INNOVATORS / NETWORKING
ISRAELI BEER & WINE / FOOD & FRIENDS
4:30pm: Doors Open/Registration
5:00pm: Israel Innovation Showcase
6:15pm: Award Presentation and Keynote Address
7:00pm: Reception/After Party
Details
5:00pm: Israel Innovation Showcase
Israeli startup and early stage companies presenting their technologies to a panel of investors and an audience. Moderated Q&A and feedback from investors. Real-time audience participation via their mobile devices.
- Moderated by Fred Tannenbaum of Gould & Ratner
- Introduction to Israel by Brian Rosenzweig of JANVEST Capital
- Audience participation regulated through electronic interactive devices.
Featured Israeli Companies
Investor Panelists
6:15pm: Award Presentation and Keynote Address
- Business Leadership Award presentation to Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871.
- Keynote Address "Living Entrepreneurially" by Steve Miller, Partner & Co-Founder of Origin Ventures, lead investor in GrubHub.
7:00pm - 8:30pm and beyond: After Party
- Network, business, food, open bar, Israeli wine & fun...
- No Dinner Tables!
HONORARY CHAIRS
- The Honorable Bruce Rauner, Governor of the State of Illinois
- The Honorable Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of the City of Chicago
- The Honorable Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners
- The Honorable Roey Gilad, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest
- The Honorable Guy Cohen, Consul for Economic Affairs, Government of Israel Economic Mission to the Midwest
EVENT CO-CHAIRS
- Howard I. Bernstein, Howard I. Bernstein Group, Ltd.: The America-Israel M&A Link
- Jane Fischer, Trygve LLC
- Fred Tannenbaum, Gould & Ratner LLP
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