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Sevil
Atasoy
UN International Narcotics Control Board member, Owner of Kanıt Informatics Publishing and Consultancy Company, TV producer
Biography
Sevil Atasoy, immediate past president of the UN International Narcotics Control Board and elected as a member of the board for the 2017 – 2022 term, is also the vice-rector of Uskudar University. She also has a TV show titled Kanıt (Evidence) and owns a publishing and consultancy company named Bilişim.
“If your profession requires that you walk with the angels and the demons, what you live through is nothing like the scripts of crime movies. There are no cases which are researched by a handful of people or murders solved in a matter of days. If you work in a country without a DNA database on a national level, many crimes remain unsolved.” she says.
Prof. Dr. Sevil Atasoy was named as the science person of the year in Turkey for her contributions to crime scene investigation processes, forensic laboratories and DNA evidence processes. She shares her thirty-year experience with crime and introduces the audience to the challenging, thrilling and mysterious world of evidence hunters who are focused on facts and only the facts. Atasoy says, “There is no perfect murder. If the attempt were perfect, you would not even see the murder and assume death by natural causes or suicide. The trick is a good autopsy and proper evidence collection.” She served as the Ministry of Justice Chemicals Department Director for twelve years and Istanbul University Forensic Institute Manager for eight years.
Watch out! She has a mobile phone
Sevil Atasoy, represented by Indeks Speaker Agency, says that we as human beings, who have been careful about someone with a stone, stick, blade or pistol in hand, will be looking to hide when we see a mobile phone in the not-so-far future. New generation mobile phones have already been used as deadly weapons for perfect murders, it is just so few people are aware yet. It will be possible to remotely trigger a heart attack, induce a diabetic coma, trigger a traffic accident or induce the vagus nerve of the brain and trigger reflexes.
Speech Topics
• There is No Such Thing as a Flawless Murder; There Are Simply Murders That Are Close to Flawless
• A Guide to Arresting a Serial Killer
• A President Out of Water: Turgut Özal
• CSI: Sex, Lies and Larvae
• Mozart’s Skull, Beethoven’s Hair, Einstein’s Brain and Other Unimportant Things
Şebnem Kalemli
Özcan
Professor of Economics and Finance at University of Maryland, Research Associate, “Center for Economic Policy Research” and “National Bureau of Economic Research”
Biography
Şebnem Kalemli Özcan is one of the world’s leading names in economics. Having worked for many years in the world’s leading economics research institutions and universities, she has a wealth of experience and knowledge at her disposal. Nowadays, she explains economic issues in lay terms and with her distinct energy.
Şebnem Kalemli Özcan is highly sought-after across the world for her opinions on economics. She served as the chief economist for The World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region. Teaching international finance at Harvard University as a visiting professor, she became one of the three academics elected to the IMF Authority in 2012, where she works in cooperation with all the teams of the IMF and, in particular, the research department. She is an economist whose articles have been published in many of the leading international economy magazines. She has given speeches in many different parts of the world.
Kalemli Özcan is a senior researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Center of Economic Policy Research, one of the most highly esteemed centres in the world for economic research. She is also a member of the European Central Bank’s Duisenberg Academy.
Şebnem Kalemli Özcan lectures on international finance at Koç University as a visiting professor. She is one of the most sought-after economists for her opinions on the global economy. At the same time, she is one of the most successful researchers and analysts at Kahin Roubini’s research company.
In addition, she is the first Turkish social scientist to have been awarded the European Commission’s Marie Curie International Reintegration Award for her study on European Financial Integration in 2008.
Kalemli Özcan believes wholeheartedly in the value of the studies and projects that she carries out. She believes that interdisciplinary studies of social science will reinforce each other and analysis of the economy will become easier and more useful.
Who is Şebnem Kalemli Özcan?
She received her Bachelor’s from The Middle East Technical University’s Department of Economics, and received a Master’s and then a doctorate in Economics from the University of Brown, USA.
