SUMMIT PROGRAM

Needs Map

Panel 16: Transformation in Financial Market and Turkey

• Sluggish global growth and policy
• Repurcussions of the end of Quantitive Easing  on emerging markets
• Global uncertainities due exchange rate risk and trade wars
• Negative interest rates and the search for returns
• Turkey's outlook and what should funds expect from Turkey?
  

Panel 17 : Three Musketeers of Transformation

• Development and Investment Bank of Turkey & Development Fund of Turkey: Providing economic, financial and technical consulting to support initiatives, projects, investments and companies for sustainable and robust growth
• Turkish Mercantile Exchange: Establishing a new market to assit efficient price discovery in agricultural products. Securitization of agricultural products, licensed warehouses, derivatives on agricultural products to manage risk
• Local Development as a projection of National Development: Regional Development Policies of Turkey and its impact on national development; The second decade of Development Agencies: Economical, financial and technical support on enterpreneurship, projects, and industrial investments for sustainable growth; Alternative Financial Mechanisms: Regional Venture Capital Funds
  

Panel 18: The Pains of Transformation: Immigration, Climate Change, Income Inequality, Jeopolitical Developments

• Humanitarian and social transformation before, during and after immigration; Global and local impact of migration; Social, political, legal, economic effects, security issues, environmental issues, immigration and lobor market
• Climate change; risks and social costs on oceans, clean water resources, forests and habitats. Measures for climate change (Climate Coalitions, Paris Agreement, social impact investments)
• The impact of unbalanced growth and rapid technological transformation on income inequality. Inability of human capital to keep pace with rapid technology. Reduced employment opportunities and the share of income of low skill, low income workers' limited development opportunities
• The shift of economic powerhouses and the search for rebalancing. The USA's protectionist stance, Brexit's effect on global trade and integration, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative
• Can sustainability and technology address these issues?
  

Training 16: Algorithmic Trading

Ömer Çorluhan
Yapı Kredi Yatırım
Head of Electronic Trading

Training 17: Guide for the Individual Investor: The Software, Apps, and Services to Master to Survive in Such Digitized Markets

Tunç Şatıroğlu
KanalFinans.com
Founder

Aykut Sarıbıyık
Devexperts
Vice President

Training 18: Development of Participation based Funds and New Products within the Sector 

Bora Doğanay
KT Portföy
Deputy General Manager

Panel 19 : Impact Investment: Is it a New Trend or a Profitable Business Model?

• We have been hearing more about terms like 'Responsible Investing', 'Social Impact Investment' for the financing of a sustainable world. But how do we really define them?
• 'Green Profits' started to come to the forefront of the companies' agenda. What are the innovative approaches in financing environmental projects? How can we make traditional products and methods more green?
• What do investors think about including social impact investments in their portfolios? How to invest in social enterprises? What do the capital markets offer: social impact funds, green bonds, social bonds and more
• How can we measure and compare social impact products? How is impact quantified and reported on these investments? Are there standards? Are there solutions to reduce the cost of reporting?
  

Panel 20: The Best Version of Human

• Where does our physical and mental reality lead us?
• How can we change the way we think? How do we get out of our diameter?
• What will life be like in the digital age, how will digital transformation affect people's lives and well-being? Does Artificial Intelligence offer better life?
• Over the next 25 years, the X-Y-Z-Alpha generations will work together. Can employees adapt to this, does it create a distinction between employees?
• What will be the communication problems of digitalism?
• How will digital literacy, data processing and reading skills be provided? To align education system with technology and develop future-oriented competencies to capture the world of the future
  

Panel 21: Early De-Industrialization: Newest Threat to Global Economic Development

• The pains of transition from an industrial society to a services society and policy measures for this purpose
• Differences between deindustrialization in emerging and developed countries
• Differences between deindustrialization in emerging and developed countries
• What is the source of growth in a de-industrialized society and is it sustainable?
• Is Turkey experiencing a problem of early de-industrialization? How should the government adress this challange?
• Actions envisaged in the 11th Presidency Development Plan
  

Training 19: How to Make Investment Decision? Currency? Gold? Stock Market?

Ethem Umut Beytorun
Invest-AZ Yatırım
Corporate Finance Manager

Training 20: The Importance of Reading Details in the Stock Market

Seda Yalçınkaya Özer
İntegral Yatırım
Research Specialist

Training 21: Capital Markets Data and e-VEDO System

Keynote Speaker

Panel 22: Transforming the Islamic Finance Sector in the Digital Era: Opportunities and Risks

• Are financial technologies (fintech) transformational or disruptive for Islamic financial institutions?
• As the finance sector embraces technological innovations, are there unique risks, opportunities and challenges specific to Islamic banks?
• Developing regulations for Islamic financial institutions operating in a dynamic financial eco-system
• Regulatory and supervisory approaches in addressing cross-border issues: Is there a role for central Sharia boards?
• Linking ethical and Islamic finance – The potential of socially responsible investments (SRI) in Turkey
• Mobilising Islamic finance to achieve financial inclusion and sustainable development
• The role of new technologies to promote financial inclusion and develop SME financing
  

Panel 23 : Enabling Alternative to Loans: Market Direction in Debt Securities

• Effect of Sukuk and ABS on investor demand, pension funds' effect on the market, expectations from issuers
• Current market information on and maturity and pricing issues in fixed income securities. Future outlook.
• Case study on bond issuance of reel sector company
• Extending bond maturities and attracting foreign investors to Turkish bond market, 
• Expected/desired regulations in the regulatory framework, recent and future regulations and their effects.
  

