+500
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+50
Speakers
+40
Sponsors
The Region's Leading Industry Event
WAC 2017 will bring together 500+ market experts who want to learn more about the latest trends and technologies affecting their business. Istanbul is the perfect gateway if you are looking to do business in the region and understand where the latest opportunities lie.
Join this year’s World Automotive Conference for two days of unrivalled knowledge sharing and networking.
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Day 1:
Industry Trends
- Digitalisation
- Inevitability of electrification
The Future of Manufacturing
- Industry 4.0 & Robotics
- The future employee?
Supply Chain & Logistics
- Role of digitalisation
- Globalisation to localization
- Are suppliers ready for the new shift in demand?
Day 2:
Traditional vs New Automotive Industry
- New players to the market
- Car-sharing, ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles
Disruptive Technologies
- Electric & hybrid vehicles
- Driverless cars
- The connected consumer: safety, apps & infotainment
Smart Mobility
- Future mobility trends
- The connect car role’s in intelligent transport systems
Workshops:
- Attracting & Retaining Top Automotive Talent
- Automotive Market dynamics and trends in the Middle East
- International cooperation – how to build productive supplier partnerships?
- Czech Republic – Land of Automotive
- Connected Industry & Connected Logistics
- Connected & Autonomous Vehicles or Smart Cities
- Auto-Telecom Business Model Transformation
- Optimising marketing operations & gain performances
- Needs of tomorrow’s workforce to be a part of the New Digital Age
Who's Speaking?
Meet our incredible WAC 2017 speakers, with representatives confirmed from: USA, India, Sweden, UK, Czech Republic, Iran, Turkey... and many more…
CHRISTOPH STADELER
Head of Automotive Strategy, Facebook
GÖKÇE BEZMEZ
CIO, Mercedes Benz Turk
ISMAIL HISHAM ZOHDY
Chief Specialist of Self-Driving Transport_Dubai Roads & Transport Authority
MUSTAFA ILICALI
Government Commissioner for Transport, Construction and Tourism, TBMM
MAZIAR BEIGLOO
Secretary, IAPMA, Iran
JOHN FLEMING
ExecutIve VP ManufacturIng & Labour AffaIrs (Retired), FORD MOTOR CO.
FREDRIK CALLENRYD
Head of Strategy Connectivity and Planning, Scania, Sweden
ANDERS BONANDER
Senior Product Planner, Volvo Group Trucks Technology & Board Member, Ertico
NADER V. AGHAEI
VW National Dealer Network Director, Mammut Khodro, Iran
LASZLO PALKOVICS
Government Commissioner
MICHAEL SILVIO
Vice President, Logistics Innovation, Surgere Inc. Adjunct Faculty, Wayne State University Member Board of Directors, EWI Worldwide
BUELENT ILERI
Transportation & Logistics EME Director, AGCO International
JEAN BAUVAIS
Manufacturing Strategy – IRAN, PSA Peugeot Citroën
GOKSEN TORE SANCAK
Deputy General Manager Material Planning & Logistics Supply Chain_Ford Otosan
HAKAN KOSTEPEN
Executive Director, Panasonic US
ORKUN HASEKIOGLU
President, Tubitak MAM
NURSEN NUMANOGLU
Deputy Secretary General, TUSIAD
STEPHEN MORRIS
Senior Client Partner, Leonard Burgess Executive Search, Dubai
RAZ PELEG
CEE sales director, Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd., Israel
NADER MUSEITIF
Head of Business MENA, UBER
STEFAN BRUNNER
Global Sector Head Automotive, Vice President, DHL, Germany
RICHARD SCHNEIDER
Investment Manager, CzechInvest
PEYMAN YAZDANBAKHSH
Chairman of Business Development Committee, IAPMA, Iran
JACKO VAN DER STEGE
Director of Global Business Development at VC Automotive Group
JOHN AYOUB
Technical Advisor, Sandstorm Venture
PIERLUIGI GHIONE
General Manager, Grammer Serbia
KEREM TAŞ
Commercial Director, Ford Saudi
İBRAHİM ESERCE
R&D and Technology Director, Temsa
RICHARD HARRIS
HMI Technologies
TONY PEETERMANS
Founder, The Name of the Game
BURAK GÜRLER
Senior Manager Tool & Die, Ford Otosan
LEVENT ERDOĞAN
Business Planning, Development and Projects Director, Karsan
NOAM MAITAL
CEO, Waycare Technologies, USA
MUSTAFA ERGEN
CTA, Turk Telecom
ATACAN GÜNER
Assan Hanil, General Manager
KAĞAN ABİDİN
Country Manager, KUKA Robotics
FAOUZI GREBICI
EMEA Industry Solution Manager, OMRON, France
SERKAN YILDIRIM
Solution Group Manager, itelligence Turkey
PAUL HEIDEN
Senior VP Ultimaker, Netherlands
TONY ABOUZOLOF
Co-Founder Syncron and Managing Director, Syncron UK
İBRAHİM DÖLEN
General Manager Borusan Lojistik
BARIS CEKIC
Managing Partner, METRIC
ÇİĞDEM PENN
General Manager_Xsights
MURAT ÖZBİLEN
Senior Partner, Global Business Management Consultants
N. MUSTAFA ÜSTERTUNA
R&D Director, Mercedes Benz Turk
MELDA POLAT
Talent Development Manager, Arcelik
GURAY GOZACAN
Group Leader, R&D Project Director
AHU SERTER
Founder, F+Ventures & President, Farplas Group
CENGİZ ULTAV
Chairman, TTGV & Board Member, Vestel Ventures
BHAGVAN KOMMADI
Architect Corner, Founder
MEHMET KARACA
Supply Chain Development Manager, Tofaş
GÖKHAN TUNÇDÖKEN
VP Mobility Solutions, OE Sales, Bosch Turkey
SABRİ ERKAN POLAT
Product Engineering Director, TOFAS
MURAT KURTLAR
Industry 4.0 Sales Director, Bosch
AKIN ADAMSON
Director Middle East, TRL
ŞEVKET AKINLAR
Consultant, IML Fraunhofer, Germany
MICHAEL LEONARD
CEO, Aspiriti Group & Managing Partner Executive Search, Leonard Burgess, Dubai
EKREM OZCAN
Entrepreneur Development Consultant
TANER GÖÇMEZ
Managing Director, FEV Turkey
SINEM COLERI ERGEN
Wireless Networks Laboratory Director, Koc University
NICOLAS DETURCK
Founder, The Name of the Game
ERHUN BAŞ
Secretary General, m-TOD & Board Member, AUSDER
MURAT OKCUOGLU
Engineer & Scientist, Silicon Valley
ARIF OZER
R & D Director, Anadolu Isuzu, Turkey
ALI ACUR
Founder, Delphisonic INC, USA
MAXIMILIAN WINKLER
Director of Business Development, Frontier Car Group, UK
TAMER ÜNAL
Founder and Chairman of the Board, ICRON
ÖZLEM DERİCİ
WAC Chairwoman
THOMAS CULLEN
Director, Cilicia Ltd, UK
CANER TAÇKIN
Chief Technology Officer, ICRON
LEE MANNING
Founder, Armchair Marketing, UKWho's Speaking?
Incredible start to WAC 2017 with 11 speakers confirmed already from: USA, India, Saudi Arabia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Turkey...
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