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Itır
Erhart
Istanbul Bilgi University Academic, Social Entrepreneur
Biography
Istanbul Bilgi University Academic, Social Entrepreneur, Marathon Runner
Itır Erhart started charity-runs when she saw a slogan on a Chicago bus stop in 2004: “Difficult to run? Try chemotherapy!” She ran eight marathons and 20 half-marathons to raise funds and create awareness on behalf of NGOs. She is among the founders of Step by Step, Turkey’s first charity-run initiative. Erhart gives stimulating speeches on the effects of creating corporate teams and running for NGOs on corporate communications, sense of belonging and motivation and shares the ways to organize such events and their media echoes with her audience. Erhart focuses on the significance of acting as a team and speaks on ways to raise funds and create awareness through sports.
Step by Step reaches 12 thousand members!
Step by Step, with its 12 thousand members as of 2016, continues to mobilize individuals for social issues through endurance sports and encourages NGOs to be more transparent and accountable. Individual and corporate runners of Step by Step raise funds for their selected NGOs through sports. This model, globally known as “charity run”, is implemented in Turkey for the first time by Step by Step. Step by Step runners raised TL 11 million 700 thousand from 90,000 donators and touched the lives of 60 thousand people since 2007. Using the system, each runner sends messages to 200 people to explain his or her cause. This helps raising funds and create awareness.
Itır Erhart was listed for the “Making a Difference” program in 2009 for her works in civil society issues and granted with the Ten Outstanding Young Persons jury’s special award in 2010. In 2014, she was named as an Ashoka Fellow.
Erhart gives lectures on social gender, human rights, sports and media at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Communication and runs workshops “How To Create Social Benefits” and “How To Improve Self-confidence” at The School of Life Istanbul.
Who is Itır Erhart?
Itır Erhart was born in 1975. She was graduated from Işık School. She majored in English Language & Literature and Philosophy at Boğaziçi University. She graduated from the same school with an M.A. degree in Philosophy and continued at Cambridge University’s Philosophy program. She was graduated with an M.Phil. degree and started teaching at Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2006, she was graduated from Boğaziçi University’s Philosophy Department with a Ph. D. degree. In 2015, she became an associate professor.
Speech Topics
– Raising funds through sports
– Creating awareness through sports
– Making a difference Step by Step
– Sports as a connective initiative
– Making a team
– Social Gender 101
– Do women know about offside? (Sports & Social Gender)
– Civil Society & Accountability
Bihter
Ayyıldız
Lüks Marka Danışmanı
Biyografi
Bihter Ayyıldız, iletişim dalında farklı şapkaları olan bir reklamcı, gazeteci, danışman ve pazarlama uzmanı. Fransa’da aldığı sanat tarihi eğitiminin ardından, reklam sektöründen marka iletişimi tecrübelerini lüks markaların iletişimlerinde kullanmak üzere sektör değiştirdi. Moda ve lüks marka severlerin yakından takip ettiği Ayyıldız, önemli markaların yol arkadaşı. Profesyonel hayatına gazetecilikle başlayıp stratejik pazarlama danışmanlığı yapan Ayyıldız, son zamanlarda yoğun mesai harcadığı influence marketing ve uzantısı olan Love and Hate Marketing’le pazarlama iletişiminin sınırlarını zorluyor.
Bihter Ayyıldız, Saint Benoit Fransız Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra, Fransa’da Charles de Gaulle-Lille Üniversitesi’nde sanat tarihi eğitimi aldı. Fransa’da bulunduğu süre zarfında Paris’te Latin-Jockey Tour’da VIP incoming yönetimi ve Nice’de Cigale Orientale adlı firmada özel davet organizasyonlarına imza attı. Lüksün ve modanın anavatanı olan Fransa’da geçirdiği yıllar profesyonel hayatını şekillendirmesine de katkıda bulundu. Türkiye’ye döndüğünde MARKA Reklam Ajansı ile başlayan kariyerine Balizza ile devam etti. Ardından Tiffany & Co., Omega, Montegrappa, Jaquet Droz, Davidoff, Pequignet, Montblanc gibi dünyanın en değerli lüks ve mücevher markalarının pazarlama ve PR yönetimini üstlendi.
