Türkiye Energy Transition Investment Forum

This event is co-hosted by the Investment and Finance Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Bloomberg and Energy Shift Capital.
Türkiye sits at the intersection of Europe’s energy transition—both as a physical corridor and a strategic partner. On one side, Europe’s deep capital markets and climate finance capacity; on the other, Türkiye’s growing renewable energy project portfolio and potential as a regional clean energy and industrial powerhouse.
This event offers an important platform to discuss the opportunities emerging from the synergy between these two markets to advance the clean energy transition and unlock investment.
08:30–09:00 Registration & Breakfast
09:00–09:30 Welcome by Bloomberg & Opening Remarks
H.E. Murat Kurum, COP31 President-Designate and Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of Türkiye
H.E. Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Türkiye
Ali Kamil Özmen, Head of Public-Private Partnership Department at Invest in Türkiye
İlkay Demirdağ, Founder & CEO at Energy Shift Capital
09:30–09:50 Investor Fireside Chat
Moderator:  Ilkay Demirdağ Founder and CEO at Energy Shift Capital
Tariye Gbadegesin, CEO at Climate Investment Funds
09:50–10:40 Panel: Türkiye's Energy Market: Opportunity, Scale & Investment Case
Moderator: Ersoy Erkazancı, UK Country Advisor, Invest in Türkiye
Evren Güvenç, CEO at Polat Enerji
Florent Rousset, Vice President Geothermal, New Energies at Baker Hughes
Geert Dooms, General Manager at RES Group
Ram Ramachander, Chief Growth Officer at Hitachi EMEA
10.40–11.00 Launch of the Türkiye Transition Factbook, produced by BloombergNEF and commissioned by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Sofia Maia, Head of Country Transition, Middle East & Africa Research, BNEF
11:00–11:20 Coffee Break
11:20–12:10 Panel: Financing Türkiye's Energy Transition: Where Capital Meets Opportunity
Moderator: Alastair Marsh, Journalist at Bloomberg
Michael Ridley, ESG DCM at BBVA
Rodrigo Salvado, Global Head of Strategic Financing Partnerships at HSBC
Şafak Müderrisgil, Chair at Impact Investing Advisory Board Türkiye (EYDK)
Şule Kılıç, Director, Head of Energy Eurasia (covering Türkiye, Caucasus, Central Asia &Mongolia) at EBRD
12.10–12.40 Innovative Technologies Driving the Energy Transition - Pitching Session
Balca Yılmaz, Co-Founder and CEO at Wereover, AI-powered wind turbine blade health monitoring company.
Giles Redpath CEO at Hive Group, green ammonia developer building large-scale production plants powered by renewable energy.
Hüseyin Ardan Küçük, Chairman of the Board at Meta Mobilite
James Reeves Chief Engineer and Co-founder at Aikido Technologies, floating offshore wind technology developer building next-generation platforms to unlock grid-scale renewable energy at sea.
Mehmet Ali Nalcacıoğlu, General Manager at Biotrend Energy, transforming municipal and industrial waste into strategic low-carbon products for the energy transition.
12:40–13:30 Networking Lunch