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GC Connect İstanbul 2025 agenda

09:00 – 09:30 Registration and breakfast

09:30 – 09:40 Welcome address

Barış Agun, founder, BA Business Development Agency

09:40 – 10:30 Panel One sponsored by SRP-Legal

AI AND DIGITAL MARKETS LAW


Moderator: Att. Dr. Cigdem Ayozger Ongun, PhD, LL.M., founder & managing partner, SRP-Legal

Speaker - Birol Küle,  president, Turkish Competition Authority

Speaker - Doç. Dr. Hakan BİLİR, Deputy Chairman of the Competition Authority

10:30 – 11:20 Panel Two sponsored by Mustafa Tırtır

LEGAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT: PROCEDURE INSTEAD OF PANIC IN CASES OF SUSPECTED CRIME


Speaker - Mustafa Tırtır, co-founder

Speaker - Muharrem Kazak, partner

11:20 - 11:30 coffee break

11:30 – 12:20 Panel Three sponsored by Fırat Gültekin & Partners

ICC ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE


Moderator - Ziya Fırat Gültekin, founding partner, Fırat Gültekin & Partners

Speaker - Prof. Dr. Erdem Büyüksağiş, University of Fribourg, IBL

Speaker - Turgut Aycan Özcan, founding partner, Özcan Legal

Speaker - Dr. Eyüp Vural Aydın, Head of the PPP Research Centre, Chairman of the DEİK PPP Committee, Lecturer at Bahçeşehir University

12:20 – 13:10 Keynote sponsored by YAZICIOGLU Legal

PROBLEMS RESOLVED. NEW PROBLEMS AHEAD!

Where do we stand on international data transfers and the processing of special categories of personal data following the amendments to the Turkish Data Protection Law?

Long-awaited amendments to the Turkish Data Protection Law have addressed certain long-standing challenges, but they have introduced some new ones. In this session, we will delve into what these new challenges are and whether there are any practical ways to tackle them.


Speaker - Bora Yazıcıoğlu, managing partner

13:10– 14:00 Lunch

14:00– 14:30 Keynote Speaker sponsored by Balay, Eryiğit & Erten

LEADING THE FUTURE FACING LEGAL FUNCTION


Speaker - Mo Zain Ajaz, founder at LEX360

14:30 - 15:20 Panel Four sponsored by Davitt Jones Bould

LAWYER RETENTION STRATEGIES

Moderator - Barış Agun, founder, BA Business Development Agency.

Speaker - Peter Allinson, chief executive at Davitt Jones Bould.

Speaker - Başak Gürbüz, legal director, Alliance Healthcare

15:20 – 15:30 coffee break

15:30 – 16:20 Panel Five sponsored by ACTECON

IMPLICATIONS OF COURT DECISIONS - PRACTICAL ASSESSMENTS OF COURT DECISIONS


Moderator - Bahadır BALKI, managing partner, ACTECON

Speaker - Fatma D. ŞENGÜL, legal director, Akkim Group of Companies

Speaker - Elif Açelya BALKI, competition compliance director, Migros Ticaret A.Ş.
Speaker - Çağlar EROL, chairman of the board of directors, Enuygun.com

16:20 – 17:10 Panel Six sponsored by Aydemir Avukatlık Ortaklığı

THE STRATEGIC AND LEGAL APPROACH IN MERGERS & AQUISITIONS


Moderator - Gupse Hatko-Aydemir, partner, Aydemir Avukatlık Ortaklığı

Speaker - Zafer Sönmez, group president, strategy and business development, Tosyalı Holding

Speaker - Umut Nazif Çelik, general counsel legal & compliance, Beko

Speaker - Nil Akman Yurttaş, chief legal counsel, Eczacıbaşı Holding

17:10 – 17:40 Keynote sponsored by Guden Solicitors

CROSS-BORDER DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Arbitration and Litigation Between London and Istanbul


Speaker - Ali Guden, founder, Guden Solicitors


17:40 – 18:10 Keynote

AI & LEGAL TECHNOLOGY


Moderator - Barış Agun, founder, BA Business Development Agency.

Speaker - Oğuzhan Arslan, Deputy GM, Microsoft Turkiye 

18:10 – 18:15 Closing address

Barış Agun, founder, at BA Business Development Agency

19:00 – 23:00 GC Elite Türkiye 2025

Celebrating in-house lawyers who are making a difference in the Turkish legal business market

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