Aynı zamanda Vatan Gazetesi hafta sonu ekleri Bizim Kahve ve Vatan Pazar’ın yanı sıra Milliyet’te köşe yazarlığı yapan Bihter Ayyıldız,Tempo, XOXO ve Luxos gibi dergilere de yazılar yazdı.
2020 yılının başında kurduğu BA Projectz’in çatısı altında global ölçekli lüks markalara ve kültür sanat projelerine stratejik danışmanlık vermektedir. Güncel haber sitesi www.plumemag.com ‘un da kurucusu olan Bihter Ayyıldız’ın uzmanlık alanı Sürdürülebilir marka ve iletişim stratejileridir. Konuşmalarında da lüks kavramını ele alan, lüksün tarihteki yolculuğuna dikkat çeken Ayyıldız, stil sahibi olmanın püf noktalarını, trendlere dair bilgiler aktarıyor.
Konuşma Konuları
- Influencer Marketing
- Influencer İletişimi
- Love and Hate Marketing
Lüksün tanımı değişiyor peki ya kendisi?
Alışılagelen lüksün tanımı değişiyor. Deneyim ve duygusal etkileşim ise, en katı kurallara sahip köklü markaların kilit noktasına dönüşmüş durumda. Dijital iletişimde yenilikçi olup, mağaza içi deneyimde öncü adımlar atan markalar yerini koruyor. Lüks tüketicisi çok üstün kalite malzeme ve essiz tasarım kadar samimi bir içerik iletişimi de arıyor.
- Dijital çağda lüks perakendecilik
Günümüzde dijitalleşme her yere nüfuz etti. Moda dünyası da bundan nasibini aldı. Tüketim artık dijital kanallar aracılığıyla gerçekleştiriliyor. Eğer bu kanallar aracılığıyla da müşteriye dokunmazsanız yok olup gidersiniz.
- Stil sahibi doğamayız ama olabiliriz
Audrey Hepburn ve Grace Kelly gibi bir ikonu kopyalayarak ya da stil danışmanlarıyla çalışıp başkasının hayal gücünün, zekasının ve zevkinin yansıması olan parçaları üzerinde taşıyarak stil sahibi olunur mu? Yoksa stil sahibi olmak kişinin genetik kodlarında mı vardır?
- Gardıropta “Top Ten”
Yıllar değişse de gardırobun değişmeyen ikonik parçaları neler olmalı? Hangi parçalarla zamansız bir şıklık yaşamanız mümkün.
- Sanat ve lüks: Markaların bitmeyen aşkı
Lüks markaların sanatçılarla olan iş birlikleri lüks tüketicisinin her zaman çok olumlu cevap verdiği bir formül. Fakat çok sık tekrarlandığı zaman, ticari algıya neden olup, müşteri gözünde sorgulanan bir alan olmaya da açık.
- Sadeleşme/100 ürünle yaşanır mı?
Sahip olduklarımızın bizi esir almasını daha çok dile getirdiğimiz dönemde, azalarak çoğalmak konusu üzerine düşünceler tartışmaya çok açık.
- İşte bunlar hep lüks…
Yüzyılı aşan hatta bazıları neredeyse 2 asra yaklaşan markaların da dünyanın dört bir yanındaki taleplere cevap vermek için üretim ağlarını geliştirmesi aynı ürüne gereğinden fazla kişinin sahip olabilme fırsatını doğurdu.
- Çağdaş Moda – Kavramsal Moda
Moda artık sadece tasarım ve kumaştan ibaret değil. Tüm bunların yerine çağdaş sanatta olduğu gibi fikir aldı.
- Marka olmak ya da olmamak
Marka olunmaz doğulur diyebiliriz. Bir markanın sadece ürünlerinin kalitesi ve popülaritesi o markanın değerini maalesef belirleyemiyor. Günü doğru değerlendiren ve geleceğe yatıran markalar dışındakilerin pek şansı olmayan bir dönemdeyiz.