She worked as an assistant professor, an associate professor and a full professor at Houston University. She has given courses at Bilkent University and Koç University. She has lectured as a professor at Harvard University. She held the position of chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region for The World Bank. Kalemli Ozcan is a member of the Duisenberg Academy of the European Central Bank, and works as a senior researcher for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Koc-TÜSİAD Economic Research Fund, and the Center of Economic Policy Research.
Speech Topics
• International Economy and Development
• The Impact of Population and Living Conditions on the Economy
• Financial Uncertainty and Financial Integration: Crisis
• The Impact of Banks’ Risk Management Activities on the National Economy
• Ways of Gaining the Biggest Advantage in International Financial Markets
• Long Term Investment Strategies of Different Countries
Ece
Temelkuran
Journalist, Writer
Biography
“We need a book that will widen the breath of women and teach us sail to the wind of that breath. Otherwise, we cannot be fixed no matter how much we are loved.”
Having been named as the most read female columnist of Turkey twice until 2010, Ece Temelkuran was named as the “Most influential woman in social media” twice and the “6th most effective social media user of Turkey” once after her retirement as a columnist. She received many awards from universities, human rights organizations and trade associations owing to her articles.
She focused on the psychological state, women’s movement, international politics and the Middle East in her articles. She wrote articles in many countries including Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, France and Germany. Her articles were published in various media outlets including Le Monde Diplomatique, The Guardian, Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau and New Left Review. During her time in Oxford University as a “visiting fellow”, she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, which has become her first book published in English. She wrote 14 books including three novels until today. She lived in Beirut for one year to write The Sounds of Banana and one year in Tunisia to write Women Who Blow on Knots. Her last novel, Time of The Mute Swans, received two awards right after publication. She was invited to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2013 in order to deliver the Freedom Lecture, which is delivered by an international intellectual every year. She was invited to Harvard, London School of Economics, Middlesex, Oxford Universities in order to give speeches about Turkish politics and literature, and gave a speech to The House of Commons in London during the Gezi Park protests. She gives speeches within the scope of “School of Life” established by Allain de Botton. Her books are published in 13 countries including China, Germany and Croatia.
Ece Temelkuran is a writer and political speaker, and lives in Zagreb and Istanbul.
Who is Ece Temelkuran?
Ece Temelkuran was born in Izmir in 1973′. She graduated from Bornova Anatolian High School, followed by the Law School of Ankara University. She started working as a journalist in Ankara Branch of Cumhuriyet in her second year of university and her first book, Woman Are All Confused, was published in the same year. Having started her career as a columnist at Milliyet daily newspaper in 2000, Temelkuran also presented a TV program called “From the Edge”
Speech Topics
Human Psychology
What to do in order to prevent our fears and past wounds from dictating our lives? Absolute goal of life: reproduction.
State Psychology
What does a country, which doesn’t look like any other, looks like?
Women
Fall, rise, fall, rise again. How can this be done by a woman?
Resilience
The knowledge of rising after a fall. There are ways to learn this.
Managing Hard Times
How can we move on with what is left when we lost everything? How can we rise from ashes?
Journey
Memory
What can’t be forgotten stays. But, what about those we can’t remember?
Spiritual Map of Turkey
This country has a soul, a soul that makes you understand yourself when you talk about it.
İlber Ortaylı
Prof. Dr.
Türk Tarih Profesörü, Yazar, Akademisyen
Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
Osmanlı Hanedanı
İstanbul
Tarihten Dersler
Biyografi
Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı, tarihi sevdiren adam olarak biliniyor. Açıklayan, soran, sorgulayan bakış açısı, bazen biraz sivri dili ve doyum olmaz anekdotlarıyla toplantı, seminer ve konferanslarda farklı hedef kitleleri kucaklıyor.
İlber Ortaylı, Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ni ve Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi’nin tarih bölümünü bitirdi. Halil İnalcık, Mümtaz Soysal, Seha Meray gibi önemli isimlerin öğrencisi oldu. Viyana Üniversitesi Slavistik ve Orientalistik Bölümü’nde eğitim gördü. Yüksek lisans çalışmasını Chicago Üniversitesi’nde Halil İnalcık ile yaptı.
