31/03/2026
On 27 April, Burgas brought together businesses from three countries - Bulgaria, Turkey, and Romania in the “Connecting for Growth” forum.
The PPS CMO, Sashka Sashova participated in the panel covering the importance of AI opportunities to make the businesses more efficient and highlighted the SAP AI solutions, building on:
✅ the improvement of the decisions and the end-to-end process speed
✅ creating a unified AI experience across SAP and non-SAP systems
✅ responsible deployment with trusted security and governance
✅ relevance of the SAP solutions for smaller and medium enterprises with the SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud solution
The subject was also covered by Emil Tsankov, Petko Georgiev, Dr. Tevfik Uyar and Alim Kucukpehlivan
The event was chaired by Dr. Boyko Takov, Executive Director of the Bulgarian SME Promotion Agency, and it covered keynote addresses by Dimitar Nikolov, Mayor of Burgas, H.E. Mehmet Sait Uyanık, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Bulgaria, Fikret İnce, Chairman of the Turkey-Bulgaria Business Council at DEİK - Foreign Economic Relations Board, Burhan Nemutlu, Chairman of BULTISAD-Bulgar-Türk Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası -Bulgarian-Turkish Chamber of Commerce, Adv. Victor Gugushev , Chairman of Bulgarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce
The following panels covered a wide spectrum of themes, covering “Growth Instruments”, “The Industrial Backbone” and ““AI & Green Transition” with prominent moderators and speakers, business and institutional reps from the three countries.
We would love to thank all the organisers for this big-scale forum and to call out - Dr. Boyko Takov, to the Bulgarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and to Adv. Victor Gugushev and Iliyana Ilieva for the kind invitation to participate.
It has been also great to engage with like-minded colleagues and meet new ones like Eleonora Ivanova, Svetoslav Stamenov, Valentin Georgiev, Emil Tsankov, Dimo Indzhov, Boris Balev, M.Emrah Sazak M.Emrat Sazak, to name a few.
