The panel on "Life in 2030" was held at the technological innovation conference iNNOVEX2018 * Serial entrepreneur Benny Schneider: "Israel's problem in maintaining its position as a start-up nation is not in academic education, but in the schools" * According to the panel participants and the audience at the conference: "Cancer will continue to be the main cause of death in 2030 and Israel will continue to be the start-up nation"
"The leading global company in the world in 2030 will not be Google, Amazon or Alibaba, but a company that we do not know today or that has not yet been established", this is the conclusion unanimously reached by successful Israeli hi-tech entrepreneurs in a panel that dealt with life in 2030 as part of the technological innovation conference iNNOVEX2018. The conference, which took place at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, was organized in collaboration with the Innovation Authority.
"The company that has the greatest chance of remaining at the top among the largest companies today is Amazon," said Dan Inbar, CEO of Dell EMC XtremIO. "The reason for this is that while a company like Google continues to rely mainly on its search engine as a central source of revenue, Amazon is constantly reinventing itself in various areas. Today, their cloud sector has become the company's main source of profits."
The panel was moderated by veteran entrepreneur Dov Moran and Melved Schneider. Dr. Shlomo Markel, Vice President of Broadcom Global (which has already made 13 acquisitions of Israeli companies), Tzipi Ozer Armon, CEO of Luminis, Ruth Polikin Brochi, CEO of the startup participated in the panel. Mindyou and Dan Inbar, CEO of Dell EMC XtremIO. As part of the panel, the panel participants as well as the audience were asked through an interactive application questions concerning our lives in about 12 years.
Benny Schneider, the serial entrepreneur, who is behind no less than six exits amounting to over a billion dollars to companies such as: Oracle, Cisco, VMWare, Red Hat and F5, added: Israel will continue to be the start-up nation in 2030 as well. We have an ecosystem It is sustainable to create innovation and we will continue to maintain our status. The academic institutions in Israel are at a high level, the problem is in the education in the schools, especially in the high schools that do not direct enough students to the technology subjects."
Schneider added and noted: "We have a strong engine in Israel, but it can be more powerful if we integrate the ultra-orthodox population and the Arab sector in high-tech."
"In Israel there is a culture of Gaza. If someone does not succeed, the failure is accepted with understanding, and therefore we will continue to maintain the mechanism of establishing start-ups and innovation," said Dr. Shlomo Merkel, referring to Israel's position as a start-up nation in 2030. "If we succeed in maintaining our higher education institutions of high quality - we will succeed ".
"In 2030 we will be more of a start-up nation than today," said Tzipi Ozer-Armon, CEO of Luminis. "Our genetics is to be creative and innovative. Once upon a time children in Israel wanted to be lawyers or doctors, today the children are talking about starting a company. We are a nation of entrepreneurs, but success does not come from being creative alone. We need to invest in education and the investment ecosystem in companies."
As part of the panel, the participants and the audience were asked what the main cause of death will be in 2030 - cancer, heart disease, car accidents or mistakes in genetic cloning. On this subject, they all unanimously expressed that cancer will continue to be the main cause of death, even though technology and innovation will make it possible to extend life and provide better treatment.
The conference was opened by Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Innovation Authority and by Shlomo Gerdman - co-chairman and initiator of the iNNOVEX conferences. Gerdman presented the path taken by Jeff Bezos from childhood in a small town in New Mexico to becoming the richest man in the world. "Bezos didn't want to set up an online store. He wanted to be an entrepreneur, to be an innovator. And so after founding Amazon, he invented the Kindle, founded the cloud company AWS, invented Alexa and today he promotes the checkout-free store -Amazon Go and many other initiatives. "He is not only an entrepreneur, he is also an innovator and that is what made him the most successful businessman in the world today."
Gerdman added: "Competition in the technological world is increasing, it is important that a knowledge-rich industry in Israel takes care of encouraging innovation processes in organizations to ensure Israel's place in the forefront of the global high-tech industry in the years to come."
The iNNOVEX 2018 conference focused on encouraging connections and collaborations between mature and multinational companies and young and innovative start-up companies. The conference included dozens of one-on-one meetings between large international companies and Israeli start-up companies; as well as discussions and lectures that will include the presentation of innovative technologies in the most innovative fields, from innovation in precision agriculture and AI to Medicare and industry 4.0.
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Never before on this site has there been a collection of nonsense in one article. Google is the number one controlling factor in artificial intelligence in the world. And everything that touches it and succeeds, she buys. And it is the result of politically guided scientific thinking that we are the best and it cannot be otherwise. Also winning the Israel Prize for Physics in the same orientation. A Technion professor was just introduced who achieved groundbreaking achievements in quantum optics, and made 19 student professors and he is not a candidate.
Anyone who saw their latest recruitment for the research center they established in Toronto sees 50% Arabs (there are no 50% Arabs in the world)
and 0% Jewish/Israeli students. Who reads their articles.
One leading scientist is Yehoshua Bengio who indicates the generation of the past - a scientist of his own caliber and above. There are two new research centers in Google's second world in China. These are the directions. Amazon has almost no research centers, only commerce.