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The Israel Conference to Showcase Technology and Entrepreneurial Prowess of Israel Companies to California Investment Community
LOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)--
More than 50 Israel-facing companies will come together at The Israel Conference to showcase Israeli excellence in technology and products and to expand business and investment opportunities between Israel and California.
WHAT:
Israel-facing companies and international investors will showcase their technologies in clean tech, medical devices, high tech, and entertainment media tech
WHO:
Over 50 business and industry leaders to speak including:
• Yossi Vardi, founder and pioneer of instant messaging who has helped build more than 50 high-tech companies
• Erel Margalit, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms in Israel
• Jeff Pulver, renown thought leader for internet / IP communications and technology innovation.
• Bob Rosenschein of Answers.com, CEO and founder and a recipient of the prestigious Israeli Prime Minister's Award for Software Achievement. Answers.com is one of the top 30 sites on the Internet.
• Yair Landau of Mass Animation - Former Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and President of Sony Pictures Digital. Mass Animation is the largest global animation collaboration with over 50,000 participants from over 100 countries.
• Homi Shamir of Given Imaging with market changing PillCam®
• Itzik Cohen of ClipSync, real-time social media guru.
• Trevor Healy of Jajah, IP voice and messaging platform.
• Yoav Izhar-Prato of Kenshoo, and cutting-edge search engine marketing.
• H. David Nahai of LADWP largest municipal utility in the US.
WHEN:
Thursday, June 4, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE:
The Luxe Hotel
11461 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90049
(just off the 405 freeway at Sunset Boulevard)
Valet parking available.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Carla Collado or Trent Freeman at 310.479.7055 if you have questions in advance of the event.
Contacts on the day of the event will be Paula Page at 310.600.6607 or Tracy Williams at 310.387.7738.
Flash Facts on Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Israel:
With over 8,000 patents from a population of just 7 million people, Israel is a hotbed of invention and innovation.
Within the past 15 years, major companies have risen that were developed in Israel and have their corporate office in California with job creation in the hundreds of thousands, world-wide. A number of these are Fortune 500 today with corporate offices in California such as Check Point, Zoran, and Amdocs.
Israeli corporations do business in the world-market and hold the number one position on the NASDAQ second only to US corporations.
Israel has the largest number of scientists in the world per capita at 145/10,000 compared to the US with 85/10,000.
In 2008, over $2B in capital was invested over 480 Israeli high-tech companies, an increase of 18% over prior year with 50% coming from funds outside of Israel, mostly from the US.
Over the past 3 years, Israeli firms raised $2.3Billion in IPOs on exchanges around the world while over $18B was spent on acquisitions of Israeli High Tech companies.
The Centrino microchip, the PillCam, and Instant Messaging were created in Israel and the innovators will be speaking at The Israel Conference.
The Israel Conference in Los Angeles June 4, 2009
WHO:
Panels Throughout the Day
Schedule subject to change
7:30am
Breakfast Buffet and Registration
8:30am
Welcome
Sharona Justman, Managing Director, STEP Strategy Advisors
8:45am
Israel's Economic Outlook
Glenn Yago, Director Capital Studies, Milken Institute
9:00am
Fast & Cool Stardoll
9:10am
In the Beginning - From Startup to Exit - All in Six Days - The real story of VCs and the CEOs they back. Why each company was funded and what are the results today. Exits that matter.
• Randy Ditzler, Partner, Sequoia Capital
• Yoram Novick, Founder, Topio (Acquired by NetApp)
• Yoav Izhar-Prato, CEO & Co-Founder, Kenshoo
• Trevor Healy, CEO, Jajah
10:10am
Israel Consul General Jacob Dayan
10:15am
The Secret Sauce of Israeli Creativity and Innovation
Yossi Vardi, Founder of ICQ, creator of Internet-wide Instant Messaging
10:45am
Networking
11:00am
Fast & Cool New Deal Design
11:15am
Cisterns and Vapor - Clean Tech - Going Green - Technology, chemistry, and innovation that changes our access to everyday needs and replenishes the earth. From the desert to the ocean, from Israel for the world.
