Berat Kjamili
Impacted 20M people lives | Social Entrepreneur | Social AI
Co-founder | Board Member | President 🚀☀️🌎🌍🌏
Berat Kjamili
Impacted 20M people lives | Social Entrepreneur | Social AI
Co-founder | Board Member | President 🚀☀️🌎🌍🌏
About Me
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
I have co-founded 12 social enterprises and organized more than 10 international hackathons.
Traveler
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
I have traveled to over 31 countries
and lived in five countries.
I define myself as a global citizen.
Writer
Entrepreneur
Writer
I have written 17 articles aka book chapters about how technology and entrepreneurship may tackle societal challenges.
Highlights
Social Ventures
Co-founded, co-created and co-lead:
- Migport, social enterprise connecting refugees and locals
- Kodluyoruz (We Code), largest software developer community
- DotsHub, co-creation space and global community for entrepreneurs and change makers
- Turcopreneurs, Turkish Early Adopters Entrepreneurship Community with US Department of State.
Partnerships
- Co-founded e-Residence Turkey where over 10 million foreigners registered for residence permits
- World's biggest online hackathon, EUvsVirus of the European Commission where over 21,000 people participated to find solutions to the pandemic.
- YSESD Social Entrepreneurship Workshops of Rutgers University & Migport
- GLOBUS Social Entrepreneurship Program with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
International Recognition
- Won over 10 international prestigious awards
- Published over 17 articles on Springer and IFORS. He received 46 citations.
- He has been mentioned on international media more than 100 times.
Leading Social Impact
- President of the Board of Directors of Kodluyoruz Social Enterprise.
Kodluyoruz (We code) is a social enterprise that works to train world-class software developers in Turkey and aims to make our country a technology development center.
- Inaugural Alumni Board President , The Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI). The U.S. Department of State's flagship program for European emerging entrepreneurs and is implemented by WorldChicago.
Kodluyoruz (We Code) | Coding the Future 🚀
300,000 graduates
Winner: NGO Trainer of the Year!
10,000 job placements
Making Türkiye a technology talent Hub with providing first class free coding and artificial intelligence learning bootcamps all over Türkiye. We upskill unemployed youth with tech skills and help them find tech jobs.
10,000 job placements
Winner: NGO Trainer of the Year!
10,000 job placements
We work with Microsoft, IBM, Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte, Ford Türkiye, Koç Foundation, Sabancı Foundation, UNDP, Technology and Innovation Ministry of Türkiye and European Commission programs to train next generation of coders and AI experts in Türkiye.
Winner: NGO Trainer of the Year!
Winner: NGO Trainer of the Year!
Winner: NGO Trainer of the Year!
We are thrilled to announce that Kodluyoruz has been recognized as one of the
European Commissions's EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative 2024 Trainers of the Year! 🎓
DotsHub | Space and Community for Entrepreneurs
For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs 🌉
DotsHub is a co-creation space for entrepreneurs
We connect entrepreneurs with co-working spaces, entrepreneurship community and catalyze them to international network 🚀
Dotshub is transforming the historic Feriye Palace into a vibrant campus, uniting entrepreneurs from the fields of technology, art, and business through an interdisciplinary community, collaborative workspace, and social club.
By providing a platform where creative ideas, innovative projects, and meaningful collaborations flourish, Dotshub offers its members a next-generation learning environment powered by AI-driven tools and solutions.
Community
Mentoring
Consulting
Mentoring
- IGA Airport | SocialHack Hackathon
- Falling Walls Foundation Ankara
- Anna Lindh Foundation | Socialathon
- Başlangıç Noktası | Turkish Informatics Foundation
- Rutgers University
- Coronathon Türkiye
- EUvsVirus Hackathon
- Turkish Red Crescent
- GLOBUS Social Entrepreneurship Academy | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
- METUMIR & German Marshall Fund
Training
Consulting
Mentoring
- Ankara Development Agency
- Nazım Hikmet Social Entrepreneurship School, Presidency For Turks Abroad And Related Communities
- ENERGO-PROENERGO-PRO Cooperatives Workshop Trainer
- Habitat Foundation
- Ankatya Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- The Institute for Future Research
- Turkey Federation of Volunteerism | R. of Turkey, Ministry of Youth and Sports
- ORSAM Center for Middle Eastern Studies | Erasmus+
Consulting
Consulting
Consulting
- Non-key Expert | International Consulting Expertise ICE
- Short-Term Expert | International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
- Project Expert | YouTube Fast Forward | Google
- Program Manager | Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center | Bright
- e-Commerce consultant | Arba Food (Lavazza Food)
- Fırat Kalkınma Ajansı, EU Delegation of Turkey, ICE
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