Led by Yossi Dan from the Israel-France Chamber of Commerce, a delegation of some twenty Israeli startups and a number of other buyers arrived right here at Vivatech, the biggest excessive tech present in Europe, and by no means stopped working from one rendezvous to the following within the big corridor (air-conditioned for the primary time) on the Porte de Versailles. Put collectively by Maurice Lévy, chairman of the board of promoting big Publicis Groupe, together with the Les Echoes press group, Vivatech this 12 months came about in a really tense political context, particularly with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However on the ground of the corridor, among the many lots of of crowded, colourful and loud firm, regional and nation stands and pavilions, there was no time for politics, together with for the Israeli delegation.
With assist from Michel Hauser-Kauffmann of the France-Israel chamber of commerce, Dan first introduced the delegation to the stand of mega French group Bouygues, which gave two Israeli good mobility start-ups an award.
Product VP of Parknav, Simon Arazi, rapidly defined that there are various startups utilizing actual time information to assist individuals discover parking spots in cities, however that “having solely actual time date is ineffective. Our system is predicated on statistics improved with real-time information,” he continued, “and tells the person the proportion of possibilities of discovering a spot in a selected space.” Arazi stated that some 150 cities in Europe and the States are utilizing the Parknav expertise.
Subsequent to Arazi on the rostrum stood Dvir Kenig, head of the ITC startup, Clever Site visitors Management. “We’re enablers,” he defined, “serving to municipalities to forestall visitors jams by regulating lights at intersections.” On a pill laptop, he confirmed me a visitors jam in Tel Aviv with little bars on license plates to maintain house owners nameless. “We’re related to cameras regulating the lights,” he continued.
ITC has purchasers in Israel, the US, Luxembourg, and a mission in Brazil. However aren’t cities attempting to get rid of automobile visitors? Sure, however cities will all the time have an excessive amount of automobile and truck visitors, each winners agreed.
Additionally within the delegation was Yaron Golpher, head of I Know First. It supplies synthetic intelligence-based algorithmic forecasting options to make inventory market predictions and every day forecasts in additional than 50 world markets. Already featured on Israel’s tv channel 13 and i24 Information, I Know First has received an award for finest worldwide monetary expertise startup on the Geneva Wealthtech Discussion board.
The algorithm was first developed for the chemical business by accomplice Dr. Lipa Roitman, from Russia, who studied in Novosibirsk State College in Siberia and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Golpher known as him, “a genius, the neatest particular person I’ve ever met.”
He added, “and simply as we don’t contact our purchasers’ cash, he and I don’t discuss politics.”
Golpher famous that the algorithm was pointing to cost hikes and shortages within the power, mining and meals sectors in October 2021 earlier than the struggle in Ukraine started, which means “the pattern from this struggle was predictable.” Has this introduced a possibility for buyers? “I’m not in any respect snug with calling worth hikes and shortages for many individuals a possibility for just a few buyers,” he answered.
Additionally within the delegation, Yotam Hechtlinger, head of exists.ai, which is within the early stage of improvement of 3D web sites. “Know-how has reached the stage the place we will create spectacular web sites that may enchantment to people and corporations, not simply players,” he stated.
Exists.ai has purchasers in Israel and the US, he famous, and hopes to broaden into France. He’s making a platform to make 3D web sites an web commodity. “This expertise will help make the world a greater place,” he famous, “not only for video video games however to complement the web, to offer extra data, to resolve issues.”
Hechtlinger commented, “Yossi and the chambers of commerce did a superb job of introducing us to individuals right here at Vivatech. We now have a few leads from this present. Now we have now to proceed making noise about our product.”
Certainly, startuppers made their method by hundreds of tourists to go to a superb variety of French stands: LVMH (luxurious manufacturers), Paris Area, RATP (public transport) AXA (insurance coverage), Bouygues, Orange, ENGIE (power), BNP Paribas Michelin and JC Decaux, for instance.
