April 13, 2008 - TASSA Conference 2008
Harvard Medical School, Boston, M.A.
As you know we took a break from TABCON
on the West Coast in 2008 and decided to extend our message of high-tech
entrepreneurship and business opportunities between the U.S. and Turkey
to the east coast. On April 13, 2008 TABC hosted the closing panel on
Managing and Financing Innovation in TASSA conference, at Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA. President of TABC, Efe T. Orhun moderated
the panel the panelists on this panel were Oltac Unsal, Managing Director
of Smyrna Capital and Co-founding member of TABC and Oya Uysal project
manager, Mersin
Chamber of Commerce and Industrialists Association
and Halil Kulluk, CEO,
Intekno, Inc.
TASSA-Turkish American Business Connection
(TABC) Joint Panel On Managing and Financing Innovation
Moderator: Efe Orhun, President, Turkish American Business Connection
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The Business of Innovation
Oltaç Ünsal, Managing Partner, Smyrna
Capital, Co-Founder, TABC
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Innovation in Regional Development:
the Mersin Experience
Oya Uysal, Mersin Technology Development Region
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Innovation and Tolerance
- Hoshgoru Lecture
Halil Kulluk, Chairman of the Board,
Intekno, and DEIK
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Q&A Session
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For more information please visit TASSA-US’s
website: http://www.tassausa.org
April 15, 2008 - ATC-AFOT/TAIK-DEIK 27th Annual Conference on U.S.-Turkish Relations (in Association with TABC)
Mandarin International, Washington, D.C
TABC hosted “Evidence of Turkish ICT
Entrepreneurship” at the ATC-AFOT/TAIK-DEIK 27th Annual Conference
on U.S.-Turkish Relations on April 15, 2008. The panel was moderated
by Özer Dondurmacioglu, Member of the Board, TABC. The panel featured
Mr. Ali Kutay CEO of Golden
Gate Systems, who shared
his entrepreneurial experience in the Silicon Valley, Dr. Faruk Yarman,
General Manager, Havelsan
Inc, who presented on the
developments in Turkish high-tech sector and the underlying financial
infrastructure and last last but not least Mr. Aydin Onur, Secretary
General of TABC presented on TABC Consulting’s Asymmetric Investment
Services from Turkey to the U.S. vs. Silicon Valley to Turkey. Mr. Onur
asserted that it was very difficult to attract Silicon Valley investors
to take an interest in Turkey while there has been a respectable amount
of activity for Turkish Investors considering expanding their businesses
into USA. He offered some potential explanations for this asymmetry
and invited the audience to come up with their proposed reasons.
Ozer Dondurmacioglu
– Not available.
Ali Kutay
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http://www.tabc-us.org/tabcon2005/speakers.asp
Aydin Onur -
http://www.tabc-us.org/tabcon2007/speakers.html
Bridging Silicon Valley and Turkey
through Technology Creation
Moderator:
Özer Dondurmacioglu, Member of
the Board, TABC
Panelists:
Ali Kutay, President & CEO, GoldenGate
Software, Inc.
Aydin Onur, Vice President, Enterprise
Applications, ModusLink Corporation
Dr. Faruk Yarman, General Manager,
Havelsan
TABC hosted “Evidence of Turkish ICT
Entrepreneurship” at the ATC-AFOT/TAIK-DEIK 27th Annual Conference
on U.S.-Turkish Relations on April 15, 2008. Moderated by Halil Dogan
Bolak, Chair of the TAIK ICT Committee, panelists such as Ned Cabot,
Public Affairs Manager of Cisco Systems and Oltaç Ünsal, Chief Investment
Officer of Smyrna Capital talked about venture capital and corporate
investments in Turkish technology startup. Ahmet Akkas and Hasan Eskici
related to their experience of taking DevBiz from an idea in Izmir to
being acquired by Microsoft in Redmond.
Evidence of Turkish ICT Entrepreneurship
Moderator:
Halil Dogan Bolak, Chair, ICT Committee,
TAIK
Panelists:
Erkan Akdemir, General Manager, Cisco
Systems Turkey
Ahmet Akkas, Co-founder, DevBiz
Hakan Eskici, Co-founder, DevBiz
Oltaç Ünsal, Chief Investment Officer,
Smyrna Capital
For more information please visit ATC’s
website:
http://www.americanturkishcouncil.org/events/c08/
