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International technology conference in Tel-Aviv
Vardina Hilloo
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
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