Sedef Karagöz, Deputy General Manager of Geothermal Operations at SANKO Holding, will deliver a talk at EE

Sedef Karagöz, who is currently working as Deputy General Manager of Geothermal Operations at SANKO will give a talk on “Recent Technologies in Energy Production” and share her valuable experiences in the field with the Istanbul Commerce University audience on October 20th, 2021, Wednesday, between 9.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. at C-307, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled EEE101 – Introduction to Electrical-Electronics Engineering course.

Sedef Karagöz graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU) Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1987. She worked as an assistant while studying for a Master’s Degree in the same department. After graduation, she worked as a manager in the field of energy transmission and distribution, sales, production, and project management for 17 years at Barmek Holding. During this period, she also completed the METU Faculty of Business, Master of Business (MBA) program.

In 2003, Karagöz joined Siemens and carried out several managerial positions in various units operating in the field of energy. In 2013, she has become Energy sector leader and served as a member of the Executive Board at Siemens.

In 2021, she joined SANKO Enerji A.Ş. and she is working as Deputy General Manager responsible for geothermal operations.

In addition to corporate leadership and management training, she gained significant experience in process improvement, change management, strategy and innovation. Karagöz, who has been mentoring promising executive candidates since 2011, also serves as a leader and spokesperson in corporate initiatives such as “Diversity” and “Collaboration”.

She continues to provide engineering and consultancy services as a founding partner in EPUS Mühendislik Montaj ve Ticaret A.Ş. (2015) and EcogridX B.V. in the Netherlands (2020).

Sedef Karagöz aims to increase the knowledge and experience of people working in the field and to direct the transformation and improvement in the business world.

  1. Guest: Sedef Karagöz, SANKO Holding, Deputy General Manager of Geothermal Operations,
  2. Date: October 20th, 2021, Wednesday, 9.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. (GMT+3)
  3. Venue: Istanbul Commerce University, Kucukyali Campus, C-307
  4. Topic: Recent Technologies in Energy Production

Radio Network Strategic Planning Engineer of Turkcell will deliver a talk at EE

Hakan Acar, who is currently working at Turkcell, will give a talk and share his valuable experiences in the field with Istanbul Commerce University audience on December 9th, 2019, Monday, between 10 am–12 pm at C-304, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.

Hakan Acar was born in Trabzon in 1986. He graduated from Trabzon Yomra Science High School in 2004. Also, he graduated from Bilkent University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2008. In 2019, he received his MSc. degree in Business Administration from Bahçeşehir University with a thesis on the relationships between the business models and the value propositions within smart city solutions. He started his career in 2008 at Turkcell in Radio Network Cell Planning & Optimization department and currently works in Radio Network Strategic Planning department, in İstanbul. He mainly works in the fields of radio network planning, strategies and product management, Internet of Things (IoT) network strategies and business relationships, return on investment (RoI) analysis and budget management. He gives trainings on Internet of Things (IoT) at Turkcell Academy.

İhsan Cafer Elhan will deliver a talk at EE

İhsan Cafer Elhan, who is currently working at Elma Press and Communication Services, will give a talk and share his valuable experiences in the field with Istanbul Commerce University audience on November 25th, 2019, Monday, between 10am – 12pm at C-304, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.

İhsan Cafer Elhan was born in 1963 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul Pertevniyal High School in 1979. Also, he graduated from Boğaziçi University’s Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in 1985. In 1990, he completed the Certificate Program for Management and Business Administration of Istanbul University. Between 1984 and 1986 he worked at Turkey agent of Commodore, Teleteknik Inc., as a Service Manager and then as an R&D Engineer. In July 1986, Elma Computer System Ltd. has been founded and Mr. Elhan was one of the founding members of this initiative. Besides, he led and completed several IT based integrated electronic production workflow projects for almost all leasing media companies in Turkey. He served as a board member for the GSM operator company AYCELL, a subsidiary of Turk Telekom, between 2002 and 2003. In 2005, Mr. Elhan was elected as a board member of Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. After serving as a board member for four years, he served as vice-chairman of board for an additional 4 years until 2013. In this period, he worked for the acquisition of modern studio, broadcast and new media technologies to TRT and the digital transformation of TRT’s infrastructure and organization. His research interests include globalization, mobile communication, and new media technologies, international relations, the global economy, the weaponization of social media and strategic communication. Mr. Elhan is a member of both Board of Trustees and Founders of the Boğaziçi Administrators Foundation. He is married and he has three children. He is currently working at Elma Press and Communication Services, which was started in 1995 and became the mainstream activity of the company.

