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Özhan
Atalay
Management Consultant
Biography
Özhan Atalay helps companies save their future and he is an expert on issues of loss and high costs. Atalay, ex-general manager of Century 21 Turkey, makes presentations and provides consultancy services on niche areas including sales rules, psychology of human behavior and leadership. He has a book named Guide to Failure for Managers and teaches people how to make a difference in competition for business success.
Atalay played a role in reorganization of many companies and helped them in reaching the right information, detecting mistakes, developing practical solutions, taking action and getting results. Atalay makes brilliant speeches to professionals seeking constructive solutions in the business world and he is recognized as an expert in increasing efficiency, profitable growth, recovering companies, reducing costs, institutionalization, course change, making companies profitable, organization and change of strategy.
Atalay started his career at STFA İnşaat A.Ş. and went to England for language training after his military service. He came back to Turkey and joined the team involved in opening Swissotel Istanbul. He founded Skor Management Consultancy and provided services on installation of IT/ERP systems, increasing efficiency, financial consultancy and international tax planning. With his English partners, he adapted the global EPR system Omicron Financials to Turkey under the name Skor Financials, provided sales and maintenance services and sold the company four years later to continue his career in other fields of expertise.
Who is Özhan Atalay?
Özhan Atalay, born in Istanbul, was graduated from the Business Administration of Istanbul University. Atalay serves as CFO at Teknoloji Holding, Assistant General Manager at Schindler Asansör AŞ, General Manager at Premdor Masonite Kapı Sanayi AŞ, Assistant General Manager at Muratlı Karton A.Ş. and General Manager at Vega Services Inc.
He is an expert on companies which fail to make profit although there is no problem with the business model as well as those which want to increase profits. Atalay serves as Independent Professional Board Member as per the new TCC and CMB. He is married and a father of two.
Speech Topics
– How to prevent drivers of loss for companies?
– Cost reduction, profit increase, market share growth, profitable growth for profitable companies
– Institutionalization, standardization
– Increasing efficiency, reducing costs
– Saving a company
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?
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
Gül
İrepoğlu
Architect, Art Historian, Writer
Biography
Prof. Dr. Gül İrepoğlu studied architecture at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. When she was a doctoral student, she started to work as an assistant at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters in Istanbul University. She completed her doctorate in 1984. She became an associate professor in 1991, a full professor in 1997. She gave her classes on “the Renaissance Art”, “Baroque Art”, “Neoclassic and Romantic Art”, “European Art in the 19th century”, “Ottoman Art in Westernization” “Comparative History on Art” and “Ottoman Miniature Art”.
Prof. İrepoğlu retired from Istanbul University after she served 26 years. She has numerous publications on the Painting Art in the 18th – 20th centuries, Portrait of Ottoman Sultans, Artistic relationship between East and West and History of Jewelry.
Prof. İrepoğlu is the board member of UNESCO Turkish National Commission as well as the chairperson of special committee of Cultural Heritage. She is also the trustee and the chairperson of TAÇ foundation (Türkiye Anıt Çevre Turizm Değerlerini Koruma Vakfı). She has prepared and presented television programs “Şehir Mekân” and “Sanat Mekân” on TRT2 between 2005 and 2007. Prof. İrepoğlu is also a fiction writer and has published many books such as: “Gölgemi Bıraktım Lale Bahçelerinde” (2004), “Cariye” (2007). She has given conferences in Turkey and abroad.
Selected books:
Feyhaman Duran, (Istanbul 1986).
Levnî, Nakış-Şiir-Renk / Levnî, Painting Poetry colour, (Istanbul 1999).
Padişahın portresi: Tesavir-i Ali Osman / The Sultan′s Portrait, Picturing the House of Osman, (as co author), (Istanbul 2000).
Lale Devri′nin bir Görgü Tanığı: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour/ An Eyewitness Of The Tulip Era: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, (Istanbul 2003).
Gölgemi Bıraktım Lale Bahçelerinde, (Istanbul 2004).
Zeki Faik İzer, (Istanbul 2005).
Cariye, (Istanbul 2007).
Bülent
Şenver
Economist ,Strategic Management Counselor ,Founder of Book Foundation
Biography
“It is not possible to manage today’s economy with older economic models and today’s banking systems with older banking instruments. We have to keep up with the pace of change.”
Bülent Şenver is one of the most respected names in Turkish Banking. Having played a crucial role in Turkey’s recent economic past, Şenver is a speaker who is very much in demand in the fields of finance, economy, leadership, ethical values, balance sheet management, risk management and corporate governance. For him, if a bank is to truly be considered strong, this must hold true in its every aspect. He emphasizes the importance of sustainable success and adds: “we have to encourage the development of young leaders in every field. Turkey needs young leaders.” Şenver emphasizes the importance of leadership and youth. He possess an impressive background in academic activities in addition to his vast experience in banking and economics. Şenver points out that leadership is important for every subject and profession. For him, the same principles apply for leaders of small organisations as for great leaders who get millions of people to follow them.
