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Aslı
Zuluğ, Dr.
Food Engineer, Academician, Entrepreneur
Biography
Dr. Aslı Zulug obtained her B.Sc. degree from Ege University Department of Food Engineering in 2003 and M.Sc. degree from Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICH) Greece in 2006 about Business Management and Economics and, her Ph.D. degree from Ege University, Department of Agricultural Economics in 2010 and studied about consumer preferences on country of origin food products. Since 2008 she had worked as a food safety team leader in Swissotel the Bosphorus. During her sectoral activities she was giving part time lectures about food safety, nutrition, food politics and food and beverage management subjects in state and foundation universities. Since 2015 she is writing the column magazine about food hygiene and food economics subjects in “Gıda Türk”.
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
Celal
Seçkin
Management Consultant, EFQM Trainer and EFQM Assessor
Biography
Celal Seçkin is a graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He worked as an engineer and manager in PTT ARLA (TELETAŞ) and Siemens for 17 years.
He has undergone a variety of business excellence, management and leadership training programmes and has attended many national and international symposia, congresses and forums in the field of quality and organisational excellence as speaker, moderator and organiser
He worked at Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer) in 1998-2000, as Manager of the National Quality Awards Program and four years at the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) in Oct 2000-Dec 2004, as Manager of the European Quality Awards Program (now known as EFQM Excellence Award) and worked as part of the development team for the EFQM recognition scheme “EFQM Levels of Excellence”, revision of EFQM Model and development of EFQM training programs.
As a qualified EFQM Excellence Assessment Team leader, he has participated and led numerous organisational excellence assessments both in public and private sectors in many countries. As a member of the EFQM Faculty, he has trained many hundreds of assessors in many countries.
Celal Seçkin is founder of Seçkin Consulting and Training Co. Ltd, a Turkey-based company in management consultancy covering organisational performance management, internal/external assessments, leadership, change management, strategic planning, process management, continuous improvement and teamwork.
He took part as an instructor in Professional certification programs jointly organised by KalDer and Bosphorus, Sabancı and Okan Universities.
He is highly motivated for continuous learning and passionate for working in multi-cultural environments and believes that the EFQM Excellence Approach is one of the key aspects that will contribute to a better future for human being.
Speech Topics
Stories of (Un)success in Corporate Excellence
What are similar about well-managed institutions? What are the barriers or facilitator en route to corporate excellence?
Sustainability, leadership and adaptation to change in corporate excellence.
Sharing of experience on corporate excellence.
Corporate Mirror: Self-evaluation; but how?
Why self-evaluation? How to ensure objectivity, fairness and clarity in self-evaluation? What are the strengths and areas of improvement available for determination by self-evaluation? How to benefit from the results of self-evaluation? What are the basic elements in designing the improvement process?
Diving Power Behind the Process of Change of Institutions: Leadership
What is the impact of leadership in corporate management, change processes and success? How to evaluate the relations between corporate culture, values & ethical perspective and leadership? What are the basic features of a successful leader’s profile? How to meet the expectations of the stakeholders and manage the relations as a leader?
How To Act at Inevitable Junctions: Change Management
The feeling of the need for change. Resistance and adaptation to change.
The role of leaders and leadership in the process of change. Corporate culture, values and change.
Management of change process. Role of stakeholders in change management.
That’s Life, But It’s Not Inevitable: Innovation
Why innovation? A need? A luxury? A requirement? A trend? A hobby? Making a difference? How? Relations with corporate culture and management approach. Examples of failure in innovation… Barriers, facilitators. Sustainability in innovation.
Let’s Work, Search, Understand and Solve Together: Moderation, Workshops, Management and Design of Search Conferences
Workshops on certain areas of focus for performance improvement and a better and more effective management approach?
Strategic planning.
Process management.
Employee satisfaction.
Customer satisfaction.
Social responsibility.
Change management.
Sustainability.
Ethics, corporate culture, values etc.
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
Güler
Aras
Academician, Professor of Finance & Accounting Founder Director, Center for Finance, Governance&Sustainability
Biography
The main goal of a company is to sustain its existence. To achieve this goal in today’s business world, a company should not only focus on profit but also fulfil its social responsibilities.
Güler Aras is best known for her remarkable academic work which includes national and international speeches. An expert on finance, banking, capital markets, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, Dr. Aras has published more than 20 books (11 published worldwide) and has written over 200 articles.
