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Conférence DÜNYA AFD

The 2009 Turkey Small and Medium Enterprises Development Conference was hosted by the leading Turkish economic newspaper, DÜNYA Gazette, along with the French Development Agency (AFD) in Istanbul on April 9-10, 2009.

The conference has enabled business and public knowledge sharing on the critical issues SMEs face in our globalized world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

Jean-Michel Sévérino, CEO AFD Hüseyin Aydın, CEO Halkbank

 

 Debates  Room

 

Program and presentations:

  

Thursday 9 April 2009
  
09.00 - 9.30
 
Welcoming Addresses:
 
Hakan GULDAG, Dunya Editor in Chief
 
Hervé Novelli, French Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts Industry and Small and Medium Entreprises
 
His Excellency Bernard EMIE, Ambassador of France to Turkey
 

  9.30 – 10.30
Opening Remarks :
Jean-Michel SEVERINO, CEO, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
 
Hüseyin Aydın, CEO, Türkiye Halk Bankası (Halkbank)
 

 
 
Session 1: SMEs & Big Business linkages: living in a global competitive environment
Moderator: Osman Arolat, Chief Columnist of Dünya Gazetesi
 

11.00 – 12.30
 
Round Table:
Şekib Avdagiç, Vice President of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce
Tarik Tunalıoğlu, General Manager Renault Turkey
Turkish SME B-Plas: business case study  

 
 
 
Session 2: CSR and SMEs: an opportunity or a luxury?
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Kenan Mortan
 

14.00 - 15.45
Chairman of the session:
Round Table:
- The International Standards
Paul Begley, Senior Researcher AccountAbility
- CSR in the banking sector
Süleyman Aslan, Deputy General Manager, Halkbank

 
 
Session 3: SMEs as Development Drivers: Best practices to promote SMEs?
Moderator: Dr Cengiz AKTAR, Director of the Centre for European Studies, Bahçeşehir University
 

16.15 – 18.15
Chairman of the session:
Prof. Carlos Zorrinho, National Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy and Technological Plan
Round Table:
 
- Situation & Experience in Tunisia
Ridha Ben Mosbah, Director General of Groupe Chimique Tunisien and the Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa
 
- Situation&Experience in Spain
 
-European cluster initiative: case studies
- Situation and experience in Turkey:
Mustafa Kaplan, President of KOSGEB (Small and Medium Industry Development Organization)

 
 
 
Friday 10 April 2009
 
Session 4: Innovative Solutions in SME Development and Finance
Moderator: Laurent Klein, Deputy Director of AFD for Turkey
 

09.00 – 11.00
Keynote speakers:
- Financial innovations and Guarantee, the French Experience:
- The Turkish Experience in SME Finance and Non Financial Services Streamlining
- Downscaling and Microfinance
 

 
 
Session 5: SME’s Regional Economic Integration
Moderator: Prof. M. Tamer Müftuoğlu
 

11.30 – 13.00
 
Round Table:
Opening remarks:
- Compared competitiveness factors and Turkish SME’s market shares in the Euro-Mediterranean area
- The European “Small Business Act”
- Future Perspectives for Turkish SMEs
Elcab Kablo: Turkish SME business case

13.00 –13.15
 
Concluding Remarks:
Rustu Bozkurt, Dunya Gazetesi