Agenda
CIO Summit 2026 Türkiye
Day 1
Registration & Networking
IDC Welcome Address
Preparing for the Agent Economy: Acceleration, Orchestration and Resiliency
We have moved past the “Great Implementation.” As we enter 2026, the global enterprise has reached a critical inflection point where the sheer volume of data, the complexity of multi-cloud ecosystems, and the velocity of agentic AI have outpaced traditional human management. The mandate for the CIO has fundamentally shifted: it is no longer about managing technology, but about architecting autonomy.
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
Day 2 9:00 am
The Cross-Functional AI Symphony: Redefining Value and Leadership Across the C-Suite
As AI evolves from an operational tool into a core strategic partner, this panel brings together the perspectives of the CFO, CMO, CHRO, and CTO to examine the tangible impact of technological transformation on financial sustainability, customer experience, and talent management. These diverse leaders discuss how they overcome cultural and technical barriers through cross-functional collaboration, sharing real-world insights on how AI-driven business models are boosting corporate agility and ROI. The session concludes by outlining a unified strategic roadmap and the essential leadership competencies required to build an organization that truly embodies the “AI Everywhere” mindset.
Day 1 9:05 am
Preparing for the Agent Economy: Acceleration, Orchestration and Resiliency
We have moved past the “Great Implementation.” As we enter 2026, the global enterprise has reached a critical inflection point where the sheer volume of data, the complexity of multi-cloud ecosystems, and the velocity of agentic AI have outpaced traditional human management. The mandate for the CIO has fundamentally shifted: it is no longer about managing technology, but about architecting autonomy.
The Evolving Role of the CIO: From IT Leader to Business Strategist
The traditional image of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) as a “gatekeeper of the server room” is officially a relic of the past. In today’s hyper-digital economy, the CIO has moved from the back office to the boardroom, evolving from a functional manager of infrastructure into a pivotal business strategist and growth driver. This panel explores the profound shift in the CIO’s mandate. We will discuss how the modern technology leader balances the “keep the lights on” operational requirements with the high-stakes demand for digital transformation, data-driven innovation, and customer experience.
Hilmi Koçak
CIO, Eczacıbaşı Group
Barış Fındık
CTO, Pegasus
Murat Özkan
CIO, Hayat Holding
Çiğdem İltemir Carino
CIO, ING Türkiye
AI-ready Data: Democratizing Access to Data to Lay the Foundation for Artificial Intelligence
Özden Doğan Saraç
Sales Director, KoçSistem
The Enterprise in 2030
AI isn’t just enhancing the business model. By 2030, it will be the business model. Leaders are recognizing that the future of business is a hybrid of people and software. Every process that can be automated will be. Every role will be enhanced by intelligent systems that learn and adapt
Işıl Kılınç
General Manager, IBM Türkiye
Powering the Hyperscaler Shift: Managing Integrated Value Chains from 5G to Cloud
Gurkan Arpacı
General Manager, Turkcell Digital Business Services
Unlocking the Potential of AI: CIO and CEO as Strategic Partners
Ceyda Yalçın
Sales & Business Development Director, Softtech
Tea / Coffee & Networking Break
AI Promise to Business Reality
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond experimentation into everyday business use. Yet despite widespread adoption, measurable impact remains inconsistent. The core reason is not the lack of AI capabilities, but the lack of consolidated, reliable data. This session focuses on how fragmented data environments limit AI effectiveness and why data consolidation is the true foundation of Business AI. It explores the shift from isolated tools to unified data models where AI can understand context, operate across workflows, and deliver real outcomes. Organizations will learn how to turn AI from a disconnected assistant into an execution layer powered by a single, trusted source of truth.
Gökhan Erdoğdu
CEO, MechSoft
AI-Ready Infrastructure: Powering the Next Era of Digital Transformation
Erbuğ Sağlam
Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Huawei
Anatomy of the AI-Native Operating Company — What Replaces Two Thousand Years of Hierarchy
Since the Roman army organized soldiers into eight-man tents -contubernium-, every reorganization has worked around the same fact: a human can manage perhaps eight others. Hierarchy was not strategy; it was the workaround we built because we had no alternative. Intelligence is now abundant, and ironically even modern defense is moving past command-and-control. A new shape is taking form — the AI-Native Operating Company. This talk maps its anatomy: a Harness, four stages of work, and the loop that compounds every cycle into a smarter organization — and the changed role of the people inside it.
