The OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone 2026 Consultation Meeting was held in the OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Conference Hall, with the participation of representatives from the business world, academia, public institutions, and civil society organizations. This year, the opinions and suggestions were analyzed using an Artificial Intelligence-Based Scientific Approach methodology developed with the support of OSTİM Technical University.
The opening speech of the meeting was given by Orhan Aydın, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone. In his speech, Aydın summarized the operational and service delivery approach of the institutions that make up the OSTİM ecosystem with the words, "Our perspective on life is that we hold ourselves responsible not only for what we do, but also for the things we should have done but didn't."
Aydın emphasized the following points in his speech:
We are all engaged in efforts to increase the prosperity of our country, develop our human resources, create jobs for the unemployed, increase exports, improve quality, and foster cooperation and unity. Our perspective on life is that we hold ourselves responsible not only for what we have done, but also for what we should have done but didn't. Therefore, we are waiting for your answers to questions such as: "If we had done these things, it would have been better; the people here would have had more jobs, increased exports, and peace here would have been greater."
We have strived to accomplish almost everything that has come to our minds so far. OSTİM needs your intellect, ideas, and experience to do these things better, more beautifully, more competitively, more up-to-date, and more innovatively.
We strive for a participatory and collaborative management style. Seven sectoral clusters operate in our region. We draw inspiration from them regarding the market and daily life. We enrich ourselves with their knowledge.
Qualified human resources for competition
We have educational institutions in OSTİM. Their contributions are invaluable and important. Producing high-quality and competitive products, competing with global giants, is not a simple task. If a company here can sell its products to Germany or China, if it can compete there, it's because of its qualified human resources. Without this, there's no chance of competition. How can we improve this? What should we do in education and how? In OSTİM, we have a structure covering every level from primary school to university. OSTİM Technical University has two vocational schools, and Gazi University has one. Seven universities are partners in Ostim Technopark.
“We must adapt to artificial intelligence quickly”
The world is changing very rapidly. We have started using artificial intelligence applications. We feel that if we don't quickly integrate these into our companies and employees, we will quickly fall behind in the race. Because there is an incredibly large field ahead of us.
“OSTİM is a product of hard work and dedication”
OSTİM is a product of hard work and dedication. People here contribute to our country by working, producing, competing, and embracing the Ahi culture as much as possible. This is a region founded by idealistic individuals nurtured by Anatolian culture; we witness that this understanding still prevails, and therefore a moral stance is maintained. The existence of an Ahi culture that respects the people working alongside them, the goods they produce, and the promises they make is very valuable to us.
OSTİM is not limited to this region alone. It has exported hundreds, even thousands, of companies to Ankara's 12 Organized Industrial Zones. OSTİM is not just a place within OSTİM itself; with its clusters, it caters to Ankara's basin, and with some of its clusters, it also caters to Anatolia, representing a face concerned with Turkey's industrialization.
Activities were evaluated under 10 headings.
OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Regional Manager Adem Arıcı shared the 2025 activities and 2026 work program with the participants of the consultation meeting. Recalling that they have been holding consultation meetings for approximately 15 years, Arıcı said, “We have held our meetings with a model that has evolved every year. This year, we planned our meeting in a different format, using more artificial intelligence applications and sharing the results without the participants leaving.”
The OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone 2026 Consultation Meeting was held under the following headings: Zoning and Infrastructure, Environment, Security, Cleaning, Electricity and Natural Gas, Press, Promotion and Customer Relations, Clusters, Vocational and Technical Education, Employment, Foreign Trade and Export, Industry-University Cooperation, Project Support Office, Digitalization and Green Transformation, and Technopark - Competitive and Innovative Projects.
A summary of the consultation results, analyzed using the Artificial Intelligence-Based Scientific Approach methodology, was shared with the participants by Prof. Dr. Ünsal Sığrı, Vice Rector of OSTİM Technical University.
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