Events

The LAPIDIM students were guests of the Microsoft Research and Development Center in Herzliya. During their visit, students listened to lectures about innovation and chatbots, toured Microsoft’s accelerator, participated in a drone workshop, and explored Microsoft’s garage. Using a special machine for cutting laser, the students tried their hands at preparing key rings with their names on them and then took them home as souvenirs.

Meeting with Boaz Palgi and Erez Webman—serial entrepreneurs (ScalelO, Topio)—about storage and myth breaking in entrepreneurship. Boaz Palgi and Erez Webman, serial entrepreneurs (ExtremIO, ScalelO, Topio), in their most recent executive positions served as CEO and CTO, respectively of ScaleIO. The company, founded in 2011, specialized in the field of data storage. In 2013, it was acquired by EMC (the purchase price was estimated at around 200-300 million dollars).

Students from LAPIDIM excellence program in a meeting with Yuval Hofshy, CTO at startup company Interlude, talking about entrepreneurship, media and music.

Following the end of their exams, students in the LAPIDIM program visited Google Haifa. They heard about the technologies being developed in Israel and were entertained together with Google’s engineers by Google’s new card game, “Launch & Iterate”, which simulates the process of launching a new Google product.

Gil Goren, Vice President, Global  New Business Development at EMC visited the Technion and gave an inspiring talk for LAPIDIM students on January 18th.