Sessions 2019

World energy sector is undergoing a huge transformation. Technological and environmental dynamics, untraditional fuels such as rock gas, renewable energy, surge pricing, geopolitical tensions, leaders of change… Oil-connected geopolitics of energy is changing; natural gas, renewable energy and geopolitics of nuclear are rising. In this order, the attacks of China and India attract attention.

Whereas, Turkey has a wide market. It has a strategic position among many energy consumers and suppliers. With its current and planned oil and gas pipelines, hydrocarbon reserves and Bosporus, Turkey can possibly become an energy bride. However, on the other side of the picture, there are other facts including the debt rates of energy companies, concordatum news and the reduction in investments. In this panel, we will discuss the position these developments put the sector, the world and Turkey into, and the current developments.

After U.S. President Trump took his office, his approaches create uncertainties in the global economy. Preservative trade policy, acting independently from World Trade Organization, withdrawal from free trade agreements, Paris Climate Agreement and Iran Nuclear Deal raise the tensions in international markets. The financial tensions between China and U.S. increase these tensions as well.

The financial uncertainty due to England’s withdrawal from the EU and the war on Syria and Iraq lands escalate the global politic turmoil. China’s reduction, FED’s interest decisions, migration waves, all add up to the growing anxiety for world’s economic future. In this environment, managing the global uncertainty will become a significant talent. Well, what should we pay attention to in such environments? Which indicators should we follow? How to get prepared? These questions will form the framework of our panel.

Hosted by Doğan Enerji

*Side Sessions are only open to the guests.

In addition to the global transformation, the rules of economic and social life, business models and leadership are changing. In this new digital era, a new leadership approach is required to help companies grow, to be competitive and sustainable, to create new income areas, to produce value and to draw talents to the company. With the leading business people of Turkish business world, we will discuss the characteristics of a winning leader in parallel to digitalization, new leadership approaches and practices in this panel.

Hosted by NGN Teknoloji

*Side Sessions are only open to the guests.

There are some uncertainties in economy and politics both in Turkey and in the world. Issues on exchange rates and the stagnancy in economy are on the foreground in Turkey. Business world frequently mentions the inability to foresee future and its negative impacts on all business processes in different platforms. In this session, we will discuss the strategy of companies who still continue to invest despite all this uncertainty and challenging conditions. On what projection these leaders invest? What is their expectation for growth for Turkey and for the world? Are they backed-up by credit and finance possibilities? How will the future be shaped?

Which companies are global? What is to be a global company? According to experts, to have a global and powerful brand requires to be present in at least three continents and to obtain 50% of its income from abroad. Those who are on the road to globalization achieve a good position in their local country at first, then they enter beyond borders. Well, what is the case for Turkish companies? Does Turkey have brands that completed this process or made good progress? Which path do these brand choose? Where are they now? How do companies going beyond borders of their local countries achieve this success? All of these questions will form the content of our panel.

We need to obtain the daily necessities and sustain development without endangering the requirements of future generations of humanity. Although it has become quite difficult to do this in the new period especially due to economic actors, there are examples who continue to succeed. This panel will present stories of some of these examples and the things that should be dome will be discussed by the experts.

In his new book Prosperity Paradox, Clayton Christensen from Harvard, the famous management guru, discusses the big contribution of innovation and digitalization to economic welfare and growth. While digitalization means new business opportunities, increase in productivity, new technological products and services, it is also said to create a social and physical transformation and increase the equality in socio-economic levels. In this panel, we will discuss the impact of digitalization on growth, prosperity and human development, and the position of Turkey in this area.

Turkey is undergoing a challenging period. The leading subjects of this period is the cooperation between banking sector and real sector. Expectations from the sector increases in this challenging period. Within this frame, banking sector supports growth and development and at the same time strives to use its resources at the most productive way. In this session themed “growth-friendly banking” we will discuss how to implement the cooperation of real sector/banking and which areas this cooperation enhances.

Entrepreneurship is one of the key levers of growth and development in a country. We anticipate that this will become more prominent in the following period. Many countries invest in developing its entrepreneurship ecosystem. In developing countries such as Turkey, this phenomenon sprouts quite new. In this panel, we will discuss the entrepreneurship, the conditions required for the development of ecosystem and the world of entrepreneurship; and we will examine the successful examples.