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Q1 2019 Activity Report

We Welcome Our 43 NEW Members This Quarter!

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Some of Our Q1 2019 Activity Highlights
IATI's Special Meeting with Party Heads Regarding the Promotion of Israeli High-Tech
 
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Towards the April 2019 elections, IATI held a special meeting with party leaders , in order to reveal the parties' beleves regarding the promotion of the high-tech sector in Israel. Top Industry execs arrived to hear about the vision and the commintment of each party to the advanced industries sector. We thank the party leaders who participated: Minister of Education Naftali Bennett, Minister of Economy Eli Cohen, Vice Minister of Finance Itzik Cohen, Moshe Yaalon, and KM Tamar Zandberg, Stav Shafir, Oded Forer and Amir Ohana. Thanks to the event hosts Rina Matzliach and IATI Co-Chair Erez Tsur, to the IATI Board of Directors, and to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange who hosted. 

Click here to the event photo album, media coverage and more.  

IATI's Take at the Innovation Authority Conference 2019

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IATI CEO & President Karin Mayer Rubinstein gave the Industry's Take at the Israel Innovation Authority Annual Conference. Priorities are about budgets, said Karin, and if the government wants the high-tech locomotive to keep running it should significantly increase the Innovation Authority budget. IATI and its members will keep leading the processes towards promoting the Israeli advanced technologies, but this will not happen without a committed governmental budget.

Israeli Cyber Championship 2019: The Finals

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300,000 school children participated in our National Cyber Championship we led with the Ministry of Education. This is the 4th year of the championship, which is a part of our long term activity for the promotion of STEM education and encouragement of diversity within the tech industry. The finals included 1900 schools from all over Israel. IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein co-announced the winners, IATI Co-Chair Erez Tzur congratulated the participants as the future generation of skilled tech engineers. We thank Ofer Rimon and Iris Tzur of the Ministry of Education and their teams; Shahar Bar-Or, leader of the IATI Education Committee, Miriam Shtilman of Elgotech, Yogev Debby of Twist BioSciences and the committee members; the sponsor companies: Apple, WD, Matific, Autodesk, PayPal, Cadence and Infinity; and our mentors who helped train the children on their way to the great finals. 

Click for more info about the 2019 National Cyber Championship. 
   

Our Successful Annual DigitalHealth.il 2019 Conference

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The Annual DigitalHealth.il 2019 Conference took place in Tel Aviv this week, organized by EY Israel ארנסט אנד יאנג , IATI and Start-Up Nation Central.
IATI Member Dr. Benny Zeevi's opinion piece in Globes discusses the digital revolution in the healthcare sector - click here to read.

IATI's CEO Held Fireside Chat at
OurCrowd Global Investor Summit 2019

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IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein held a fireside chat with Shlomo Markel, VP Broadcom Inc. and one of the leaders of IATI's MNC Forum, at the OurCrowd Pre-Summit Leaders Forum. The chat focused on the triangular ecosystem of government, multinational companies and start-ups, and Karin asked about the benefits MNCs get from tech acquisitions as a strategy. 

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Our Q1 2018 Government & Authorities
Co-Operation Activities

IATI Works With Tax Authority On Preliminary Approvals for Foreign VC Investors

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IATI reported end March some significant milestone agreements in achieved with the Israeli Tax Authority, concerning Preliminary Approvals for Foreign Investors. These approvals were frozen for a few months which made the funds' work difficult. IATI addressed the subject working closely with the Tax Authority and has achieved some important points:
- Previously given approvals remain unchanged. 
- New requests for approvals will include some basic criteria on the foreign investors' tax position in their current land.
-In the case that 90% or more of the foreign investors in the fund are not tax-refundable in their current land, they will receive exemption from paying tax in Israel.
In the days following the agreement we have already seen some tax arrangement being signed promptly.
IATI will continue to co-work with the Tax Authority on setting new laws and regulations to widen the tax exemption of foreign residents. 
We thank Att. Dr. Ayal Shenhav, Att. (Acc.) Eldar Ben-Ruby (Meitar) and Acc. Amit Oring (E&Y) from IATI's Legal & Accounting Committee.    

