Lux Research Innovation Tour to Israel Tentative Itinerary as of 8-10-2015
Saturday, November 14th Location: Tel Aviv
Arrive in Israel, VIP Meeting and Assistance at Airport Transfer to hotel and check-in
19:30 Welcome Dinner
Networking dinner for delegation members -- Walking distance from the hotel
Dinner with select representatives of the Israeli tech community: -- Uri Levine (Co-founder Waze) -- Amir Peleg (Founder and CEO of Takadu) -- Guy Sela (Founder and CEO of Solaredge) -- Jack Levi (Israel Cleantech Ventures) -- Nili Shalev (Israel Economic Minister to North America) -- Eitan Yudilevitch (CEO of the BIRD Foundation) -- Oded Distel (Director Newtech)
Sunday November 15th Location: Haifa Area Day’s Theme: Israel’s Innovation Engines
8:00 Breakfast at the hotel -- Overview of Israel’s innovation economy, visit plan and logistics
9:30 Departure to Haifa
10:30 En-route: Caesarea and Hadera desalination plant
12:00 Networking Lunch at Technion – Israel’s Leading Technology Institute with Benny Sofer, CEO of Tech Transfer office
13:30 Technion President Peretz Lavie: The innovation economy and the relationship of academia and industry
14:30 Nobel Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman: The role of education in the path to excellence
15:30 Meetings with 5-7 select Israeli startups. For example: Emefcy, Kaiima, Brightway Vision, Pimi Agro and other from the Technion affiliated startups
17:00 Multinational Companies in Israel: Lessons Learned – Matam Research Center -- Roundtable with corporations that have R&D centers in Israel -- With select companies: EMC; GE; GM; Google; Kimberly -Clark; Microsoft; 3M
19:30 Networking Dinner
Speaker: Yoav Chelouche, Managing Partner, Aviv Ventures, Co-Chair, Israel Advanced Technologies Industries (the largest umbrella organization for high-tech and life-science companies in Israel)
Monday November 16th Location: Tel Aviv Area Day’s Theme: Industrial Innovation
8:00 Breakfast at the hotel
9:00 Opening Remarks
9:30 Industrial IoT -- presentations by Israeli startups from the list of 34 IoT and 166 Sensor companies
11:00 Energy (generation, management, storage, efficiency and the energy-water-food nexus) -- presentations by Israeli startups from the list of 166 Agtec and 249 Cleantech companies Examples of select startups
12:30 Networking Lunch
13:30 Advanced Materials and Manufacturing -- presentations by Israeli startups from the list 407 Israeli Industrial Tech companies
15:00 Roundtable Discussion on Lessons Learned
16: 00 One-on-one business meetings with leading Israeli entrepreneurs and startups per participants request, aided by the list of Israeli startups profiled by Lux in the last three years
18:00 Jaffa walking tour
19:00 Networking Dinner in Old Jaffa with Dr. Orna Berry, Corporate VP of Growth and Innovation at EMC Centers of Excellence
With select representatives of leading Israeli accelerators, such as 8200 EISP (8200 EISP - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program of the leading military intelligence unit), Microsoft Accelerator, IBM Alpha Zone Accelerator
Tuesday November 17th Location: Rehovot, Weizmann Institute Day’s Theme: From Startup to Scale
7:30 Breakfast at the hotel
8:30 Departure to the South
9:30 Weizmann Institute -- Weizmann President, Professor Daniel Zajfman: Focusing on basic science as a way to spur innovation, tech transfer -- Yeda CEO Amir Naiberg: Commercializing university-generated IP. Tour of select labs and the Weizmann Science Park
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:30 Presentations by multinationals that acquired Israeli companies that are now in scale: HP / Indigo and Applied Materials / Oprtotech
15:30 Departure to Jerusalem
19:00 Networking Dinner in Jerusalem
Speaker: Jon Medved, CEO, Our Crowd, and 1-2 of OurCrowd’s portfolio companies -- OurCrowd is the world’s leading crowdfunding venture firm
Wednesday, November 18th Location: Jerusalem Day’s Theme: The Government and Innovation
8:00 Breakfast at the hotel
10:00 Meeting with Erel Margalit at Jerusalem Venture Partners and portfolio companies. Erel Margalit is now a parliament member pursuing innovation and technology as a bridge between nations in the Middle-East
12:00 Networking Lunch with Avi Hasson, Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy of the State of Israel
14:00 Meetings with Jerusalem-based industrial R&D centers of Intel and meeting select companies, such as MobyleEye
16:00 Meeting with the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, who made the transition from venture capital to government in one of the most complex cities in the world
17:00 Wrap-up and lessons learned
Transportation to the airport or to the hotel