BURAK YAMAN

After completing his business administration degree at Dokuz Eylül University, Yaman did masters degree on human resources management and career coaching at Ankara University. He focuses on lean enterprise methodology, business model generation and customer development and provides strategy consultancy on these subjects. He founded Senkron Organization, which is his first enterprise and operates in the field of event management. Afterwards, he established the Lean Enterprise Workshop in 2012 to support new enterprises with the entrepreneurship training he received at Stanford University and his experiences. With this formation, various seminars and workshops have been organized in Turkey in order to encourage technology-oriented entrepreneurship and to support the commercialization of entrepreneurial ideas. In addition to his managerial assignments in many enterprises, he also ensured the realization of Venturro, Turkey's first techno-enterprise social network. In addition to his consultancy to many incubation centers and startup acceleration programs, he has organized numerous entrepreneurship events including Startup Weekend, Angel Labs, Bithack and Startupbootcamp Istanbul Acceleration Program. He was the coordinator of the Koç University Incubation Center. He is currently the innovation and entrepreneurship manager in Eczacıbaşı Holding, Turkey's leading industrial group with 39 companies. Yaman organizes a variety of startup events, including workshops, talks and networking events.