Speaking

I give talks to universities, conferences, companies, foundations, and podcast audiences on the philosophy of emerging technology, attention and the digital life, AI ethics, climate, and the future of publishing in a saturated information landscape. I think every day about how ideas reach readers in a culture that's increasingly distracted by everything else.

I'm comfortable in keynotes, panels, fireside chats, workshops, podcast interviews, and private briefings — in English and Turkish. Most engagements run 30–60 minutes with Q&A, and I tailor each talk to the audience rather than recycling the same deck.

Selected Talks & Lectures

  • Ethics, IP Rights, and Safety — Istanbul University An hour-long lecture as part of the university's Blockchain Technologies and Legal Background accelerator — on the ethical frameworks that have to accompany emerging technology, what intellectual property means in decentralized systems, and what user safety looks like once you take it seriously.

  • Technology Ethics — NFT NYC 2023 On the recurring failures of Web2 platforms — surveillance, attention extraction, opaque governance — and what designing the next generation of technology with those failures in mind would actually require. [Watch]

  • Brand and Creator Strategy in Emerging Tech — NFT.London A panel conversation on how brands and independent creators are approaching ownership, audience, and new forms of cultural distribution — and what each side tends to misunderstand about the other. [Watch]

  • Speciesist Historiography: The City and the Language of Translation and Language in the Context of Translation — International Vegan Festival Moderating a panel on how human-centered assumptions have shaped both urban design and the language we use to translate experience — and what those legacies cost the non-human world we share it with.

  • NFT 101 — F3STIVAL, F3 Ventures A primer on emerging technology for a general audience — the structural shifts, the genuine risks, and how to evaluate hype without becoming cynical about the underlying ideas.

  • Web3 Ethics — Nova3 A talk on the design-level decisions that determine whether a new platform repeats the mistakes of the old ones — or actually departs from them.

Selected Podcast Appearances

  • Finding Your Niche and Achieving Your Goals — The Journey with Jared On the path from Istanbul to New York, building a career at the intersection of technology and ethics, and how to find work that fits the questions you actually want to ask. [Listen]

  • Technology Ethics, UX, and Representation — Web3 with Sam Kamani On designing technology for the people who use it, who gets left out of the room when those decisions are made, and what better design would look like. [Listen]

  • Privacy, Transparency, and Sustainability in Emerging Tech — Barely Legal in Web3 On the trade-offs at the heart of new technology — transparency versus privacy, insider culture versus open access, and what sustainable tech infrastructure actually requires. [Listen]

  • Technology as a Tool for Good — Culture Factor On the recurring question of how we build new platforms without repeating the failures of the old ones, and what "tech for good" has to mean if it's going to mean anything. [Listen]

  • Curation, Ethics, and Building Better Platforms — Mint On who decides what we see online, what curation owes its audience, and whether a better kind of social platform is structurally possible. [Listen]

  • Working in Tech — Dear Twentysomething On getting started in technology, choosing a life path and educating yourself on your interests. [Listen]