The 22nd Informatics Summit, which is held every year to determine and develop the roadmap of technology and informatics, which has become a must for individuals, companies and countries,Technology Will Save the Worldon Thursday, November 24 with the theme Fisekhane‘also done.
The summit, where it was underlined that the nature that we have polluted for the sake of technology can only be cleaned with technology, and that many problems will be solved by technology with correct and smart use, hosted its guests in the physical environment this year.
The event, which sheds light on the sustainability efforts of the business world, was held under the main sponsorship of SAP Turkey and premium sponsorship of GlassHouse, Knowledge Club, Param, Roksi, Schneider Elektrik and Turkcell Digital Business Services..
Opening program Murat Göçe, Head of BTHABER Group of CompaniesIt started with the speech of Referring to the results of the M2S Research Company’s research before the summit, Göçe said, “79 percent of the people participating in the research say that the biggest factor for the sustainability of the world is technology.
However, the majority of the respondents think that the correct use of technology will quickly affect the ecological balance and carbon emissions. So hope is in technology!” Murat Göçe also briefly shared the main theme of the next year with the participants.
Göçe said, “We will hold the 23rd Informatics Summit, which will take place on November 23, 2023, on the 100th anniversary of our Republic, with the theme of ‘Enigma’ in the 23rd bracket from 1923 to 2023.” He gave hints for the coming year.
Technology will save our future
Speaking at the opening program of Bilişim Zirvesi’22 Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Turkey Dr. Omer Fatih Sayan Emphasizing that it is a necessity for every sector to keep up with the developments in the digital world, he said;
“Technology exists not only to configure our future, but also to save it. Today, data storage, analysis and transformation into value has become a very important market. Global spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence systems is expected to reach $190 billion in 2025.
With the awareness that countries cannot have a say in the long term by using products produced by others, we continue our production activities especially for our high technology sectors such as communication and defense. Spending on digital transformation services worldwide is expected to reach $2.3 trillion in 2023.
We implement the right policies at the national level and continue our joint work at the international level so that our citizens can benefit from digital technology together with the whole world and protect them from cyber threats.
Eco-friendly solutions and sustainable solutions in technology are very important to us.”
Savings need to change, human capital needs to be developed
speaking at the summit President of the Republic of Turkey Economic Policy Committee Member Dr. Hakan Yurdakul in terms of entrepreneurship Stating that Turkey is an interesting country, he said: “There is a concept called new work intensity. In other words, people in the working population between the ages of 15-64 are starting new businesses. Turkey ranks last in the OECD with 1.8 companies per 1000 people.
The OECD average is 6.3. Entrepreneurship is actually a state of mind. In other words, it is about understanding, perceiving, evaluating and making decisions accordingly. There is conservatism in risk taking in our country. The main thing is to transform it. We are experiencing a change, but very slowly.
Capital accumulation needs to increase. People and companies need to invest in dollars, gold, real estate, land and production. Savings need to change and also human capital needs to be developed.”
A sustainable digital transformation strategy is critical for organizations
One of the premium sponsors of the summit Alper Özkan, Turkcell Digital Business Services’ Executive Vice President of Corporate Solutions and Services In his speech, he said, “A sustainable digital transformation strategy is of critical importance for institutions to reach the required level of maturity in digitalization and to take strategic decisions at the right time.
Organizations should consider their digital transformation strategy as an inclusive and ongoing journey that will apply to the entire business.” He emphasized the issue of sustainability.
We imagine the world to be created from electricity generation with artificial intelligence
Reminding that now everything changes very quickly and even preserving our existence depends on keeping up with this change. Schneider Electric Turkey, Central Asia and Pakistan Strategy and Digital Transformation Director Cemal Tosun said:Our goal is to be the pioneer of this change beyond keeping pace. We are dreaming of a world that will be created by electricity generation with artificial intelligence and we are making this dream come true.
Together we will witness the smart cities we will live in in the future. We are already preparing for new business models and professions that we have not heard of yet, in short, for a smart world in every sense.” He stated that they are working to be a part of this story.
Attacks are now more sophisticated
Saying that DNS is the backbone of digital transformation Roxide Global Markets Solutions Consultant Osman Karan In his speech, he said, “When you look at the evolutionary development of cyber attacks, we see that they are very complex. From this we understand that the attackers began to develop manipulation techniques against this expanding attack level.
