Istanbul Congress Center
June 27-29, 2025
June 28, 2025 Saturday
10:00 - 11:30
Yavuz Sultan Selim
Unlocking Africa’s Connectivity Potential (212)
Moderator: Zafer Ateş, Ambassador, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Türkiye
Abdessamad Kayouh, Minister of Transport and Logistics, Morocco
Ely El Veirick, Minister of Equipment and Transport, Mauritania
Erol Erkan, Acting Chairman, Pasific Eurasia
Ghislaine Ingrid Olga Ebouka Babackas, Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation and Merchant Marine, Congo
Omar Hadi Aboubaker, Chairman, Djibouti Ports & Free Zones Authority and Great Horn Investment Holding
12:00 - 13:30
Yavuz Sultan Selim
From Landlockedto Landlinked: Strategic Opportunitiesfor Regional Development (224)
Moderator: Hakan Çelik, Journalist, CNN TURK
Davit Khudatyan, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures, Armenia
Devendra Dahal, Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Nepal
Dulguun Damdın-Od, Executive Director, International Think Tank for LLDC
Ecweru Musa Francis, Minister of Public Works and Transport, Uganda
Prof. Dr. Yücel Acer, Senior Foreign Policy Researcher, SETA/Member, Turkish Presidency Legal Policies Board
14:30 - 16:00
Yavuz Sultan Selim
Overcoming Bottlenecks and Boosting Attractiveness in Transport corridors With Digitalization: Trans-Caspian East-West-Middle Corridor (234)
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ela BABALIK, Middle East Technical University
Aleksandr Kuzmenko, Secretary General, OTIF
Prof. Dr. Hasari Çelebi, GTÜ
Emil Mammadov, Advisor to the Chairman, Azerbaijan Railways
16:30 - 18:00
Yavuz Sultan Selim
The Evolving Geometryof the Trans-Caspian East- West-Middle Corridor:
New Gateways, New Possibilities (241)
Moderator: Hakan Çelik, Journalist, CNN TURK
Asset Assavbayeve, Secretary General, Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission
Dato' Shabaruddin Ibrahim, Group Executive Chairman, Mutiara Perlis Sdn Bhd
Emeşe Laliç Urban, Secretary of State, Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Serbia
Farid Damırlı, Deputy Secretary General, Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA)
Leng Thun Yuthea, Secretary of State for Public Works and Transport, Cambodia
Ercan Demirci, Member of Board, Pasifik Holding