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You are cordially invited to attend a day of discussion regarding:

Next Generation Innovation
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 09:00-15:30, Bar-Shira Auditorium, Tel-Aviv University

Program:
08:45 – 09:00 Gathering
09:00 – 09:45 Opening Session
Chair: Prof. Aron Shai, Rector, Tel-Aviv University
Innovation for Survival
Yanki Margalit, Ex-founder and CEO Aladdin, Chairman Space-IL

On Innovation, Ingenuity and in between
Dr. Shlomo Markel, Vice-President, Broadcom Corporation
09:45 – 11:15 Second Session:

Environmental Catalysts for Innovation
Chair: Leonid Bakman, PhD, Founder & Executive Director ISTIPI
Innovation Catalysts in the IDF
RADM Ophir Shoham, Director of Defense, R&D

A State in Transformation
Orna Berry, Ph.D., Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Israel Center of Excellence, EMC Corporation

Innovating Innovation!
Dov Moran, Manager, Entrepreneur, Inventor

The innovation Engine
Nir Tenzer - VP, Business Development & Platform Strategy Division Lead, Microsoft Israel

11:15 – 11:30 Recess

11:30 – 12:30 Third Session:

Education – A Prime Condition for Innovation

Chair: Prof. Shimon Yankielowicz, School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel-Aviv University

Curiosity Driven Education
Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President, Weizmann Institute of Science

Innovation and Discipline
Prof. Maj. Gen. (Res.) Isaac Ben Israel, Head of Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security

The Sky is the Limit, as Long as We Believe It
Barak Ben Eliezer, CEO Winnovation, Former Commander of “Talpiot” Program

12:30 – 14:00 Fourth Session:

Innovation in Practice
Chair: Yossi Vardi

Tradition and Innovation in Security Organizations
Tzafrir Katz, Former Head of the Technology Branch, Israel Security Agency

Innovation and Stagnation in Space Projects
Yariv Bash, Founder and CEO SpaceIL

How Once a Year I Go Back to Being a Child
Yosi Taguri - Founder, Labgoo

GarageGeeks
Rafael Mizrahi, Founder and CEO Feng-GUI, Member of the GarageGeeks Community Core Team

The Machines are back
Ami Ben Bassat, Projects Manager, Writer and Co-Founder of StartupSeeds

14:00 – 14:45 Recess

14:45 – 15:30 Fifth Session:

Young Innovation
Chair: Dr. Haim Assa, Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security

Academy in the Youth
Amit Levin, Student from the Future Scientists and Inventors program, Tel-Aviv University

Young Innovation in Israel
Or Sagi, Student from the Future Scientists and Inventors program, Tel-Aviv University

Biological Innovation: Re-programming the World
Roey Tzezana, Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis & Forecasting at Tel-Aviv University

http://www.facebook.com/events/327372530658962/

The GarageGeeks, SpaceIL and NASA invites you to International Space Apps Challenge.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a 2 day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. The International Space Apps Challenge will take place on all seven continents – in space -  and at GarageGeeks HQ - on 20-21 April 2012.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a “codeathon-style” event. A codeathon is a unique event that brings together citizens interested in collaborating on the development solutions that address critical challenges. A codeathon celebrates software development in its most positive context—using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create outside- the-box solutions in response to interesting problems. Codeathons are technology development marathons, drawing on the talents and initiative of the best and the brightest software developers, engineers, designers and technologists from around the world, who volunteer their time to respond to real- world problems with solutions than can have immediate impact.

At the events, individuals collaborate with others by forming teams focused on solving a particular challenge. The teams compete with other teams around the world to utilize publicly available space and data to design innovative “solutions” to a pre-determined series of global “challenges.”

Official Website: http://spaceappschallenge.org
Overview Presentation: http://spaceappschallenge.org/resources
FAQ: http://spaceappschallenge.org/faqs
NASA sites:
http://open.nasa.gov/appschallenge
http://data.nasa.gov
http://code.nasa.gov

GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital

A [nearly] 48-hour game jam inspired by the works of @petermolydeux. Jamming will commence Friday morning and continue through Saturday evening.

http://www.whatwouldmolydeux.com/

The Israeli Molyjam will take place at Garage Geeks, Holon!
Watch this space for details and more info as we approach the date.

Get inspired at http://molydeux.tumblr.com/ !!
Even more ideas here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmKS9o_SW0ovdHZDYWVHb0lOa1NJV3FST3h3UGFOTFE#gid=0
(Thanks Or!)

EDIT: Garage Geeks is at HaPeled 40, Holon.
Map: http://g.co/maps/5hur2

* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital.

In our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

* Salim Ismail - Singularity University Global Ambassador and Founding Executive Director.
* Brad Templeton - Singularity University Networks & Computing Chair, Chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Singularity University is an academic institution whose stated aim is to “assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.”
http://singularityu.org/

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, March 13, 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

Salim Ismail - Singularity University Global Ambassador and Founding Executive Director.
Salim spent the last three years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Before that he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal incubator. His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. Salim also serves on the board of Breakthrough, a global human rights organization.
http://singularityu.org/community/staff/#salim

Brad Templeton - Singularity University Networks & Computing Chair, Chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Brad Templeton founded and ran ClariNet Communications Corp., the first internet-based content company, then sold it to Newsedge Corporation in 1997. ClariNet publishes an online electronic newspaper delivered for live reading on subscribers machines. He has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the world’s most widely read computerized conference on that network, and today the world’s longest running blog. He has been a software company founder, and is the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software products. He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil rights advocacy group for cyberspace. He also sits on the advisory boards for a few internet startups. Currently he is building a new startup to reinvent the phone call. He is also on the board of the Foresight Institute (A Nanotech think-tank) and BitTorrent, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Templeton

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital.

In our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

* Jonathan Matus - Mobile Platform Product Marketing, Facebook
* Amina Belghiti - Platform Partnerships EMEA, Facebook
* Aryeh Selekman - Developer R…elations - Mobile Platform, Facebook

In October 2011, Facebook announced the Facebook Mobile Platform, bringing social channels and distribution to mobile apps.
Since then, momentum has been building, and today, more than 60 million visitors interact with apps and games on the platform every month.

A night before the Facebook Hackathon, you are invited to join the Facebook Platform team for a meet and mingle party at the GarageGeeks.
The session include an overview of facebook mobile platform, talk about the announcements made in MWC and what they mean for developers, and a Q&A .

The event will take place on:
Monday, March 12, 20:00
GarageGeeks HQ,
HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Microsoft and Initial Capital.