Kon - Tiki

First day at film festival, first bang. Kon-tiki, story of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew passing the ocean managed to stop me on my tracks. Heyerdahl had a belief and he set out to prove people from south america came to populate the west indies fifteen hundred years ago. And he does that on a raft made with wood and ropes in a journey that takes him across the Pacific from Peru to Tahiti for more than hundred days.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613750/

There are two parts to the story I cherished deeply. First part is the journey itself; this sect of people like myself who cant stop their insatiable need to explore and see and ask questions in the oddest parts of the world until there is no mountain left to be hiked; no city to be explored; no land or geography to be experienced; no climate to battle with. Those of us who have the desire to persevere the why and the when and the who got to create the cultural spatial mixes tucked between pieces of earth; a soup of archaeology, anthropology, history, geology, immigration, genetics, earth sciences and simply the rocks or the sand dunes. Thor the Norwegian gets on the raft and sails away to the mountain height waves and the whales and sharks of the Pacific.

Teknolojinin Evliya Çelebi'si

Milliyet Gazetesi'nden Menderes Özel ile çok keyifli bir röportaj gerçekleştirdik.

Röportajın tamamını buradan okuyabilirsiniz.

And the board meets at Legoland!

 Lego headquarters is in Billund, Denmark. A real cold, cold piece of land on the mainland of Denmark, I actually think it is close to Arctic but I was warned by my European colleagues that it was only close to the north sea. Out of our two days business meetings we actually had few hours to combine the amazing innovative Lego approach to the discussions we had and  actually had FUN.

Focus'a konuk oldum

Bloomberg HT kanalında yayınlanan Merva Ulusoy'un Focus Programı'na konuk oldum. Programı buradan izleyebilirsiniz.

Little Paris Things

              

TUSIAD Innovation Seminar

Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD) organized a seminar on innovation on March 14th in Istanbul, and the objective of the seminar is to encourage the university students to think differently and innovatively.

Ziya Boyacıgiller - Endeavour Advisory Board Member, Haluk Zontul – General Manager of Teknoloji Yatırım and Samir Deliormanlı – IP Licence Manager of Koç Conglomerate, from both academia and business world, attended the event. I am as a TUSIAD Technology and Innovation Working Group  President and Intel Middle East, Turkey and Africa Regional Director mostly talked about corporate innovations especially and to some extent individual innovations in her session. My ultimate message, to be remembered by the young people there, was that ‘Whatever you are doing right now, always think about how you can do it differently. That’s the only way you can add value to your life.’

Click here for the details.