For the past six years, every September, I’ve had the privilege of reviewing SXSW* applications from some of the brightest minds in the world. Each year, I’m fascinated by the evolving trends and perspectives on current topics. Reviewing multiple tracks—such…

Transitioning an idea from the realm of dreams to the concrete reality of investment requires more than just enthusiasm; it demands a strategic approach. Just as translating between languages necessitates fluency in both, conveying your startup vision to potential investors…

Today, OpenAI announced Sora model, capable of creating realistic and imaginative scenes from text instruction. Every day, we are advancing one step further in empowering people to visualize and bring to life their thoughts and imaginations through technology. It has…

We can liken tech startups to balloons filled with helium gas. If we don’t tether them to the ground, they will ascend to the sky and eventually dissipate. Tethering them to the ground encompasses numerous dimensions, from micro-level approaches to…

In his movie Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier tells the story of two young men, Eric and Philip, who are budding authors. At one point in the movie, when Philip visits a publishing house to talk about publication of his…

Web1.0, Web2.0 and currently Web3.0 have proposed different levels of interaction with the users. Therefore, design has also had different positioning in these markets. In order to understand the position of design, the features of these technologies need to be…

A few years ago in Paris, we ran a series of in-depth user-research interviews with some elderly people as part of a project to design smart products for them.  “They remind me of my age,” said one of the interviewees when we…

Image: Fridgehenge / Stonefridge was created by artist Adam Horowitz, in Santa Fe, Mexico in the 1990s. It was removed in 2007. Photo Credit: Brian K. Edwards In June 2021, after a long period of remote working, Apple called back…

While the courageous women and men on the frontlines are fighting to keep this nightmare pandemic from wiping us all out, it’s easy to feel irrelevant, ensconced at home, watching Netflix and worrying about having enough toilet paper. Imagine how…

Over the past two weeks, the criticism of Facebook has reached a boiling point, having simmered since the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was uncovered in 2018. Several global brands, including Unilever, Coca Cola, and Starbucks, have announced they are boycotting…

  Gülay Özkan: Efendim merhabalar. Ben Gülay Özkan. Farklı Bakış’ın çeşitli bölümlerinde gelecek temalı birçok program yaptım. Bu hafta da ekonomilerin en yeni ve önemli odaklarından biri olan biyoloji konusunda bir program yapmak istiyorum. 39.Bölümde Prof. Dr. Kemal İnan biyolojiyle…

Gülay Özkan: Merhaba ben Gülay Özkan. Farklı Bakış’ın 53. programındayız. Bu hafta Farklı Bakış’ın ikinci kitap programını yapacağız. O yüzden çok heyecanlıyım. Konuğumuz Bilgi Üniversitesi’nden Prof. Dr. Uğur Tanyeli.  Uğur Bey’in “Yıkarak Yapmak” kitabı üzerinden geleceği konuşacağız. Uğur Bey hoş…

GÜLAY ÖZKAN (GÖ): Efendim merhabalar. Farklı Bakış’ın 42’nci programındayız. Hatırlıyorsanız 24 Ocak’ta Farklı Bakış’ın 39’ncu programında Profesör Kemal İnan ile birlikte teknolojinin getirdiği işsizlik konusunu konuşmuştuk. Bu programda ise işsizliğe çare olarak sunulan, Elon Musk ve Sam Harris gibi önemli…

    Gülay Özkan (GÖ): Son yılların en popüler konularından biri olan; robotların, teknolojinin, daha az popüler ismiyle otomasyonun, yaratacağı işsizliği konuşacağız. Bugünkü programım 45 dakika sürecek ve üç bölümden oluşacak. Konuğum ise Sabancı Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi…

As the curator of HBR Turkiye’s first Design Thinking conference, I gave the opening speech about new opportunities and new design roles that design thinking brings to the market. You can find conference theme and more details here: http://event.hbrturkiye.com/designthinking For the…

Türkçe çevirisi için tıklayınız. The article is originally published in the September 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review Turkey in Turkish as the only contribution from Turkey to the Design Thinking cover story. Consider the local context When I was rushing…

Türkçe çevirisi için tıklayınız.   “So how does a company like Nest, creator of the mundane thermostat, earn accolades like ‘beautiful’ and ‘revolutionary’ and a $3.2 billion Google buyout? What did Nest do differently to create a household product that…

Gülay Özkan’ın 25 Ekim 2014’te TEDxKoçUniversity’de yaptığı “Tasarım, Anlam ve Teknolojiyi İnsanileştirmek” başlıklı konuşması artık internetten izlenebilir. The lecture titled “Design, Meaning, and Humanizing Technology” that Gulay Ozkan delivered at TEDxKoçUniversity on October 25th, 2014 can now be seen online (The video is in Turkish).

