AGU "Dream for Education" Conference

Semih Yalman, founder of DreamsTalk, which is the first and only social entrepreneurship platform established to encourage the youth to dream, made a speech entitled "Dream for Education" for high school administrators and teachers in Kayseri.

Rector Prof. İhsan Sabuncuoğlu gave the opening speech at the conference in the Sümer Campus Conference Hall. He pointed out that dreaming was essential for the happiness and success of individuals in a society.

"Only dreamers can shape the future," said Prof. Sabuncuoğlu and added that societies consisting of individuals who have the ability to dream are the most developed and the biggest and compose the most powerful countries.

Sabuncuoğlu also said: "Without dreams, neither R&D nor scientific work or entrepreneurship would be possible."

After the opening speech, Yalman gave the speech entitled "Dream for Education" organized by the AGU Communication Coordinatorship for Potential Students.

Mr. Yalman also teaches two courses, "Branding" and "Dreaming", for AGU students. In his speech, he firstly gave information about DreamsTalk, the social entrepreneurship platform he established.

Explaining that DreamsTalk is a dreaming platform enabling the youth to express their dreams outside the box, Yalman said his main targets are to motivate the youth and children to dream, make the concept of dreaming positive and give the youth the chance of expression outside the box.

Yalman said that he is holding events entitled "Dreamstalk" at universities around Turkey. At these events, he said, students get on the dream cloud and tell their dreams in one minute and from that moment on, they have the chance to realize those dreams.

Yalman said that at every event, at least one shared dream is realized by Dreamstalk Social Entrepreneurship Platform with the support of solution partners.

He firstly informed about the mission and activities of Dreamstalk Social Entrepreneurship Platform and then stressed the importance of dreaming. He said world-changing ideas and biggest inventions were all based on a dream and for that reason imagination is the fundamental factor for the development and change of the world and humanity.

At the end of the conference, Yalman answered participants' questions and chatted with them.

Yalman has established clubs at 18 universities and high schools, listened to 35 thousand dreams in 120 universities and helped realization of around 1000 dreams. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses about perception, brand, individual innovation and development- management of imagination at universities in Turkey and around the world.

Yalman also gives consultancy on perception management.  Yalman published his "Hayal Et Ki Ol" (Dream to Become) book in 2016 and has 15 books and 10 music albums. He also writes a column for Harvard Business Review.