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'''ITU GINOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.
In the latest round of updates, I have made several key changes to the event descriptions. Notably, I've added details to some existing events to enhance clarity and engagement, ensuring that they resonate better with the audience. Additionally, I introduced new events to the lineup, expanding the range of opportunities available to students and participants. These updates aim to provide a more comprehensive overview of what each event entails and the benefits they offer to attendees.
'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.
'''Jump Start:''' The "Jump Start" program, organized annually by ITU’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GINOVA), offers ITU students a hands-on introduction to entrepreneurship. Through expert-led workshops, participants learn to develop business models, design experiments for validating ideas, and prepare compelling investor pitches. The program includes advanced modules on Design Thinking, technology commercialization, and licensing strategies, equipping students with skills to create and scale their own ventures. By connecting with industry professionals, investors, and mentors, students gain valuable insights and networking opportunities, fostering a practical understanding of entrepreneurship that can drive both personal and professional growth at ITU.
'''The Future Engineers Summit:''' The Future Engineers Summit (FES), hosted annually by ITU's Career and Internship Center, is a dynamic event that connects engineering students with leading professionals across engineering, technology, and industry sectors. Through a mix of conferences, workshops, case studies, hackathons, and employer branding booths, the summit offers invaluable sectoral insights, hands-on learning, and networking opportunities. By engaging in expert-led sessions on sustainability, artificial intelligence, career planning, and more, ITU students gain a comprehensive view of industry trends and build connections with experts, enhancing their career prospects and professional development.
'''ITU Career Summit (İKZ):''' The ITU Career Summit (İKZ) is one of Turkey's largest career events, organized annually by the ITU Career Center since 2005. This exclusive event for ITU students and alumni connects hundreds of companies from diverse sectors each year, giving participants direct access to job and internship opportunities. İKZ offers a valuable platform to connect with industry leaders, explore career paths, and develop essential professional skills. Attendees can engage with firms to gather insights on career and internship options, participate in events like "Touch the Talent" to learn more about companies, and share their resumes instantly by scanning QR codes at the booths. Additionally, participants can enhance their interview skills by taking part in mock interviews with representatives from companies of interest. With no registration required, students and alumni from all faculties and academic levels are welcome to take advantage of this unique opportunity.
'''The ITU Internship and Interview Days:''' The ITU Internship and Interview Days, organized annually by the ITU Career and Internship Center, connect students and recent graduates with top engineering and technology companies in Turkey. This event features company booths, workshops, and mock interviews, offering valuable insights into various sectors such as aviation, automotive, defense, energy, banking, and finance. Participants have the opportunity to explore internship and employment prospects, gain career advice from industry experts, and expand their professional networks. By facilitating direct interactions with leading employers, the program significantly enhances the career development and employability of ITU students.
'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.
'''Entrepreneurship Summit:''' In this event, students attended various sessions about the current topics of entrepreneurship and listened to the experts in the ecosystem. It also offered many interactive activities with an aim to help students to expand their networks.
'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.
'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.
'''Innovation Boost:''' Innovation Boost is organized an annual entrepreneurship competition designed to support young entrepreneurs in generating new ideas or enhancing existing ones. Organized by ITU Entrepreneurship Society in November 2020, the program offers entrepreneurship training, inspiration workshops, investor meetings, and mentorship sessions, with winning teams receiving significant prizes to help realize their concepts. The aim of the competition is initiative aims to provide opportunities for potential young entrepreneurs to spread experience the entrepreneurial culture to students idea development process, encouraging innovation in university by bringing them with experienced entrepreneurssectors such as education technology, green technology, investors and trainerse-commerce. Students will be able to develop their own business ideas with the help of the trainings they receive during this long-term competitionBy participating, ITU students gain valuable skills, resources, which will last for 8 days. At the end of the processand networking opportunities, teams that show potential significantly impacting their entrepreneurial journeys and are ranked will receive various awardscareer prospects.
'''Startup Weekend Istanbul:''' Startup Weekend is a three-day program where aspiring entrepreneurs can experience startup life. In hundreds of cities around the world. Sustainable Startup Weekend Istanbul is organized by collaboration of ITU GINOVA, ITU Entrepreneurship Society and with the partnership of Turkish-German University and Marmara University. The event aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs to experience start-up life under the sustainability subject. The event took place online on May 7-9, entrepreneurs from many countries came together and devoted their weekends to entrepreneurial journeys.
===='''ITU Arı Teknokent'''====
ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:
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*providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
In order to include global start-ups and entrepreneurs in the program, İTÜ Çekirdek announced its name as ITU Seed Accelerator for International Startups, and received applications from over 100 startups from 35 countries.
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'''Big Bang Start-up Challenge:''' Big Bang is an organization that is founded by ITU Cekirdek, brings entrepreneurs and investors together, where entrepreneurial groups make presentations on the stage for investment. In Big Bang 2021, startups have reached to ₺458 million investment and had the opportunity to be accepted to ITU Cekirdek Incubation Center. Additionally, it offers a setting in which business owners may interact with investors, potential clients, members of the press, and stakeholders.
During the 15 cohorts of Innogate International Acceleration Program, 105 alumni firms have developed business with $41 million total investment.
'''ITU 1773:''' 1773 İTÜ Teknopark, established by Istanbul Technical University (ITU), builds on over 250 years of engineering tradition. As Turkey's first technical university, ITU has significantly contributed to the nation's modernization and development. The Teknopark provides an innovative environment for entrepreneurs and researchers to collaborate on advanced technology projects, reinvesting its profits back into ITU to enhance its mission of becoming a global leader in technology. Its vision is to be a recognized leader in technology development, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in Turkey.
===<big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big>===