İhsan Cafer Elham’s talk at the Boğaziçi Administrators Foundation IBPF (Inspiring Best Practices Forum 2017) (in Turkish)
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An article in the World Bulletin, which is the beginning of Elham’s Weaponization of Social Media works. (in Turkish)
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Engineer Ersoy Ceylan will deliver a talk at EE

Ersoy Ceylan, who is a freelance consultant, will give a talk and share his valuable experiences in the field with Istanbul Commerce University audience on November 18th, 2019, Monday, between 10am-12pm at C-304, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.

Ersoy Ceylan was born in 1966 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1987. In 1990, he completed his Master’s degree in Electronics and Communication at the same university. In 1990 he started his Ph.D. at the same department. While he was in the thesis phase, he dropped out his Ph.D. He worked as a research assistant for 3 semesters at ITU. Between 1991-1997, he worked as a Software/Design Engineer in R&D department of Nortel Netas. Then, he carried on his career as an R&D manager in Nortel Netas for 5 years. Then he started to work in transmission planning department of Turkcell. From 2010 to 2017, Ceylan conducted management mission at the Leased Lines Management Department of AVEA. Also, he gave Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) training at Turkcell Academy. Ceylan is specialized in B-ISDN and ATM technologies, Real-Time Embedded System Design, Digital Power Plant Systems, Register and Line Signaling, ATM and ISDN protocol, SDH and Remote Control Systems.

Our Faculty Member Cengiz Riva will deliver a talk at EE

Cengiz Riva, who is currently one of our faculty members, will give a talk and share his valuable experiences in the field with Istanbul Commerce University audience on October 14th, 2019, Monday, between 10am – 12am at C-304, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.

Cengiz Riva has got the B.Sc. from Istanbul Technical University and M.Sc. from Boğaziçi University. Riva, has started his carreer as Mobile Cellular Telecommunication Engineer in Telsim in 1994 and continued to work for Alcatel-SEL as GSM Radio Network Expert for 4,5 years on abroad projects mainly in Asia-Pacific. He has actively took place in the startup of Avea network and was employed by the same company as responsible from central operations of 2G/3G network for 14 years.

Product Manager of P.I. Works will deliver a talk at EE

Y. Tarık Kranda, who is currently the Product Manager at P.I. Works, will give a talk and share his valuable experiences in the field with Istanbul Commerce University audience on September 30th, 2019, Monday, between 10am-12am at C-304, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.

Tarık Kranda received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering from Istanbul University. He completed his M.Sc degree in Computer Engineering at the same university. He continued his career, as a Researcher and Software Developer in Istanbul University. At the same time, he worked at Microsoft as a Student Partner Technical Leader. After 2 years of experience with Innova, he carried on his career as an Senior Product Manager in Turkcell for more than 4 years. He has been working at P.I. Works since 2015, and pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Istanbul University.

Huawei CCN Director delivers a talk at EE

boran_demircilerBoran Demirciler, who is currently HTRDC Cloud Core Network Director at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., will give a talk and share his valuable experiences in the field with Istanbul Commerce University audience on November 29th, 2018, Thursday, between 4pm-5pm at C-204, Kucukyali campus, focusing majorly on freshman students enrolled Introduction to Electrical Engineering course.

Boran Demirciler has over 17 years of experience in ICT domain with focus on R&D work at international telecom vendor companies. He received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1999. Upon getting his Master`s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2001, he started working in R&D department of Nortel Networks. After 8 years at Nortel Networks and nearly 1 year at Ericsson, he returned to Turkey and joined Huawei Turkey R&D Center in 2010. In his Huawei journey, he has managed various R&D projects and he is currently the director of Cloud Core Network department that focuses on IoT and video related products.