• Isabel Maxwell, Board Member, Israel Venture Network
• Isaac Applbaum, Venture Partner, The Westly Group
• H. David Nahai, CEO & General Manager, LADWP
• Ron Hadar, President & COO, Tigo Energy
• Assaf Barnea, CEO, Kinrot Incubator
12:15pm
Amazing Answers About Anything - Answers.com Bob Rosenschein, CEO, Answers.com
12:30pm
Lunch Buffet
1:15pm
Fast & Cool Jeff Pulver, pulver.com
• Social Approach
• Docstoc
• Check Point
1:45pm
High Tech in a Slow Economy - Opportunities for Investment and Challenges for Sales - The High Tech squeeze in Israel - Where is the money, the current market for high tech companies and entrepreneurs. How Israeli companies stay ahead of the curve.
• Eran Wagner, President North America, Cvidya Networks
• Scott Painter, CEO, ZAG.com
• Eitan Bek, Partner, Pitango
• Gadi Singer, General Manager, Intel
• David Blumberg, Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital
• Robert Hinden, Fellow, Check Point Software
2:40pm
Fast & Cool Syneron
2:50pm
Medical Miracles - Curing What Ails You - New Therapies, New Drugs, New Devices. The New You. The rapidly expanding Medical Device and Life Sciences market is filled with innovation from Israel and is being brought to the world market.
• Benny Zeevi, Managing Director, DFJ Tamir Fishman
• Homi Shamir, President & CEO, Given Imaging
• Ran Nussbaum, Managing Director, Pontifax
• Ann Berzak., Product Manager, Syneron
3:45pm
Networking
4:00pm
Fast & Cool Eyecon Technologies
4:10pm
Things that go Click - Capture Technology - Technology that creates and moves content to store and deliver music and video content, Israeli engineering is delivering consumer products and industrial technology that is changing the world.
• Izhar Shay, General Partner, Canaan Partners
• Meir Friedlander, President & CEO, Eyecon Technologies
• Sharon Rechter, Founder & COO, BabyFirstTV
• Andy Abramson, Board Advisor, Vringo
• Ariel Galinsky, President, LiveU
5:10pm
Fast & Cool Timeless Jerusalem
5:15pm
Media in Motion - Animation and Content to Light up your Experience
Erel Margalit, Founder and Managing Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners
5:45pm
Israel Consul For Media Shahar Azani
5:50pm
Israel Goes Hollywood - Media without Borders - What's cool, what's amazing, what's displaying, what's in your device? What's being funded and how do you become part of the deal?
• Yair Landau, Director & Producer, Mass Animation
• David Lonner, Partner, William Morris Agency
• Sandy Climan, President, Entertainment Media Ventures
• Orna Berry, Venture Partner, Gemini Israel Funds
• Roy Baharav, Co-Founder & CEO, SeamBI
• Guy Hoffman, Fellow, MIT
• Itzik Cohen, Founder & CEO, ClipSync / Abazab
• Yosi Glick, President, Jinni
• Zaki Rakib, CEO, Novafora
• David Wertheimer, Executive Director, USC Entertainment Technology Center
7:15pm
Media and Entertainment Reception / Israel Film
The Israel Conference sponsors include Answers.com, Check Point Software, Mark Enterprises, STEP Strategy Advisors, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Morrison & Foerster, Luxe Hotel, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitchell Silverberg & Knupp, New Century Capital Partners, Zag.com, Bank Leumi, TheMarker, Business Wire, Israel Venture Capital Research Center, Southern California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Olmstead Williams Communications, Daly-Swartz Public Relations, and iHollywoodForum
The Organizing Team includes Sharona Justman of STEP Strategy Advisors, Glenn Yago of Milken Institute, Isabel Maxwell of Israel Venture Network, Eran Wagner of cVidya Networks, David Ben-Ami of MacroCure, Chris Rice of Check Point, Dan Yukelson of Premiere Radio Networks, and Yair Landau of Mass Animation.
FOR COMPLETE AGENDA: www.theisraelconference.org.
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