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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

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

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

Olcay
Silahlı

Social Enterprenuer,Co-Founder & CEO at Fazla Gıda

Biography

Who is Olcay Silahlı?

Graduated from İstanbul Teknik University Management engineering co-founder and CEO at Whole Surplus firm, a B2B Tech Platform enabling retailers manage their unsold inventory with best financial and environmental recovery value. The platform of B2B waste, help companies decrease the financially non sold stock resource and environmental nonefficients.

Silahli prior to forming his own company has worked as trade marketing manager and food brand manager for various products at Unilever. He has wide experince in social work and youth projects, such as Coordinating Ambassador Europe & Returning Ambassador Bangkok’15 Su

Speech Topics

  • Waste Food Management
  • Fight Against Hunger and Poverty
  • Setting a Social-Technology Initiative
  • Suggestions for Social Entrepreneurs

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?

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

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

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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