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Kadir
Çöpdemir
TV producer, TV and Radio Programmer, Actor
Biography
“I have a natural bioenergy. I can communicate with people and express myself easily. That’s why people feel comfortable around me.”
He is a natural. He is genuine. He has a unique style which lets him communicate with people easily. Kadir Çöpdemir’s name is now well-known thanks to the numerous engaging projects he has successfully brought into being since he first entered the public consciousness broadcasting on private radio. From TV and radio programming to reporting, acting and writing, every project he touches turns to gold: every single one is an absolute success.
The projects that he has prepared for companies, in particular, have drawn a lot of attention lately. These offbeat projects have been shaped by Çöpdemir according to the companies’ needs, demands and expectations. He joins ad campaigns, cheers up meetings and grabs attention with product launches. He also interviews the employees and the customers of the companies. As you can imagine, all these events become incredibly colourful thanks to his brilliant style. Now he is joining Indeks’ Speakers Agency as a solution’s partner to offer business this unique and entertaining opportunity to get involved in something out of the ordinary. Kadir Çöpdemir has done some extraordinary projects for companies such as Teknosa, Garanti Bankası, Ford, Reckitt-Benckiser, Daimler-Chrysler, Fortis Bank, Renault, Permatik, Siemens and Pepsi.
Who is Kadir Çöpdemir?
Kadir Çöpdemir was born in Zile, Tokat in 1967. He graduated from Istanbul University, starting his career at Süper FM, Turkey’s first private radio station.
Çöpdemir worked as an actor in various television and cinema movies including “Ekmek Teknesi,” “Amerikalılar Karadeniz’de 2,” “Sınav,” “Deli Duran,” “Kızma Birader” and “Ask Yakar”. His television programs, “Gerçeğin Ta Kendisi,” “Biri Bana Anlatsın,” and “Hiç Bunları Kendine Dert Etmeye Değer Mi” were broadcast on NTV. His talk show “Maksat Muhabbet” was broadcast on ATV. Currently he is the producer of the TV programme “Kadir Çöpdemir Koptu Geliyor” shown on TRT 1.
Speech Topics
• Moderation on a defined topic
Deniz
Gökçe
Economist, Football Critic, Writer
Biography
He was brought into the spotlight thanks to his calm attitude during the economic crisis. He helped his audience approach turbulent times with common sense. He consistently reminded us of “the other side of the coin” with his positive and creative responses to events, when many people panicked at the very mention of a crisis.
“Do not mourn or be pessimistic”
Deniz Gökçe endeavours to simplify the complicated world of the economy for his audience. He attracts a lot of attention by going beyond the conventional pessimistic discourse and adopting a realistic and optimistic approach.
“There are many common points between the economy and football”
According to Gökçe, the economy and football share many common characteristics. Gökçe considers that both economy and football emphasize the importance of competition. “There are at least two sides in both football and the economy. Catastrophes are bound to happen both in football and in the economy in environments where competition is not respected and where opponents or rivals are despised.”
Gökçe gives speeches about the economy and offers his predictions for the future of the Turkish economy as well as the world at the macro and micro level. In his speeches he uses economic data and reports in order to address economic concerns but also provides a sincere and realistic roadmap.
Who is Deniz Gökçe?
Born in 1942, Deniz Gökçe graduated from the İstanbul German High School. He attended the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University, after which he obtained his MBA in Finance at Georgia State University in the USA and a PhD in Economics. After working as a lecturer at Georgia State and Emory Universities, he began teaching at the Economy and Management Departments at Bosphorus University in Turkey. In addition to his academic activities, he offers consultancy services and provides training sessions for numerous companies. Alongside his regular column in Akşam Newspaper where he presents his analyses of the economy, Gökçe is continuing his academic career at Bahçeşehir University as the Head of the International Finance Department.
Speech Topics
• The new world order in the economy
• Competition
• The Turkish economy: a macro perspective
• The Turkish economy: a micro perspective
• The changing world and the Turkish economy
• Social and economic aspects of football
Cem Tarık
Yüksel
Unilever Turkey – Vice President of Sales and Customer Development, Russia, Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia
Biography
“The key to success is neither to adapt to nor manage change, but to go one step forward and lead the change.”