Yusuf Tok
CTO, OBSS
From Artificial Intelligence to Autonomous Activation
Taylan Tandoğan
Customer Engineering Manager, Türkiye, Google Cloud
Unlock your AI Ambitions
Pelin Alp
Country Manager, HPE Networking
Mert Sarıkaya
Business Development & Transformational Projects Manager, HPE Türkiye
Summit Partner Sessions
Summit Session A – The Innovation Paradox
12:35 pm – 12:40 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
12:40 pm – 12:50 pm
Agentic Engineering in Practice: Autonomous Discipline Across SDLC and Business Processes
COO, Eteration
12:50 pm – 1:00 pm
Agentic AI Is Only as Smart as the Guardrails Around It
Deputy General Manager, HCLSoftware
Summit Session B – Architecting for Autonomy
12:35 pm – 12:40 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
12:40 pm – 12:50 pm
Document Chaos vs. Intelligent Decisions: How CIOs Can Build Agentic Workflows for Autonomous Action
Intelligent Automation Technologies Manager, Norm Digital
12:50 pm – 1:00 pm
The AI-Powered Data Activation Platform
Managing Director, META, Boomi
Summit Session C – The Augmented Workforce
12:35 pm – 12:40 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
12:40 pm – 12:50 pm
Integration in the Age of AI
General Manager, MDP Group
12:50 pm – 1:00 pm
The Evolution of the Workforce: Automation, Analytics, and Sustainability
Regional Director, Türkiye & Central Asia, Honeywell
Lunch & Networking
Platinum Partner Sessions
Platinum Session A – The Intelligence Inflection Point: Scaling Generative AI from Pilot to Profit
2:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
The Green Horizon: Driving Sustainable Innovation through IT Leadership
CTO, Aktif Bank
CTO, Aydem Enerji
CIO&CDO, Vakıf Katılım Bankası
CTO, Koçtaş
2:45 pm – 2:55 pm
The Next Chapter of Enterprise Platforms
Solution Architect, CEET, Mendix
Business Development Executive, Mendix
2:55 pm – 3:05 pm
What Does the CIO Do When AI Makes the Decision?
Chief Sales Officer, Oredata
3:05 pm – 3:15 pm
You Don’t Have a Tech Problem. You Have a Confidence Gap.
Executive Committee Member, Product & Customer Success, Eclit
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm
The New Power of the Smart Enterprise: AI-Powered Business Processes
Industry Sales Manager, Detaysoft
3:25 pm – 3:35 pm
Connecting Turkey to the World: The Role of Submarine Networks and Their Importance for Enterprises in Today’s Digital Landscape
Senior Technical Manager, TI Sparkle
3:35 pm – 4:05 pm
Responsible AI Leadership: Embedding Ethics, Governance, and Transparency into Enterprise AI Strategies
CIO, Danone
IT Director, Bosch
CTO, Viennalife
IT & Digital Transformation Director, OTOKAR
CIO, Türkiye Sigorta
Platinum Session B – The Resilience Collective: Unified Defense Strategies for the 2026 Threat Landscape
2:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
The Cloud Mandate 2026: Architecting for Intelligence, Resilience, and Unit Economics
Head of IT, Kale Holding
SVP, Platforms & Reliability, Akbank
IT Group Manager, Lila Kağıt
Head of Technology, bitaksi
2:45 pm – 2:55 pm
Your Competitive Edge isn’t AI — It’s What Comes Before It
Digital Solutions Manager, Iron Mountain
2:55 pm – 3:05 pm
The Age of Digital Workers with Examples: Transform Your Processes with Agentic Automation and Intelligent Document Processing
Director, Native Digital
3:05 pm – 3:15 pm
Edge Intelligence: AI-powered CDN Analytics as a Service
CEO, Medianova
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm
From Automation to Autonomy: Orchestrating the Agentic Enterprise
CAO, Managing Partner, VBM
3:25 pm – 3:35 pm
From AI Potential to Decision Trust
Senior Solution Engineer, Strategy
3:25 pm – 4:05 pm
The Data Sovereign: Converting Information Overload into Decision Intelligence
Vice President of Information Technologies, Aras Kargo
CTO, Kazancı Holding
CIO, Sanko Holding
CIO, Koç Üniversitesi
IT Director, Çelebi Havacılık Holding
Platinum Session C – The Intelligence Ecosystem: Powering Agentic AI with Modern Data Foundations
2:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
The Human Architecture: Redefining Talent and Culture in the Age of Agentic AI
CIO, Alarko Holding
CIO, ebebek
Head of IT, Çalık Holding
IT Director, Atasun Optik
2:45 pm – 2:55 pm
From Storage to Intelligence: The New Data Layer for AI
Regional Sales Manager, Türkiye, MinIO
2:55 pm – 3:05 pm
Anadolu Hayat: A Transformation Story in Real-Time Data Architecture
Founder & CEO, OneDataLake
Manager of Data Management, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik
3:05 pm – 3:15 pm
Commanding Security in Agentic Transformation: Architecting the AI Era
Cloud Solutions Manager, ESTE
3:15 pm – 3:25 pm
A New Era in ERP Security: Proactive Threat Management and System Integration
Director, System Applications, BTC Bilişim Hizmetleri
3:25 pm – 3:35 pm
The Velocity Advantage: Accelerating the Enterprise through Strategic Automation Ecosystems
3:35 pm – 4:05 pm
The Autonomous Enterprise: Orchestrating the Shift from Tasks to Workflows
Head of IT, Uludağ İçecek
General Manager Of IT, Çokyaşar Holding
Group CIO, Bayegan
CTO, Tam Finans
CIO, Eren Perakende
End of Day 1
Day 2
Registration & Networking
The Cross-Functional AI Symphony: Redefining Value and Leadership Across the C-Suite
As AI evolves from an operational tool into a core strategic partner, this panel brings together the perspectives of the CFO, CMO, CHRO, and CTO to examine the tangible impact of technological transformation on financial sustainability, customer experience, and talent management. These diverse leaders discuss how they overcome cultural and technical barriers through cross-functional collaboration, sharing real-world insights on how AI-driven business models are boosting corporate agility and ROI. The session concludes by outlining a unified strategic roadmap and the essential leadership competencies required to build an organization that truly embodies the “AI Everywhere” mindset.
