Turkish Entrepreneurs Introduced Their Innovative Technologies at Ces2024

At the Consumer Electronics Show - CES2024, which is among the most important events where the world's innovative technologies are introduced, Turkish entrepreneurs had the opportunity to introduce their products and technologies and hold customer meetings for 4 days.

For the first time, 5 development agencies cooperated under the coordination of the Ministry of Industry and Technology, enabling Turkish entrepreneurs to participate in global fair events. In this context; Applications from entrepreneurs were received via call by BEBKA, İSTKA, İZKA, ANKARAKA and BAKA. In the light of the evaluations, 2023 entrepreneurs participated in CES2024 held in Las Vegas, USA, after the Websummit Lisbon and Slush50 event.

Many entrepreneurs and ecosystem stakeholders from the TR2024 region also attended CES41. Ron Digital CEO Faruk Yel and CTO Mehmet Yılmaz, who are one of these entrepreneurs and stakeholders and participated in the fair with their advanced artificial intelligence Mocky AI product for creating a virtual studio, said about CES2024: “It was very important for us to attend the fair. We had the opportunity to meet with foreign customers face to face and present our product to them. We established a business connection in this direction. "We would like to thank the Ministry of Industry and Technology and BEBKA for their support for providing these opportunities," he said.

Emine Yağcı, the official and academic advisor of the Genoride company, which participated in CES3 with its state-of-the-art electric bicycle Genoride product specially designed for children between the ages of 7 and 2024, said: “It was a very productive fair for me. I would like to thank the Ministry of Industry and Technology, our development agencies and BEBKA for their support. "It was an event that opened our horizons and made new connections," she said.

Ece Yurdusevimli Metin, partner of Archi's Academy, which develops an in-house artificial intelligence and blockchain-based gamified learning management system to provide an entertaining learning experience in the field of educational technologies and provides affordable, scalable and peer education, spoke about CES2024 as follows:

“We are very happy to have the opportunity to represent Turkey at CES2024 with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Technology and development agencies. As Archi's Academy, we had the opportunity to meet with many international companies and potential partners in the field of software and educational technologies and introduce our company and product. We believe that the event is very productive in this respect and will enable us to sign important collaborations that will increase our exports.”

Along with entrepreneurs, representatives of important stakeholders of the ecosystem also took part in the Türkiye Pavilion. Yağız Karadeniz from Domino Ventures, which has focused more on the entrepreneurs of our region with the BEBKA investment, said: “I would like to thank BEBKA very much. CES fair is one of the largest fairs in the world. The coordination provided by development agencies for these fairs made us very happy and proud. It was very useful for our entrepreneurs to communicate with entrepreneurs from other countries at the fair, and for us, as investors, to establish face-to-face contact with all entrepreneurs and investors. Exploring different technologies at CES and especially seeing the new agendas and technologies of 2024 opened the horizons of all participants. "I see the support of development agencies for such events as very valuable for the development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our country," he said. Anadolu University ARİNKOM TTO manager Prof. Dr. Hasan Murat Ertuğrul made evaluations about CES: “As a TTO participant, the CES 2024 fair was very productive for us. We had the opportunity to meet and meet with other TTO and technopark managers and companies in different regions. We also met with interlocutors in pavilions such as Korea, the USA and Poland and had discussions on cooperation opportunities. “We thank our Ministry and development agencies for providing us with this opportunity.”

BEBKA Deputy Secretary General Sabri Bayram thanked the CES2024 participants and said, “We will continue to support our entrepreneurs and develop the ecosystem in order to realize the national technology move. "As 5 development agencies under the coordination of our Ministry of Industry and Technology, we will strive to improve the market and investment opportunities of our entrepreneurs by representing our country in the best way possible at Websummit Qatar, which will be held for the first time this year after the CES2024 fair." He made evaluations as follows.