Furkan Karayel is a multi-award-winning diversity and inclusion speaker and CEO of Diversein, an Includability Official Partner.
Furkan Karayel
Author of the Best Selling book "Inclusive Intelligence" | Speaker | Lecturer | Multi-Award Winning Global Diversity Inclusion Leader
Furkan Karayel
Furkan Karayel
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Furkan Karayel
Author of the Best Selling book "Inclusive Intelligence" | Speaker | Lecturer | Multi-Award Winning Global Diversity Inclusion Leader
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Furkan Karayel is author of the book “Inclusive Intelligence“, multi-award-winning diversity and inclusion speaker and founder of Diversein.com. She has developed Inclusive Intelligence concept, providing practical steps to be a diversity and inclusion role model in the workplace. Furkan is an associate lecturer for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Master's program at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Her passion is leveraging women-in-tech leadership, diversity and empowering female founders globally. She previously worked with companies such as Microsoft, HubSpot, Indeed.com,Pfizer and Verizon Media.
Furkan founded Diversein.com after 10 years of software engineering experience in multinational tech companies in Ireland. She is Diversity and Inclusion Track Captain for Startup Week Dublin, Dublin Chapter Lead for Sprinters.co, a global diverse female entrepreneurs organisation and advisory board member for InspiringSTEM.org, promoting tech careers into new generations. Furkan judged at many startup, tech competitions and awards programs such as Startup Weekend, Coolest Projects, Top Tech Tip Challenge by AWS and Diversity in Tech Awards.
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