A particular notice on Jacob Makhtabi and his uncooked, hands-on industrial French-Israeli startup, Hydro-ecotech. His patented innovation makes use of decomposed, demineralized water, during which hydrogen and oxygen molecules have been separated by electrical present, to wash carbon deposits (gas and oil) from automobile engine partitions and their parts (cylinders, pistons and valves). Now that could be a mouthful, or relatively a truck and bus-full!!
“An engine that isn’t cleaned calls for elevated gas consumption and finally should be immobilized, and its components changed, which could be very costly,” he defined in French. (He additionally speaks fluent Hebrew, and a few Arabic and Farsi, however no English.) “Ours is a revolutionary course of for the commercial world, as we will clear two buses or vans a day, whereas present procedures take two days per automobile if the cleansing is even achieved,” he added. He at present has municipal transport purchasers in Marseilles, his dwelling metropolis, the RATP, and a number of other rubbish truck corporations.
Again to the idea of “Tech for Good”, the slogan of Vivatech a number of years in the past (earlier than the corridor was air-conditioned). What about now? Vivatech founder Maurice Levy advised Globes, “Tech for good is now important. Mankind’s genius has systematically helped destroy the atmosphere, with overcrowded cities, poor transportation, air pollution, forest destruction, and carbon emissions. With expertise, we will use that genius to decrease voracious power consumption, develop clear tech and new energies, and to higher well being and training. Tech for good is the avenue for the long run.”
Maurice Levy then took the stage with Makhtar Diop, head of the Worldwide Finance Corp;, a department of the World Financial institution, to open the Africa Tech Awards session, asserting finalists in three areas: well being, fintech and climate-tech.
“We’re right here to resolve issues,” Levy advised the group within the not fairly full Stage One enviornment. “And Africa has no time to waste,” added Diop, a former Senegalese finance minister, arguably probably the most high-level official from the African continent on the present.”
Doaa Aref and Dr. Rasha Rady, founders of Chefaa, a pharmacy supply platform from Cairo, Egypt, have been handed the well being tech award. A younger man sitting subsequent to me and much from dwelling, Luke Shankland from South Africa, whose Aviro Well being startup performs digitalized, automated well being screening, graciously commented, “they deserved to win.”
He added that “assist for Africa does come from the West however typically with strings hooked up. And massive American corporations are hiring away a lot of the highest expertise in African nations.” He repeated what Makhtar Diop had simply stated on stage, “African billionaires should make investments extra in expertise.”
Subsequent, a political state of affairs during which Israel finds itself concerned on each side…a holographic handle in augmented actuality by none aside from President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, in truth by his avatar. He made a plea for corporations to spend money on “a digital land lease within the wrestle for democracy in opposition to an empire, to reconstruct the Ukraine. Please assist the Ukraine till victory,” he advised the Stage One crowd, in an handle coordinated with tech exhibits in Dublin, Zurich and London.
“Ukraine deserves this gathering,” Maurice Levy advised the group, with out mentioning the phrase Russia. “They want us and we have to assist them.” It is rather uncommon for a standing president to make use of a hologram and avatar, however this was Vivatech.
Maurice Levy advised Globes, “it’s too early to see long run penalties from the struggle in Ukraine, together with the state of affairs with China, however expertise should discover options to what I consider would be the finish of globalization as we have now identified it with free and open markets. I see two massive traits: inflation for the following 12 to 18 months, with excessive rates of interest and the top of low-cost cash, and the repatriation of manufacturing.”
And the following day, French President Macron, simply again from Kiev, was on stage. “The European expertise ecosystem can deliver a lot assist to the Ukrainians, who’re preventing for his or her freedom,” he advised the gathering.
Macron promised extra private and non-private funding in expertise in France and Europe, in addition to in excessive tech coaching and training, starting on the center college stage, to satisfy main challenges in well being, local weather, and to offer a greater life for all.
And Israeli startups have a job to play on this tech for good, after what all current agreed was very constructive participation in Vivatech, with a lot wanted assist from each chambers of commerce in Tel Aviv and Paris.
Based on Vivatech, 91,000 guests attended the present at la Porte de Versailles, there have been 300,000 clicks on-line, and 3 billion views on social networks.
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