AI without the confusion.
What business owners should change first, what to ignore, and how to adopt AI without losing the human side of the business.
Speaking · Hosting · Workshops
Book Yusuf
to speak.
Keynotes, panels, workshops and live hosting on AI, trust and entrepreneurship. Twenty years on camera, now building with AI. In English and Turkish.
20+ yearsOn air in Türkiye: TRT, ATV, TVNET, Al Jazeera Türk, Cine5
Fulbright CanadaEntrepreneurship Initiative, UC San Diego, 2025
YLAI FellowU.S. Department of State, 2024. Selection committee, 2025
G20 YEACanadian delegate, 2022
Talks.
Trust is the new interface.
Twenty years on camera taught one thing: people decide on trust before facts. How brands earn it when anyone can generate content.
From newcomer to founder.
From language student in Vancouver to citizen, founder and G20 YEA delegate. What immigrant founders need, and what ecosystems can change.
Most failures are human.
Behavioral AI for teams, co-founders and investors. Why partnerships break, and how to spot it before it costs a company.
Formats.
- Keynote20 to 45 minutes, one idea, built for your audience.
- Panel or fireside chatAs a guest or as the person asking the questions.
- WorkshopHands-on AI and messaging sessions for teams and founders.
- Host and moderatorA former news anchor to run your stage, panels and live interviews.
- LanguagesEnglish and Turkish. In person or virtual.
Press kit.
Headshots and a bio in three lengths, ready for event promotion.
Yusuf Baykal Bozkurt is a Turkish-Canadian founder and former news anchor. He is the founder and CEO of Beonbrand Inc., a Toronto media, systems and AI studio that helps business owners cut through AI confusion with clearer messaging and smarter systems.
Yusuf Baykal Bozkurt is a Turkish-Canadian founder, storyteller and former news anchor based in Toronto. He spent two decades in broadcasting in Türkiye, from dubbing and radio at TRT to anchoring news at TVNET, Al Jazeera Türk and Cine5. After moving to Canada in 2015, he became ILAC’s brand journalist and directed a campaign that earned more than 50 million organic views. He founded Beonbrand Inc. in 2020 and now helps founders and organizations adopt AI with clarity. He took part in the Fulbright Canada Entrepreneurship Initiative, is a YLAI Fellow, and represented Canada at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance.
Yusuf Baykal Bozkurt is a Turkish-Canadian founder and the CEO of Beonbrand Inc., a Toronto-based Media, Systems & AI studio. His career started behind a microphone: dubbing, voice and radio at TRT, prime news voice-over at ATV, overnight news at TVNET, then reporting, anchoring and producing prime-time and nightly news at Al Jazeera Türk and Cine5. He also led a 108-episode investigative true crime series.
He moved to Canada in 2015 as a language student at ILAC, became its brand journalist and directed a content campaign that earned more than 50 million organic views. In 2020 he founded Beonbrand, which helps business owners adopt AI through clearer messaging, smarter systems and grounded implementation. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Aspinos, intelligence for the physical world, and builds behavioral AI through Beonbrand AI Labs and PairBright.
Yusuf was selected for the Fulbright Canada Entrepreneurship Initiative at UC San Diego (2025), was a YLAI Fellow with the U.S. Department of State (2024) and later joined its selection committee (2025), represented Canada at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (2022), and was a finalist for Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year at the Canadian SME National Business Awards. He holds degrees in Media & Communication and in Political Science & Public Administration from Anadolu University. He speaks English and Turkish.
Let’s work
together.
A keynote, a workshop for your team, or an AI, brand or content project for your business. Tell me what you need and I will get back to you.
Prefer email? info@yusufbaykalbozkurt.com