Agenda
08:15 Registration & Continental Breakfast
09:00 Welcome
Ayla Matalon, Executive Director, MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel
09:05 Overview of the Day
Gideon Miller, Chairman, Combating Terrorism Technology Startup Challenge
09:10 Combating Terrorism and Cyber Week
Major Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, Director Blavatnik ICRC, Tel Aviv University
09:20 Morning Keynote
Dr. Michael Oren M.K., Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy and Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
09:45 The 2018 Combating Terrorism Technology Startup Challenge
Finalist presentations, Pitches by the 10 finalists selected from the 200+ startups who entered the Combating Terrorism Technology Challenge
11:00 Coffee break
11:20 (Track 1 – General Technologies): Outlook and issues for HLS and Defense Technology Investment (Main auditorium)
Yariv Alroy, Angel Investor, and lead investor in last year’s CTTSC winner Duke Robotics
Arik Kleinstein, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Glilot Capital Partners
Amiram Levinberg, Managing Partner, JAL Venturers
Avi Lindenbaum, Managing Partner, Kodem Growth Partners
Dr. Sheffer Meltzer, Corporate Chief Scientist, Rafael
Duddy Rokach (Moderator), Managing Partner, SOSA HLSTech
11:20 (Track 2 – Urban Navigation Technologies): The Urban Navigation Workshop (Porter room 101)
12:00 Overview and outlook of Global Terrorism
Yoram Schweitzer, Head of the Program on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
12:30 The Boomerang Effect- Technology, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism
Dr. Liran Antebi, Research Fellow, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
13:00 Lunch & Opening of the Combating-Terrorism Startup Exhibition and Technology Demonstrations
Exhibition includes 40 combating terrorism and urban navigation technology innovations selected by the CTTSC3 jury
14:00 Fireside chat on security and strategy
Senator Joseph Lieberman, Former US Vice Presidential Candidate and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Major General (Res) Amos Yadlin, Executive Director, Institute for National Security Studies
Gideon Lichfield (Moderator), Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
14:40 The unique opportunities and challenges of counter-terrorism technology entrepreneurship
Shane Cohen, UVision
Avshalom Ehrlich, Smart Shooter
Gil Limonchik, Ametrine
Asaf Miller, Polaris Solutions
Adam Tarsi (Moderator), U.S. Department of Defense, CTTSO
15:20 The 2018 Urban Navigation Challenge
Overview and Finalist presentations
Pitches by some of the finalists selected from the 80+ Urban Navigation Challenge contestants
16:00 $210K startup challenge final ceremony and prize-giving
US Representative TBA, Senior US Government official
Brig. Gen. Dr. Danny Gold, Head, DDR&D Ministry of Defense
17:00 Wine and cheese reception & close of the Combating-Terrorism Startup Exhibition and Technology Demonstrations