Ankara Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’nde 1974 yılında doktor oldu. 1979 senesinde de “Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Alman Nüfuzu” çalışmasıyla doçentliğini aldı. 1982-1989 yılları arasında Viyana, Berlin, Paris, Princeton, Moskova, Roma, Münih, Strazburg, Yanya, Sofya, Kiel, Cambridge, Oxford ve Tunus üniversitelerinde misafir öğretim üyeliği yaptı. 1989’da Türkiye’ye dönerek profesör oldu.
Tarihe farklı bir bakış
Tarihe ve tarihteki olaylara farklı bir perspektiften bakmanın yanı sıra tarihten alınacak derslerle günümüzü değerlendiren ve öngörüleriyle düşündüren Ortaylı, sadece tarihi değil bugünü ve geleceği de konuşuyor. Son kitabı ‘Bir Ömür Nasıl Yaşanır’da insanların hayatlarını en iyi nasıl değerlendirebileceğine dair görüşlerini aktarıyor.
“Yaşadıkları insanın yüzüne yansır” diyen Ortaylı, “Bir insan dingin yaşadıysa, iş yaptıysa, kötülükten kaçındıysa onun verdiği huzurla yüzü bir şekil alır. İnsanın yüzünü bir kitap gibi okuyabilirsiniz. İfadeniz bomboşsa hiçbir şey yaşamadığınız fark edilir. Bundan kurtulmak mümkündür; yaşayın, monotonluktan uzaklaşın, gezin, görün, keşfedin, başkalarıyla ilgilenin, okuyun, sevin. Bunları dolu dolu yapın ki izleri yüzünüze yansısın. Yüzünüz ifadesiz kalmasın.” Diyor.
Bitmeyen öğrenme tutkusu
Türk Tarih Kurumu ‘Şeref Üyeleri’ arasında yer alan İlber Ortaylı, ileri seviyede Almanca, Fransızca, İngilizce, İtalyanca ve Rusça; orta seviyede Kırım Tatarca, Slovakça, Romence, Sırpça, Hırvatça, Boşnakça, Arapça, Farsça, Latince, İbranice, Antik Yunanca ve Yunanca biliyor.
Osmanlı ve Rus tarihi ile ilgili makaleleri yerli ve yabancı dergilerde yayınlanan İlber Ortaylı’nın kitaplarının bazıları yabancı dillere çevrildi. 2005 – 2012 yılları arasında Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Başkanı olarak çalışan İlber Ortaylı, halen Galatasaray Üniversitesi ve Bilkent Üniversitesi’nde Türk Hukuk Tarihi dersi vermektedir.
İlber Ortaylı, Uluslararası Osmanlı Etüdleri Komitesi Başkan yardımcısı ve Avrupa İran Tetkikleri Cemiyeti üyesidir.
İlber Ortaylı’nın ayrıca çocukluğundan beri büyük bir tutku ve özenle biriktirdiği minyatür otomobillerden oluşan büyük bir koleksiyonu bulunuyor.
Konuşma Konuları
- Doğu ve Batı toplumların tarih içinde değişimi gelişimi
- Osmanlı’dan günümüze şehircilik
- Dünden bugüne İstanbul
- Geçmişi bilmek, geleceğini anlamak
Ediz
Hun
Ecologist, Instructor Okan University / Actor
Biography
“Common sense and science will help us in creating environmentally friendly producers and consumers in order to enhance the welfare and quality of life of our people.”
Population growth needs to be more firmly controlled
Ediz Hun is one of the golden names of Turkish cinema. He was one of the most well-known faces of an era. When he saw cinema reaching a deadlock, he turned to a different career path. He built his future around tackling environmental issues, the number one topic for the world today. Upon returning to Turkey as a successful scientist, he even went into politics for the sake of the environment. “In today’s system of global values and the contemporary approach to management, there are three basic elements: democratisation, human rights, and environmental protection law focusing on human-induced environmental pollution. All three are issues that societies must resolve at once”, says Hun.
