During the week of May 4, 2008, Israel turned 60 and a few technology companies announced that they will be featured “Enterprises of Tomorrow” during the Israeli Presidential Conference Facing Tomorrow taking place on May 13 to May 15, 2008. The Conference has been organized by Israeli President Shimon Peres and, as the title implies, will focus on the future.
Twenty-seven dignitaries including President Bush and former Prime Minister of England, Tony Blair, will be on hand for the event, as will several tech luminaries, including Google Co-founder, Sergey Brin; and Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Yossi Vardi, perhaps Israel’s greatest entrepreneur, is the Director of Science and Technology Track for the Conference and will lead one of the panels.
In anticipation for the Conference, which I will be attending on May 15th, this post as well as others to come this week will be in relation to the Conference, Israel’s 60th and technology, and the 60 “Enterprises of Tomorrow.” To get started, here are 10 headlines, mainly from the past week of May 4, 2008, that relate to some of Israel’s “Enterprises of Tomorrow.”
modu at the Presidential Conference
STMicroelectronics and Mobileye Deliver Second-Generation System-on-Chip for Vision-Based Driver Assistance Systems
AqWise Launches the Next Generation Remote N’ Control(TM) Solution for
Total Nitrogen Removal and Introduces Its AGAR® Process at IFAT 2008
Israel Cleantech Ventures closes $75m debut fund
Project Better Place debuts electric car
Comsys Selected as ‘Enterprise of Tomorrow’
to Feature at Israeli Presidential Conference
Updated fring version for iPhone (pre-release v. 0.9785)
Israel startup developing software system to identify terrorists
Camero Launches Handheld “Through-Wall Vision” Product
C-true Imaging – “Your Face is your key”
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