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GO! GLOBAL Türkiye SUMMIT 2026 brings together Türkiye’s most exceptional startups and leading global venture capital firms through a revolutionary precision-matching approach that maximizes partnership potential and creates sustainable momentum for Türkiye’s global startup ecosystem. This summit provides Turkish founders with a unique opportunity to connect with world - renowned investors, showcase their innovative ideas, and gain valuable insights from seasoned entrepreneurs. We're seeking visionary creators, industry challengers, and independent thinkers - founders ready to disrupt markets and drive meaningful change. For investors, this represents an opportunity to engage early with Türkiye’s most exceptional startups, recognizing that strategic decisions can lead to extraordinary outcomes. Our matching methodology ensures investors connect with a curated group of ambitious founders, each ready to scale their vision globally from day one. Join us in our relentless pursuit to build legendary, generational companies that will shape the future of global technology.

2025 Program

DAY I - 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 – 12:50From Founder to Investor: Building and Backing Global Companies

Fireside Chat with Rubin Ritter | Talberg Entrepreneurial Capital, & Dilek Dayınlarlı I ScaleX Ventures

12:50 – 13:35Winning 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 – 16:15Scaling 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

DAY II - 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 – 14:45Going 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

DAY III - Closed Session for Investors (Invite Only)

07:30 – 08:00Registration 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

11:00 – 11:15Closing