Start Cup 2019: The Finals

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The Ministry of Education with IATI held Start-Cup, Israeli Youth Strat-Up Championship, is being held for the 3rd year in a row. The Championships aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship within youth. We congratulate the winners and thank Dr. Ofer Rimon of the Ministry of Education. 

Click for more info about this year's Championship. 
   

IATI CEO Present Our Human Capital Report
at the Employers' Forum

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IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein presented our report on human resources in the Israeli advanced industry, at the Employers' Forum of Ministry of Employment and Israeli Innovation Authority. The report, initiated and conducted by SNC and IATI, aims to create a better understanding of the sources of lack of skilled HR in Israel and to help build effective plans as to challenge this lack. 

The meeting included Aharon Aharon, Innovation Authority CEO; Avi Simhon, Head of the National Economic Council; Michal Tzuk, Director of Employment Regulation in the Ministry of Labor; and Naomi Krieger-Carmi, Head of the Social Challenges Division at the Authority. We thank SNC for the co-work on the report

IATI MNC Forum's HR Work Group - Quarterly Meeting

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IATI MNC Forum's HR WorkGroup met for its quarterly meeting and hosted Ofira Bino, Director of "Mifgashim" program of Taglit - Birthright Israel, who presented the opportunities of MNC employees joining Taglit's activities with young adult Jews from abroad. We thank DELL EMC who hosted.
 

IATI's Q1 2019 Global Networking Activity

The 5th Cycle of IATI's mentoring program
for Greek entrepreneurs

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The IATI Greek Mentorship Program 2019 with the National Bank of Greece took place on February 7th, 2019, in Athens. 

The Israeli mentors selected by IATI this time were: Dr. Amir Guttman, Managing Partner and Founder of Aviv Venture Capital; Moshe Sarfaty, Co-Founder and Fund Manager of Krypton VC; Arale Cohen, Founding Partner of 2B-Angels; and Ori Sobovitz, Head of Government Relations and Israeli Partnerships, OurCrowd. 


Click for the meeting's review on the Greek Krypton VC 4.0 magazine.
 

Italian Business Delegation to Israel

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IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein presented the Israeli ecosystem and IATI's activities to a special delegation of top executives of Italian tech companies, who were invited by the Italian Trade Agency. It's the second year of IATI and ITA's cooperation of promoting Israeli-Italian tech networking.

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IATI Team Meets with Indian NASSCOM Top Execs

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Indian industry association NASSCOM , headed by its President Ms. Debjani Ghosh, met up with the IATI team, The two umbrella organizations will sign a bilateral MOU of cooperation, in order to refer Israeli start-ups to potential co-operations within the Indian market. 
 
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 More IATI-related events in Q1 

Here are just a few of the events and meetings
we organized this quarter

Presenting IATI's Israeli Life Science Report at
PWC Life Science Seminar

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IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein presented the 2018 IATI Annual Israeli Life Science Report at the PWC Israel's Life Science Seminar. Karin emphasized the urgent need for enlarging the governmental budget to the high-tech and life science sectors. We are now working on the 2019 IATI Israeli Life Science report, towards our MIXiii-Biomed Conference in May. 
 

IATI CEO Sits on the Jury at Bizmax's ER Hackathon

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IATI CEO Karin Mayer Rubinstein was honored to sit on the jury of Bizmax's ER Hackathon, organized with United Hatzalah, alongside Uri Maklev, Chair of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee, Bizmax CEO Yitzik Krombie, and Eli Beer, President of United Hatzalah of Israel. Congratulations to the winners!
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IATI Welcomes Its NEW Life Science Members
Sponsored by Meitar!

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Meitar invited early stage life science start-ups to be IATI members for FREE - for one year. The selected companies have already started to to enjoy the benefits of an IATI membership. We're happy to have you on board!