Turkish firms showcased their products and services at one of the world’s largest technology events, Gitex, which held its Central Asia and Caucasus edition for the first time in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The two-day Gitex AI Kazakhstan, which kicked off on Monday, brought together 336 tech enterprises and startups, more than 100 investors and over 200 speakers from 50 countries, including officials, experts and private sector representatives.
The event also hosted a Turkish pavilion featuring technology companies from Türkiye, including network security firm Opinnate, information firm Geolab and Türkiye’s satellite and IT giant Turksat.
Serkan Ozden, co-founder and CEO of Opinnate, said that since this is the first Gitex exhibition in the Central Asia and Caucasus (CCA) region, there has been strong interest, which is encouraging.
“We’re trying to establish a presence in the CCA region. We also have an agreement with a distributor here. We’ve started operating intensively in this market this year,” he told Anadolu.
He said the firm helps identify vulnerabilities in firewalls by integrating with organisations’ firewall systems and detecting incorrectly configured rules.
“In this market, there are many global-scale Israeli manufacturers that are our competitors,” he added.
“We are a Turkish manufacturer with numerous advantages over them in the market. Many customers have switched to us by abandoning the competing solution, and we aim to achieve similar success in this market as well.”
