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Hakan
Güldağ
Journalist, Writer
Biography
Hakan Güldağ is a name that has been promoted to management by stepping up one by one in the journalism profession. Dünya Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hakan Güldağ gives remarkable speeches Turkey’s economy, economics journalism, freedom of press and journalism.
Güldağ’s acquaintance with publishing dates back to 1985, he has strong news sources with its up-to-date information and equipment especially in production, agriculture and services in Anatolia, holds the pulse of the country in terms of sectors and business lines. He is known for his accuracy in his analysis .
He served as the Secretary General of the Istanbul Branch of the Economics Reporters Association. In 2005, he was elected to Brussels-based European Economic Press Federation (EBP) Executive Committee Member. Since October 2010, Turkey Journalists Association of Vocational Monitoring Committee members and Turkey Media and Communications Assembly of Turkey (TOBB MIM) serves as President.
Dr. Ceyhun
Emre Doğru
Ph.D. Advisor, Academic, Speaker & Author
Critical thinking
Strategic decision-making
Corporate affairs
Stakeholder engagement
Strategic communications
Crisis management
Biography
Dr. Ceyhun Emre Dogru works as a consultant and academic in the fields of strategy and corporate affairs. As a managing partner at CORPERA Consulting, he provides consultancy services to international companies on topics such as political and economic risk analysis, government and stakeholder engagement, strategic decision-making, advocacy, and strategic communication. Additionally, Dr. Dogru holds the position of Secretary General at Türkiye’s Public Affairs Institute. As an academic, he teaches courses on Critical Thinking and Strategic Decision-Making, International Negotiation, and Non-Market Strategy: Business, Government, Society at Boğaziçi University. Dr. Ceyhun Emre Dogru also delivers speeches and organizes training sessions for the private sector and public institutions in these areas.
Dogru began his career as an international political analyst, and has served at the United Nations and NATO. After holding the position of TUSIAD’s (Turkish Industry & Business Association) representative in Washington in 2012, he continued his career as a consultant. He completed his undergraduate studies at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Sciences and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, obtained his master’s degree from the European Institute and his doctoral degree from Koç University. His articles have been published in various outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Palgrave, FastCompany, and Dünya Gazetesi.
Strategic Advisory
As a strategic advisor, I work with decision-makers in business and politics to clarify their thinking about some of the most complex problems. I assist them in making strategic decisions under high uncertainty, and with significant impact on their organizations and societies.
Corporate Consulting
As the managing partner of CORPERA Consulting, I advise multinational firms on corporate and public affairs to support their strategic business priorities. My work focuses on analyzing policy- making processes, identifying emerging issues, monitoring legislative changes, developing public policy strategies, coordinating external communications, engaging public authorities and advocating policy positions.
Speaking & Training
I give keynote speeches and training sessions to organizations to provide inspiration, raise awareness and build skills about the most business-critical topics.
Academia
I have the privilege of teaching some of the brightest minds at Türkiye’s top-ranking Boğaziçi University on Critical Thinking & Decision-Making, International Negotiation, and Nonmarket Strategy: Business, Government, and Society.
Thought Leadership
In partnership with Harvard Business Review Türkiye, I produce “Inside Business” show where I discuss global developments and ideas that shape the business environment, and share strategic lessons for decision-makers.
Civil Society
I actively contribute to the work of Turkish Ethics and Reputation Society and Corporate Governance Association of Turkey in the fields of anti-corruption and good governance. I also sit on the board of alumni associations Koc University and Ankara University Faculty of Political Science.
Speech Topics
- Critical thinking and strategic decision-making
- Corporate strategy and governance
- Corporate affairs, stakeholder engagement & strategic communications
- Political, economic and geostrategic risk assessment
- Dispute resolution, negotiation and crisis management
Videos
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
Başak
Özer
Technology Manager, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Strategy Consultant
Biography
Entrepreneurial executive with a track record of commercializing new technologies and leading VC-backed B2C & B2B businesses to successful exits and post-exit integration. Comfortable operating in startup, scale-up and turnaround situations and diverse geographies including Europe and Asia.
Functional expertise in product development, strategy, go-to-market, sales/business development and new market entry, marketing and incubating new businesses. Investor/Advisor to various start-ups.
