Agenda
CIO Excellence Awards & Symposium (Türkiye)
One Day Event
Registration & Networking
The Evolving Role of the CIO: From IT Leader to Business Strategist
As organizations navigate rapid digital transformation, the role of the CIO is undergoing a fundamental shift. No longer confined to overseeing IT operations, today’s CIO is a strategic business leader driving innovation, growth, and competitive advantage.
This session will explore how CIOs are expanding their influence beyond technology, aligning digital initiatives with core business objectives, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI, cloud, and data analytics to deliver measurable value. Attendees will gain insights into how modern CIOs collaborate across the C-suite, shape customer experiences, and lead organizational change.
Eren Eser | IDC
Associate Research Director, Türkiye
Eren Eser
Eren is a seasoned analyst with 20+ years of experience in the ICT sector. He directs all IDC ICT research and consulting engagements in Türkiye, and all sustainability research and consulting projects across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META).
Based in Istanbul, Eren has been involved in projects ranging from market forecasts to strategic consulting engagements on market entry, competitive analysis, go-to-market strategies, technology marketing, and end-user studies. Eren’s vast experience in the IT services, cloud, software, and telecommunications domains helps IDC clients understand the impact of technology-enabled, sustainable transformation processes in the context of sustainable digital business strategies, operations, products, and services. In addition to his research and consulting activities, Eren is a speaker at industry events.
Prior to joining IDC in 2017, Eren spent more than a decade in IT industry roles spanning portfolio management, channel and business development, pricing, and software development at companies including Turk Telekom and TAI.
Eren earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering and an MBA focused on technology road mapping for strategy and innovation, both from Middle East Technical University. He received a master of science in information systems, with a thesis on modeling mobile telecommunications services, from Middle East Technical University. During his academic endeavors, he studied for one semester at the University of Copenhagen, and for one semester at Harvard University. He is pursuing a marketing PhD focused on sustainability.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 09:05
The Evolving Role of the CIO: From IT Leader to Business Strategist
As organizations navigate rapid digital transformation, the role of the CIO is undergoing a fundamental shift. No longer confined to overseeing IT operations, today’s CIO is a strategic business leader driving innovation, growth, and competitive advantage.
This session will explore how CIOs are expanding their influence beyond technology, aligning digital initiatives with core business objectives, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI, cloud, and data analytics to deliver measurable value. Attendees will gain insights into how modern CIOs collaborate across the C-suite, shape customer experiences, and lead organizational change.
The New AI Value Playbook: Making AI Business Value Visible and Measurable
Proving the business value of AI has become the defining challenge of the enterprise AI era. Traditional ROI models, built for predictable IT investments, fall short when applied to AI initiatives that reshape workflows, accelerate decisions, and create entirely new revenue streams. IDC predicts that by 2027, 55% of G1000 CIOs will be tasked with creating enterprise AI value playbooks featuring expanded ROI frameworks that capture efficiency, growth, and innovation impact. This panel brings together senior CIOs to unpack what those playbooks look like in practice, how to instrument AI investments, communicate value to the board, and translate model performance into tangible business outcomes.
Modernizing Digital Infrastructure for the AI Economy
The Cloud-Data Convergence: Powering Türkiye’s Intelligent Infrastructure
Why Data and App Modernization Can’t Wait
AI and Automation: Transforming Security Operations
Scaling AI from Pilot to Enterprise-Wide Deployment
Tea/Coffee & Networking Break
Platinum Partners Track Sessions
Track A
11:30 – 12:00
Change Management in the AI Era: People, Processes, and Business Transformation
12:00 – 12:10
Aligning IT with Business Outcomes
12:10 – 12:20
Measuring Digital Success
12:20 – 12:30
The Human Side of AI and Data
Track B
11:30 –
Co-Creating the Future Workforce: Aligning Technology, Skills, and Culture for an AI-Driven Enterprise
12:00 – 12:10
AI-Driven Productivity and Automation
12:10 – 12:20
Driving Business Value with AI & Data
12:20 – 12:30
Sustainability and the CIO Mandate
Networking Lunch
Gold Partners Track Sessions
Track A
13:40 – 14:10
Personalization, Experience, and Trust in a Data-Driven Economy
14:10 – 14:20
Intelligent Automation and Productivity
– 14:30
Building a Resilient, Productive, and Future-Ready Workforce
14:30 – 14:40
The Rise of Agentic Workforces: How Autonomous Systems Will Reshape Productivity
14:40 – 14:50
Human + AI: The New Productivity Equation
Track B
13:40 – 14:10
The CIO–CDO–CAIO Power Trio: Aligning Data, Digital, and AI Strategies
14:10 – 14:20
Resilience by Design
14:20 – 14:30
Operational Technology (OT) Security for Critical Infrastructure
14:30 – 14:40
Data Privacy and Protection: Navigating New Regulations
14:40 – 14:50