Faruk Eczacıbaşı delivered a speech at the opening of the "Sustainable and Smart: My Mind My Idea Çanakkale Conference" organized within the scope of the project "Sustainable and Smart: My Mind My Idea Çanakkale". Faruk Eczacıbaşı, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Informatics Foundation of Turkey, emphasized the importance of smart cities in his speech and said: "Smart cities are cities that invest in information and communication technologies to use their limited resources more effectively and efficiently, save money as a result of these investments, improve the quality of service and life they provide with these savings, reduce the carbon footprint they leave in nature, respect the environment and natural resources, and do all these with innovative and sustainable methods."

The "Dialogue" session, where examples of sustainable and smart cities from around the world were shared, took place with the participation of Çanakkale Mayor Ülgür Gökhan, Faruk Eczacıbaşı, President of the Informatics Foundation of Turkey, and Bart van Bolhuis, Consul General of the Netherlands in Istanbul.

Since 2017, our "My Mind My Idea Çanakkale" smart city project, which we have been continuing with Kale Group and NOVUSENS Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute, has been completed with the international conference held in Çanakkale. We would like to thank our project partners for our cooperation.