There is one protocol that is important here: DNS. More than 80% of domains do not have an IP record. This is one of the basic techniques of attackers. Therefore, dynamic and variable tracking is very important in domain classification.
Unfortunately, some new generation technologies are sometimes not sufficient for DNS-based attacks. We, as Roksi, offer 3 basic solutions: Secure DNS, DNS Visibility, Cyber X-Ray.” and shared their solutions with the participants.
We want to create value by digitizing money
Stating that the need for digitalization of money has begun to go beyond necessity, Bahadır Aktan, Param Group CTO“We want to create value for people, companies and the future of the world by digitizing money. We say that technology will save the world and we need sustainability.
The digitalization of money also plays a very important role in this journey. As we partner with a vision of saving the world, we are trying to develop the sector and financial technologies. All technologies of Param are open to anyone who wants to do this job.
Our aim is to grow this market. We think that the faster and more effectively we do this, the more we will contribute to the sustainability of people and companies.” he said.
Artificial intelligence technology makes life easier
Explaining the benefits of artificial intelligence applications in facilitating our lives at the Bilisim Zirvesi’22, Knowledge Club DevOps Team Leader Erdeniz Ünvan, “To do this, we developed Ayşe (aiSHE), the world’s first and only Turkish Artificial Intelligence API (Application Programming Interface).
Our artificial intelligence assistant Ayşe tells us; It provides information about history, mathematics, geography, finance, weather, news, covid 19, popular songs. We can have the same conversations we have with each other in daily life with Ayşe. Ayşe even has the ability to tell us jokes, make jokes, search the internet and play the songs we want.
The biggest feature of Ayşe as an artificial intelligence assistant is that she makes future predictions for the stocks of our companies operating in the ISE with a success rate of 99%.” shared information about the application they developed.
Cloud services reduce workload
Speaking at the opening show GlassHouse Country Manager Özer Erdoğan said:We offer GlassHouse Cloud to our customers with managed services. Our cloud service includes both the redundant cloud environment we have established in Turkey and the environments we support on Microsoft Azure.
As GlassHouse, we combine cloud services competence, SAP services competence and business continuity experience under one roof. In this way, IT managers working with GlassHouse can meet all the IT infrastructure needs of their businesses by working with a single partner.” said.
Istanbul Medipol University Faculty of Engineering Dean Prof. Dr. Huseyin Arslan In his speech at the summit, he stated that the telecom sector is constantly being renewed and said: “Information technology has the ability to save the world, but if misused and manipulated, the same technology can destroy the world. The next wars are actually cyber security wars and the biggest weapon of these wars is data.
Countries and sectors that can produce and use data correctly will actually save the world.
Every ten years, the telephone industry has renewed itself and has become sustainable. In this sector, which started as voice communication, people started to exchange data with each other. Today, with 5G, we can now call the telecom industry Telecom 1.0. The telecom industry has moved beyond communications. With 6G, we are trying to further this mission and adapt the technologies accordingly.”
Correct use of software for an efficient and sustainable business model
Ahmet Akbalık, Chairman of the Board of Özak Global Holding, “Companies that analyze sectoral data correctly see what they can do in the future in a concrete way and determine their strategies accordingly. If we use the software correctly, we create efficient and sustainable business models within companies.” said.
Sharing the knowledge that as Özak Global, they have established a new vocational school within the scope of the social responsibility project on informatics, software and design by seeing the qualified workforce need of the sector. Ahmet Abletstated that with this school, they aim to bring important values to our country in terms of informatics and software in the next period.
The value of data grows exponentially depending on how it is usedIn his speech, he drew attention to the issues of “urbanization, education, health and security” which are among the global problems. Uğur Candan, General Manager of SAP Turkeyemphasized the use and importance of data to solve these problems.
Saying that there is a 23 percent increase in software that enables application development without requiring code, in 2021 Ugur CandanHe stated that smart technologies such as Internet of Things, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Augmented Reality are developing and becoming widespread day by day and taking an active role in solving global problems.
Mentioning the SAP Build solution that they recently introduced to the market, Cordially“We aim to make users who do not know coding or access to advanced technologies more competent in the areas they need, such as developing applications, automation of processes or designing websites with drag-and-drop simplicity, with minimal expertise.
With SAP Build, a low-code solution that puts SAP’s world-class enterprise technology in the hands of business users, users will have direct and secure access to the data, coverage and end-to-end business processes they need for rapid innovation. “said.