Shaping the change
Cem Tarık Yüksel is an experienced HR expert and a successful executive. In his 22-year career at Unilever, considered one of the world’s best “management schools”, he has experienced and implemented numerous different styles of management, leadership, coaching, supply chains and human resources. Today he shares his extensive knowledge and experience with others. Yüksel gives speeches at many universities, companies and non-governmental organisations, and takes part in various management summits and workshops. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Turkish Futurists Association. Yüksel firmly believes that the world, now globalised, is rapidly changing and it is not possible to ignore this. In his speeches, Yüksel shares his ideas on topics such as the future of business, change and how to shape it, and management and leadership. He seeks to share the keys to success with current and future leaders & HR personnel.
Who is Cem Tarık Yüksel?
Cem Tarık Yüksel graduated from Bosphorus University’s Faculty of Electronic Engineering, and was later awarded an MBA from Istanbul University. In 1987, he joined Unilever and worked as an executive in various departments and countries. Following his appointment as the Supply Chain Director of Algida Turkey, Yüksel worked as the Technology Director in Unilever’s European ice-cream operations in Italy, in charge of new product launches, investments and technological development. He then worked as the Planning and Logistics Director of Unilever’s European ice-cream operations. After that he worked as the HR Vice President and became a member of the Board of Directors of Unilever Turkey, Middle East, Caucasia and Iran. Today he continues to work for Unilever as the Vice President of Sales and Customer Development and is a member of the Board of Directors of Unilever Turkey.
Speech Topics
- “10 Year Trends” to follow for success in business (Technology-Economy-Society-Resources)
- Future and Business Life (Work Environment-Talent Management-Leadership Style)
Bahadır
Kaleağası
President of the Paris Bosphorus Institute
Biography
“The EU initiative process has had a positive impact on Turkey’s present and future economically, politically and culturally.”
Dr. Bahadır Kaleağası is one of the few experts in Turkey who specializes in the EU and EU’s foreign economic affairs. Kaleağası views Turkey-EU affairs from a different perspective: “An alternative and an option are two different concepts. An alternative means an equivalent option. Currently, there is not an alternative to the EU from Turkey’s standpoint which would conveniently protect our national interests, strengthen our democracy, and create a more solid Turkey in the future. It is not so easy to create new ideas and alternatives on a global scale; therefore, we need to be much stronger in our claim for the EU.”
For many years, Kaleağası lectured training sessions on international protocol. In Turkey, he prepares and coaches chief executives of international companies for international meetings. In the training sessions, he addresses numerous topics, including macro-politics, economy, how to start a conversation, welcoming and saying farewell to guests.
In 1996, Bahadır Kaleağası has founded the TUSIAD European Union Representative Office in Brussels and was appointed the permanent delegate of TUSIAD and TİSK (Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations) in BUSINESSEUROPE – Representative Organization for European Business. Since 2008 he has served as the International Coordinator accountable for foreign affairs, in TUSIAD’s Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Washington DC and Beijing offices. He is the President of Bosphorus Institute – Paris, an academic member of the Institute for European Studies at the University of Brussels, the Turkish environmental protection organisation, the Honorary Chairman of the Brussels Energy Club – Brec and the member of many other corporate. Each year, he guests in many conferences and media broadcasts and provides counselling for international projects.
Bahadır Kaleağası is also a manager of Kalangos Foundation, an organization working especially on children’s heart health.
Who is Dr. Bahadır Kaleağası?
Dr. Bahadır Kaleağası is a graduate of Galatasaray High School – Istanbul, a former ABD exchange student of the AFS programme and an alumnus of University of Brussels and Istanbul University. Through years 1989-1996, he assumed roles as a researcher and a lecturer at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Institute for European Studies in University of Brussels, where he had graduated with top Marks as a scholar. His academic research and lecture subjects were mainly focused on EU’s decision-making system, EU-US affairs and international economic affairs.