The world’s population is currently growing by 300,000-350,000 people, or 10 football stadiums, a day. Hun believes that environmental issues can be resolved by controlling population growth. “Istanbul has a population of 15-16 million. One person produces four to seven litres of waste a day depending on their age and eating habits. Assuming an average of four litres, Istanbul produces 64 million litres of waste a day. If we do not control population growth, it will be impossible to manage environmental issues and the resulting global climate change.”
Ediz Hun is a speaker in high demand – he gives 35-40 lectures annually and the topics vary according to demand. He keeps his audiences spell-bound on stage with his active and vibrant presentations. His presentations are between 45-55 minutes in length and end with a QA section.
Who is Ediz Hun?
Ediz Hun holds a degree in biology and environmental science from Oslo and Trondheim Universities in Norway. He became a lecturer at Marmara University in 1985. He served as a consultant to the Ministry of the Environment and as Istanbul Provincial Director of the Environment between 1991 and 1993. He became a member of parliament for the ANAP (the Motherland Party) in the 1999 elections. He Served as the Chairman of the Environmental Commission of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He gives environmental and ecology classes at Bahçesehir and Okan Universities. He has worked in the Turkish film industry for 36 years.
Speech Topics
• Global warming
• Ecology/Urban Ecologies
• Nature-human relations in socio-economic development
• Global climate change and the status of the world
•Friendship and Charity in Life
• World and Own Movies History
Gani
Müjde
Writer, Script Writer, Director, Cartoonist
Biography
“One of our teachers told us to look at people in the streets, write stories about them and develop characters for them in our mind. I make many observations. The characters I cast are real Turkish people.”
A coffee/laughter break with Gani Müjde
Gani Müjde is a talented name whose works have filled our lives with joy. He has successfully managed to pull off many “firsts” in a landscape where “new” is not easily accepted. The master humourist’s films, which he produces and directs, and his TV series and programs, for which he writes the scripts, are embedded in our memories.
Gani Müjde invites his audience for a coffee break where he tells amusing anecdotes from his life and comments on interesting newspaper headlines, as well as celebrity blunders. The positive way he looks at life transports you away from your daily routine and makes for a truly special experience.
Take a break and smile at life with Gani Müjde!
Who is Gani Müjde?
Gani Müjde was born in 1959 in Istanbul. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University’s Cinema and Television Academy. Müjde worked for Gırgır and Fırt magazines for eight years. He also worked as an editor at the magazine Laklak. He then went on to establish Limon magazine and began writing a column called “Peynir Gemisi.”
He now heads a writer’s group called Tükenmezkalem and owns a production company called Peynir Gemisi.
Speech Topics
• Conversations with humorous anecdotes
Levent
Erden
Akademisyen ve Reklamcı
Biography
Levent Erden is a graduate of Bogazici University, where he studied his undergrad and MBA. However, he prefers to call himself as a member of “Galatasaray” graduates. He started his career as an advertiser, he worked for McCan for 3 years. To initiate L’Oreal’s Turkey operations, he traveled between France and Turkey. During the last market leadership of Pepsi Co., he was the International brand manager. Since that, we can say that he took almost all executive roles. He consistantly works on emphasizing the relation between marketing and finance. He was the CEO of Euro RSCC Turkey and the Presindent of Interactive Advertising Bureau of Turkey. He gives lectures about Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communications, Advertising and Consumer Behavior at Bilgi University MBA and e-MBA programs. For the last 10 years, he has been trying to create a book out of his speeches at different conferences.
Varol
Yaşaroğlu
Professional Photographer, Cartoonist, Illustrator, Founder and Owner of Grafi2000 Productions
Biography
That “it is possible to change every single thing in the dream world that we have created by ourselves” is Varol Yaşaroğlu’s life philosophy. He is the founder and owner of his much beloved Grafi2000 Productions, which “combines the world of information technologies with humour.”
