Agenda
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Smart Mobility Summit - Day 1
12:30 - 12:45 - Greetings and Opening Remarks
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, Smart Mobility Initiative, PM's Office, Israel
Merav Michaeli, Israel's Minister of Transport and Road Safety
12:45 - 13:00 - Opening Keynote lecture: The status and future outlook for autonomous driving
Prof. Amnon Shashua, President & CEO of Mobileye, Senior VP at Intel Corp.
13:00 - 13:15 - 1:1 Interview
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, Smart Mobility Initiative, PM's Office, Israel
Hildegard Mueller, President, The German Association of the Automotive Industry
13:15 - 13:50 - 'Unlocking' Autonomous Vehicles: The path towards higher levels of automation
Michael Granoff, Managing Partner, Maniv Mobility
Nikolai Ardey, Executive Director VW Group Innovation, Volkswagen
Prof. Nick Reed, Founder, Reed Mobility
Gael Escribe, Founding Partner, CEO NEXUS Automotive International
Angel (Jackson) Preston, Policy Director, Autonomous Vehicle and Internet of Things, Intel
Loan My Descourviere, Director, StartUp Technology, Valeo
13:50 - 14:05 - Keynote lecture: Tackling the technological challenges for the future of Smart Mobility
Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, President, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
14:05 - 14:20 - Keynote Lecture: HMG Open Innovation Strategy
Dr. Yunseong Hwang, VP, Head of Open Innovation Investment Group, Hyundai
14:20 - 15:00 - Light Lunch and Networking
15:00 - 15:30 - Innovation in Motion: The vision of MaaS leaders
Dr. Anat Bonshtien, VP Business Development, City Transformer
Nir Erez, Co-Founder & CEO, MOOVIT
Oren Shoval, Co-Founder & CTO, VIA
Dave Waiser, Founder & CEO, Gett
Tracey Zhen, President, Zipcar
15:30 - 15:35 - Session's Topic: Electrification: The Next Phase
Karine Elharrar, Israel's Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources
15:35 - 15:45 - Electric Transportation: An ongoing revolution
Ryan Fisher, Senior Associate, Bloomberg NEF
15:45 - 16:25 - Panel Discussion
Shadie Bisharat, VP Sales, IRP Systems
Carl-Magnus Norden, Founder, Volta Trucks
Menno Kleingeld, CIO, VDL
Alex Ashmore, Vice President, Borg Warner Inc and President and General Manager, Aftermarket
Peter Stavered, Head of Innovation, CEVT
Oren Ezer, CEO, ElectReon
Philip Scarth, Philip Scarth, General Manager & Head of Open Innovation, FPT Industrial
16:25 - 17:05 - Traffic Management for the Smart City: Overview: “Decarbonizing urban traffic”
John Porcari, President, Axilion US and Former USDOT Deputy Secretary and former Maryland DOT Secretary
Tal Kreisler, Co-Founder & CEO, NoTraffic
Tiffany Chu, CEO and Co-founder, Remix
Ashok Tipirneni, Global Head, Product Management, Smart Cities and Smart Connected Spaces, Qualcomm
Dr. Smadar Itskovich, Founder & CEO of Israel Smart Mobility Living Lab (ISMLL)
Eran Shir, Co-Founder & CEO, Nexar Inc
17:05 - 17:20 - Keynote: Mobility Problem: The Nature of the Beast
Uri Levine, Co-Founder, Waze
17:20 - 17:30 - Special Interview: How AI is powering the future of transportation?
Dr. Yaniv Altshuler, CEO, Endor
Prof. Alex `Sandy' Pentland, Director of the MIT Connection Science
Dr. Luc Julia, CSO, Renault
17:35 - 17:50 - Closing Interview
Arkady Volozh, Co-Founder and CEO, Yandex NV
Hila Korach, Senior Journalist and Summit's MC
17:50 - 18:00 - Closing Remarks
18:00 - Networking Cocktail
Smart Mobility Summit - Day 1 - Evening Broadcast
20:00 - 20:15 - Greetings and Opening Remarks
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, Smart Mobility Initiative, PM's Office, Israel
Merav Michaeli, Israel's Minister of Transport and Road Safety
20:15 - 20:30 - Opening Keynote lecture: The status and future outlook for autonomous driving
Prof. Amnon Shashua, President & CEO of Mobileye, Senior VP at Intel Corp.
