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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.

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 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.

Uri Kolodny is co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, which develops zero-knowledge proof technology for permissionless blockchains, based on technology developed by Prof. Eli Ben-Sasson and Michael Riabzev at Technion. He’s been an entrepreneur for the past 18 years, in optical communications, medical devices, cleantech, and software. Uri has a BSc in CS (Magna cum Laude) from the Hebrew Univ., and an MBA from MIT Sloan. He is also an alum of 8200’s Haman Talpiot program.

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