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International award for Allianz Turkey’s innovation efforts

Allianz Turkey returned APIs (Application Interface Programs) within the framework of
with an award from cooperation with external stakeholders. HackZone Allianz Open
the “Business Culture Insurance is one of the programs we have implemented in order
Awards” with its In- to create value in our sector and increase startup partnerships.
House Entrepreneurship In 2021, we are moving this program forward with HackZone
Program and HackZone, Scale-Up Accelerator, a 6-month acceleration program. Our goal
the program that broke is to support entrepreneurs outside the organization, transfer the
new ground in the sec- innovation power of the foreign entrepreneurship ecosystem to
tor and opened its APIs the company and include projects useful to society in our struc-
to startups. It took first ture. In addition, we aim to increase the interest in insurance
place in the category of in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, to establish the definition
the Best International of insurance technologies in real terms in the minds, and to

Organization in Business attract entrepreneurs with new ideas to this field. The fact that
Culture. our work is appreciated on international platforms is an indi-
cation that we are on the right track.”
Allianz Turkey, under the
leadership of the Inno- With HackZone Open Insurance, startups were provided with
vation Office, is achieving success at the international level with mentoring opportunities exceeding 100 hours
its efforts to develop entrepreneurship and innovation culture.
HackZone, an open innovation program implemented together With the In-House Entrepreneurship Program implement-
with Allianz Turkey’s In-House Entrepreneurship program and ed under the leadership of the Allianz Innovation Office, it
Information Technology teams, was awarded at the Business Cul- is aimed to include the innovative ideas and suggestions of
ture Awards. Allianz won first place in the category “Best In- employees in the system. With our open innovation program
ternational Organization for Business Culture” in the organ- “HackZone Open Insurance”, implemented by the Innovation
ization where projects that develop or transform workplace Office and Information Technologies teams and held between
culture are evaluated. October 20 - December 15, 2020, the innovation program fo-
cused on the ‘first’ PoC (preliminary study proving the feasi-
Onur Kırcı, Deputy General Manager of Allianz Turkey Mar- bility of the projects) in the Turkish insurance industry. The
keting and Digital Insurances, said that the In-House Entre- program, which aims to develop innovative business models
preneurship program has been designed as a solid process in with startups, received 80 applications from 25 countries. In
which employees will communicate their ideas, these ideas will the program, startups were provided with access to application
be implemented, and they will be transformed into a business interface programs during a 10-day marathon to experience
model. Kırcı said: “We have completed the fourth part of the design and coding-oriented applications, and mentoring oppor-
program in 2020. After the announcement of the fourth se- tunities exceeding 100 hours with 32 mentors were provided.
mester was made, we received about 116 entrepreneurial idea
applications from our employees. Two of these projects were Business Culture Awards (Business Culture Awards) is an or-
selected and the project production process was started with ganization that evaluates and awards UK-resident, national and
startup collaborations, and at the end of the program, we put international companies in certain categories, and also sup-
our 2 projects into practice. This year, our In-House Entrepre- ports certain charitable organizations. It is aimed to celebrate
neurship program is in full swing. Within the scope of our open in- the successful work of the organization and forward-thinking
novation programs, we have pioneered open insurance by dec our organizations.

Gözde Özkale Bilaç has been appointed as a Company Partner of EY Turkey
Consulting Department

Gözde Özkale Bilaç has been appointed as a Company Partner
of the EY (Ernst & Young) Turkey Consulting Department as
of October 4, 2021. Bilaç graduated from the Chemistry De-
partment of Boğaziçi University and started her career as an
Organizational Development Specialist of Uzel Holding in 2005.
She worked as Hay Group Senior Consultant / Process Leader
between 2006-2010, Bilaç served as Anel Group Performance
and Award Manager between 2010-2011, Towers Watson Sen-
ior Consultant between 2011-2012, and Korn Ferry Company
Partner between 2012-2019. Bilaç, who was the Head of Çalık
Holding Project Management Office before joining EY Turkey,
was appointed as a Company Partner of EY (Ernst & Young)
Turkey Consulting Department as of October 4, 2021.