Bülent Şenver was a trailblazer in many areas of banking, launching numerous banking products and services, such as credit cards with photos, increased securitisation, telephone banking, overdraft accounts, insured bank deposits, euro bank deposits and housing loans.
Who is Bülent Şenver?
Bülent Şenver, the grandfather of Turkish banking, introduced many innovations to Turkish banking systems. The Founding President of Türklider Center, Şenver gives lectures on “Electronic Banking”, “Active/Passive Management in Banks”, “Investment Banking”, “Commercial Banking” and “Management Ethics” at Bosphorus and Bilgi Universities. From 1994 to 2000, he served as the chairman of the Turkish-American Business Association (TABA-AmCham), as a member on the board of directors and executive board of the European Council of American Chambers of Commerce (ECACC), and was its treasurer during the same period. He was the founding president of the Ethical Values Foundation of Turkey (TEDMER).
Speech Topics
• Banking and finance
• Corporate governance in SMEs
• Corporate businesses
• Internal control and auditing systems
• The global crisis and its effects on Turkey
• Ethical values
• Innovation
• Leadership
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
Ferhat
Boratav
Journalist, Historian
Biography
“Technology turned our approach to communications upside down, as it did our fantasy world. We are in an era where media is unable to control the information flow or the idea creation process on its own.”
Ferhat Boratav is the editor-in-chief for CNNTurk. CNN is the TV channel that transformed our understanding of TV programming and reporting. When you are in charge of such a communication tool, you get a grip on the entire world. On top of being the person to most closely follow-up the day, Boratav is an historian. Drawing the attention with his analyses that combine history with the present time, Boratav is a sought-after speaker in communications and “We the Turks” topics. Leading to major transformations in every department of life, technology bears its most evident effect on the communications sector. Stating that Turkey did not experience as strong a transformation as the rest of the world, but that developments will soon transform Turkey as well. Boratav says that mental change should occur first, in order for a true revolution in communication to take place.
Organ donation is a new topic on our agendas about which we are not very comfortable, either. It is a new headline we may or may not welcome depending on our education level. Possessing serious experience in this topic within the scope of his professional activities, Boratav formulated organ donation as social responsibility campaigns in different occasions, and undersigned successful projects. Boratav shares his experiences in organ donation as an individual topic of speech.
Who is Ferhat Boratav?
Ferhat Boratav got his degree in history from Boğaziçi University. He received his master’s degree on “Turkish Immigrant Workers” from Grenoble University in France. His media career began at Nokta newsmagazine. He worked as a producer, presenter and radio journalist at the BBC World Service’s Turkish Section. Upon his return to Turkey, he briefly worked for a television production company. He then went back to the newsroom, and served as the managing editor of ATV News and then as the editor-in-chief at CNN Turk, where he currently holds the position of editorial consultant. He considers his years in the university drama club and his work as a cook in France as important chains of his subsequent career.
Speech Topics
- History
- How will be comment journal
- Futurism of Mediatic;Future of Media Citizen
- Responsibility /Social Sensivity
- Organ donation
- Life of Old Growing People; Our New Social Case
- Woman Issue;Social Gender Equility
Mert
Aydıner
Communication Specialist, Sinergologist and Writer
Biography
He is studying on defining physiological and psychological reasons of our behaviours and decisions based on his background in the field of neuroanatomy. He is adapting these scientifically proven outputs to the business life and designing training programs that has economical value under the name of Academy Neuro Institute of Neuroscience Training & Coaching.
Thanks to neuroscience he managed for people to define their emotional states through mindfulness and deep insight. So that without having to react to stimuli we may have the conscious choice of how to respond. For those studies he is benefiting from the source of “Emotional Skills and Competencies (ESaC) – Evaluating Truthfulness and Credibility (ETaC) – Truth and Lies – The Science (TLS) ve Facial Action Coding System (FACS)” developed by Paul EKMAN.
As a seasoned executive coach he is developing new tools related to self-leadership, emotional intellegence and communication for facilitating the adaptation of “new generation management model” through coaching and mentoring for the business world. Within this context he designed “5 STEPS OF NEW GENERATION LEADERSHIP MODEL” that consist of “Harmony>Desire>Motion>Satisfaction>Repeat” based on neuroscience to increase trust, loyalty and performans in the work places.
Common philosophy of all his works is “programming and training the brain to think”. He believes that we can transform to a people magnet in this exploration voyage when we strive to be impressed and not not to impress, to be taught not to teach.
He is writing books, articles and giving lectures for people to get inspired by those revelations and make their own discoveries.
He is the author of two Best Selling Books that one is named Nöro Satış Müşteri Mıknatısı Olmanın Formülü (Neuro Sales For Success) and the other is Maskeli Balo (Masquerade Ball at Communication).
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