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February 14 |  OurCrowd Tech Tour, countrywide

OurCrowd Press Tech Tour

The OurCrowd Press Tech Tour is a key feature of the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit. It provides onsite sneak peeks into Israel’s cutting–edge technologies, including candid sit–downs with corporate chieftains and businesses. The Tour’s itinerary covers the breadth of the Israeli startup ecosystem, across key geographies and sectors. Areas of focus include the Metaverse, MedTech and FoodTech.

For questions on the day’s activities please contact Leah Stern – leah@ourcrowd.com.

Group 1 OurCrowd tech tour

8:05 AM – Breakfast in the Metaverse, International Convention Center, Jerusalem

With: Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd, and Gil Perry, CEO and Co–Founder of D–ID

9:30 AM – On Alert with the IDF, International Convention Center, Jerusalem

With: The Office of the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Unit, and Dan Brahmy, CEO of Cyabra

10:30 AM – Summit sneak peek

12:00 PM – Lunch at the Peer Winery + Company Pitch

With: Noga Sela Shalev, CEO of Fresh Start, an OurCrowd Incubator

Also Featuring: : Remilk, Plantish, ProFuse, Maolac, BlueTree, Mermade

3:00 PM – Hospital Medtech checkup, Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan

With: Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Chief Transformation Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, Sheba Medical Center

Dr. Morris Laster | Medical Venture Partner | OurCrowd

ARC Companies: AISAP, Mica AI Medical, Synchrony Medical

Also featuring: DreaMed Diabetes, Innovalve, Medaware

6:00 PM – Dinner at 2c, at the top of the Azrieli Towers, With: Secret guest of Honor

Group 2 to Ben Gurion University and Haaretz Israel Climate Change Conference 2023

8:30 AM – Assembly and registration.

9:30 AM – Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz.

9:40 AM – President of Israel Isaac Herzog, in a taped interview with Aluf Benn and Lee Yaron.

9:50 AM – Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

10:00 AM – Her Excellency Mariam AlMheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment.

10:10 AM – Idit Silman, Minister of Environmental Protection.

10:20 AM – Dr. Katherine Calvin, Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, NASA: The discoveries of NASA space agency researchers on Earth.

10:30 AM – Panel: “Do We Have a Chance to be Saved?” – On Climate and Politics in 2023.

Moderator: Lee Yaron, Climate reporter, Haaretz

Particpants:

Dr. Ruth Dagan, partner and head of the Environment and Climate Change practice at Herzog Fox & Neeman, consultant to the UN on the subject of the carbon market.

Dr. Netta Lipman, Senior Deputy Director General of Natural Resources & Climate Resilience at the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

Eitan Parnass, CEO of the Green Energy Association of Israel.

Prof. Yaron Ziv, Head of the School of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Amit Bracha, CEO of Adam Teva V’Din.

11:30 AM – Dror Bin, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority, in a conversation with Corin Degani, TheMarker’s high-tech reporter.

11:45 AM – Panel: How do we establish climate resilience? Challenges and opportunities in the Middle East and Europe?

Moderator: Amir Tibon, Haaretz journalist.

Participants:

Veronika Ertl, Director, Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change Middle East and North Africa, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

Gideon Brumberg, CEO Israel, EcoPeace Middle East.

Prof. Iris Visoly-Fisher, Institutes for Desert Research and School of Sustainability and Climate Change, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Mr. Hans Docter, Ambassador of the Netherlands in Israel.

Yaki Noyman, CEO, Doral Group.

12:35 PM – Lunch

1:20 PM – Dr. Dov Khenin, Chairman of the Israeli Climate Forum.

1:30 PM – Prof. Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, in a taped interview with Yarden Michaeli, Editor of Science and Environment, Haaretz.

1:40 PM – Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, founder and chairman of TIGER 21, chairman of MUUS & Company and MUUS Climate Partners: The climate is Israel’s greatest economic opportunity.

2:00 PM – Tamar Weiss Gabbay, Writer, and winner of the Brenner Literature Prize for her novel “The Weather Woman”, in conversation with Shira Makin, Haaretz journalist: How to tell a new story in a time of crisis.

2:15 PM – Dr. Tamar Makov, Head of the Circular Economy Lab, Faculty of Management and Management and the School of Sustainability and Climate Change, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

2:25 PM – Dr. Avner Gross, head of the geoclimatic laboratory and climate change researcher, “The Climist”, in conversation with Nir Hasson, Haaretz journalist: Denial, Ignorance, and Conspiracies – The Israeli Discourse on the Climate Crisis.

2:50 PM – Between Climate and Health and Welfare: Sharon Elroy Preis, Head of the Public Health Services at the Israeli Health Ministry, in conversation with Netta Ahituv, Haaretz journalist.

