Turkish Contractors are not only active in Turkey; they are also important players globally. According to ENR’s 2018 top contractors list, Turkish contractors have 4.8% of international market share with their international revenue of $23.2 billion.

Swedish companies provide innovative and high quality solutions for construction sector and Swedish financing offer to Turkish contractors will support the procurement of Swedish technologies globally.

The focus areas of the Construction Summit are:

• Global footprint of Turkish contractors
• Innovative and high quality solutions by Swedish companies for construction sector
• Swedish technology & financing offer for projects in and outside of Turkey

Targeted participants are among others representatives from:

• Turkish contractors with global portfolio
  • Head of Business Development and Team
  • Head of Project Financing and Team
  • Head of Tender & Procurement and Team
• Swedish technology, product and solution providers
  • Business Development EMEA and CA
  • Regional Management EMEA and CA
  • Engineering and consultancy companies
• Public stakeholders from Turkey and Sweden

Learn more about Swedish financing:

SEK - https://www.sek.se/en/financing

EKN - https://www.ekn.se/en/what-we-do/how-it-works

Agenda

08:30 - 09:00

Registration & Networking Coffee

09:00 - 09:20

Introduction by

• Peter Ericson, Consul General of Sweden in Istanbul
• Edin Erkocevic, Trade Commissioner & Country Manager, Business Sweden - Swedish Trade and Invest Council in Turkey

09:20 - 09:35

Intro to panel: Swedish Offering– Partnership with Global Contractors

• Hans-Olof Rauman, Senior Project Manager, Strategy and Business Development, Business Sweden

09:35 - 10:40

Construction and Infrastructure Panel – Outlook for Construction in MEA

Moderated by Hans-Olof Rauman, Senior Project Manager, Strategy and Business Development, Business Sweden

• Kjell Forsberg, Deputy Director Large Corporates, EKN
• Per Åkerlind, Deputy CEO and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Relations, SEK
• Yoshi Ichikawa, Head of Europe and Executive Director, Standard Chartered Bank
• Gökhan Kenar, Business Manager EMEA Hub South, Volvo Construction Equipment
• Hasan K. Çevik, Project and Structured Finance Manager, Yapı Merkezi

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:20

Turkish Project Owners’ / Contractors’ Pipeline in Middle East and Eastern Europe

• Çiğdem Çınar, Deputy Secretary General, Turkish Contractors’ Association (TMB)

  • The presentation comprises the international activities of the Turkish construction companies and brief information about the Turkish Contractors Association which is the oldest NGO of Turkey established in 1952.

• Açelya Ecem Yıldız, Project Management Manager, Rönesans Holding

  • Brief descripton of Rönesans Holding’s global presence as main contractor and investor with over 75 thousand employees across 28 countries; and its international success as World’s 33rd and Europe’s 9th largest contractor in the ENR list of the World’s top contractors.

• Hasan Çevik, Project and Structured Finance Manager, Yapı Merkezi

  • A snapshot of Yapı Merkezi's global presence and ongoing projects, as well as some highlights on its prospects.

• Hilmi Burak Araslı, Business Development Director, Doğuş Construction

  • Brief description of Doğuş Construction’s field of activities, ongoing international and local operations as well as the firsts and the mosts by the Company in the sector.

12:20 - 13:30

Networking Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Innovative Solutions within Construction: Case Studies

• Gökhan Kenar, Sales Region EMEA (Europe – Middle East – Africa), Volvo Construction Group
  • The presentation focuses on Volvo Group's ability to be your complete provider of sustainable transport solutions, including flexible finance solutions, tailor made products with high productivity and uptime.
• Erdil Taşel, Regional BLM Turkey & MENA, Epiroc
  • The presentation will lift Epiroc’s way to optimize customers' value chain through automation, system integration and information management systems, to maximize uptime and productivity, to minimize footprint and total cost of ownership.
• Ayça Eroğlu, Managing Director, Systemair HSK
  • The presentation will focus on Systemair’s cooperation with EKN in 2000 patients capacity city hospital; and Systemair’s overall footprint in Turkey.

14:30 - 15:10

Swedish Export Financing Solutions: Case Studies

• Kjell Forsberg, Deputy Director Large Corporates, EKN (Swedish Export Credit Agency) & Per Akerlind, Deputy CEO and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Relations, SEK (Swedish Export Credit Corporation)

  • Walkthrough of selected successful projects EKN & SEK will be presented.

• Shezad Salim, Head of Sales and Business Development, Rail Control Solution, Bombardier

  • Since the mid 1980's Bombardier have been cooperating with Turkish Civil Contstructors in Turkey and Africa. The long term relationship has resulted in Turn Key Mass Transit systems and several Main Line projects with modern railway signalling system in the African continent.

15:10 - 18:00

Coffee & Networking

15:30 - 18:10

B2B meetings

• 122 participants signed up for this session

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