Dr. Aras recently joined Indeks Speakers’ Agency, attracting attention with interesting speech topics such as sustainability, a popular concept in today’s business world. Dr. Aras brings a unique perspective to sustainability, focusing on the importance of corporate social responsibility, how an enterprise can contribute to and achieve a sustainable performance. In short, she gives clues about creating a sustainable organization, a major goal for every enterprise. “Basel” is another popular speech topic for Dr. Aras. She gives seminars on the impact of the new Basel credit conditions, providing guidance on transitioning towards full implementation. Crisis management is another area of Dr Aras’ expertise. She defines financial crisis management as an important element which prevents organizations from failing and helps them achieve a sustainable performance. In her speeches, she shares the key points on how to manage a company in crisis, and describes financial and non-financial precautions and applications.
Who is Güler Aras?
Güler Aras is a professor of Finance at Yıldız Technical University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, where she also served as dean as well as president of the Social Sciences Institute until 2013. Dr. Aras is also the director of Research and Application Centre for Financial Studies, Corporate Management and Sustainabilityand a visiting professor at De Montfort University UK where she gave regular classes and seminars and conducts research.
Beginning in 2014, she will also work as a visiting professor at The Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Güler Aras is the editor of an international magazine and is a board member for many magazines, including 10 international titles. She is a member of the scientists committee of many national and international seminars, and she is a founding member of the Institute of Financial Management Association of Turkey (IMA Turkey Chapter, where she also worked as a chairwoman, as well as the Turkish Transparency Foundation. She remains active in a variety of public foundations and institutions.
Speech Topics
• Sustainable Corporate Performance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Basel & Risk Management
• Economy
• Crisis Management: Prepare, Identify, Analyze, Resolve
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
Yıldız
Özer
Digital Marketing Specialist, Founder of Fooders
Biography
Yıldız Burçin Özer, Strategic Planning, Internet Marketing, and Online Brand Management Specialist. The 10 commandments of sales are internet, internet, internet… The new era offers brands new opportunities, new requirements, and new trends. We say “offers” because we want to soften the statement that it is actually making them mandatory.
Digital communication, digital marketing
“Digital communication must strike at the heart of the consumer,” says Özer, adding, “…today, brand perception and consumers prefer products based on the brand.”
Yıldız Özer completed her undergraduate education in the UK at the University of Kent, majoring in Communications (Communications & Image Studies – The Impact of Communication, Images, and New Media on Society). With the widespread use of the internet in the early 2000s, she shifted her professional career in a different direction.
Strategic planning
Özer began her professional life at Total İletişim, working with leading institutions and advertisers in the advertising world. She then worked at Saatchi & Saatchi Güzel Sanatlar as a strategic planning expert for major brands. Deciding to continue her career on the advertising side, which she had supported for years with her strategic planning, she crossed paths with Mynet, Turkey’s leading internet portal. On the corporate side, she experienced the multi-faceted and diverse product strategy structure of an international brand within Yıldız Holding. Under the umbrella of Yıldız Holding, one of the companies that most effectively utilizes internet marketing in Turkey, he developed digital strategies and implemented technology-focused projects to enable many local and international brands to quickly adapt to the new world of marketing communications and maintain their leadership. He worked for many years in senior roles responsible for digital marketing strategies in dynamic environments subject to constant change.
Between 2014 and 2018, he actively served on the internet marketing group of IAB Turkey (Internet Advertising Bureau), the only professional organization in the internet sector, contributing to various projects.
Speech Topics
- The Only Way is Digital, Forward; The New Face of Advertising
- Digital Commands with 10 Commandments: Become a Famous Brand
Haluk
Gürgen
Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Bahçesehir University
Biography
“Communication calls for an insight into society whereas marketing requires an understanding of the dynamics of change in the society. Keeping pace with the change is the first prerequisite of successful marketing.”
The pace of life
Prof. Haluk Gürgen is a communications professional who has long carried out communication campaigns for a large number of private and public institutions. Prof. Gürgen describes the qualities of contemporary marketing as follows: “the pace of life is a key factor in triggering social change. We strive to exist within this fast cycle of life, identifying and fulfilling our needs faster every day, and consuming more rapidly to discover and consume new needs, again rapidly. Therefore, the key to successful marketing is to create brands that can cope with this dizzying speed. This means creating strong brands. Corporate brands are created through the correct management of corporate communication and reputation. The need to feed off the strength of corporate brands they belong to becomes more and more important in the creation and development of strong product brands.”
Who is Haluk Gürgen?
Prof. Haluk Gürgen has been serving as the dean of the Faculty of Communications at Bahçesehir University since 2006. Gürgen has conducted communication projects for the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Customs, the Directorate General for the Status of Woman, Vakıfbank, Mesa, Coskunöz Holding and Erciyas Biracılık. He also offers training sessions to multinationals, Turkish organisations and banks.
Speech Topics
• Corporate Communications
• Crisis Communication
• Reputation Management
• Interpersonal Communication
• Existence and Communication
• Sharing, Responsibility and Communication
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