Led by Yossi Dan from the Israel-France Chamber of Commerce, a delegation of some twenty Israeli startups and many investors arrived right here at Vivatech, the major higher tech show in Europe, and under no circumstances stopped jogging from a person rendezvous to the subsequent in the big corridor (air-conditioned for the initially time) at the Porte de Versailles. Set together by Maurice Lévy, chairman of the board of promotion huge Publicis Groupe, alongside with the Les Echoes press group, Vivatech this 12 months took spot in a really tense political context, primarily with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But on the ground of the hall, among the the hundreds of crowded, colorful and loud corporation, regional and place stands and pavilions, there was no time for politics, such as for the Israeli delegation.

With assist from Michel Hauser-Kauffmann of the France-Israel chamber of commerce, Dan initial introduced the delegation to the stand of mega French team Bouygues, which gave two Israeli wise mobility start off-ups an award.

Merchandise VP of Parknav, Simon Arazi, immediately stated that there are lots of startups using genuine time data to help men and women come across parking places in cities, but that “obtaining only real time day is worthless. Our system is based on stats enhanced with serious-time knowledge,” he continued, “and tells the user the proportion of odds of discovering a location in a precise area.” Arazi mentioned that some 150 cities in Europe and the States are employing the Parknav technology.

Up coming to Arazi on the podium stood Dvir Kenig, head of the ITC startup, Smart Targeted visitors Handle. “We are enablers,” he spelled out, “supporting municipalities to stop targeted traffic jams by regulating lights at intersections.” On a tablet pc, he confirmed me a visitors jam in Tel Aviv with very little bars on license plates to preserve proprietors nameless. “We are linked to cameras regulating the lights,” he continued.

ITC has clients in Israel, the US, Luxembourg, and a project in Brazil. But aren’t towns seeking to reduce car visitors? Sure, but towns will often have far too significantly motor vehicle and truck targeted visitors, the two winners agreed.

Also in the delegation was Yaron Golpher, head of I Know First. It offers synthetic intelligence-based algorithmic forecasting solutions to make inventory industry predictions and everyday forecasts in extra than 50 international marketplaces. Now showcased on Israel’s television channel 13 and i24 Information, I Know First has won an award for greatest global economical engineering startup at the Geneva Wealthtech Discussion board.

The algorithm was very first formulated for the chemical market by lover Dr. Lipa Roitman, from Russia, who studied in Novosibirsk Condition University in Siberia and the Weizmann Institute of Science. Golpher referred to as him, “a genius, the smartest individual I have at any time met.”

He added, “and just as we really do not touch our clients’ dollars, he and I do not discuss politics.”

Golpher noted that the algorithm was pointing to price hikes and shortages in the strength, mining and food sectors in October 2021 in advance of the war in Ukraine commenced, which means “the trend from this war was predictable.” Has this offered an opportunity for traders? “I am not at all relaxed with calling price tag hikes and shortages for a lot of folks an option for a number of buyers,” he answered.

Also in the delegation, Yotam Hechtlinger, head of exists.ai, which is in the early phase of improvement of 3D web sites. “Know-how has arrived at the stage wherever we can build stunning internet websites that will attractiveness to people today and corporations, not just gamers,” he mentioned.

Exists.ai has clients in Israel and the US, he mentioned, and hopes to increase into France. He is creating a system to make 3D web-sites an online commodity. “This technological innovation can enable make the planet a greater area,” he pointed out, “not just for video clip video games but to enrich the world wide web, to give much more details, to address difficulties.”

Hechtlinger commented, “Yossi and the chambers of commerce did a very good position of introducing us to individuals listed here at Vivatech. We have a couple of leads from this exhibit. Now we have to keep on earning sounds about our products.”

In truth, startuppers built their way via countless numbers of guests to check out a very good variety of French stands: LVMH (luxurious manufacturers), Paris Region, RATP (general public transport) AXA (insurance policies), Bouygues, Orange, ENGIE (vitality), BNP Paribas Michelin and JC Decaux, for case in point.

