Smart Manufacturing Summit 2019 | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 13 November 2019 | InterContinental İstanbul, Gümüşsuyu, Asker Ocağı Cd. No:1, 34437 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey

This conference is designed as an invitation-only information sharing forum and an intimate networking platform for key executives from the Turkish manufacturing industry.

Digital factories are no longer a fiction but a reality. Concepts like digitalization, Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing have been gaining traction in Turkey, disrupting the traditional approach. Despite the ongoing unfavorable conditions in the country, many Turkey - based manufacturers have been desperately looking for tools to increase effectiveness and automation. Customers require fast delivery of top quality products, while manufacturers strive to operate at minimal costs. The focus is therefore on how to increase production and profitability volumes with the existing technical and human resources.

These pressing issues are driven by increasingly demanding customers, forcing managers to implement new technologies and innovate. How to successfully implement digital technologies? How to effectively collect data and, most importantly, how to analyze and leverage them?

Key Topics:
• Customer Experience: Personalization and finding individualized value proposition
• Direct-to-Consumer and Mass Customization: 90% growth in the future coming from D2C
• Innovation Platforms: New product introduction escalates as manufacturers move to information-based services
• Industry Collaborative Clouds: An enabler of new business models
• Networked Manufacturing: Effectivity, costs and logistics optimisation
• Digital, resilient, lean: Managing the smart factory of tomorrow
• The augmented worker: Superheros on the shopfloor
• “Thinking” Supply Chain: Connected, cognitive, comprehensive, collaborative, cyber-aware
• Next generation industrial technology: Global trends, local use cases

Who should attend?
• CIO, Head of IT
• COO, CTO
• Head of Manufacturing
• Head of R&D
• Head of Supply Chain
• Head of Engineering

2019 Speakers

Ayşe Kaptanoğlu
Research Manager, Systems/Devices, IDC Türkiye

Erkut Ekinci
Head of IT, Hugo Boss

Mustafa Ayhan
CDO / CTO, Borçelik

Berke Menekli
VP IT T-MEA-CIS - B/S/H Ev Aletleri

Adnan Metin
CDTO, Yıldız Holding

Murat Özkan
CIO, Anadolu Efes

Cüneyt Özdilek
COO, KoçSistem

Onur Günday
Industry Technology Strategist, Microsoft Turkey

Elif Gürdal
Turkey Country Manager, Dassault Systèmes

Z. Melis Teksan
Product Management Director, Supply Chain, ICRON

Ender Yüksel
Deputy General Manager, Supply Chain, Vestel

Mert Demirer
Systems Engineer, Fortinet

Altuğ Soydan
IT Manager, OTOKAR

Aşkın İnci
Head of IT, Anadolu Isuzu

Dr. Erdal Kemikli
Head of IT & Innovation, Otokoç Otomotiv

Mahmut Şenaltun
Digital Transformation Manager, Oyak Renault

Şirin Aktaş
IT Director, Turkey & Central Asia, Unilever

Yaman Acar
Information Systems and Technology Manager, İpragaz

Ergun Bağcı
IT Applications Development & Process Manager, Nobel İlaç

Soner Mutlu
Production & Manufacturing Engineering Director, BMC

Emel Tural
IT Director, Bosch

M.Serdar Erdem
CIO, BMC Otomotiv

Timur Karaman
IT Country Manager, Banvit

Gökhan Öncü
Corporate Applications and Digital Technologies Director, Assan Bilişim

İlay Telmen
IT Manager, TürkTraktör

2019 Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Istanbul Sanayi Odasi
• TIAD

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS:
• KocSistem
• Microsoft

PREMIER PARTNERS:
• Dassault Systems
• Icron

TRACK PARTNER:
• Fortinet

NETWORKING PARTNER:
• Detaysoft

EXHIBIT PARTNERS:
• Panasonic Business
• Smaris

DOCUMENT PARTNER:
• Kyocera