- Doğru parçalara yatırım (Minimum parça maksimum şıklık)
Eskilerin bir sözü vardır: Nicelik değil, nitelik önemlidir. İngilizler de “Ucuz ürün alacak kadar zengin değilim”, derler. Bu sözler boşuna söylenmiş değil. Doğru ve sürdürülebilir bir gardırop kendinize yapacağınız en iyi yatırımlardan biri. Ve bunu çok az parçayla yapmak mümkün.
Videolar
Erkan
Yıldırım
Founder and CEO at alwiser, Digital Transformation and Innovation
Biography
Erkan Yıldırım is the owner and the founder of alwiser Digital Transformation Management Consulting. He is also an investor and senior partner at Medron Teknoloji, a leading IoT company that develops sensors, gateways and smart object tracking solutions.
He has been in company boards as a COO for the last 6 years, including top e-commerce companies in Turkey such as 1V1Y.com and trendyol.com. While Mr. Yıldırım was GM Deputy at Boyner Retail Group, he constructed a digital transformation program for Beymen,
composed of numerous company wide projects and applications that yielded seven-fold growth in e-commerce revenues within few years that carried the online revenue ratio to 15% from 3% within three years. As a senior manager at Mercedes-Benz Turk A.Ş. and Danone Turkey, he was responsible for managing supply chain and
logistics operations in Turkey.
Mr. Yıldırım works with corporations to help them in creating company wide digital transformation programs. His specialty is to build omni-channel transition programs for retailers and e-commerce strategies for startups or grown companies. As a consultant, he has built, developed and re-organized companies and strategies,
including mid-size e-commerce companies, e.g. ciceksepeti.com, incehesap.com. In a recent project at Tekzen A.Ş. a home and appliances company with more than 100 stores, Mr. Yıldırım is building the omni-channel digital transformation roadmap, by
applying a unique framework developed within alwiser Consulting Group.
Mr. Yıldırım earned his MSc in Industrial Engineering and Operation Research with Technology Management emphasise from University of California at Berkeley in 2002, upon a BS from Boğaziçi University in 1998 and an MSc from University of Pittsburgh in 2000. He tutored Ph.D. level classes at Pittsburgh and Berkeley.
Speech Topics
- Digital transformation
- Corporat Transformation Strategies
- Creating Business Models
- Leadership
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®)
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?
Yasemin
Bradley
Medical Doctor, Nutrition Consultant
Biography
Yasemin Bradley is a Turkish female physician specialized as nutritionist and dietitian. She is also a television presenter and writer.
Born as Yasemin Özdemir, she graduated from the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir studying medicine. She worked a long time as a prime-time news presenter at the television channel Kanal D. She moved to England and settled there when she was touched much from the destruction of the 1999 İzmit earthquake. In London, she was trained in media production management at the BBC Turkish. She married to psychotherapist Anthony Bradley, who inspired her in healthy lifestyle. Upon her spouse’s advice, she received education in nutrition and dieting at the alternative therapy school ITEC in London.
Özdemir Bradley translated two books of the renowned American television and radio host Larry King (1929–2012) into Turkish under the title Kiminle Ne Zaman, Nerede, Ne Zaman, Nasıl Konuşmalı (1996), II. Dünya Savaşı Aşk Öyküleri (2002) She authored with her spouse diet food books Gelecek Yiyeceklerde (“The Future is in Food”) in 2002, and Bradley Mutfağı (“Bradley’s Cuisine”) in 2004. She edited the memoirs of a military officer and published it in 2002 under the title Parola: Harbiyeli Aldanmaz (“Password: Cadet does not get taken in”). In 2009, she published a series of three books on child development titled Cemile Doğru Beslenmeyi Öğreniyor (“Cemile Learns How to Eat Healthily”), Cemile Sağlıklı Yaşamayı Öğreniyor (“Cemile Learns How to Live Healthily”), and Cemile Boyu Uzasın İstiyor (“Cemile Wishes To Grow Tall”).
