Solution Bank / Çözüm Kumbarası

I am very excited to share with you the launch of the most inspiring social innovation project to date in Turkey! Intel’s Turkey team, together with Ashoka, Endeavor and Galata Business Angels, has created an all-in-one tool that will act as a platform for young entrepreneurs to create and launch projects aiming to solve basic problems faced by the people of Turkey. Imagine young people getting together and developing new solutions for problems faced in areas like education, health, environment, etc. How exciting!

Türkiye’de gerçekleştirdiğimiz farklı projelerle yıllardır gençlerin, kadinlarin eğitimine ve gelişimine katkıda bulunuyoruz. Bu calismalarimizin en yenisi Çözüm Kumbarası. Ashoka, Endeavor ve Galata İş Melekleri (GBA) işbirliği ile genç fikirleri destekleyecegiz. Çözüm Kumbarası, gençlere teknolojiyi kullanarak hayatı kolaylaştıran ve toplumsal fayda yaratan iş çözümleri geliştirme fırsatı sunan bir platform olacak.

Small Things In Life. Food !

Second Sunday morning in Palo Alto. Desperate to eat, I hit university avenue. Come across Taxim, Istanbul street food. Oh gosh—do I really want bad falafel and wrongly named doner kebap (really gyro meat) this morning? I enter the store; greeted with this lovely lady. I start reading the menu—pogaca. Lahmacun, pide… I am panicked.. Until I see Turkish breakfast as a line item; and I lose myself and start ordering sucuklu pide, pogaca, menemen, Turkish breakfast w proper tomatoes, olives, feta cheese, cay, orange juice (ok not so Turkish). And they have SIMIT!!!! Bliss!!!!!

My gurbet sepeti at home is helpful and the best thing is my co-workers bought me a Turkish coffee maker from Amazon to greet me, oh with the full coffee from kahveci mehmet efendi and all..

I am afraid I have been struck with immigrant disease—I miss home!

Night At The NY Stock Exchange

I was at new york stock exchange where Turkish American society celebrated a gala dinner. it was a fantastic night with live jazz music, and a number of society leaders from turkey and from US dedicated to enhancing the relationships between two countries. We got together as the young society leaders group, and it was so energizing to be with young and  bright folks who made a difference in their own fields. I have never been to stock exchange before; firstly I was amazed how small it was, and also amazed to think most of the world’s financials are run out of there. Such a small building, and I can see how cramped during daytime it can get with thousands of people inside. We did go up and gave the stock exchange pose, which was pretty funky to doJ I love being among hundreds of well dressed people, people gazing was fun, turks and americans alike!

Finans Cafe'ye Konuk Oldum

Intel'deki Yeni Görevimin Basındaki Yankıları

Leap Effect/Sıçrama Etkisi

 I was recently asked to hold a keynote speech at the ICT Summit Now’13 in Istanbul. The theme of the summit was “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” and quite a few inspirational leaders from the ICT world spoke about what the future holds for us and what it is that we haven’t seen yet. I decided to talk about how the future will catch up to the imagination of each and every one of the 7 billion people on the planet, not necessarily in the same way, and what this means for our region and Turkey.

25 Eylül’de Haliç Kongre Merkezi’nde ICT Summit Now’da, “Daha Hiçbir Şey Görmediniz” ana teması altında yaptığım konuşmanın ana başlığı  “Yedi Milyar Gelecek”ti.