What’s Next in STEM Program
Master of Ceremonies
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
10:00
Opening Remarks
Yaffa Zilbershats, Chair, Planning and Budget Committee, Council of Higher Education
James S. Gertler, Trustee, Zuckerman Institute
10:15
Keynote
Tech Innovation Nation – Challenges and Opportunities
Eugene Kandel, CEO of Start-up Nation Central, and Emil Spyer Professor of Economics and Finance, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:45
Presentations by Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program Scholars
Omri Wurtzel, Zuckerman Faculty Scholar, Tel Aviv University
Dahlia Perez, Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar, Weizmann Institute of Science
Laurel Stephenson Haskins, Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:15
Coffee and refreshments
11:40
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What’s Next?
Shie Mannor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
12:10
Microbiome Research -“The Genie in the Bottle”—Why it Matters
Omry Koren, Head of the Microbiome Research Lab, Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University
12:30
Eric J. Gertler, Trustee, Zuckerman Institute
Presentations by Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program Scholars
Joseph Lefkowitz, Zuckerman Faculty Scholar, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
Tiffany R. Lewis, Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Haifa
Daniel Kagan, Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
12:50
How to Protect your Research with a Patent
Daniel Benoliel, Associate Professor, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
13:15
Closing Remarks
Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
