Overview

The Silicom Ventures International Summit 2009, at Stanford University, will bring together select innovative companies, investors and business partners from Israel, US, the Netherlands and other innovation hotspots around the world.

Program: featuring selected company investment opportunities, keynote speeches, panel discussions on the latest industry trends and an entrepreneur's boot camp composed of interactive workshops with experienced coaches on how to raise funds in the current financial environment.

Delegation Profile: Innovative companies from Israel and around the world.

Audience Profile: Angel investors, venture capitalists, institutional investors, corporate investors, entrepreneurs, research analysts and academia from around the world.

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Pictures from the last International Summit (Israel)

Day One: June 29, 2008

The US Ambassador, Gadi Behar and Mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai	The US Ambassador to Israel "I should have invested in the Shekel"	Dr. Moshe Arens, honorary speaker	VIP Table


John Harris, US Commercial Counselor	Joseph Bach of Nixon Peabody speaking about Patent Pending	Main Conference room	Presenting Companies


Investing in Alternative Energy by Tom Baruch, CMEA Ventures	NanoVibronix, developer of theraputic disposable medical devices	Applicure, developing and selling software-based web application security	Eris and Alex Cushner, Ilene Sokoloff and Gadi Behar


Amos Barzilay of Walden Intl.: Raising Money from Silicon Valley VCs	Ram Banin, Master of Ceremony with Gadi and Tal Behar	Opening words from Gadi Behar, Founder and Managing Director of Silicom Ventures	Welcome speech by Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv


IVC gives away their 2008 Year Book	Gelbert Kahana, the Public Relation Agency of the Silicom Summit 2008	Art Cohen, CEO of Aerielle presenting their latest products	Benny Schnaider sharing his experince about bootstrap financing


The Future of Clean Tech Panel Discussion	Moderated by Charles Cooper of CNET	Ron Hadar speaking about his lessons learned: Selling an Israeli startup to a US corp.	Professor Daniel Zajfman, President of the Weizmann Inst.


Adrie Reinders: How Networking can change the dynamics of your business	Eric Benhamou: Ten Lessons I learned as a CEO	Isaac Berzin speaking about Next Generation of Biofuels	Presenting company Venotion


Presenting company: Step of Mind	Lunch Break	Presenting company DigitalPro	Presenting company NovelSat


Presenting company Qoof	Presenting company Silentium	Presenting company Agam Energy Systems	Presenting company G.ho.st


Presenting company Human Monitoring	Presenting company Aerielle	Poster Session Company Numeri	Nif-T Team giving a seminar


Stef Wertheimer and his wife visiting presenting companies	Inmage, one of the sponsors of the Silicom Summit 2008	Life Science Panel Discussion: Israeli Biotech -Therapeutics developments	Dr. Gal Luft speaknig about Israel's role in the New Energy Revolution


Stef Wertheimer's family	Honoring Stef Wertheimer	Life Achievement Award	Sam Haddad, Ted Hoff and Stef Wertheimer


Richard Kligman CEO of Qoof	Uzia Galil father of the Israeli high tech with Chemi Peres of Pitango Capital	Igal Rotem, sharing the PowerDsine story with entrepreneurs	One-on-one meeting between US investor Joseph Perl and presenting company


Day Two: June 30, 2008

Yair Shamir, Gadi behar and Chemi Peres	Entrance to the summit	Chemi Peres: "Israel has to build companies for the long run"	Yair Shamir: "Israel is a Small Island in the Global Market"


Dr. Sam Haddad Speaking to Israeli Entreprenuers	Lance Glasser speaking about evaluating performance	Venture Partner Ted Driscoll meeting with Emefcy	"Cooperation between US-Israel Companies" Panel Discussion


Presenting company IQWind	Kimihiko Iwamura president of Omron America: "Leveraging emerging technologies"	Rajeev Madhavan CEO of Magma Design Automation"Chip design is for the rich"	Kamran Elahain: "Digital Unites"


David Blumberg "Technology Enable Serives"	Meir Brand, CEO Google Israel, and Dr. Yossi Vardi in a Q&A session	Dr. Israel Beinglass speaking about trends in the semiconductor's industry	Dr. Eli Opper Israel Chief Scientist


Dr. Amir Matityahu speaking about the orthopedic market	Technology transfer panel: Technion, Stanford University and Weizmann Inst.	"The role of Intellectual Property: Enhancing Strategies" panel discussion	Dr. Yossi Vardi and Google Israel CEO Meir Brand in a Q&A session


Ted Driscoll, Claremont Creek Ventures speaking about startup seed funding	Ted Hoff, Inventor of the microprocessor "The Birth of the Microprocessor"	Baruch Deutsch of Cisco, Gadi Behar and Raffy Chatav	Silicom Ventures Honoring Ted Hoff, award given by Intel Israel CEO Maxine Fassberg


Celeb Tal Brody presents the four (dwarfs) CEOs that made it to the finals	VC feedback panel for the four finalist companies	Tal Brody presents award to IQWind's CEO Gideon Ziegelman	Doron Simon presents the prizes to the winner


Doron Birger CEO of Elron speaking at the US-Israel company cooperation panel	Panelist Zohar Zisapel, RAD Data Communications	Ehud Hausman of The Reinhold Cohn Group giving overview on Intellectual Property	IP Panelist Zeev Pearl of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP


Zvi Or-Bach, eASIC: "IP protection from my personal experience"	Raphi Klein: "Exploring For Innovation"	Ari Tuchman speaking about US investor's and Israeli entreprenuer's relationship	Danny Lustiger CFO of Binui & Shikun giving updates on the Israeli Real Estate market


Boaz Dinte of Evergreen: VC feedback panel	Ajit Nazre of KPCB giving feedback to presenting company	Shmil Levy of Sequoia Capital Israel responding to a presenter	Dennis Teifeld speaker of the Biz US Insurance with Gadi Behar


Day Three: Jerusalem July 1, 2008

On the way to Israel Airforce Industries (IAI)		With the view of Mishkanot Shaananim, Jerusalem	Lunch at Montifury Restuarant


Visit the the city of David	Walking to the water tunnels of the old city	Looking for the water..	On southeastern hill to the Temple Mount


The Temple Mount	Visit the Wailing Walls tunnels	The story of the 1st and 2nd Jewish temple	Going back through the Muslim Quarter


Group picture at the Wailing wall		Group picture at Giviat Hazeitim	View from the bus


Day Four: North Israel July 2, 2008

Visit Nazareth, Church of the Annunciation


Company visit: Giving Imaging (Medical)	Company visit: 3DV (Video Games)


Streets of Nazareth	In the markets


Lunch at Vered Hagalil Restaurant	Last stop Yardenit, where Jesus walked on the water. Didn't work for us..


Summit Parties: June 27-28, 2008

Party in Cesaria, June 27			Party, Tel Aviv Akirov, June 28