Israeli companies add to Vivatech buzz
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Led by Yossi Dan from the Israel-France Chamber of Commerce, a delegation of some 20 Israeli startups and numerous buyers arrived below at Vivatech, the biggest higher tech show in Europe, and in no way stopped jogging from one rendezvous to the following in the huge hall (air-conditioned for the initial time) at the Porte de Versailles. Put alongside one another by Maurice Lévy, chairman of the board of marketing huge Publicis Groupe, alongside with the Les Echoes press team, Vivatech this calendar year took put in a quite tense political context, specifically with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But on the flooring of the corridor, between the hundreds of crowded, vibrant and loud business, regional and country stands and pavilions, there was no time for politics, like for the Israeli delegation.

With assist from Michel Hauser-Kauffmann of the France-Israel chamber of commerce, Dan initially brought the delegation to the stand of mega French group Bouygues, which gave two Israeli sensible mobility start-ups an award.

Products VP of Parknav, Simon Arazi, immediately defined that there are quite a few startups utilizing authentic time data to aid people today locate parking spots in towns, but that “acquiring only authentic time date is worthless. Our process is primarily based on data enhanced with actual-time knowledge,” he ongoing, “and tells the consumer the percentage of odds of obtaining a spot in a specific place.” Arazi mentioned that some 150 metropolitan areas in Europe and the States are using the Parknav engineering.

Upcoming to Arazi on the podium stood Dvir Kenig, head of the ITC startup, Intelligent Website traffic Control. “We are enablers,” he stated, “assisting municipalities to stop visitors jams by regulating lights at intersections.” On a pill laptop or computer, he confirmed me a traffic jam in Tel Aviv with tiny bars on license plates to continue to keep proprietors nameless. “We are connected to cameras regulating the lights,” he continued.

ITC has shoppers in Israel, the US, Luxembourg, and a undertaking in Brazil. But aren’t metropolitan areas trying to get rid of motor vehicle visitors? Sure, but metropolitan areas will usually have also much auto and truck visitors, the two winners agreed.

Also in the delegation was Yaron Golpher, head of I Know Initial. It offers artificial intelligence-based algorithmic forecasting options to make inventory industry predictions and daily forecasts in far more than 50 global marketplaces. Previously highlighted on Israel’s television channel 13 and i24 News, I Know Very first has won an award for ideal intercontinental money technological innovation startup at the Geneva Wealthtech Discussion board.

The algorithm was first made for the chemical industry by husband or wife Dr. Lipa Roitman, from Russia, who studied in Novosibirsk State University in Siberia and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Golpher termed him, “a genius, the smartest individual I have at any time met.”

He added, “and just as we never contact our clients’ revenue, he and I do not converse politics.”

Golpher famous that the algorithm was pointing to cost hikes and shortages in the vitality, mining and food items sectors in Oct 2021 before the war in Ukraine commenced, which means “the craze from this war was predictable.” Has this offered an prospect for buyers? “I am not at all comfy with contacting value hikes and shortages for quite a few folks an opportunity for a handful of traders,” he answered.

Also in the delegation, Yotam Hechtlinger, head of exists.ai, which is in the early stage of growth of 3D web-sites. “Technologies has attained the phase the place we can make magnificent sites that will appeal to individuals and businesses, not just players,” he reported.

Exists.ai has clientele in Israel and the US, he famous, and hopes to extend into France. He is making a platform to make 3D internet websites an online commodity. “This technological innovation can assistance make the globe a improved place,” he pointed out, “not just for video online games but to enrich the web, to give far more facts, to remedy challenges.”

Hechtlinger commented, “Yossi and the chambers of commerce did a great work of introducing us to persons listed here at Vivatech. We have a few of qualified prospects from this exhibit. Now we have to proceed generating sounds about our merchandise.”

Certainly, startuppers built their way by way of thousands of readers to check out a great amount of French stands: LVMH (luxury brands), Paris Location, RATP (community transportation) AXA (insurance plan), Bouygues, Orange, ENGIE (vitality), BNP Paribas Michelin and JC Decaux, for instance.