Panel 24: The Customers of Transformation Economy

• Evolution of spaces. Transition from physical space to online platforms. Will stores, trading rooms, trading floor continue to be around?
• The biggest country in the digital world: Social media. How does social media impact customer behavior? How do social platforms drive customers?
• Can digital platforms eliminate the superiority of large players dominating distibution channels?
• Digital Marketing or marketing in the digital world?
• Social media's impact on investment preferences, social investing platform
• New concepts of marketing: Broad casting, Narrow casting, Point casting, Self media, Nano publishing
  

Training 22: Critical Points of Algorithmic Trading

Emre Onursal
Invest-AZ Yatırım
Portfolio Brokerage Manager

Training 23: Intro to CFA Program

İlke Takımoğlu Homriş, CFA
CFA Society İstanbul
Director

Training 24: Data Scientist: Money Detective

Ahmet Melih Selçuk, Ph.D.
Komtaş /Analythinx
Chief Data Scientist

Keynote Speaker

Panel 25 : Technology in Brokerage Services: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of Platforms

• The unstoppable rise of mobile
• Retail investor’s new customer experience
• Portfolio allocations / risk education
• Simple solutions for investors, time-saving applications, inexpensive live data packages.
• Integration across platforms (mobile, web, professional platforms, continuous blended data investment advisor
• Fall of brokerage commissions, alternative income models, subscription-based investor packages
• Platforms for institutional investors: Colocation services & corporate solutions (connection continuity, risk management)

Panel 26 : Society 5.0: Human Oriented Industrialization

• Hunter/gatherer (1.0), agriculture (2.0), industry (3.0) and information (4.0) societies are followed by society (5.0): A super Intelligent society centered on technology-based people.
• Society 5.0 promises an ecosystem that improves the quality of life and provides tailor-made solutions by using big data through sophisticated and advanced technologies.
• While artificial intelligence and technology require new competencies, how does the increase in unemployment and the elderly population affect society? What should be done about this?
• Developments in health increases the average life expectancy. How can the problem of sustainability brought by the rising population be overcome?
• How will the "DATA" required for all these be provided? Can the big data held by the public and private sector be open to all? What are the drawbacks?
• In this process, how will 5 obstacles (regulatory institutions that will determine the national strategy, incentive regulation and legal infrastructure, information privacy and cyber security, education and training of human capital, the social acceptance) will be overcome?
• Where does the value of the data come from? Who makes money along the value chain of data? How much is my data worth? Does my data have individual value or is it collective data that creates value?
  

Panel 27 : What is wrong with finance and what to do about it?

• Too much debt, too little equity
• Responsible investing
• What is the right size of the financial Sector
• How big should the financial sector be? Impact of financial technologies on current financial architecture (banking, shadow banking and the weight of capital markets)
• What is optimal financial structure (weights of banking, shadow banking and capital markets)
• Should environmental factors be considered?
• Impact of financial technologies on current financial architecture 
  

Training 25: International Capital Markets in all its Parts

Training 26: TEFTP (Turkey Electronıc Fund Tradıng Platform)

Emre Koçbey
Takas İstanbul
Director

Training 27: Fintech World and Impacts on Banking

Sait Şener
Türkiye Vakıflar Bankası T.A.O.
RnD and Innovation Manager

Panel 28 : Policymakers of Turkey’s Transformation

• Digital Transformation Leader Function and its place in the world; The importance of digitalization in the transformation process and its reflections on venture capital; Innovative technologies and importance of data in digital economy; Steps, priorities and studies in domestic national technology production; Digital transformation and siber security
• Istanbul Financial Center: How to atttract international funds and diversify financial resources
• Quantifying Turkey's human capital, required skills capabilities and initiatives to enhance human capital. Carreers in the public sectors, performance measurement, merit based recruitment
• Encourage investment for economic growth, promoting Turkey's investment environment, identifying challenges and solutions
  
  

Training 28: Trends in Capital Markets

Dilan Pamir
Türkiye Kalkınma ve Yatırım Bankası
SVP, Capital Markets Advisory, Investment Banking 

Training 29: Introduction to Blockchain Technologies

Bora Erdamar, Ph.D.
Bahçeşehir University, Blockchain Research and Application Center
Director