The European Commission’s Jean Monnet Scholarship and NATO Research Fellowship were bestowed upon Kaleağası within years 1990-1993 and he has been to Harvard, Georgetown and Jerusalem Universities as an academic guest through various semesters. He assumed the spokesmanship role in one of the conference groups during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations, which constitute the foundation of EU. He participated in many projects of the EU and European Commission’s Forward Studies Unit and provided counselling to several public and private business institutions, both on domestic and international platforms.
Bahadir Kaleagasi is an internationally published author with many articles. He is the co-author of the books; “Towards a New Europe” (Brussels, 1993), “Les Défis de l’Elargissement de l’Union européenne” (Brussels, 1994) and “La Turquie en Mouvement” (Paris, 1995), “La République Laïque Turque” (Paris, 2003), author of “From Single Market to Monetary Union” (IKV, 1995), “The Roadmap to Europe” (Dünya, 2003), “European Galaxy and the Turkish Star” (Doğan Kitap, 2007), “Future of Europe, Questions of the Youth” (Boyut, 2010), “Planet G20” (Doğan Kitap, 2012) and is a regular media commentator for global economy and politics in Bloomberg HT, Anadolu Ajansı-Finans, Radikal and Finans Dünyası.
Speech Topics
- Investment Planning
- Early Identification of Risks
- Corporate Profile and International Communications Strategy
- Corporate Brand, Social Responsibility and Social Reputation
- City and Location Branding
- International protocol and business relations
- International negotiating
- Publicity and communication
- International relations for directors of companies and NGOs
- Lobbying
- The EU and the world
- Turkey-EU relations
- Turkey’s international role, the EU process and internal dynamics
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
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.
Emin
Çapa
Journalist, Television Producer
Biography
He studied journalism at Istanbul University. He completed his two postgraduate degrees on the subject of the EU. In 1989, he began working as Tempo magazine’s first permanent economics correspondent. He served as the Chamber Director at the Chamber of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers. He was one of the founders of Genç Radio, one of Turkey’s first private radio stations. Due to his interest in industrial relations and issues concerning salary, he worked for the Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations (TİSK), after which he returned to journalism. He was Sabah Newspaper’s correspondent on industrial relations and the EU for five years. He began working as Advisor to the Chairman of TÜSİAD under the directorate of Muharrem Kayhan and later under the directorate of Erkut Yücaoğlu. Çapa’s hobbies and interests include amateur gardening, art history (art-politics and economic relations), military strategy, astronomy-astrophysics-astrobiology and history (especially the First and Middle Ages).
Emin Çapa is a well renowned commentator who is able to make economic issues appealing. With his engaging and lucid style of presentation and analysis, the CNN TÜRK Economy Director presents subjects normally seen as “difficult” to his audience using plain, comprehensible language.
Çapa has been working at CNN Türk in different positions since 1999. Çapa first served as Economic News Editor and has been working as Economics Director since 2004.
Çapa produces and presents the economics program “Paranın İzi (Trail of Money),” which is broadcast live every weeknight. The famous journalist also has a weekly program “Aklın İzi (Trail of Mind),” where, rather than complaining about Turkey, he focuses on different subjects of scientific interest. These subjects include topics such as “The first genius of the 21st Century and why is Turkey not educating any geniuses?”, “How big is big? Is Everest the highest mountain? What is the biggest star?”, “What is speed? The fastest creatures and man-made speed monsters”, “Why we age, can human ageing be stopped?”, “Foolishnesses that changed history”, “The fastest computers, how they can be so fast?”, “Luxury industries, why do we spend money on luxuries?”, “Are wars and the economy similar to each other? Similarities between countries defeated at war and bankrupted companies.”.
Çapa gives dynamic presentations at national and international seminars and organisations such as the Quality Congress, the Tourism Summit, the Izmir Quality Congress, the Marketing Summit and provides media training for senior managers of Turkey’s leading companies. He voluntarily organizes cultural trips with the themes “Palace and ritual”, “Harem and power”, “Empire and architecture”, “Sinan and Süleymaniye”, “Journey into the mind of a human (Archeological Museum)” for his friends and relatives.
Speech Topics
• Evaluation of the economy and financial issues
• Contemporary economic and financial commentary
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