Young Entrepreneurs Club and Bilkent Cyberpark to Hold Start-Up Summit

Bilkent Cyberpark and the Bilkent Young Entrepreneurs Club are organizing the first Ankara Start-Up Summit, scheduled to take place on Friday, December 10, in order to encourage internet entrepreneurship in Ankara.

The summit will provide a forum in which programmers, internet entrepreneurs, investors and university students can meet, as well as an opportunity for selected entrepreneurs to present their projects to investors. It is hoped that the event will help to create a new synergy in Ankara and enable ideas with brilliant potential to become reality, in accordance with the mission of Bilkent Cyberpark and the Bilkent Young Entrepreneurs Club.

Project applications submitted before December 5 will be evaluated and the most promising start-up ideas chosen to be presented (for eight minutes each) to investors at the summit.

Summit Program:

12:30-1:45 p.m. Ali Karabey, Cem Soysal, Melih Ödemiş, Numan Numan, Ömer Akarca (Galata Business Angels Network presentation)

1:45-2 p.m. Networking

2-2:45 p.m. Alemşah Öztürk (Entrepreneurship in the Internet and Mobile Applications Sector)

2:45-3:30 p.m. Baybars Altuntaş (Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of an Investor)

3:30-3:45 p.m. Networking

3:45-5:30 p.m. Presentations to investors (selected projects only)

5:30-6 p.m. Networking

Speakers/Investors:

  • Baybars Altuntaş: Founder, Deulcom International
  • Alemşah Öztürk: Co-founder, grupanya.com and arcademonk; founder, 41? 29!
  • Ali Karabey: Co-founder, 212vc.com
  • Cem Soysal: General manager, İnventram
  • Melih Ödemiş: Co-founder, yemeksepeti.com
  • Ömer Akarca: Angel investor

Application deadline: December 5
Any project submitted must have a prototype. Projects that have not advanced beyond the idea stage will not be accepted.

For further information and application:
startupzirvesi@gencgirisimcilerkulubu.org
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=297912170218856
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/ankarastartup
News:
http://www.businessankara.com/seminerler/1-ankara-start-up-zirvesi.html