bogazici University, Istanbul (B.A. and M.A.) and received her Ph.D. (1991) State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published extensively on the gendered processes of paid work, political participation, migration, health and sexuality in international journals and in book chapters. She was a Visiting Senior Scholar at the IRWAG of the Columbia University of New York (2010-2011), received, “Direct Access to the Muslim World” award from the Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program (2006) was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality at the NYU (2003),and Senior Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford (2002), was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1998-1999).She was consultant on various research projects funded by national (Tubitak, KSSGM, AAK) and international (IDRC, Ford Foundation, World Bank, ILO-IPEC,EU) bodies, served as an elected EC member at Turkish Sociological Association, (TSA) 2008-2014 and International Sociological Association (ISA) 2010-2018. Her work has been published at national and international academic journals and as book chapters.
Speech Topics
- Sociology of Work
- Women’s Participation in Business
- Why Women stay at Home?
- Why so few women in working life?
- Political Sociology
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
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