Experience includes: Autonomous Vehicle Technologies, IoT, Sensors, Cloud, Location Based Services, Automotive, Product Innovation ‘from idea to full execution’. 2 major start-up exits, 2 GM roles at Fortune 50 companies with $100M+ P&L’s. Extensive global experience.
Tunç
Fındık
Professional Mountaineer, Instructor
Biography
“All mountains are beautiful and spellbinding. Whether snowy or rocky, each one is beautiful in its own way.” Tunç Fındık sees success as safely climbing beautiful mountains.
You have to know how to climb up as well as down
Tunç Fındık says coming back safe and sound from a climb is the definition of success in mountaineering. “It is important to reach the summit in mountain climbing. It is like the full stop at the end of the sentence, but it is not the most important thing. For a successful climb, the descent is as important as the ascent.” For ascents that present numerous obstacles, you need a specific plan, a target, leadership, teamwork, logistics, motivation and the successful management of all these elements in order to solve problems and keep going. Fındık has climbed nine of the world’s 14 mountains with an altitude of more than 8000 meters as part of the project 14×8000. There are 13 people (12 living) in the world to have completed this series. Tunç Fındık aims to complete the series which represents a sort of world record in high altitude mountaineering.
Who is Tunç Fındık?
Tunç Fındık co-founded Dost Mountaineering Club at Bilkent University with Nasuh Mahruki. He is also a member of AKUT, Search & Rescue Association. Fındık possesses an archive consisting of almost 35,000 slides and digital photos. He has opened nearly 150 new routes, using them for the first time ever, particularly in the central/western Taurus Mountains and the Kaçkar Mountains in the Eastern Black Sea region. Fındık has climbed in Nepal, Tibet/China, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Iran, Georgia, Argentina, Tanzania, Kenya, the Russian Federation and Scotland.
Speech Topics
• Trip to the Summit
• A trip to the throne of the gods: Everest
• 80 challenging days in Karakurum
• At the summit of the Turquoise Goddess
• Looking from the summit
• Himalayan journal
• Ushba: The steep summit of the Caucasus through the eyes of a mountaineer
Hakan
Çelik
Journalist, Columnist, Radio and Television Presenter
Biography
Who is Hakan Çelik?
He was educated in Communications at Istanbul University. He completed Master’s degree programs on “Science fiction cinema” in the Faculty of Communications and on “Political structure of the European Union” in the Faculty of Political Science at his alma mater. He had an apprentieship at the BBC, Glasgow – 1990. Çelik was granted scholarship from the British Foreign Office.
Hakan Çelik
He entered media; Günaydın-1988, became one of the first private radio broadcasters in Turkey, Later, he joined Hür FM, a Hürriyet Radio, and produced shows for Show Radio. He produced and presented the TV show “Weekend” Haberturk TV, weekend moderator of the morning shows Kanal 24. He was the commentator TRT Radio 1 program “Gündem”, and representative of CNN Türk, Kanal D in and also Posta Ankara. He is a co performer at Parametre, and is producing CNN Türk Hafta Sonu Keyfi.
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
Dilek Cindoğlu,
Prof. Dr.
Ph.D, Professor of Sociology and Acting Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Abdullah Gül University, Turkey
Biography
Previously, she worked at Mardin Artuklu University and Bilkent University. She is a graduate of Bogazici University, Istanbul (B.A. and M.A.) and received her Ph.D. (1991) State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published extensively on the gendered processes of paid work, political participation, migration, health and sexuality in international journals and in book chapters. She was a Visiting Senior Scholar at the IRWAG of the Columbia University of New York (2010-2011), received, “Direct Access to the Muslim World” award from the Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program (2006) was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality at the NYU (2003),and Senior Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford (2002), was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1998-1999).She was consultant on various research projects funded by national (Tubitak, KSSGM, AAK) and international (IDRC, Ford Foundation, World Bank, ILO-IPEC,EU) bodies, served as an elected EC member at Turkish Sociological Association, (TSA) 2008-2014 and International Sociological Association (ISA) 2010-2018. Her work has been published at national and international academic journals and as book chapters.
Speech Topics
- Sociology of Work
- Women’s Participation in Business
- Why Women stay at Home?
- Why so few women in working life?
- Political Sociology
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