20:30 - 20:15 - 1:1 Interview
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, Smart Mobility Initiative, PM's Office, Israel
Hildegard Mueller, President, The German Association of the Automotive Industry
20:15 - 20:35 - 'Unlocking' Autonomous Vehicles: The path towards higher levels of automation
Michael Granoff, Managing Partner, Maniv Mobility
Nikolai Ardey, Executive Director VW Group Innovation, Volkswagen
Prof. Nick Reed, Founder, Reed Mobility
Gael Escribe, Founding Partner, CEO NEXUS Automotive International
Angel (Jackson) Preston, Policy Director, Autonomous Vehicle and Internet of Things, Intel
Loan My Descourviere, Director, StartUp Technology, Valeo
20:35 - 20:50 - Keynote lecture: Tackling the technological challenges for the future of Smart Mobility
Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, President, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
20:50 - 21:05 - Keynote Lecture: HMG Open Innovation Strategy
Dr. Yunseong Hwang, VP, Head of Open Innovation Investment Group, Hyundai
21:05 - 21:45 - Networking
21:45 - 22:15 - Innovation in Motion: The vision of MaaS leaders
Dr. Anat Bonshtien, VP Business Development, City Transformer
Nir Erez, Co-Founder & CEO, MOOVIT
Oren Shoval, Co-Founder & CTO, VIA
Dave Waiser, Founder & CEO, Gett
Tracey Zhen, President, Zipcar
22:15 - 22:20 - Session's Topic: Electrification: The Next Phase
Karine Elharrar, Israel's Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources
22:20 - 22:30 - Electric Transportation: An ongoing revolution
Ryan Fisher, Senior Associate, Bloomberg NEF
22:30 - 23:10 - Panel Discussion
Shadie Bisharat, VP Sales, IRP Systems
Carl-Magnus Norden, Founder, Volta Trucks
Menno Kleingeld, CIO, VDL
Alex Ashmore, Vice President, Borg Warner Inc and President and General Manager, Aftermarket
Peter Stavered, Head of Innovation, CEVT
Oren Ezer, CEO, ElectReon
Philip Scarth, Philip Scarth, General Manager & Head of Open Innovation, FPT Industrial
23:10 - 23:50 - Traffic Management for the Smart City: Overview: “Decarbonizing urban traffic”
John Porcari, President, Axilion US and Former USDOT Deputy Secretary and former Maryland DOT Secretary
Tal Kreisler, Co-Founder & CEO, NoTraffic
Tiffany Chu, CEO and Co-founder, Remix
Ashok Tipirneni, Global Head, Product Management, Smart Cities and Smart Connected Spaces, Qualcomm
Dr. Smadar Itskovich, Founder & CEO of Israel Smart Mobility Living Lab (ISMLL)
Eran Shir, Co-Founder & CEO, Nexar Inc
23:50 - 00:05 - Keynote: Mobility Problem: The Nature of the Beast
Uri Levine, Co-Founder, Waze
00:05 - 00:15 - Special Interview: How AI is powering the future of transportation?