Bu yazının orjinali Al JAzeera Türk’de görüş yazısı olarak 12 Nisan 2014 tarihinde yayınlanmıştır. Yeni teknolojiler mevcut tartışmaları bitirmek için çözüm olarak sunuluyor, ancak sorunsuz çalışan sistemlerin kurulması günümüzde tam olarak başarılmış değil. Türkiye’de son yerel seçimlerle birlikte, sonuçlarının halen tartışıldığı yoğun…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S.  Türkçe çevirisi için tıklayınız. This week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg joined the highly prestigious Neural Information Processing Systems academic conference in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. At the event, he announced Facebook’s artificial intelligence laboratory headed by Professor…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S. and republished in Japanese on The Bridge in Japan.  Türkçe çevirisi için tıklayınız. Some actors fully immerse themselves in their roles. They become their character for the duration of the shooting by…

Bu yazının orjinalı Ekonomist-Girişim dergisinde yayınlanmıştır.    “Yaşamda doğumdan ve ölümden başka herşey sorgulanabilir ve yeniden tasarlanabilir” diyordum; ta ki SENS Araştırma Enstitüsü`nden Dr. Aubrey de Grey ile NASA Ames Araştırma merkezinde Singularity Üniversitesi’nde tanışıncaya kadar. Dr. Grey ölümsüzlüğe ya…

Bu sene Singularity Üniversitesi’ndeki seminerlerimizin birinde doğru cevabı vermektense doğru soruları sormanın ne kadar önemli olduğu üzerine bir tartışma oldu. Cevaplar üzerine düşünme alışkanlığım vardı ama sorular üzerine düşünmek yeni idi.  Soruları aramak artık yeni oyunum olmuştu. Önce karşıma  Rainer Maria Rilke’nin “Genç…

 “Design Thinking” terimi ile  2000’li yılların başında  tanıştım.  İlk Barcelona’da ESADE Business School’da dersler almaya başladım ve kullanım alanlarını, faydalarını ve kendi düşünce şeklime etkilerini gördükçe daha da sahiplendim. Türkiye’de kullanmaya başladığımda Türkçeleştirmenin hiç de kolay olmadığını farkettim ve bu…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S.  You can also find  the related follow-up discussions at the end of this article. I left Istanbul in mid-June to join a 10-week program in Silicon Valley to solve…

Bu yazinin orjinali Webrazzi’de yayınlanmıştır.   Ray Kurzweil ve Peter Diamandis tarafından 2009 yılında kurulan Singularity Üniversitesi (SU) 35 ülkeden 80 kişiyi insanlığın en önemli problemlerine çözümler üretmek için Silikon vadisinde NASA Ames araştırma merkezine davet ediyor. Bu sene benim de Türkiye’den tek kadın katılımcı olarak davet edildiğim…

 Ray Kurzweil ve Peter Diamandis tarafından 2009 yılında kurulan Singularity Üniversitesi 38 ülkeden 80 kişiyi insanlığın en önemli problemlerine çözümler üretmek için Silikon vadisinde NASA Ames araştırma merkezine davet etti. Bu sene benim de Türkiye’den tek kadın katılımcı olarak davet…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S.    It often feels like the entire city of Istanbul, the driver of Turkey’s rapidly emerging economy, is under renovation. I live near Taksim Square, and the adjacent Gezi…

The article is originally published on Wamda. Republished in Japanese on Start-up dating in Japan The stunning rise and crash of digital currency Bitcoin last month has created a vast amount of worldwide interest in what could be a disruptive new global monetary system. The…

The article is originally published on Wamda.  Republished in Japanese on Start-up dating in Japan Since the global financial crisis, trust has been low in the conventional banking system and its belief in entrepreneurs isn’t that high either. In this climate, entrepreneurs are disrupting…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S.  Republished in Japanese on Start-up dating in Japan We are entrepreneurs. We work day and night for years to turn our dreams into a reality that we hope will transform society and…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S. “Can women have it all?” The corporate response still seems to be  a resounding “no.” In many parts of the world, women are still waiting for employment legislation and…

The article is originally published on The Atlantic Media’s Quartz in the U.S. You can also scroll down for the Turkish translation. KILLING CREATIVITY Entrepreneurship is a revolutionary act. It is the desire to change the world. Creativity and innovation are…

The article is originally published on Wamda.  Republished in 3 languages: in Turkish on Zumbara and Yesilist in Turkey, Japanese on Start-up dating in Japan, and  Arabic on Wamda in the Middle East Increasingly competitive economic conditions and growing social concerns force us to search…

This article was originally published on Wamda In a recent article on racism and meritocracy, Eric Riescalls for Silicon Valley investors to pay more attention to diversity and meritocracy, not just to break through stereotyping but because diversity generates productivity. The factors that determine…

The Internet retail giant Amazon has acquired a minority stake in the Istanbul-based online flower and gift store Cicek Sepeti. This is more than just investment news for Turkish market players. It gives a “secure” stamp of approval to the…

As venture incubators sprout up around the globe, pledging to nourish the next generation of startups in a period of global recession, they may now be creating a bubble. After Xconomy’s recent report, Guide to Venture Incubators, counted 64 venture incubators…

Without a doubt, there has been a boost in entrepreneurship over the last two years in emerging markets. We’ve witnessed the launch of several conferences, seen investments accelerate, and heard about entrepreneurship programs launched by both the public and private…