Ayvalık Business Forum, which brings together the opinion leaders of the business world and discusses topics such as what awaits the business world, digitalization, sustainability and entrepreneurship, was held at D-Resort Murat Reis Ayvalık this year.
Çağatay Özdoğru, CEO of Esas Holding; Leyla Alaton, Board Member of Alarko Holding; Atalay Gümrah, CEO of Eczacıbaşı Group; Cemal Kismir, CEO of BNP Paribas Cardif TR; Elif Yağlı Ece, Board Member of Aydem Energy; Birol Erguven, CEO of Limak Energy, Energy Markets Operation Corporation (EPİAŞ) GM Ahmet Türkoğlu, Shell Turkey Country President Ahmet Erdem, Kuika Software, System Optima and System Capital YKB Süreyya Ciliv, CarrefourSa GM Kutay Kartallıoğlu, Vodafone Chief Executive Officer. Assist. Özlem Kestioğlu, Tiko Founder and CEO Sina Afra, Garenta & ikinciyeni.com new GM Emre Ayyıldız, Yuvam World President Kıvılcım Pınar Kocabıyık, Palo Altı Networks CMO Zeynep İnanoğlu Özdemir, Anadolu Efes Sports Club SK Coach Ergin Ataman, Koç Holding A.Ş. HR and End. Relations Head and MESS & @Tisk_corporate Board Member Özgür Burak Akkol, Egon Zehnder TR Senior Partner Murat Yeşildere, Canan Özsoy, GE Turkey Board Member and CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO of Chobani, Vestel Group of Companies Chief Executive Officer President. Turan Erdoğan, Orka Holding - Damat / Tween / D'S CEO Süleyman Orakçıoğlu, Yıldızlar YATIRIM Holding Board Member Hakkı Yıldız, McKinsey & Company Turkey Country Director Can Kendi, Bigchefs Founder Gamze Cizreli, Koton Board Co-Chair Gülden Yılmaz, Sabancı Holding HR and Sustainability Group Head. Hakan Timur, Boyner Group CEO Ümit Boyner, Vodafone CEO Engin Aksoy, Pegasus Airlines CEO Mehmet Nane, Eti Gıda CEO Hakan Polatoğlu, BSH Turkey CEO Gökhan Sığın, TAV Airports Holding CEO Dr. Sani Şener, TOGG CEO M. Gürcan Karakaş, Türk Telekom Board of Directors Aclan Acar, Birleşik Ödeme CEO İlker Sözdinler, YOLCU360 CEO Umut Yıldırım, Figopara CEO Koray Gültekin Bahar... They were among the names who made their speeches.
Sabancı Holding CEO Cenk Alper, co-chair of the Forum, opened the opening speech with the sentences "Our business is not profitability, it is sustainability", "There is no competition here, there is no profit war; we must join forces and cooperate for our world, for our future" in his speech, TAV Holding CEO Sani Şener drew attention to being versatile and being Hezarfen (the man with a thousand sciences).
As BlindLook, we were also present at Ayvalık Business Forum where the new era realities were discussed and Turkey's leading business people met! Our co-founder Sadriye Görece made her speech at the Ayvalık Business Forum 'Rising New Generation' panel with 50 CEOs and Turkey's leading business people. Sadriye Görece said, "As BlindLook, we liberate the visually impaired with the power of technology, because technology offers the opportunity to be involved in life even for the visually impaired who cannot leave their homes. '' she commented. As BlindLook, our goal is to make BlindLook the definition of freedom for 285 million visually impaired people in the world and to be the most reliable digital friend of the visually impaired.
We entered Despot House for the Ayvalık Business Forum Gala Dinner with Tuğrul Ağırbaş, the general manager of Anadolu Efes, who has been with us since the first day of BlindLook. We met great business people at this gala dinner where we got tomorrow's tips from today's leaders. This dinner, where we poured out all the questions we had in our minds to Tuğrul Ağırbaş, Emre Ayyıldız, Özgür Günaydın and Yakup Benli, was such a fun, enjoyable, emotional and instructive dinner that we wanted it to never end. Many thanks to Fast Company Turkey for the Ayvalık Business Forum, where Turkey's leading business people meet to talk about the future, share experiences and discuss developments in the world, to the esteemed Rauf Ateş for his kind invitation, to the couple Ümit-Cem Boyner for hosting us at their home for the wonderful cocktail, and to the Sabancı Holding Family for hosting us at Despot House for the gala dinner.