Eren Eser
Associate Research Director, Türkiye, IDC
Gülay Avcuoğlu
Operations and Business Development Deputy General Manager, ESARJ Elektrikli Araçlar Şarj Sistemi
Barış Nefesoğlu
CMO, Tatilbudur.com
Ali Öztayıncı
CFO, Hugo Boss
Producing Became Easy, Managing is the Art.
Ozan Akçora
CEO, Butterfly
Emrah Yıldız
Head of IT, MAN
Charging Infrastructure as a Living Product
EV charging is a growing frontier of the new reality of mobility. It is a living ecosystem where hardware, regulations, energy dynamics, and user expectations move in parallel, and rarely in sync. WAT Mobilite’s platform had to stop behaving like a delivered project and start behaving like a product that evolves with the ecosystem it serves. In this talk, WAT’s technology leader walks through the architectural decisions, operating model shifts, and hard trade-offs behind that transition, and explains why data and AI are the next layer to tackle in the mobility value chain.
Burak Demirtaş
Chief Digital Officer, WAT Mobilite
İsmail Arslan
VP of Strategy, Runibex
Beyond Digital Transformation: Building Compliant, Intelligent and Sustainable Enterprises
Coşkun Güler
Sales Director, Uyumsoft
Strategizing the Right Tech-Ready Infrastructure for any Future
Faruk Ertin
IT Solutions Line Manager(Campaign and Robotic Automation), Türk Telekom
Agentic Orchestration with Guardrails: Operationalize AI and build a truly Composable Orchestration & Automation Platform
Cem Gülbayır
Senior Account Executive, Camunda
Burak Ünalan
Operation Executive, Redstar Aviation
A Good Captain Is Revealed in Stormy Seas
Prof. Dr. Emre Alkin |
Economist and Author
Prof. Dr. Emre Alkin
Prof. Dr. Emre Alkin is an economist and academic who became a professor in 2002 at Istanbul University. He specializes in risk management and financial institutions, has authored several books, and worked as a consultant and board member for major companies.
He has held key roles in national and international organizations, including the Turkish Exporters Assembly and UEFA, and is currently a non-executive board member of Galatasaray Inc. Alkin is also a media commentator, newspaper columnist, and Vice President at Kemerburgaz University. He speaks French and English and has two sons.
Tea / Coffee & Networking Break
Technology Focus Group Sessions
Track 1 – The AI Orchestration
12:05 pm – 12:05 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
12:05 pm – 12:20 pm
From AI Chaos to Orchestrated Agents
Senior Sales Specialist, 32bit
12:20 pm – 12:35 pm
The Zero-Knowledge Enterprise: Rethinking How Data Is Stored, Shared, and Controlled
Co-Founder, TransferChain
12:35 pm – 12:50 pm
Data to Orchestration: Redefining Value Creation Model with Agentic AI
SVP, Data & AI Strategies, Komtaş
Track 2 – The Resilience & Cyber-Defense
12:05 pm – 12:05 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
12:05 pm – 12:20 pm
The Trust Problem: Rethinking Security in the Age of AI
CEO, ThreatMon
12:20 pm – 12:35 pm
We Grow, You Save: Redefining Enterprise Software Pricing
Sales Director, Türkiye, Halo
12:35 pm – 12:50 pm
Digital Identity and E-Signature in the Age of AI
Chief Sales, Marketing & Operation Officer, Seneka
Track 3 – The Data Sovereignty & Intelligence
12:05 pm – 12:05 pm
Start of the Session Raffle
12:05 pm – 12:20 pm
AI Governance: Closing the Control Gap in Agentic AI
Team Lead, Solution Engineering, TrendAI
12:20 pm – 12:35 pm
Agentic AI: The New Infrastructure of Customer Experience
CEO, Inspark
12:35 pm – 12:50 pm
The Importance of OT Security Enabling Sustainable Production