In 2012, she started a television program titled Dr. Yasemin Bradley ile Reçetesiz Hayat’ (“Life Without Prescription by Dr. Yasemin Bradley”) at the channel TRT Haber aired Thursday nights at 21:05 local time.
She was honored with the “Best Female TV News Presenter 1996” award by the “Tabloid Journalists Association” (Turkish: Magazin Gazetecileri Derneği).
Hakan
Kırkoğlu
Consultant, Astrologist, Writer
Biography
“Asking to see your astrological chart is a brave decision. When you see your chart, you are looking at yourself in the mirror.”
The DNA of life
R. Hakan Kırkoğlu is a colourful personality. He took the brave decision to leave behind his successful banking career to make his dreams come true. He compares astrology to DNA, claiming that astrology is the DNA of human life. “Our DNA structure shows the colour of our hair, eyes and the illnesses we are susceptible to. The astrological chart can also be regarded as the DNA of life. Let me put this another way: just like magnetic swipe cards that open certain doors for us, so does the chart, too, open certain doors in our lives and not others. Life tries to steer us towards particular doors. Astrology shows us how we can flow together with life, be in it. Astrology is about adjusting ourselves to the rhythm of life. It is an extremely simple, but at the same time, perfect language. Using this language of the 12 signs, we can better understand certain events and periods we encounter. We can see all of life’s dimensions in these 12 signs. We can see the different modes of behaviour in life from Aries to Pisces.”
Who is R. Hakan Kırkoğlu?
Hakan Kırkoğlu worked in treasury, research and financial institutions departments in the banking sector from 1993 until 2000. Denizbank was his last stop in his banking career which he left in 2000 to work on astrology. He studied at the Faculty of Astrological Studies in the UK. He set up his own consultancy firm in Turkey. With a group of colleagues, Kırkoğlu founded Astrobil (Association of Astrology Union) in 2000. He served as the global astrology coordinator at the United Astrology Conference (UAC 2008) held in the USA. Kırkoğlu is also in charge of the first ever course teaching astrology at a university in Turkey.
Speech Topics
- The use of Astrology in HR
- Trends for Turkey and the World
- Astrology maps
- Futurology
Sinan
Ülgen
Risk Management Specialist, Chairman, EDAM (Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies), Founding Member, Istanbul Economics Consultancy Firm
Biography
“Once the economic crisis is over, capitalism will be preserved as the main system. But there will be a transition to a form of capitalism where the former excesses will be reined in.”
A form of capitalism with the old excesses reined in
Sinan Ülgen is an experienced risk management specialist who has been intimately involved in deciding Turkey’s position at the negotiations surrounding the most heated episodes of its EU adventure. According to Ülgen, world leaders are obliged to guarantee their citizens that a crisis similar to the present one will not re-emerge in thee to five years’ time. For some time now, they have been spending their citizens’ money, all the while asking them to endure the hardships. Providing such a guarantee will ultimately require a re-formulation of the international system. This design will have to set a balance between efficiency and consistency, between risk and return differently. With this in mind, it might be possible that this crisis will represent a turning point on the part of the capitalist system as well. Capitalism will be maintained as the main system, but there will be a transition to a form of capitalism in which the excesses are reined in. Ülgen offers consultancy on the reforms Turkey is going to implement in the upcoming period as part of its accession process to the EU, the transformations expected in critical sectors such as banking and energy, and the action steps Turkey should take to attract a higher level of investment.
Who is Sinan Ülgen?
After working as a technical consultant to Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and completing his military service with the Turkish General Staff, he completed a graduate degree on European Union studies in 1990 at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He joined the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked for two years at the United Nations Department in Ankara. From 1992 until 1996, he served on the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the EU in Brussels, where he was involved in deciding Turkey’s position in negotiations regarding the Customs Union. In 1996, he was posted to the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli.
Speech Topics
• Developments in Foreign Policy and Economics
• Risk management
• Relations with the EU
• Sustainable development for Turkey
• Global climate change, Kyoto protocol
• The social responsibility aspect of global climate change
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