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Türkiye Innovation Week (TIW25) will kick off Oct. 9 at Istanbul’s Halic Congress Center, bringing together more than 100 speakers and thousands of participants under the theme “Tomorrow: Now, the future has never felt this close.”
Kutlu Karavelioglu, deputy chair of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM), told Turkish news agency Anadolu that the three-day event will span seven halls with a packed program of keynote speeches, side stages, masterclasses, digital experience areas and workshops.
Karavelioglu said this year’s focus reflects Türkiye’s ambition to lead in an era when artificial intelligence is reshaping industries from manufacturing and health to education and finance.
Key topics will include the impact of AI on global competition, Türkiye’s national AI initiatives, design shifts in creative industries, evolving work and career models, the making of billion-dollar AI ventures, and countries’ success models.
The speaker lineup includes FIFA Referees Committee chair Pierluigi Collina, described by Karavelioglu as “the living legend of football.”
Karavelioglu said the event frames innovation as a transformation of culture, thought and social values. “We developed sustainable innovation programs in line with our new goals and strategies,” he said.
One of those programs, InovaTIM — launched at Türkiye Innovation Week 2015 — has grown into one of the country’s largest open innovation ecosystems, offering AI, tech, R&D and entrepreneurship training to high school and university students.
Karavelioglu stressed that innovation will be central to Türkiye’s goal of becoming one of the world’s top 10 exporters. TIM’s innovation strategies, he said, are aligned with Türkiye’s digital and green transformation agenda.
As part of that effort, TIM and the Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Türkiye (TUBITAK) launched a green innovation mentorship program within the Türkiye Green Industry Project, funded by the World Bank and coordinated with the Industry and Technology Ministry and SME agency KOSGEB.
“Our AI-powered sustainability platform, GREENTIM, is serving exporters,” Karavelioglu said, noting that companies can conduct analyses for the European Green Deal and calculate carbon emissions under ISO 14064-1 standards.
“The Türkiye Innovation Week is our largest platform embodying this strategic integration,” he added.
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