A particular be aware on Jacob Makhtabi and his uncooked, arms-on industrial French-Israeli startup, Hydro-ecotech. His patented innovation uses decomposed, demineralized water, in which hydrogen and oxygen molecules have been divided by electrical latest, to clear carbon deposits (gasoline and oil) from car or truck engine walls and their factors (cylinders, pistons and valves). Now that is a mouthful, or instead a truck and bus-comprehensive!!

“An engine that is not cleaned needs greater gas use and eventually need to be immobilized, and its parts changed, which is incredibly high-priced,” he defined in French. (He also speaks fluent Hebrew, and some Arabic and Farsi, but no English.) “Ours is a innovative approach for the industrial planet, as we can clean two buses or vans a day, while current treatments just take two days for every auto if the cleansing is even performed,” he additional. He at present has municipal transport shoppers in Marseilles, his dwelling city, the RATP, and various garbage truck providers.

Again to the principle of “Tech for Superior”, the slogan of Vivatech numerous decades ago (before the hall was air-conditioned). What about now? Vivatech founder Maurice Levy told Globes, “Tech for fantastic is now crucial. Mankind’s genius has systematically aided wipe out the atmosphere, with overcrowded metropolitan areas, weak transportation, pollution, forest destruction, and carbon emissions. With know-how, we can use that genius to lower voracious strength intake, establish clean up tech and new energies, and to much better overall health and schooling. Tech for excellent is the avenue for the potential.”

Maurice Levy then took the stage with Makhtar Diop, head of the Worldwide Finance Corp, a branch of the Earth Financial institution, to open up the Africa Tech Awards session, saying finalists in a few places: well being, fintech and climate-tech.

“We are below to fix complications,” Levy explained to the crowd in the not quite entire Phase A person arena. “And Africa has no time to waste,” included Diop, a former Senegalese finance minister, arguably the most superior-amount formal from the African continent at the demonstrate.”

Doaa Aref and Dr. Rasha Rady, founders of Chefaa, a pharmacy shipping platform from Cairo, Egypt, had been handed the health and fitness tech award. A younger man sitting future to me and far from house, Luke Shankland from South Africa, whose Aviro Health startup performs digitalized, automatic health screening, graciously commented, “they deserved to gain.”

He additional that “enable for Africa does come from the West but often with strings hooked up. And huge American firms are using the services of absent much of the best expertise in African international locations.” He repeated what Makhtar Diop had just reported on stage, “African billionaires should make investments extra in technologies.”

Following, a political situation in which Israel finds alone associated on the two sides…a holographic deal with in augmented actuality by none other than President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, in truth by his avatar. He produced a plea for companies to spend in “a digital land lease in the wrestle for democracy from an empire, to reconstruct the Ukraine. You should assist the Ukraine until finally victory,” he advised the Phase A person group, in an deal with coordinated with tech displays in Dublin, Zurich and London.

“Ukraine deserves this gathering,” Maurice Levy instructed the crowd, without the need of mentioning the phrase Russia. “They need us and we will need to help them.” It is really abnormal for a standing president to use a hologram and avatar, but this was Vivatech.

Maurice Levy informed Globes, “it is way too early to see extended time period consequences from the war in Ukraine, alongside with the predicament with China, but technological innovation should uncover alternatives to what I imagine will be the close of globalization as we have known it with totally free and open up marketplaces. I see two large developments: inflation for the following 12 to 18 months, with substantial curiosity fees and the stop of inexpensive dollars, and the repatriation of generation.”

And the subsequent day, French President Macron, just back again from Kiev, was on phase. “The European technologies ecosystem can bring a great deal support to the Ukrainians, who are battling for their independence,” he instructed the collecting.

Macron promised more general public and non-public expenditure in engineering in France and Europe, as well as in substantial tech teaching and education and learning, commencing at the center university degree, to satisfy key issues in health, local weather, and to supply a far better lifestyle for all.

And Israeli startups have a role to participate in in this tech for great, following what all current agreed was very good participation in Vivatech, with a lot desired support from both equally chambers of commerce in Tel Aviv and Paris.

In accordance to Vivatech, 91,000 guests attended the clearly show at la Porte de Versailles, there were 300,000 clicks on-line, and 3 billion sights on social networks.

Published by Globes, Israel organization information – en.globes.co.il – on June 19, 2022.

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