Closed Session for Selected Startups (Invite Only)
09.15 – 10.00
Registration & Networking Breakfast
10:00 – 10:10
Opening Remark
Murat Özyeğin, TAİK Chairman
10:10 – 10:25
Building Generational Companies: A Proven Blueprint to Accelerate High-Impact Collaborations from Türkiye to the World
Hande Çilingir, TAİK Digital Task Force Leader & TAİK Board Member | Co-Founder & CEO, Insider
10:25 - 10:45
The Entrepreneur Mindset, Managing Your Own Psychology:
Fireside Chat with Fadi Ghandour | Wamda Capital & Hande Çilingir I Co-Founder & CEO, Insider
10:45 – 12:00
Storytelling - How to use effective storytelling in early-stage fundraising
Pieter Kemps | ex-Sequoia Capital, ex-Peak XV Partners with Melis Abacioglu I Founder, Wellbees
12:20 – 12:50
From Founder to Investor: Building and Backing Global Companies
Fireside Chat with Rubin Ritter | Talberg Entrepreneurial Capital, & Dilek Dayınlarlı I ScaleX Ventures
12:50 – 13:35
Winning in America: Growth in the World’s Toughest Market
Serhat Soyuerel I Co-Founder & Enis Hulli I e2vc
13:35 – 14:30
Working Lunch Break 2-Minute Fix: Founder-to-Founder Exchange
Rapid-fire peer-to-peer sessions where founders share their biggest lessons and hacks.
14:30 – 15:00
Deploy or Die: The New AI Playbook for GTM and Enterprise Adoption
Cut through the hype, explore what actually works in getting AI from prototype to production: Global Turks in AI Panel Fireside Chat
15:00 - 15:30
From Research to Reality: Minds Shaping the Future of AI:
Global Turks in AI Panel Fireside Chat (30 min + Q&A via AhaSlides)
15:30 – 16:15
Scaling Across Borders: Cracking the Enterprise Code:
Muharrem Derinkök I Co-Founder & CPO, Insider with Mehmet Sinan Toktay | Co-Founder & CTO, Insider | Ceyda Sabancı Dinçer| Investor, Molten Ventures
GO! GLOBAL Türkiye Summit 2025 Agenda
Summit Venue: Divan Kuruçeşme, Istanbul
09:15 – 10:00
Registration & Networking Breakfast
10:00 – 10:45
Opening Remarks
Hande Çilingir, TAİK Digital Task Force Leader / CEO, Insider
Emre Kurttepeli, Chairman, Endeavor Türkiye
Murat Özyeğin, Chairman, Türkiye–U.S. Business Council (TAİK)
Nail Olpak, DEİK President
Keynote Remarks
Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Minister of Industry and Technology of Republic of Türkiye
10:45 – 11:15
Rolling the Dice: Betting Early on Global Outliers Inside the mindset of early investors who back unconventional founders.
Edith Yeung, Race Capital
Ece Wyrick, Khosla Ventures
Eylul Kayın, Gradient
How leading investors identify and back global category leaders from emerging hubs.
11:15 – 11:45
The New Order of Venture: Investing and Scaling in a Multipolar World
Fadi Ghandour, Wamda Capital
Cem Sertoğlu, Bek Ventures
Dilek Dayınlarlı, ScaleX Ventures
A conversation on how shifting global power dynamics are reshaping venture capital, technology, and scaling from Türkiye and the region to the world.
11:45 – 12:15
Coffee Break
12:15 – 12:45
Beyond Silicon Valley: Betting on Tomorrow’s Titans
Alex Crisses |General Atlantic with Hande Çilingir | Co-Founder & CEO, Insider
How leading investors identify and back global category leaders from emerging hubs
12:45 – 13:15
The Growth Capital Lens: Where Global VCs Are Placing Big Bets Trends Shaping Later-Stage Investing Across Regions and Sectors
Moderator: Ihsan Elgin
Udayan Goyal, Apis
Christopher Apfel, General Atlantic
Bernard-Louis Roques, Truffle Capital
Andrii Chornous, Hillmont Partners
13:15 – 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 – 14:45
Going Global
Serhat Soyuerel Co-Founder & CRO, Insider
Aslı Kurul Türkmen, Managing Director, Endeavor Türkiye
Burak Demir, Co-Founder & CEO, Feraset
A founder-led session highlighting stories of scaling from Türkiye to the world with Melis Abacıoğlu, Founder & CEO, Welbees
14:45 – 15:15
Frontier to Factory: AI Breakthroughs in Action Enterprise AI leaders unpack the newest breakthroughs, then show the live deployments, governance patterns, and
ROI behind them
Ayhan Şebin, IBM
Tolgahan Çakaloğlu, Wallmart
Merve Unuvar, IBM
Ruhi Sarıkaya, Amazon
Elif Albuz, Cerebras Systems
Hatice Özen, Groq
Fatih Boyacı, Youtube
15:15 – 15:30
Closing of the content and transition to 1o1 matching
15:30 – 17:30
One-on-One VC & Founder Matching
Structured networking sessions between founders and global investors. Curated by Endeavor
17:30 – 18:30
Networking Cocktail
GO! GLOBAL Türkiye Summit 2025 Agenda
Closed Session for Investors (Invite Only)
07:30 – 08:00
Registration and Networking Breakfast
08:00 – 08:01
Opening Remarks
Murat Özyeğin, TAİK
08:01 – 08:20
Keynote Remarks
Mehmet Şimşek, Minister of Treasury and Finance of the Republic of Türkiye
08:20 – 08:50
Fireside chat
Mehmet Şimşek, Minister of Treasury and Finance of the Republic of Türkiye
Fadi Ghandour, Wamda Capital
08:50 – 09:00
Q&A
09:00 – 09:30
Coffee Break & Networking
09:30 – 10:00
Panel: International LPs on Emerging Markets Global investors discuss what excites them about Türkiye and the region
Dan Bowyer, Superseed VC (tbc)
Tülin Tokatlı, Aspire11
Göktürk Işıkpınar, AKPortfoy
10:00 – 11:00
Power Circles: LPs & VCs in Dialogue Small-group dialogues with LP and VC perspectives
