President Büyükkılıç Emphasizes "Informatics" at the Summit

Speaking at the program, which started with a moment of silence and the singing of the National Anthem, Metropolitan Mayor Dr. Memduh Büyükkılıç said, “We love you, we pray for you, we are glad to have you. "We provide all kinds of support to activities that will encourage and guide our young people," he said.

Büyükkılıç stated that they aim to be a self-sufficient city that includes companies that will export software and IT services to world cities, and that they are honored and proud of their organized industrial zones.

“WE WILL ESTABLISH OUR SMART URBANIZATION DEPARTMENT”

Mayor Büyükkılıç explained that they see sustainable and resilient cities as indispensable, that they are a much more important dimension after the earthquake, and that they are further developing and carrying out these studies in the center and all districts.

Emphasizing that they will carry out more conscious, more encompassing and inclusive studies with the Department of Smart Urbanization, Büyükkılıç continued his words as follows:

“I want you to know that we receive more and more services from Erciyes Technopark companies for the technological requirements and information services we need in municipality every day and that we continue our cooperation. In order to develop this cooperation, we held a Smart Urbanism Workshop in 2019. We continued these studies in subsequent processes. New collaborations and interactions were achieved at each meeting. I would like to emphasize that we attach importance to more conscious and comprehensive studies by establishing our Smart Urbanism Department in the coming years, and that we see them as indispensable. With our Smart Urbanism Department, we will meet the problems and needs of this city with the IT solutions of this city. By making all the data we accumulate qualified and open, we will transform artificial intelligence algorithms into information and service. We will realize this innovation with our companies here. It will contribute to us as our indispensable partners and stakeholders. I want you to know that we will undertake to provide you with all kinds of support, both economically and in the work that needs to be done in Ankara."

Stating that they prepare young people for the future starting from the primary school level, Mayor Büyükkılıç said, "I would like to express here that we continue to provide work space and material support in many idea competitions such as TUBITAK and Teknofest to our young people, whom we started to prepare for the future at the primary school level in our Science Center, throughout their secondary school, high school and university lives."

“WE WILL ORGANIZE AN INTERNATIONAL ICT EVENT”

Büyükkılıç said that they attach special importance to informatics and technology and said, “In addition, we will increase this awareness by organizing an international informatics event every year with the Kayseri branch of the Turkish Informatics Association, which was newly established in Kayseri. I hope they will get to know Kayseri not only with its trade, industry and gastronomy, but also with its different aspects. For us, smart urbanism means managing the city with the common sense of our municipalities, universities, public institutions, IT companies and NGOs, with the logic of the IT ecosystem. "I would like to take this opportunity to express that we will support our valuable business people, investors, and the hard-working, productive, courageous and most importantly reliable companies and initiatives of this city," he said.

Erciyes University Rector Prof. Dr. Fatih Altun also stated that they were happy to host the program and talked about the work they carried out as Erciyes University and Technopark. Prof. Dr. Altun said, “As a state university that has risen to the 8th place among Turkey's research universities, Erciyes University is a higher education institution that makes a name for itself in every field of scientific and technological activities. "We follow the activities carried out with excitement," he said.

Altun, Kayseri Governor Gökmen Çiçek and Metropolitan Mayor Dr. He also emphasized that the Kayseri protocol, especially Memduh Büyükkılıç, acted together with Erciyes University and thus they achieved stronger results.

Central Anatolia Development Agency Secretary General İbrahim Ethem Şahin stated that he has been working in Kayseri for 1 and a half months and that he is proud to be involved in such an exciting event, and noted that there has been a national technology move that has gained momentum with the Presidential Government System since 2018. When Şahin came to Kayseri, he said that a very serious potential was discovered in this region and success stories were written with studies such as the Summit Erciyes Summit and 'My Business Enterprise', which was previously started and continues.

Erciyes Teknopark A.Ş. General Manager Serhat Dalkılıç also talked about the activities of Erciyes Technopark, emphasizing that Kayseri is the city with the most angel investors after Istanbul, and stated that there are 145 angel investors in Kayseri. Dalkılıç stated that their stakeholders are very important to them at the Summit Erciyes event and expressed his gratitude to the Metropolitan Municipality, other municipalities and institutions that supported him.