International technology conference in Tel-Aviv

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Nano Israel 2010 to focus on innovations and business
opportunities in energy, water, environment,
nano–material, nano–electronics, nano–photonics,
nano–bio and nano–medicine fields
The Nano Israel 2010 conference and the exhibition
accompanying will be held on November 8 and 9,
Tel Aviv. The event will focus on innovations and
business opportunities in the energy, water, environment,
nano–material, nano–electronics, nano–photonics,
nano–bio and nano–medicine fields.

This conference is targeted at industry and business
persons from around the world, and will serve as the
meeting point for companies and persons involved in
venture capital, and in private funds, institutional and
organizational investors, regulation, technology and
development persons, governmental decision makers,
as well as academy representatives, scientists and investors.
The three chair persons of the conference are Nava
Swersky Sofer, who is one of the leaders of the Israeli
life–science industry and is the former CEO of Yissum
Dan Vilenski from INNI (The Israel National Nano–
technology Initiative); and Prof. Arie Zaban from the
Bar Ilan University.

Israel is known worldwide as a center of knowledge
and innovation in nano–technology and Research in
the nano field. Israel's achievements are at the forefront
of a variety of the industrial fields, such as Communications,
Electronics, Computerization, Security, Medicine and
life–sciences," said Swersky Sofer

Israeli high-tech has done some big things in the past -
creating some of the most important advances in
computer security and networking, social media,
and telecommunications. Today, Israeli companies
are set to do some little things - which may have an even
bigger impact than some of those high-tech achievements.

What Internet startups were to the past decade,
nanotechnology will be to the next one, experts say
and Israel is already a world leader in development
and deployment of applications based on this new science.
Already, Israeli scientists have made significant contributions
to the field, discovering and developing some of the
most important breakthroughs.

Investors seeking opportunities and companies from
Israel and abroad will attend, showing off their nano-wares.
Speakers will include the leading lights of the discipline
from Israel and abroad. Among them will be the 2010
co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Professor Andre
Geim, for his discovery and work with the
nano-material graphene.

Israel is already on the international nanotech map,
according to the INNI, one of the conference sponsors.
The group lists about 80 large and small companies
working in Israel's nanotech sector, along with more
than 40 academic and governmental labs, employing
some 300 researchers and scholars. The INNI states
that Israel has the third-largest concentration of startup
companies in the world, surpassed only by California's
Silicon Valley and the Boston technology corridor.

October 30. 2010