What I speak on
I talk about the things my day job and my companies actually touch: blockchain and digital-asset regulation, personal data protection, fintech, AI policy, startup legal strategy. And I’ll usually take a question, panel, or whole talk on the broader thing I care about — how operators build endurance into the way they work, why long-horizon thinking is a competitive advantage, and what training for a long triathlon teaches you about running a company.
Formats
Keynote, panel, fireside chat, university lecture. In Turkish or English. Happy to go off-script if the room is interesting.
Some places I’ve spoken
A non-exhaustive list — international keynote, industry conferences, professional bodies, community spaces. I’ll add session titles, dates, and recordings as I go.
- Qatar Web Summit — keynote
- CoinDesk Turkey — digital-asset regulation
- Istanbul Bar Association (Istanbul Barosu) — professional formation for lawyers on technology and data law
- AIPA — Yapay Zekâ Politikaları Derneği (AI Policy Association)
- HIT Games Conference — legal frameworks for the games industry
- DGFI Conference, Tbilisi — cross-border fintech and digital regulation
- Komünite Space — community sessions on building at the intersection of law and technology
Beyond these named stages, I also speak regularly at various Turkish technoparks — the campus environments where early-stage R&D and startup teams cluster, usually on legal and regulatory readiness for first commercialisation.
Mentorship sessions
Beyond standalone talks, I run a steady stream of sessions inside the incubators, accelerators, and leadership programs I mentor with — among them İTÜ Çekirdek, QNBeyond, KWorks, BTM, Ing Orange Lab, and Yeni Bir Lider Derneği. These are smaller-room conversations, usually founder-direct, usually about the legal and operational realities of getting from idea to first round.
Booking
The fastest way to reach me is a message on LinkedIn or an email to mumtaz@virconlegal.com.