| Start-Up Nation Meets Social Innovation – April 20-26, 2020 – Itinerary |
| DAY 1 |
| Visit Waze Israel, meet Fej Shmuelevitz, VP Community & Operations @ Waze. Igal Alon 98 Tel Aviv 12th floor |
| Lunch with Dana Azrieli @ RESTAURANT 2C Azrieli tower. |
| Visit the Peres Center for Peace & Innovation: welcome by Chemi (Nechemia) J. Peres |
| Join Israelis for Zikaron BaSalon at Keren Heseg Rothschild Boulevard: |
| DAY 2 |
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Morning of Sports with youth and their mentors at “Hagal Sheli” |
| Meet Eugene Kandel, the CEO of the Start-Up Nation Central, and a Professor of Economics and Finance at L28, Lilienblum 28, Tel – Aviv |
| Presentation of Sivan Borowich Ya’ari – founder and CEO of Innovation Africa – recipient of the UN Innovation Award. |
| Wine and business: network session at the Sarona’s Tasting Room, Meet with leading Israeli venture capitalists, prominent professors and visionaries. Such as: |
| Prof. Aharon Ciechanover – Medicines suited to your Genetic profile. |
| Zohar Rosenberg – Elron VP |
| Ziv Mandl – CEO John Brice |
| Dror Shapira – INOVIUO new way to manage money |
| DAY 3 |
| WEDNESDAY – APRIL 22, 2020 |
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Round table with Israeli or Int’l VC/PE Firms: Understand their investment philosophy and perspective related to healthcare, genetics, digital health, microbiome, etc. Meeting with: |
| IBM watson |
| Strauss – the Kitchen Hub – Jonathan Berger, CEO |
| Day Two |
| ReWalk |
| JDC – Hacaveret – Social Innovation Hub at Lod |
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Lunch with Raya Strauss Ben Dror |
| Visit an IDF Intelligence base (8200) meet the future entrepreneurs! |
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Round table gathering with: |
| Elli Booch and Israel National Advisor Board for Impact Investing – Edmond de Rothschild Foundation |
| Social Finance Israel—Yaron Neudorfer |
| Bridges Israel—Gal Hayut |
| Impact First Investments –Cecile Blilious |
| Zora Ventures – Vanessa Bartram |
| Erez Antebi – CEO of Allot (USA reps at their board) |
| DAY 4 |
| Meet with a key executive of Soda Stream |
| A day in Sha’ar HaNegev, visiting SouthUp Incubator, and visiting with our Sha’ar HaNegev family |
| DAY 5 |
| Walking at Musrara neighborhood with “Muslala
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Pre Kabbalat Shabbat at Shalva, meet with Kalman Samuel and tour Shalava House |
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Festive Shabbat dinner, Home hospitality at one home with the amazing “New spirit” founders that are your partners through The Leichtag foundations. |
| DAY 6 |
| Havdalah ceremony |
| Day 7 |
| Visit the R@D center of Mobileye and OrCam in Jerusalem. |
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Private Lunch and a SHARK TANK at the Knesset: Followed by a meeting at Israel Innovation Authority (Aharon Aharon) + Shai-Shalom Haddad MC Israel |
| San Diego SHARK TANK – competition for new innovations in the social space with 4 young start ups |
| Genetika+ |
| Keepers |
| MonitHer |
| TuneFork |
| Meeting with Jon Medved, Our Crowd |
| Farewell Dinner at Domaine du Castel Winery |
| Lehitraot! |
Draft itinerary – subject to changes