UIB and our Turkish partner, IBS Sigorta Brokerlik Hizmetleri AS, attended the 13^th Annual ICCI 2007 conference, held at the Istanbul “Lutfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Centre” on 30-31 May.

Since the inaugural conference some 12 years ago this event has grown over that period to become a key conference for the energy and related industries, including the newer alternate and sustainable energy providers.

This year’s conference theme was Sustainability and Globalisation in the Energy: Efficiency, Emissions and New Markets Constitutions. The first keynote speech was given by Assi. Prof. Dr. Sami Demirbilek, former Undersecretary for Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, who spoke about “the reorganization of Turkish Energy Market and related works in progress.”

  
Running alongside and in conjunction with the conference was an exhibition by 50 energy industry companies. The exhibitors ranged from Turkish engineering companies through to a number of international blue chip companies like Rolls Royce and Shell, with IBS/UIB Turkey being the only insurance broking house present.

The IBS/UIB Turkey stand was staffed by representatives from IBS and UIB London and proved to be a very popular amongst the conference and exhibition attendees. IBS and UIB received many enquiries during the two day conference/exhibition and certainly intend to be present at the 2008 event.

Sevhan Gok Kahya, IBS General Manager, commented, “many people visited our stand and wanted either information or consultancy about their projects and I believe we will be able to secure some very good business in the near future.  I would like to thank our reinsurance manager Alper Aydinalp and his staff for all their hard work and enthusiasm in making this event such a success.  In addition, I would like to thank Mark Randall from UIB London who provided great support during the duration of the event.”

Mark Randall, Divisional Director, UIB Non-Marine and Energy, said, “this was a really worthwhile investment by IBS/UIB and would like to give a huge vote of thanks to my friends at IBS who made the visit so successful and indeed enjoyable.”

_{Image Right: UIB/IBS exhibition stand
(Sevhan Gok Kahya & Mark Randall centre)}