The producer and creator of the TV animation series “Fırıldak Ailesi,” creator of the program “Koca Kafalar,” and founder of Grafi2000 Productions, Varol Yaşaroğlu successfully combines humour, caricature and animation. With their creative applications that bring the world of IT and the world of comedy and humour together, Grafi2000 Productions generates written and visual material and projects for TV, the internet and mobile appliances. Their latest project is youtube.com/grafi2000, their own private entertainment channel. Yaşaroğlu and his team produce all their caricatures, illustrations and animations solely using digital media, with no pen or paper, and send the products to their customers on a digital platform. Yaşaroğlu believes that “it is possible to change every single thing in the dream world we have created by ourselves,” and takes this motto as his life philosophy.
First Turkish flash animation commercial
Projects carried out by Varol Yaşaroğlu include “Grafi2000.com” (internet site), “Koca Kafalar ile Baba” (News Bulletin – TV Program), “Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki” (TV series) and “Fırıldak Ailesi” (TV animation series). His “Grafi2000” TV comedy program was awarded the “Best Entertainment Program” in 2004 by the Private Radio and TV Broadcasting Association. Yaşaroğlu and his Grafi2000 team are also the creators of “Delete-Extra,” known as the first Turkish flash animation commercial on the internet.
Yaşaroğlu has also worked as a scriptwriter for commercials and comedy programs, as a part of the creative team he founded, “MR. VEB.” He has also co-written TV programs, such as “Tek Pota,” “Televizyon Çocuğu,” “Çılgın Bediş,” “Laf Lafı Açıyor,” “Alkışlar,” “D-Lüks,” “Rifle and Wendy’s Beyaz Show,” “Çarkı Felek,” and “Dinamit T.V.” His other works include an adaptation of the theatre play “Şen Makas,” and the script for Beyaz’s stand-up shows, “Ben Bir Küçük Cezveyim Köşe Bucak Gezmeyim” and Mehmet Ali Erbil’s stand-up shows at Casino Maksim, among many others.
Spending most of his time developing the Internet and Comedy Magazine Grafi2000, Yaşaroğlu also takes part in social responsibility projects for corporate firms with his graphics and animations. He also gives seminars at various universities on the computer world, the internet and comedy, while also working as a caricaturist and illustrator at the magazines “Ekonomist” and “Capital.”
Varol Yaşaroğlu – A Short Bio
Varol Yaşaroğlu was born in March 1968 in Izmir. He studied at Izmir Atatürk High School and graduated from Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Civil Engineering in 1989. He received his graduate degree from Istanbul University’s Department of Economics, Money Bank. Yaşaroğlu received numerous awards from around 25 caricature contests, including the International Nasreddin Hodja and Yunus Nadi Caricature Competitions. In 1990, he worked at Güneş newspaper as a caricaturist, and in the following years he wrote the scripts (with MR.VEB) and worked as the art director for the TV series, “Plastip Show.” In 1998, Yaşaroğlu created a new animated character, “Teşvik,” for Milliyet Newspaper’s labour and human resources supplement. He was a guest on the program “Kariyer Dünyası” (Career World) on TRT 2 along with the animations and adventures of Teşvik. Yaşaroğlu has given many seminars on the world of computing, the internet and comedy at various universities and schools, such as Kültür Koleji, Bosphorus University, Istanbul Technical University, Middle East Technical University, Marmara University and Yeditepe University. He also worked as a caricaturist and illustrator at the magazines “Ekonomist” and “Capital”. His production company, Grafi2000 Productions, has also achieved success in the world of advertising.
Speech Topics
Technology and Comedy
What are possible ways to create new projects and media, using technology and comedy together? How can you enrich your projects by making use of these two?
Animation
2D, 3D, cut-out or stop motion: how can we use animation most effectively to add value to our projects?
Innovation
What does innovation mean for your business and your projects? What are the main reasons for having an innovative perspective?
Entrepreneurship
How can we cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit while trying to achieve our dreams?
Creativity
How can you use creativity as a dynamo to strengthen your business and your projects?
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