A special be aware on Jacob Makhtabi and his raw, fingers-on industrial French-Israeli startup, Hydro-ecotech. His patented innovation uses decomposed, demineralized h2o, in which hydrogen and oxygen molecules have been separated by electrical recent, to clean carbon deposits (fuel and oil) from auto motor walls and their components (cylinders, pistons and valves). Now that is a mouthful, or somewhat a truck and bus-full!!

“An motor that is not cleaned requires elevated gasoline use and eventually ought to be immobilized, and its sections replaced, which is extremely expensive,” he spelled out in French. (He also speaks fluent Hebrew, and some Arabic and Farsi, but no English.) “Ours is a groundbreaking system for the industrial world, as we can thoroughly clean two buses or vehicles a working day, while latest procedures choose two days for every automobile if the cleansing is even accomplished,” he extra. He at this time has municipal transportation customers in Marseilles, his household city, the RATP, and numerous rubbish truck businesses.

Again to the strategy of “Tech for Superior”, the slogan of Vivatech several many years in the past (right before the hall was air-conditioned). What about now? Vivatech founder Maurice Levy informed Globes, “Tech for good is now necessary. Mankind’s genius has systematically helped ruin the ecosystem, with overcrowded cities, poor transportation, pollution, forest destruction, and carbon emissions. With know-how, we can use that genius to lower voracious vitality use, create cleanse tech and new energies, and to much better health and fitness and education. Tech for very good is the avenue for the potential.”

Maurice Levy then took the stage with Makhtar Diop, head of the Intercontinental Finance Corp, a branch of the Globe Lender, to open up the Africa Tech Awards session, asserting finalists in 3 places: health and fitness, fintech and weather-tech.

“We are below to remedy issues,” Levy explained to the group in the not rather complete Phase One particular arena. “And Africa has no time to squander,” additional Diop, a previous Senegalese finance minister, arguably the most higher-stage formal from the African continent at the present.”

Doaa Aref and Dr. Rasha Rady, founders of Chefaa, a pharmacy shipping platform from Cairo, Egypt, were being handed the health tech award. A younger person sitting subsequent to me and much from home, Luke Shankland from South Africa, whose Aviro Health and fitness startup performs digitalized, automated health screening, graciously commented, “they deserved to earn.”

He additional that “aid for Africa does occur from the West but often with strings attached. And big American companies are hiring away a lot of the top rated talent in African countries.” He recurring what Makhtar Diop had just explained on stage, “African billionaires should make investments more in engineering.”

Subsequent, a political problem in which Israel finds itself involved on each sides…a holographic handle in augmented fact by none other than President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, in simple fact by his avatar. He manufactured a plea for organizations to commit in “a digital land lease in the battle for democracy versus an empire, to reconstruct the Ukraine. Be sure to assist the Ukraine till victory,” he informed the Phase A person group, in an handle coordinated with tech shows in Dublin, Zurich and London.

“Ukraine justifies this collecting,” Maurice Levy instructed the group, with out mentioning the word Russia. “They will need us and we want to guidance them.” It is really abnormal for a standing president to use a hologram and avatar, but this was Vivatech.

Maurice Levy explained to Globes, “it is far too early to see long expression repercussions from the war in Ukraine, together with the situation with China, but technological know-how have to uncover solutions to what I feel will be the conclusion of globalization as we have acknowledged it with totally free and open up marketplaces. I see two massive tendencies: inflation for the subsequent 12 to 18 months, with high curiosity charges and the stop of affordable income, and the repatriation of creation.”

And the upcoming day, French President Macron, just back from Kiev, was on phase. “The European technology ecosystem can carry a great deal assist to the Ukrainians, who are fighting for their independence,” he told the collecting.

Macron promised additional public and non-public investment decision in engineering in France and Europe, as perfectly as in substantial tech coaching and training, starting at the center faculty degree, to meet up with big problems in well being, local climate, and to give a superior lifestyle for all.

And Israeli startups have a role to play in this tech for fantastic, immediately after what all existing agreed was pretty optimistic participation in Vivatech, with substantially essential aid from both of those chambers of commerce in Tel Aviv and Paris.

According to Vivatech, 91,000 readers attended the display at la Porte de Versailles, there have been 300,000 clicks on-line, and 3 billion views on social networks.

Printed by Globes, Israel business enterprise news – en.globes.co.il – on June 19, 2022.

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