Oniki E-Commerce and E-Export Conference Organized in Denizli

Oniki organized the E-Commerce and E-Export conference, which was realized with its innovative concept supported by artificial intelligence, under the leadership of Denizli Chamber of Commerce. The conference was held at Denizli Anemon Hotel under the main sponsorship of Sovos and IdeaSoft with an intense participation.

Oniki gathered the important stakeholders of the e-commerce and e-export ecosystem in Denizli and neighboring provinces. In the event, parties seeking and offering solutions through artificial intelligence met and valuable collaborations were signed.

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Information on E-Commerce and E-Export Sector Shared

Mukaddes Başkaya, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Denizli Textile and Clothing Industrialists Association; In her speech, she started by expressing her pleasure to be a stakeholder of the Oniki E-Commerce and E-Export Conference and explained that around 40 percent of Denizli's exports come from textiles. She mentioned the importance of the textile sector in terms of both employment and women's employment. Başkaya stated that there has been a serious decline in exports, especially in the field of home textiles, and that they attach great importance to branding and differentiation as an association and that they have carried out very valuable studies in this field.

Today we are here for digitalization

Denizli Young Business People's Association Board Member - Entrepreneurship and Technology Committee Chairman Kemal Sözkesen; He stated that as an association, they took entrepreneurship to their center. He said that with the cooperation of Gen Turkey and Gen Campus, they opened Turkey's first Gen Campus center in Denizli and the third Gen Campus center in the world in DEGİAD building. Stating that Denizli has come to a very good point with its industry and entrepreneurship, Sözkesen said that we need to bring e-commerce and e-export into our business. He said that we need to bring students, entrepreneurs, idea owners together with capital owners and talked about their work in this field.

Şule Yılmaz, Board Member and Treasurer of the South Aegean Federation of Industry and Business, started her speech by saying that we are here today for digitalization. Yılmaz detailed the work carried out in this field under the roof of TÜRKONFED and GESİFED.

Hüseyin Memişoğlu, President of Denizli Exporters Association; "E-Commerce and E-Export have been taking an important share in our daily lives, especially in the last 10 years. Last year, about 800 billion liras of e-commerce was made in Turkey." Today, we make 2 percent of Turkey's exports with E-Export. Nearly 3 billion people in the world use E-Commerce, Turkey is at a very good point in this field, he said and shared information about the sector and the support they provide in this field as DENİB.

Melek Sözkesen Kartay, Vice President of Denizli Chamber of Commerce , expressed their pleasure to lead the Oniki E-Commerce & E-Export Conference as a chamber. Emphasizing the importance of E-Commerce and E-Export, Kartay underlined that it is never too late to take action to do business in this field.

They expressed that the sector needs such events

IdeaSoft Sales Director Zekeriya Ateş started his speech by sharing E-Commerce data and talked about the increase in the share of E-Commerce in total trade. Ateş said that one out of every 5 purchases is realized through E-Commerce and explained that developed countries are further ahead today. "Mainstream E-Commerce, especially in Denizli, it is very important to invest in E-Commerce and E-Export," Ateş said and shared different alternatives and automation stages of starting E-Commerce in his presentation. Ateş also detailed the purchasing behavior of people. Finally, he ended his words by saying that the most important factor that determines the value of websites is the number of members they have.

The eighth installment of Oniki's hybrid conference series in the E-Commerce and E-Export vertical attracted over 800 participants, 400 of which were physical. More than 8,500 value-added cooperation-oriented meetings were held with participants from all over the world with both physical and online B2B matching sessions. Participants stated that they had not had such an experience in the conferences they had attended before and that the industry needs such events. The fifth stop of Oniki's event series in the E-Commerce and E-Export vertical in 2023 will be in Bursa on June 22. There is already an intense demand for the event where tickets are on sale on oniki.net.