Program

21 March 2023

08:30 – 09:45

Registration and Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:00

Opening / Protocol Speeches

Hasan Fehmi Yılmaz, MÜSIAD Ankara President
Mahmut Asmalı President of MÜSIAD (TBC)
İsmail Demir, President of Defense Industry Agency (TBC)
Hulusi Akar, Minister of National Defense (TBC)

11:00 – 12:00

Stand Visits

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 13:30

Vision Speech I: Mehmet Akif Nacar, General Manager, Havelsan

13:30 – 14:00

Vision Speech II: Prof. Temel Kotil, CEO, Turkish Aerospace

14:00 – 15:30

Session I: Land Border – Border Protection Infrastructure and Components

Moderator: Halil İbrahim Öztürk, Head of the Department of Communications, Electronics and Information System, Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Defence Industry Agency
Metin Erdoğan, General Manager, Pavo Group/İstanbul Defense Systems
Kemal Acar, Electronic Systems Program Manager, HTR
Yasemin Duran, Field Security Program Management, Project Manager, Aselsan
Murat Akbay, Business Development Manager, Havelsan
Muzaffer Akyıldırım, Veteran and Diplomat

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:45

Session II: The Tasks and Future of Drones, UAVs and UCAVs in Border Protection

Moderator: M. Serdar Durgun, Founding Member, EYDEM Defence- Aviation Industry Academy
Yusuf Erge, Brigadier General (Retired)
Nevzat Polat, Assistant General Manager for UAV Systems, Turkish Aerospace
Tolga Çelik, Radar Systems Business Development Director, Meteksan
Ziya Cogen, R&D, Technology, and Innovation Director, Robit Teknoloji
Selçuk Fırat, Product Director, Robit Teknoloji
Abdullah VURAL, Unmanned Systems Director, TitraTeknoloji

22 March 2023

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:30 – 10:00

Keynote Speech: Kristijan Fabina, Regional Sales Manager, Cambium Networks

10:00 – 10:30

Vision Speech III: Dr. M. Mustafa Akkul, Vice President and Sector Head, Radar and EW, Aselsan

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session III: HAARP Technology and Its Limitations

Moderator: Türker Akıncı, Journalist
Ramazan Kurtoğlu, Faculty Member, İstanbul Aydın University
Murat Akan, Journalist-Author
Eray Hacıosmanoğlu, Researcher- Author

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:45

Session IV: Maritime Border and Sonars

Moderator: Muhammet Sami Ulukavak, Head of Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems Department, Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Defence Industry Agency
Zekeriyya Şahin, Maritime Systems Program Director, Aselsan
Aykut Kertmen, Acoustics and Optic Systems Business Development Manager, Meteksan
Ata Can Çorakçı, Material Technologies Vice Presidency, Sensor and System Technologies Research Group Chief Specialist, Tübitak MAM
Can Emre Bakım, General Manager, Armelsan

14:45 – 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 – 17:00

Session V: Space Border and the Future of Space Studies in Turkiye

Moderator: Dr. R. Ruşen Kömürcü, Secretary General, SASAD
Special Presentation: Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım, President, Turkish Space Agency
Dr. Alime Özyıldırım, Deputy Director, TUBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute
Prof. Bilge Demirköz, President, METU İVMER
Dr. Sartuk Karasoy, Vice General Manager, Roketsan
Taner Özdemir, HBT Satellite and Space Technologies Director, Aselsan

Closing/Stand Visits