Awards and Recognitions
>2023 | Design Management Institute 2023 Global Women and Diverse Design Leaders
>2020 | Microsoft Woman Leader Making a Difference with New Technologies award
>2020 | FastCompany Female Founders 100
>2019 | DMI Design Value Awards, Boston, USA
> 2019 | Jury’s Special Award, Women Who Made a Difference, Entrepreneurship Competition, Lions Club
> 2016 | Design Expert Panel, Design for Europe, Appointed by Design Council
> 2016 | Curator and Speaker, New Opportunities, New Design Roles, The First Design Thinking Conference, Harvard Business Review in Turkey
> 2015 | 2nd Prize, MIT Media Labs, Hacking Arts Hackathon, Boston, USA, Team members: Arpit Gupta and David Henry
>2014 | 1st prize | Winning solution for Estimating Age from DNA on a competition involving 417 solvers, Innocentive, USA, Team members: Nagajyothi Nookula and Geoffrey Siwo
> 2013 | Singularity University, Grant for Graduate Studies Program, NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley, USA
> 2012 | Fellowship, The Most Innovative 10 People of %99 percent. Only recipient outside of North America, %99 Conference, Behance Network, New York, USA
> 2010 | IE Foundation Award, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
> 2007 | EMBA Scholarship at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France
> 2002 | Top 5 International Project Competition in new technologies, Interpro, Turkey
Speaking
> Upcoming: Mentor session, SXSW 2024, Austin, Texas, USA
>Upcoming: Curator, Design track, SXSW 2024, Austin, Texas, USA
> Panel Speaker, Building Digital Trust for the Average Consumer, Horasis Global Conference Gaziantep, October 2023
>Keynote Speaker, More Than UX, Her DAO, Token2029 Singapore, September 14th, 2023
> Curator, ‘Web 3.0 Dialogues: Diverse Profiles, Fresh Insights’ hosted by GEDS x Deloitte at Token2049 Singapore, September 15th 2023
> Mentor Session, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Product Management & Development, SXSW, Texas, the USA, March 2023
> Speaker, New Mindset, New Tools for Web 3.0, ETHDenver, Colorado, the USA, March 2023
>Speaker, Data-driven Strategies for Startups, Futurebox Accelerator, DTU Science Park, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2022
> Speaker, Design for Web3 and Blockchain, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Luzern, Switzerland, April 2022
> Speaker, Strategic Design: A Bold Opportunity for Designers, MIT Integrated Design Management Program, May 2021
> Speaker, Design Management for Global Fashion Brands, Future Possibilities, Denim City, Amsterdam, September 2019
> Speaker, Designing the World at Ignite SXSW, Austin, Texas, USA, March 2019
> Speaker, European Design Forum, Innovation ID | Thessaloniki, Greece, June 8th, 2018
> Speaker, Transformation in Design, Industry 4.0 conference, Ozyeging University, Turkey, 9 March 2018
> Speaker | Design for Europe Conference | Tallinn, Estonia, October 6th, 2016
> Curator & Speaker |Design Thinking: New Roles, New Opportunities| Harvard Business Review Turkiye Design Thinking Conference |Soho House Istanbul. May 2016
> Speaker| A Personal Journey from STEM to STEAM by Design | TurkishWin STEAM Conference| Istanbul, 2016
> Speaker | Where does Design add Value in a Tech Start-up? | DMI 40th Leadership Conference | Boston, USA, 2015
> Speaker | Design Lens as a Tool to Increase Startups’ Success Rate | TurkishWin | Boston, USA, 2015
> Speaker | Future of Design and Exponential Technologies | DMI Webcast Series | Worldwide, 2014
> Speaker | Design Giving Heart to Technology | AllDesign International Conference | Istanbul, 2014
> Speaker | Design, Meaning and Humanizing Technology | TEDxKocUniversity | Istanbul, 2014
> Speaker | Experience Design | Singularity University | NASA Ames Research Park | USA, 2014
> Speaker | Innovating for Value Design Management Conference | Madrid, 2012,
> Opening Keynote Speaker | A Design-Driven Entrepreneurship for SMEs in Emerging Markets | Government and SMEs of the Middle East program, 2011
> Speaker | University of San Francisco MBA Global Immersion Program, 2010
> Keynote Speaker | Fostering Innovation | Raya Holding Innovation Summit | Cairo, 2010
> Conference Speaker | Success Strategies for Operators Multimedia Services | Russia & CIS Com | Moscow, 2009
> Speaker | Project Management Success Stories in Mobile Technologies| Malta, 2008
> Panel Chair | Change Management Success Stories | Madrid, 2008
> Designer and Speaker | Mobile Internet Technologies: Recommended Strategies and Services | China Mobile-China, Digicel OECS-St Lucia, Azercell- Azerbaijan, UTS-Curacao, between 2003-2006.