Session participants:

Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, Chair of the Faculty of Health Systems Management, and faculty member at the School of Sustainability and Climate Change, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Joyina Badr Nemarna, social worker and director of projects at the Citizens for the Environment NGO.

Dr. Dorit Adler, president of the Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition.

Dr. Itay Greenspan, School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

February 15 |  Our Crowd Global Investor Summit, Jerusalem

Agenda in brief:

8:00 AM – Press Conference with Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd

9:00 AM – Opening Plenary: “Startups: Saving the Planet”

10:55 AM – Breakout Sessions 1: “Making Energy Storage Green and Mean”

12 PM – Lunch

1:00 PM – Breakout Sessions 2: “Climate Help Is On the Way But Will It Arrive Too Late?”

2:00 PM – Press briefings/special interviews with Climatech companies for the Press Club delegation with:

2:00 PM – Liat Sverdlov | Investment Partner | OurCrowd

2:15 PM – Flash Forest: Canadian reforestation company using drone technology, automation, and ecological science to regenerate forests at scale.

2:25 PM – H2Pro – A novel and cost–effective water splitting system for the production of green hydrogen, allowing on–premises production, enabling the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

3:00 PM – Anil Soni | CEO | WHO Foundation, to present an overview of the Foundation and its joint fund with OurCrowd, the Global Health Equity Fund.

3:20 PM – mPrest – Tech analyzes grid assets (like electric and telco lines) for risk of failure, area of degradation, and areas needing maintenance/repair to avoid service disruption or asset failure.

3:40 PM – BlueGreen: Spearheading eco-friendly, deep-tech solutions to rehabilitate entire aquatic ecosystems and increase safe water for drinking and recreational activities around the world.

4:00 PM – UBQ: Technology for Converting Household Waste into Thermoplastic Material.

4:20 PM – Wind Catching Systems: Early-stage renewable-energy company with massive, floating, offshore wind turbine; efficiently produces power while significantly reducing the footprint.

4:40 PM – enVerid – Revolutionary air treatment technology that increases energy savings and indoor air quality while reducing greenhouse gases.

5:10 PM – Closing Plenary: “TEK Talks and More”

6:25 PM – Post-Summit Party

8:00 PM – ShukTech: Drink. Network. Party

February 16 |  JPC Climate-Solution Tour, countrywide

8:45 AM – Bioplasmer Demonstration farm. Bioplasmar Developed a method for producing truly biodegradable planting pots and planting trays out of compost instead of plastic, so the plants can be planted directly into the ground with no plastic waste.

10:30 AM – Touring Helios, which is developing a new way of producing iron and steel that uses less energy and does not burn coal as an inherent part of the process vastly reducing CO2 emission.

11:30 AM – Departure to Moshav Mazor, where we will visit GroundworkBio, a company that innovatively produces highly effective mycorrhizal inoculants. This field of research is important, since restoration of the soil’s mycorrhizal balance is crucial to plants’ ability to absorb the precious nutrients that farmers work so hard to provide.

11:45 AM – Tour GroundworkBio, Lunch

1:45 PM – Tour Criaterra, a start–up that developed a replacement for concrete as a building material for use in wall tiles and building blocks. Using a low temperature process combining sand, clay, and organic binders, Criaterra do not need the high heat and carbon emissions that is usually accompanied to producing cement.

3:00 PM – GreenOnyx, a compact indoor farm for growing a fresh green vegetable called Khai Nam (“Wolffia arrhizal”), a healthy green vegetable grown in an efficient method using little space and water.

3:15 PM – Presentations:

Moderator – Dr. Gideon Stein, Impact Investor and Entrepreneur, former Chief Research Scientist at Mobileye.

QD sol – Quantum Hydrogen for a Greener World. QD–SOL operates at the cutting edge of green hydrogen technology.

Luminescent Heat Engine – Efficient heat engine technology that can be used for waste heat and for modular concentrated solar power. This origins from the Technion– Israel Institute of Technology.

Rewind – Company that specializing in carbon capture involving sinking organic waste in the sea.

Autonomous Pivot – Using a Ground Penetrating radar device mounted on the center pivot irrigation sprinkler, this company measures ground water and optimize water use, saving 30% of water used.

5:15 PM – Heder Prati Private Event Venue: Cocktails

5:45 PM – Panel discussion on Regional Climate Change Issues

Moderator: Sue Surkes, Times of Israel

Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is a leading environmental studies and research institute in the Middle East, with a student body comprised of Jordanians, Palestinians, Israelis and participants from around the world.

Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. EcoPeace is a regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East.

Tamar Ganot–Rosenstreich, Associate Director of Adam, Teva V’din, the national environmental watchdog and champion of Israelis’ rights to safe, clean and healthy environment.

6:30 PM – Dinner