The public and private sectors talked about sustainable technology at the ICT Summit

ICT Summit ‘21, where the technologies that will shape the future and the leading issues of the informatics world are discussed, and its theme this year determined as the “Art of the Universe” based on the symbol of the flower of life, is the meeting that will take place with the participation of opinion leaders, technology and informatics sector stakeholders, academics, business and public world managers and non-governmental organizations.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the summit, which was held digitally with the main sponsorship of Dell Technologies, Knowledge Club and SAP and premium sponsorship of Armada – Commvault and Turkcell, BTHABER Corporate Group President Murat Göçe delivered his speech titled “The Art of the Universe”, which was the main theme of the summit. In his speech where he also explained the theme of the next year, Göçe said that: “This year’s theme is considered to be the most well-known and most precious of symbols that have had special meanings for people for centuries. The focal point of the flower of life, also known as the ‘language of light’ in the world, is in its pure form and proportion. At the 22nd ICT Summit, which we plan to hold on November 24 next year, we will focus on technologies that protect nature and human life. We have determined the main theme of the next year as “TECHNOLOGY WILL SAVE THE WORLD” with the question “If we can achieve everything we dream of thanks to technology, why not apply technology for a cleaner, greener, more natural life?” In his speech, Göçe announced that the symbol of ICT Summit’22 will be the lotus flower, which symbolizes rebirth in Egypt, grows in muddy waters and marshes, and cleans both itself and its surroundings from dirt.

Domestic and national production is increasing in the digitalization process

Sending a video message to the opening program of ICT Summit’21, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu emphasized that we are at a very advanced stage in terms of communication technologies and said: “Now, concepts such as far-near, known-unknown, familiar-foreign have become meaningless, borders have become transparent. Barriers to mutual interaction have been largely removed. Innovations in information and communication technology have changed the chemistry of societies. Societies have begun to demand not only what is offered to them, but also what is best in the world in every field.”

“Developing digital skills and talents is among the important priorities of our country”

Speaking at the opening program, Digital Transformation Office President Dr. Ali Taha Koç said that: “Organizations that are aware of the importance of digital transformation guide this process in the strategies they publish. In the Development Report for 2021 published by the United Nations, it is emphasized that although the digital transformation maturity level is high in developed countries, digital transformation does not occur at the desired levels due to reasons such as the lack of infrastructure in the necessary information and communication technologies in developing countries, the inability to develop digital skills and the lack of necessary institutional transformation.”

Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan stated that, considering the new technologies emerging day by day and the increasing amount of data, the era of holding data on hardware, as in the early days of technology, is long gone.

In his speech at the opening, Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır stated that the national technology move is the name of Turkey’s ability in order to maintain its claim of full independence in critical technology areas and, all the works are carried out with great effort to raise this claim to higher levels.

Deputy Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Authority Ömer Abdullah Karagözoğlu underlined in his speech titled “Integrated Structure of the Information Sector” that our country has made very important breakthroughs in digitalization with the right investments.

Presidency Economic Policy Committee Member Dr. Hakan Yurdakul made a general assessment of the market.

In the opening program, Economist and Academician Prof. Dr. Emre Alkin, who gave a speech titled “The Universe Is Not Fixed, Is Variable” and drew attention to how human and digitalization will be synthesized in the new world order, which puts the rise of technology, not buildings, at the center.

Later, Knowledge Club DevOps Team Leader Erdeniz Unvan took the floor with his speech titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future” and said that the expectation of the artificial intelligence market worldwide in 2021 is 400 billion USD and added: “Where does Turkey stand in this market? If we want to get a bigger share, the first thing we need to do is to complete our digital transformation process and complete the automation process in every sense. We need to start developing machine learning applications more.”

Dell Technologies Turkey Country Manager Işıl Hasdemir pointed out that developments in line with the title of the art of universe will occur in 2022, and that digital content will gradually increase and power consumption will become an important issue.

SAP Turkey General Manager Uğur Candan reminded that digital and green transformation are realities taking the world by storm, and said: “In the past ten years, start-up funding that invests in green transformation technologies has increased 40 times. In the next 10 years, the European community has allocated a trillion USD investment budget.” and pointed out that the solution is investing in environmentally friendly fast technologies.

In his speech, Knowledge Club DevOps Architect Peyman Hoosmandi Raad emphasized that today all companies are almost software companies, like Uber and Turkcell, each of which develops their own software, research and development teams, service providers and mobile applications, and emphasized that competition is increasing day by day.

Turkcell Digital Business Services General Manager Kaan Turan emphasized in his speech titled “Is the future here?” that he was looking for an answer to the question, and that in an age where everything evolves into digital, transformation makes itself felt in every field.

Commvault Turkey Sales Manager İsmail Cingil stated that a new flower of life form should be created in the field of data protection and data privacy by putting aside what we know today in his speech titled “Rethinking Data Security and Privacy in the Age of Digital Transformation”. He said that: “There is still a long way to go in many areas, both in terms of technology and legal infrastructure in the use of personal data, confidentiality, protection of trade secrets, etc.”