In the conference that will be held on February 3 at the AVENUE conference center, the inventor of the Segway, the senior vice president of Samsung, the innovation guru Rowan Gibson, Prof. Mike Levitt, the Nobel Prize winner and Henry Samueli, the chairman of Broadcom, are expected to participate, among others.
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, the iNNOVEX2015 conference will be held - the main event for technological innovation in Israel. The conference, which is being held for the third year in a row, will be attended by some of the most senior and important figures in the field of creativity and management of high-tech companies in Israel and around the world. Israeli and multinational companies will also present innovative products and ideas. This year, for the first time, a number of unique events will take place, including:
- A startup competition called iNNOVEX Disrupt held in collaboration with Google and the OurCrowd Foundation, in which the most innovative start-up company in Israel will be selected (the selected company will also receive a particularly attractive prize: negotiations for the raising of 1 million dollars by the OurCrowd Foundation
- Startup companies complex in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Scientist and Research and Development - about 40 young companies selected by the Chief Scientist Anish will take part in the complex to present their technological innovations in the fields of communication, internet, software and biomedicine.
Among the main speakers at the conference can be found on behalf of the Israeli government Chief Scientist Avi Hasson, and Prof. Eugene Kendall - Head of the National Economic Council in the Prime Minister's Office.
In addition, some of the most senior managers in the field of creativity in management and technology from the most important technology companies in the world will speak at the conference, including - Dr. Kyungwon Chon - Senior Vice President at Samsung, Rowan Gibson - Entrepreneurship guru of Fortune 500 companies, Dean Kamen - Inventor of the Segway and initiator of the robotics competition FIRST, Dr. Henry Samueli - co-founder and chairman of Broadcom, Prof. Michael Levit - Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, researcher at Stanford University, and Dr. F. Anandan – Director of the Microsoft Research Center in India.
Other speakers who will take part in the event are Dr. Hans Nicol - Director of Open Innovation at Philips, Dr. Maria Merced - President of Europe at the chip giant TSMC, Dr. Yael Vila - CEO of EMC's Center of Excellence in Israel, Prof. Yossi Matias - The director of Google's development center in Israel, Dr. Yoel Mark, director of Yahoo's research labs in Israel, and Shlomo Gerdman, chairman of the High-Tech CEO Forum.
At the conference, the speakers will discuss management and focus on innovation, ways to recruit private investors for projects at the beginning, the need for creativity and a groundbreaking atmosphere in mature technology companies, and trends for locating and implementing creative ideas. The conference will also discuss the transition of technologies from academia to industry, education for creativity in the education system, and smart medicine that uses innovative technologies to prevent disease and heal more effectively.
About 2015 engineers, researchers, scientists and senior managers are expected to participate in iNNOVEX1,500, who will learn about the challenges of developing innovative ideas, exchange opinions, listen to experts and global leaders in the fields of innovation and discuss ways to encourage creativity and original thinking.
In addition, innovative products of companies in the various fields of technology will be presented at the conference, including the digital revolution and perceptual computing, innovative technologies in medical devices and biotechnology, the Internet of Things (IOT), software applications for the fields of cloud computing and Big Data, solutions in the field of information security and prevention of cyber attacks, and cutting-edge applications in communication Wireless and satellite.