Dr. Yaniv Altshuler, CEO, Endor
Prof. Alex `Sandy' Pentland, Director of the MIT Connection Science
Dr. Luc Julia, CSO, Renault
00:15 - 00:30 - Closing Interview
Arkady Volozh, Co-Founder and CEO, Yandex NV
Hila Korach, Senior Journalist and Summit's MC
00:30 - 00:40 - Closing Remarks
17:00 - 17:40
Canada Panel
17:00 - 17:05 - Introductory Greetings
Ezekiel Barmasch, Director of Business and Trade Development at Israel’s Economic and Trade Mission to Canada
Carla Tsambourlianos, Manager, Business Growth Branch, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
17:05 - 17:20 - Israeli Presenters
Karin Chen, Head of Auto Tech, Smart Mobility & Industry 4.0 sector at the Israel Export Institute – Israeli Automotive Sector Overview
Dvir Reznik, VP of Markting, NoTraffic
17:20 - 18:25 - Ontario Presenters
Sharon Lewinson, President, RideShark
Alex Qi, General Manager, Pontosense
Martin Lord, Senior Sector Manager, Automotive and Mobility, Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN)
17:45 - 17:46
Exhibition Tour
Smart Mobility Summit - Day 2
12:00 - 12:10 - Greetings and Opening Remarks
Michal Frank, Director General of Ministry of Transportation, Government of Israel
12:10 - 12:25 - Keynote Lecture: Next Level Customer experience
Martin Jahn, Board Member, Sales & Marketing, ŠKODA AUTO
12:25 - 12:35 - Keynote Lecture
Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas, USA
12:35 - 12:45 - Overview
Karina Rick, Associate Administrator for Research, Innovation and Demonstration, Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
12:45 - 13:15 - Scaling up and going global: A peak into leading Israeli companies' success and challenges
Shomrat Shurtz, Senior Director- Business Development, Israel Innovation Authority
Oren Buskila, Chief R&D Officer and co-founder, Innoviz Technologies
Hagai Zyss, CEO, Autotalks
Ronen Smoly, CEO, Argus Cyber
13:25 - 13:30 - Keynote lecture: Beyond 2030: Honda’s Targets for Future Mobility in 2050
Nick (Naoki) Sugimoto, CEO, Honda Innovations
13:30 - 13:55 - New Mobility: Up in the air?
Dr. Becky Shliselberg, VP Master Plan Division, Ayalon Highways
Dr. Vassilis Agouridas, Leader of UIC2 (EU's Smart Cities)
Andreas Perotti, CMO Europe, EHang
13:55 - 14:10 - Keynote
Christian Senger, Senior VP Autonomous Driving, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
14:10 - 14:45 - Light lunch and Networking
14:45 - 15:15 - Panel discussion: Cyber Security solutions for Smart mobility
Adi Ofek, CEO, Mercedes Benz Research and Development Tel Aviv
Esti Peshin, VP, General Manager, Cyber Division, IAI - ELTA
Yigal Unna, Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, Israel
Andreas Herzig, Head of Automotive for Germany and Deloitte Continental Europe , Deloitte
Daniel Bern, Co-Founder & CEO, OTORIO
15:15 - 15:30 - Keynote: Taking the Lead in the new Era of mobility
Johan Lundén, Senior VP - Project and Product Strategy Office, Volvo
15:30 - 15:40 - Session's Topic: Winners of the 2021 Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize
Samson prize winner presentation: Prof. Avner Rothschild and Prof. Gideon Grader
15:40 - 16:00 - Session's topic: What makes a country a 'smart mobility nation’?
Hila Korach, Senior Journalist and Summit's MC
Orit Farkash-Hacohen, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Israel
Prof. Laszlo Palkovics, Minister for Innovation and Technology, Hungary
Special Interview
16:00 - 16:30 - Panel discussion: The role of Local Governments in implementing smart mobility solutions
Sagiv Elad, Director of Business Development, Waycare
Meital Lehavi, Deputy Mayor for Transportation, Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality
Gil Laser, CEO, GoTo Global
Giovanna D'Esposito, General Manager Southern Europe, UBER
Dr. Shawn Wilson, The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD)
16:30 - 17:00 - Panel discussion: The investors: A Vision for Action
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, Smart Mobility Initiative, PM's Office, Israel
Assaf Harlap, Board member, Colmobil Corp.
