Events

Students met with Prof. Esti Segal who has developed a new technology for quickly monitoring bacteria, thus enabling rapid diagnosis of infections. The technology, which uses DNA splicing technology, also allows the matching of antibiotics to patients in real time.

At the beginning of the year, an opening meeting was held during which the students got acquainted with the program’s newest members and enjoyed team activities, and especially a chocolate workshop

Students met with Ami Luttwak, R&D CTO, Microsoft Israel, and founder of the cyber company Adallom, purchased by Microsoft. During the meeting, they spoke of entrepreneurship, management of a huge company and artificial intelligence.

Students met with Prof. Alex Bronstein, faculty member and lecture in the Department and director of the “Center for Intelligent Systems”, an expert in machine learning, computer vision, image processing and computational imaging. During the meeting, Prof. Bronstein gave a lecture titled Learning to See: Imaging in the Data Age, and spoke about his research and entrepreneurial philosophy.

Students met with Iris Moshkovitz, an organizational consultant and trainer, who conducted an interpersonal communications seminar intended to show them how to reap practical results from networking and how to make small talk with strangers without sounding artificial.

Yvgeny Dibrov and Nadir Yizrael – founders of the Armis startup, Eden Saig – a Facebook investigator, Nofar Carmeli – departmental doctoral student, and Ori Servalo – a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University – are all graduates of the Lapidim program. They came together to meet with students and speak about their experiences and life for them as students in the programs.

Students met with Uzi Cohen, software engineer and member of the Cortana team at Microsoft. At the meeting, students heard a lecture titled The Lifecycle of Modern Applications.

  The students met with Prof. Hossam Haick who gave a lecture on the subject of innovation and Entrepreneurship and examples of wearable sensory systems for disease diagnosis.Prof. Haick is a tenured professor in the Technion’s Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute and an expert in the field of nanotechnology and noninvasive diagnosis of disease.He completed his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at Ben-Gurion University and then was admitted to the Technion’s direct doctoral program. He did a post-doctorate in molecular electronics at the Weizmann Institute and then continued at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he studied the fields of electrical devices based on nanomaterials and electronic noses.Prof. Haick’s breakthrough innovations, which are at the center of his work, focus on rapid diagnosis of cancer and other diseases based on analyzing the patient’s breath or chemical indicators emitted through skin pores.Prof. Haick holds more than 28 patents based on his inventions and has published more than 170 papers in international journals in the area of nanotechnology. His inventions and scientific work have earned him numerous awards and prizes, among the most prestigious in the world – grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, excellence grants from the European Union, and places on MIT’s list of the Worlds’ 35 Leading Young Scientists in 2008, on ’50 Brilliant Minds’ in the country list in 2013, on the 100 Most Influential Persons in the World in Digital Technology list for 2015 (Nominet Trust – London) and the 100 Influential Figures in 2016 list published by the American GOOD Magazine (Los Angeles). He received the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l’Ordres des Palmes Académiques) award from the French government and the Herschel Rich Innovation award three times, the Tenne Prize for Excellence in the Science of Nanotechnology, the Harvey Prize for Applied Sciences and many others.    

The students in the program met with Einat Livne, a clinical and occupational psychologist and experienced entrepreneur, for a two-meeting workshop. The workshop objective was to provide knowledge and skills for coping with the process of establishing an entrepreneurship project, in a way that will minimize the room for mistakes and maximize the chances of success. The workshop covered the following topics: What makes an entrepreneur? Characteristics of an entrepreneur ,Types of entrepreneurs, Self-characterizing yourself as an entrepreneur Finding partners: Expectations from partners, The right partnership for me,  Business partners / strategic partners / mentors

The students met with Guy Azrad, general manager of Marvell Israel, who began his professional career in the company while a student at the Technion. He filled, for over ten years, a series of management positions in the area of engineering development at Marvell sites all over the country. After leaving Marvell, for a number of years, he was involved in setting up and running two startups specializing in the area of chips – Ocean Technologies and DensBits Technologies. In 2012, he joined Ericsson’s development center in San Jose, California, where he served as director of engineering and later on became the senior director of engineering in the company’s R&D center in Beijing. In 2015, Azrad returned to Marvell as the vice president of the global company and deputy director general of development for its global switching division. Today, Guy serves as the company’s general manager in Israel.