The first year's address of the World Intelligent Cities Summit (WICS), which will be organized annually by EurAsia Strategies in line with the increasing importance of the "smart cities" issue, has been determined as Istanbul. National and international high-level speakers who will attend the summit to be held in Istanbul Swissotel on September 13-14 will discuss the "smart cities" agenda developing in the world and in Turkey.

With 31 years of experience, municipalities and public organizations will meet their information technology needs. Welcoming SAMPAŞ, SAMPAŞ announced that it is the platinum sponsor of WICS 2012, which is called the world's most important meeting platform on "smart cities". The company, which has made a difference since the day it was founded and contributed to the development of the "smart city" concept in Turkey with its innovative information technology solutions, will present in detail the brand new projects it has prepared for Turkey, as well as the success stories it has implemented in different cities within the scope of WICS.

SAMPAŞ also provides city and citizen-oriented municipality software such as "Smart Box" and "Smart Municipality", geographical information systems, smart water management, revenue and payment systems management and "Smart City Card" under the umbrella of the AKOS (Smart City Automation Systems) platform. He will talk about the work he has carried out with more than 500 municipalities on this subject, based on solutions such as.

Regarding the summit Speaking, SAMPAŞ Chairman of the Board of Directors Şekip Karakaya said, "The Smart Cities Summit will be an important event that discusses the "smart city" concept, whose importance increases exponentially as cities grow and develop, in many aspects such as transportation, energy, information infrastructures, telecommunications and finance." Stating that they chose to be the platinum sponsor of the summit for this reason, Karakaya said, “Migration from villages to cities has been accelerating in Turkey, especially in the last thirty years. As SAMPAŞ, we believe that it is important to qualitatively reinforce this numerical increase in favor of cities, and we continue our work on this issue. "As the first company to launch "Smart City" applications in Turkey, we are happy to contribute to the summit with both our 31 years of knowledge and the smart city projects we are carrying out," he added.

The concept of smart cities and citizen-oriented municipality Mentioning that SAMPAŞ has a great role in the development of Turkey, Karakaya continued his words as follows:

“This role is of vital importance for the development of our country. Increasing the brand values ​​of our cities, reducing economic, cultural and social problems, and spreading the people-oriented management approach will help both Turkey's global development and the quality of life of our citizens. The Smart Cities Summit, which will bring together Turkish and foreign municipalities, private sector, academics and non-governmental organizations, is of great importance for Turkey, the region and even the world in terms of introducing the current projects in our country and generating new ideas on carrying today's projects to tomorrow. The results of all these studies will be decisive in matters such as the ability of urban residents to continue to live their lives in a modern and comfortable way in the long term and the improvement of current living conditions in the city. "So much so that, when it comes to efficient use of limited resources and ensuring sustainability, the management styles to be adopted and the technology and infrastructure projects to be implemented in the design of the cities of the future will be of utmost importance," he emphasized.

The summit, which will be held for the first time this year in Istanbul, which is rapidly rising in the list of the world's most important metropolises, will also host the managers of the world's exemplary cities, organizations that are experts on the subject and authorized persons.

The main title is “21. At the summit, designated as "Smart Cities of the 21st Century", comprehensive panels and sessions were held on construction, communication and information security, transportation, energy, renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal), waste management and energy from waste, infrastructure, IT, ICT and telecom sectors. will be arranged. Turkey's new potential "Smart City" projects will also be discussed at the summit.

This year, many high-level speakers consisting of representatives of public institutions and organizations, private sector and non-governmental organizations are planned to attend WICS. . Among these speakers, names such as Lord Laird of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, Piero Fassino, Mayor of Turin, Italy, and Kulveer Ranger, Advisor to London Mayor Boris Johnson, a pioneer in smart city projects and implementation, stand out.

TBMM Sanayi, Chairman of the Trade, Energy, Natural Resources, Information and Technology Commission, AK Party Deputy Mahmut Mücahit Fındıklı, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. who prepared Turkey's first climate change action plan. Names such as Asım Güzelbey and Forum Helsinki President Jarmo Eskelinen will also be at the summit. The summit, where names such as Wafa Hameedi, IT Director of the mega project "King Abdullah Economic City" of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud will give speeches, is expected to have a great impact on the international platform as well as in Turkey.

Founded in 1981, SAMPAŞ has been providing services to all municipalities' IT systems with its distinctive and innovative information technology solutions for more than 30 years. It continues to meet the needs and thus improve the quality of life of citizens.

The city and citizen-oriented municipality software, geographical information systems, smart water management solutions, revenue and payment systems it offers under the umbrella of AKOS (Smart City Automation Systems). SAMPAŞ, which serves more than 500 municipalities with its management and smart city card projects, has ISO9001, ISO20000 and ISO27001 quality certificates.

Providing solutions to its customers at international standards with its R&D department of 70 people, SAMPAŞ makes investments in software development methods and As a result of the improvements, CMMi has reached the 3 maturity level. SAMPAŞ is also a member of the European Technology Platform (NESSI) and the "Information Society Group", which is part of the European Union's EuroCities initiative.