Theme: Another Place

TEDxBahcesehirUniversity started in 2015 and continued until today. This year we are organizing our seventh event in İstanbul, Turkey. We hosted six events and four of them were in Zorlu Performance Arts Center with more than 2500+ participants. This year our theme is "Another Place". When we are designing this team we thought about how the World is changing with technological developments and science. We dreamed about the future of NFTs, Metaverse, cryptocurrencies, developments in science about nutrition and health since they are forming another place now. Also we thought about another place in the human soul; psychological effects of those developments, mental diseases... That is why we choose our theme as "Another Place". We aim to talk about another place in the future but also in the current time.

Zorlu Performans Sanatları Merkezi
Levazım Mahallesi Koru Sokağı No:2 34340 Beşiktaş/Şişli/İstanbul Turkey
İstanbul, İstanbul, 34340
Turkey

Ayşıl Susuzlu

Psychologist

1986 İzmir doğumlu olan Ayşıl Susuzlu Izmir Amerikan Lisesi mezunudur. Psikoloji lisansını State University of New York at Buffalo’da tamamladıktan sonra Boston College’dan Psikolojik Danışmanlık (Mental Health Counseling) yüksek lisans derecesini almıştır. 2010 yılından itibaren ergen ve yetişkinlere bireyle psikolojik danışmanlık hizmeti sunan Susuzlu, ağırlıklı olarak kompleks travma, depresyon ve kaygı bozuklukları ile çalışmaktadır. Kullandığı yöntemler arasında Varoluşçu Psikoterapiler, EMDR ve Somatik Deneyimleme mevcuttur. Şimdi ise Psikolojik Danışmanlık ve Rehberlik doktora eğitiminin tez aşamasındadır. 2016 yılından itibaren İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Yeditepe Üniversitesi ve Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde yarı zamanlı öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışmaktadır. Akademik çalışmalarıyla paralel olarak çok sayıda workshop ve eğitim düzenlemekte olan Susuzlu, 2017 yılında defalarca sahnelenen ‘Törpü’ isimli tek kişilik tiyatro oyununun yazarlığını yapmıştır.

Azra Bulut

Medical Student

She graduated from high school in the year 2017 Then she enrolled in Medical School in the year 2018 Her life changed after she was diagnosed with cancer after her first year of medical school. During the course of her treatment, she had the chance to witness her illness both from the perspective of a medical student and as a patient. One of her greatest experiences was observing the patient-doctor relationship. She is pursuing her education in Gazi University Medical School after a year of treatment. Azra Bulut, who volunteered in numerous charity projects prior to her diagnoses, is currently the head of “Belki de Sensin” society which promotes stem cell donation. On top of that, she is an active participant in five of her university’s clubs. She is also the editor of both websites and magazines of Gazi University Medical School’s Blog (GütfBlog) and “Ümit Var” journal. As of today, she has delivered countless presentations and conferences about stem cell donation.

Başak Ozan Özparlak

Lawyer

Attn. Dr. Başak Ozan Özparlak completed her doctorate in law after studying for a master's degree in EU Law. She has been working for many years on the legal effects of artificial intelligence systems, human-robot interaction, and 6G wireless technology and has been advising on these issues. Özparlak, who continues her profession as a joint lawyer at Ozan & Ozan, teaches “Artificial Intelligence and Law” and “Cyber Security Blockchain and Law” courses on a part-time basis at Özyeğin University. Özparlak's latest book, which has many publications and speeches in these fields, is about the effects and legal consequences of the use working relationships.

Berceste Şeber

Clinical Sports Psychologist

Completing her high school education at Saint Benoit French High School, Berceste Şeber graduated from Bahçeşehir University, Department of Psychology in 2015. After her undergraduate education, she completed the Bahçeşehir University Clinical Psychology graduate program. Berceste is a former national tennis player, who discovered the field of sports psychology and completed the AASP (Association of Applied Sport Psychology) supervised Applied Sports Psychology program at Bilgi University. Later, in 2017, she started her doctorate at Marmara University to work in the field of Sports Psychology. Berceste Şeber, who is currently continuing her doctoral thesis, received the title of Expert in Applied Sports Psychology (SASP-FEPSAC) by the European Federation of Sport Psychology in 2021 Berceste Şeber is a Clinical Sports Psychologist, who is currently working with the Modern Pentathlon Federation within the scope of Olympic athletes.

