Speaking
As of August 2025, I have given 54 conference talks and workshops in 15 countries.
To give you a feel for my style of talking, I picked two of my favorite talks: Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices and Great Design, Despite Agile.
I delivered these two talks multiple times and I believe their content represents my experience at the intersection of design, product management, and actual delivery of technology solutions.
2025
Designing with AI, online Who does the math: A designer’s journey in building an AI-based tutoring app
2024
Agile Manchester Holding Unbiased, Non-leading Customer Interviews (Workshop)
Alive İstanbul Pencil-Scrivener-Author: A Novel Design Maturity Model (Turkish)- MxInnovation, İstanbul AI in the creative industries (Panel)
uxcon Vienna Der Neue Designer: How Our Good Intentions Hurt Our Profession
2023
- Advancing Research 2023, online Research Democratization (Debate)
DevOpsDays Tokyo Understanding Deeper Needs
EuroIA 2023, Amsterdam Der Neue Designer: We Should Burn Some Bridges
2022
Mind the Product Engage, Hamburg When Research Hurts- DevOpsDays Tokyo This is Not The Command-line: Seven Ways Humans Talk to Each Other
- UXminimal, online From Democracy to Sultanate: Unseen Effects of Research Democratization (Turkish)
Design Congress Azerbaycan, hybrid How research reduces risk, why designers are not gods!
2021
- Agile 2021, online Developers and Sales, Sitting in a Tree
2020
- Agile Manchester, online Great design, despite agile
- UXInsight, online It's OK not to start with research
- Hacknbreak, online Undermining innovation: Mistakes in user research (Turkish)
- XCO Summit, İstanbul Modern UX design (Turkish)
- CloudTalk Global, online Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices (Turkish)
- FowConnect, online Oil Wrestling vs Iaido: Importance of Clarity in Remote Work
2019
- DevOpsDays Amsterdam Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices
- DevOpsDays İstanbul Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices (Pechakucha)
DevOpsDays Zürich Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices (Pechakucha)
Agile 2019, Washington DC Using Design Methods to Establish Healthy DevOps Practices- AgileDays İstanbul The Perfect Blend of Design and Agility (Turkish)
- UXminimal, Ankara Design Has Changed: Implications of Modern UX Design Practices (Turkish)
- UXminimal, Ankara Avoiding Arctic Expeditions: Ways to do research together (Workshop, Turkish)
- Hacknbreak, İzmir Understanding User Needs in Four Steps (Turkish)
- Future of Work Summit İstanbul Agility and Design Maturity at an Organization Level
2018
- Frontend Conference Zürich Great Design, Despite Agile
MirrorConf, Braga Avoiding Arctic Expedition: Ways to do Research Together
Agilia Prague Exploiting Old Habits for a Successful Agile Transformation
NDC Techtown Great UX, Despite Agile: How to Get the Best Out of Your Design Team in Agile Projects- NDC Techtown User Research for Everyone
- UX Istanbul Listening and Understanding During Interviews (Turkish)
- Hacknbreak, İzmir Design that Profits, Grows, Unifies (Turkish)
2017
- UX Alive, İstanbul User Research in Three Steps (Workshop, Turkish)
- MirrorConf, Braga User Research for Everyone
- UX İstanbul Participatory Analysis in Research (Workshop, Turkish)
- FocusTalks, İzmir User Experience in This Era (Turkish)
- Agile Summit, İstanbul Great Design, Despite Agile (Turkish)
- Hacknbreak, İzmir Participatory Analysis in Research (Workshop, Turkish)
- Hacknbreak, İzmir History of Digital Design (Turkish)
2016
- Convey UX, Seattle Doing Research in Design-Hostile Environments
- DigitalTalks, İstanbul Going Beyond Usability in UX (Turkish)
UX Singapore Beyond Usability: Elements of Great Modern User Experiences- UX Singapore User Research for Everyone (Workshop)
- UX Alive, İstanbul Solid Insights in Seven Days
- UX Alive, İstanbul User Research for Everyone (Workshop)
- Hacknbreak, İzmir User Experience in This Era (Turkish)
- Hacknbreak, İzmir User Research for Everyone (Workshop, Turkish)
2015
- PMI Summit, İstanbul Fast, Lean and Wrong: Missteps in Lean and Agile Approaches
2014
UX Australia Starting Right, With Prototypes
UX Scotland Time is Money: Managing Financial Clients- NDC IoT Day, Oslo New Bits, New Pieces: Inspiration for Building IoT for Everyday Use
- MarketingTalks, İstanbul Creating Successful Mobile Experiences (Turkish)