Among the winners: Maurice Kahn - founder of Amdocs, Dov Moran - inventor of the disk on key, founders Waze, Dita and Yehuda Bronitsky - founders of Ormat and more * The prize will be awarded at the closing session of the conference iNNOVEX2017
conferenceiNNOVEX , the main technological innovation event in Israel, will be held this year for the fifth time on February 8, 2017 at the Avenue Convention Center in Kiryat Airport. As part of the conference's festive closing session, the "Global Innovation Leader Badge" will be awarded to individuals who have had a substantial impact on technological innovation at the local and global level.
The list of recipients of the signal includes: Maurice Kahn - founder of Dafi Zehav and Amdocs, Dov Moran - founder of M systems and inventor of the disk on key, Ehud Shabtai Amir Shanar and Uri Levin - founders of WAZE, Dita and Yehuda Bronitsky - founders of Ormat Co., and Prof. Haim Dotan - Designer of the tallest and longest glass bridge in the world.
The selection committee for the conference is made up of high-tech industry leaders including Dr. Yossi Vardi - entrepreneur and investor, Dr. Shlomo Markel - Vice President of Broadcom, Rafi Koriat - Board Member at Kamtech, Rafi Neve - Head of the Bronitza Center for Entrepreneurship at the Technion, Ruth Polchak - The founder and chairman of She Codes, Dr. Leonid Beckman - founder and senior director of the Israel Institute of Innovation, Haim Russo - chairman and board member of Tusheyide, and Shlomo Gerdman, chairman of the High-Tech CEO Forum in Israel and co-chairman of the 2017 iNNOVEX conference.
According to Shlomo Gerdman: "This year, some of the most innovative personalities in Israel were chosen, each of whom deserves the global innovation badge thanks to breakthrough developments and innovation. I am happy about the excellent choices of the judging committee and am proud to recognize and honor the prize winners, each impressive in their field."
"The selected winners will join a long list of winners of the iNNOVEX Innovation Leaders award in recent years, which includes, among others, Steph Wertheimer - founder of Ishkar, Dr. Danny Gold and the team of Iron Dome developers, Professor Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, the founders of Mobileye Dr. Ervin G Cobbs, founder of Qualcomm, Dr. Henry Samueli, founder of Bardocom and Prof. Hartmut Esslinger, the industrial designer who together with Steve Jobsath established the unique design line for Apple products.
The iNNOVEX 2017 conference will focus on encouraging connections and collaborations between mature and multinational companies and young and innovative start-up companies, and is expected to attract about 1,500 engineers, researchers, scientists, managers in high-tech companies and start-ups and venture capital investors. This year the conference will be dedicated to the memory of the late former President of the State Shimon Peres, who contributed greatly to the encouragement of technological innovation in the State of Israel.
Dozens of lecturers from all over the world will come to Israel to take part in the iNNOVEX2017 conference and multinational and Israeli companies will present developments and innovations that will affect our lives in the fields of communications, medicine, automobiles and transportation, the Internet of Things, data security, industrial applications and green technologies. Among the lecturers at the conference it will be possible to see Mr curry Holly, a global expert in cognitive computing and formerly CTO of Cisco and IBM; Anamy Res, the former eBay and PayPal innovation manager and now CEO of Purple Beach, Ross Dakin, Senior Advisor for Technological and Urban Innovation, Microsoft Company, Prof. Yossi Matias, Vice President of Engineering and CEO of Israel R&D, Google, Dov Moran, Eyal Wedelman, Hami Peres And more.
More details can be read on the conference website: www.innovex.co.il
