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My name is Esen Bulut. I am the Co-Founder/CFO of Rimuut. I was born in Istanbul in June 1984. I finished high school at Uskudar American Academy in 2003 and graduated from Boston College with a double degree in Finance and Economics in 2007. I worked as a Finance Specialist at Doğus Holding until May 2010 until I joined the family business in textiles. I was in charge of International Operations and Marketing until October 2016. At the end of 2016, my brother, Mert, and I  co-founded Rimuut. We joined Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Incubation Center in January 2017. Building our project on the basis of the inevitable shift in the workforce model in the world, we embarked on this journey to empower freelancers by equipping them with commercial and managerial tools. Aiming to be a global company, we established our company in Estonia in June 2017 and launched in our first market, Turkey, in November 2017. Currently, we offer Invoicing, Payment and Contracting services to freelancers and companies that embrace a more flexible and diversified workforce by their choice to work with freelancers. Rimuut’s ultimate goal is not only to be the top marketplace for freelance work model, but also to be the platform to provide freelancers with every single tool that they need to thrive in this amazingly growing market.

Eric Reiss has held a wide range of eclectic jobs: piano player (in a house of ill-repute), senior copywriter (in an ad-house of ill-repute), player-piano repairman, adventure-game creator, and stage director. His experiences have served him admirably as a designer, content strategist, information architect, interaction designer, and usability “expert” – although he can’t explain exactly how.

In more mundane lives, Eric has been a two-term president of the Information Architecture Institute and Professor of Usability and Design at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. Today, Eric is CEO of the FatDUX Group in Copenhagen, Denmark, a leading UX company with offices and associates in over a dozen cities worldwide. He also has several books to his credit, including the best-selling “Usable Usability,” which is now available in five languages. You’ll find him on Twitter at @elreiss.

Since June 2017, Arnaud Castaignet is the head of public relations for the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme, a government-issued digital ID offering the freedom to join a community of digitally empowered citizens and open and run a global EU company fully online from anywhere in the world. Previously, Arnaud worked for the French President François Hollande as a digital strategist and communication officer. Prior to his time at the French Presidency, he has worked as an international communication consultant in Paris, advising governments, politicians, and corporations on their influence strategy and as a business journalist in Istanbul.

Arnaud is also a Board Member of Open Diplomacy, a Paris-based think tank established in 2010, a Yes Europe Lab fellow, a programme designed to build leadership capacity to implement civic projects and political campaigns in Europe, and a member of the Young Transatlantic Network of Future Leaders, a flagship initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States specifically geared toward young professionals 35 years old and younger.

Lucie Greene is the Worldwide Director of the Innovation Group at Wunderman Thompson. She leads Wunderman Thompson’s ongoing research around emerging global consumer behaviors, cultural changes, and sector innovation.
Lucie has over a decade of experience exploring emerging shifts in lifestyle and consumer behavior for both international publications and brands. She steers thought leadership globally, working closely with The Innovation Group units in APAC, Europe and the Middle East.
In August 2018, Lucie released her debut book with Counterpoint entitled, Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What it Means for Our Future. The book was recently optioned by award-winning media company The Front and was named one of the most compelling books released in 2018.
Lucie has also been featured as an expert on trends and consumer insights on the BBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg TV as well as contributed pieces to Campaign, The Guardian, The New York Daily News and The Financial Times. She has also spoken at several conferences including SXSW, Web Summit and The Next Web.

Chakib Labidi is a London based user-centred design consultant, founder of UX Playground and Adobe XDI.

With a masters in product design and more than 18 years of experience, his expertise is in providing guidance, knowledge, skills and inspiration to companies and individuals, with the aim to create products/services that deliver exceptional user experiences. Chakib has worked internationally on a wide range of project with clients such as The Times, Sony, Sky, Virgin and Barclays, to name a few.

In 1995, his career started as a journalist in an editorial service while he was working in the founding team at Posta. Until 1996, he was the editor of Science-Tech page. In 1997, he took part in the founding team at Radikal as a technology editor. In 2004 he prepared and presented a program called “Technosohbet” at Technology Channel and in 2007 presented a program called “Bilişime Yön Verenler” at Business Channel.

Currently, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu prepares a weekly column at Radikal about world trends and he presents “Sosyal Medya” which is the Turkey’s longest-running program in the field of social media at TRT, in addition to these he works as a consultant for various companies engaged in digital strategies.

In addition to many reputable conferences and institutions, particularly in the event TEDx, he participates as a speaker in the event related to the digital culture,technology and its effects on our life, digital trends and issues and new generation As a co-founder of New Media Certificate Program at Kadir Has University, Mr.Kuzuloglu also teaches in his areas of expertise in many other universities.