Bora Erdamar

Asst. Prof., Director of BlockchainIST Center

Asst. Prof. Bora Erdamar is the founder and director of the first university research and development center in Turkey for Blockchain Technology, BlockchainIST Center, and the founding director of Bahçeşehir University Experimental Economics Lab. Additionally, Erdamar is the director of BAU Graduate Education Institute, Economics, and Finance Graduate Programs, which includes only the FinTech Graduate Program in Turkey. After completing his undergraduate education in the Department of Mathematics at Boğaziçi University, Erdamar received his Ph.D. in Economics from Ecole Poytechnique, Paris, with high honors in 2013 After working at Paris School of Economics, Moscow Higher School of Economics, University of Rochester and Columbia University for post- doctoral research in political economy and electoral systems for 3 years, he has been working at BAU for the last five years. Research Interests: Blockchain Technology, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Behavioral Finance.

Can Kayacılar

Scientist

He conducted experimental animal studies for 8 years. He investigated the health effects of antioxidant components at the molecular level in experimental animal models. He has worked on rats, mice and guinea pigs with many experimental models such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's. Ischemia-Reperfusion models as an experimental animal model. In 2012, the project “Increasing the Bioavailability of Phytochemicals Obtained from Plants by Nanobiotechnological Methods”, which he presented to the Ministry of Industry and Technology, was selected as the first in the country in the techno-communication investment program. He continued his studies by establishing a laboratory at Istanbul University Technopolis. KOSGEB has won all of the project programs opened by TÜBITAK and the Ministry of Industry with various projects and has completed them all.

Caner Dağlı

Comedian

Caner Dağlı was born in 1988 in the Samandağ of Hatay and immigrated to Istanbul at the age of 7 months with the dream of becoming a comedian. He has not felt ready for 30 years due to his perfectionist nature and made his first appearance on stage on an April day of 2019 Until these years, he has had a career history in a wide range of fields such as cartooning, quality consulting, imitation watch manufacturing, wood carving, and screwdriver operation. Although he is great at all the things he does, he never thinks about teaching or opening workshops on these topics, Caner Dağlı says that he always wants to be remembered for his private life, not for the things he does, and he works with the strength he has for this. However, he is still single and funny.

Emine Saraç

Genetics and Bioengineer

Ever since she was little, she always wanted to advance in a profession that touched people. In this respect, she preferred the Department of Genetics and Bioengineering in the university. In her sophomore year of college, her aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. She actively worked on cancer diseases at the university and completed her master's education in this direction. In 2017, her thesis was selected 1st by TUBITAK and she founded her company with the support of TUBITAK. They are actively working on cancer and infectious diseases and developing new generation diagnostic systems. Their aim is “to ensure that everyone has access to health, which is a fundamental right, under all conditions, and to minimize the loss of life due to lack of opportunity.” but her personal aim is to popularize science, especially to young people and children from 7 to 77.

Haluk Zülfikar

Academician

Prof. Dr. Haluk Zulfikar is the Director of the Statistical Application and Research Center at Istanbul University.He works in Econometrics, Marketing Communication, Economic Statistics, and Consumer Behavior.

Kadir Kuru

Civil engineer (m.sc) and Content Creator

Born in Istanbul in 1993, Kadir Kuru graduated from Istanbul Technical University Civil Engineering Department with honors in 2016 and completed his Master's degree in Construction Project Management at ITU. After designing a prototype risk analysis canvas model for the project delivery and financing model, known as the Public Private Partnership,whose applications are common in Turkey and in the world, in his master's thesis, he started his PhD education at ITU in 2018 to continue his research in this field. Currently, the PhD thesis process continues and in this context, he continues to work on a software model to improve the risk management process of PPP Projects. In addition, in order to create a digital archive on the Turkish business world and encourage entrepreneurship, he shares video content every week for an audience of up to hundreds of thousands on his YouTube channel, where he mainly deals with the success stories and bankruptcy stories of brands.

Senem Seven

Entrepreneurial Academic

Merve Senem Seven received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemistry at Hacettepe University. She completed her PhD at Sabancı University in 2017 and has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences since 2017. The product named SOYL-GEL, which is used as a reservoir of water and active substance in the soil in seven agriculture and aims to prevent excessive use of water, won the 1st prize in DeepTech Primer Turkey in 2019, established a company in 2020 with the encouragement of Tübitak BIGG, and completed the field trials with the Bayer G4A grant. She is one of the patent inventors of the product, whose international application has been made in 2021. She is one of the founding partners of one of the few startup companies established in Turkey for the use of nanotechnology in agriculture and continues her academic studies in this field, and carries out research projects supported by Tübitak and EU.