Talia Rafaeli, Partner, Kompas
Dr. Tal Cohen, Founding Partner, Next Gear Ventures and Drive TLV
Michael Granoff, Managing Partner, Maniv Mobility
Avi Feldman, Managing Partner, Mobilion Ventures
17:00 - 17:20 - Summit's Closing keynote: Navigating the future of mobility
Yossi Matias, Vice President, AI Research, Google
17:20 - Summit Closing Remarks
Himmat Younis, Head of International Programs, Smart Mobility Initiative Prime Minister's Office
Smart Mobility Summit - Day 2 - Evening Broadcast
20:00 - 20:10 - Greetings and Opening Remarks
Michal Frank, Director General of Ministry of Transportation, Government of Israel
20:10 - 20:25 - Keynote Lecture: Next Level Customer experience
Martin Jahn, Board Member, Sales & Marketing, ŠKODA AUTO
20:25 - 20:35 - Keynote Lecture
Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas, USA
20:35 - 20:45 - Overview
Karina Rick, Associate Administrator for Research, Innovation and Demonstration, Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
20:45 - 21:15 - Scaling up and going global: A peak into leading Israeli companies' success and challenges
Shomrat Shurtz, Senior Director- Business Development, Israel Innovation Authority
Oren Buskila, Chief R&D Officer and co-founder, Innoviz Technologies
Hagai Zyss, CEO, Autotalks
Ronen Smoly, CEO, Argus Cyber
21:25 - 21:30 - Keynote lecture: Beyond 2030: Honda’s Targets for Future Mobility in 2050
Nick (Naoki) Sugimoto, CEO, Honda Innovations
21:30 - 21:55 - New Mobility: Up in the air?
Dr. Becky Shliselberg, VP Master Plan Division, Ayalon Highways
Dr. Vassilis Agouridas, Leader of UIC2 (EU's Smart Cities)
Andreas Perotti, CMO Europe, EHang
21:55 - 22:10 - Keynote
Christian Senger, Senior VP Autonomous Driving, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
22:10 - 22:45 - Networking
22:45 - 23:15 - Panel discussion: Cyber Security solutions for Smart mobility
Adi Ofek, CEO, Mercedes Benz Research and Development Tel Aviv
Esti Peshin, VP, General Manager, Cyber Division, IAI - ELTA
Yigal Unna, Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, Israel
Andreas Herzig, Head of Automotive for Germany and Deloitte Continental Europe , Deloitte
Daniel Bern, Co-Founder & CEO, OTORIO
23:15 - 23:30 - Keynote: Taking the Lead in the new Era of mobility
Johan Lundén, Senior VP - Project and Product Strategy Office, Volvo
23:30 - 23:40 - Session's Topic: Winners of the 2021 Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize
Samson prize winner presentation: Prof. Avner Rothschild and Prof. Gideon Grader
23:40 - 00:00 - Session's topic: What makes a country a 'smart mobility nation’?
Hila Korach, Senior Journalist and Summit's MC
Orit Farkash-Hacohen, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Israel
Prof. Laszlo Palkovics, Minister for Innovation and Technology, Hungary
Special Interview
00:00 - 00:30 - Panel discussion: The role of Local Governments in implementing smart mobility solutions
Sagiv Elad, Director of Business Development, Waycare
Meital Lehavi, Deputy Mayor for Transportation, Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality
Gil Laser, CEO, GoTo Global
Giovanna D'Esposito, General Manager Southern Europe, UBER
Dr. Shawn Wilson, The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD)
00:30 - 1:00 - Panel discussion: The investors: A Vision for Action
Daniella Gera Margaliot, Deputy Managing Director, Smart Mobility Initiative, PM's Office, Israel
Assaf Harlap, Board member, Colmobil Corp.
Talia Rafaeli, Partner, Kompas
Dr. Tal Cohen, Founding Partner, Next Gear Ventures and Drive TLV
Michael Granoff, Managing Partner, Maniv Mobility
Avi Feldman, Managing Partner, Mobilion Ventures
1:00 - 1:20 - Summit's Closing keynote: Navigating the future of mobility
Yossi Matias, Vice President, AI Research, Google
1:20 - Summit Closing Remarks
Himmat Younis, Head of International Programs, Smart Mobility Initiative Prime Minister's Office
14:00 - 15:10
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