Greentech 2024 - Conference Program| Tuesday,17 September 2024
- 08:00 - 09:30 | Gathering and Registration
- 09:30 - 09:40 | Opening Remarks: Dr. Moshe Zilberman & Amos Lasker, Conference Co-Chairpersons
- 09:40 - 10:00 | Greetings: Gidi Etzion,Vice President, Innovation and External Relations, Azrieli Jerusalem College of Engineering
- 10:00 - 10:45 | Plenary: Tal Avishai, Director of Policy Planning and Strategic Projects Division, The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure Plan for Net-Zero Emissions in Israel by 2050
- 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break & Exhibition Tour
HALL C
11:15 - 12:15
Innovation Session: Exploring Non-Wired Alternatives – Advancing Technologies for Enhancing Energy Resilience Nationwide
Moderator: Zviya Baron, Founder & CEO, CtD
Invited Speakers :
Ervin Tal-Gutelmacher, CEO, Hydrolite Ltd
Dr. Bat-El Cohen Wiesel, CTO, SOLRA-PV
Irit Fidel, CEO, Fidelity Energy Consulting
Ronit Eshel, Senior Director, Head of Climate-Tech and Innovation in Mature companies, Israel Innovation Authority
12:15 - 13:00
Municipality Session: Green Energy Initiatives in Municipalities – Innovations and Challenges
Moderator: Yael Cohen Paran, Policy Director, Israel Energy Forum
Invited Speakers:
Nir Sahar, CEO, Sharon Carmel Environmental and Energy Association
Tal Har Even Levy, Energy Department Manager, Holon Municipality
Dr. Boaz Keidar, Director of Sustainable and Energy Planning, Tel Aviv – Yafo Municipality
Ido Hershkovitz, CEO, Eden – Jerusalem Economic Development Company
Elad Golan, Project Manager, West Negev Cluster Environmental Protection Association
13:00 - 13:45
Keynotes:
13:00 – 13:15 | Amir Livne, Senior VP of Strategy, Innovation and Restructure Process, Israel Electric Corporation, “Future Energy: Opportunities & Challenges”
13:15 – 13:30 | Prof. Moshe Tshuva, Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, Afeka College, “Electricity 100: Growing Energy Business Leadership”
13:30 – 13:45 |Dr. Gur Mittelman, Lecturer, Afeka College,”The Potential of Renewable Electricity in Israel in 2050″
- 13:45 - 14:45 | Lunch Break and Exhibition Tour
14:45 - 16:00
Wind Energy Session: Innovations and Challenges in Wind Energy Deployment
Moderator: Prof. David Greenblatt, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Invited Speakers:
Dr. Eldad Avital, Reader – Fluids and Acoustics, Queen Mary University of London, “Kinetic Turbine Blade Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Design Improvements”
Dr. Daniel Farb, Founder and CEO, Flower Turbines, “Innovations in Small Wind Turbines”
Yair Reingewirtz, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Technion – Israel Institue of Technology, “Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Concept for Multiple Decentralized Applications”
Prof. Hezi Gildor – The Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, “Wind Chime – An accurate and cost-effective wind reconstruction and forecasting”
Dr. Moshe Zilberman, Head of Green Energy Center, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem, “Wind Energy Harvesting on Rooftops and Urbane Environment by Small Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) “
Eitan Peled, CEO, Pelop, “Introduction of Vertical Wind Turbines to Israel”
TBD
16:00 - 17:10
* Waste-to-X Session: Innovations and Opportunities in Converting Waste to Energy
Moderator: Dr. Yaal Lester, Department of Civil Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem
Invited Speakers :
Dr. Yaal Lester, Department of Civil Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem, “Closing the Cycle: Using Organic Waste and Flue Gases for Producing Activated Carbon for Beneficial Reuse”
Prof. Yoram Gerchman, Head of MEd Program for Highschool Science Teaching, Oranim College, Adjunct Researcher, University of Haifa, “Ethanol from Agri-Wastes”
Dr Yoav Lindemann, Manager of National Waste-Infrastructure Development, The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection, “WtE in Israel: The Challenges, the Opportunities, and the Importance of this Field for the Israeli Market”
Dr. Chanan Gabay, CBDO, Zohar CleanTech, “ZoharX – Waste to Hydrogen”
Yossef Rahavi, COO, Blend Energy, “Waste to Energy”
Greentech 2024 - Conference Program| Wednesday, 18 September 2024
09:00 - 10:00
Israel's Position on Renewable Energy Policy: Current Status and Future Directions
Moderator:
Prof. Itay Fischhendler, Professor, Hebrew University
Invited Speakers:
Avri Eitan and Itay Fischhendler, Hebrew University, “How pitching to regulators shapes niches’ role in promoting sustainable innovation: A conceptual framework”
Yair Grinberger, Itay Fischhendler, Hebrew University, “Predicting laggards and leaders in rooftop solar photovoltaics: A time-space analysis”
Ariel Paz-Sawicki and Itay Fischhendler, Hebrew University, David Katz, Snr Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Haifa, “Israel’s failure in developing a heterogeneous wind energy sector”
Dr. Gideon Friedmann, CTO, NetZero Technology Ventures
- 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break & Exhibition Tour
HALL C
10:30 - 12:00
Storage Technologies Session: Innovations and Advances in Energy Storage Solutions
Moderator:
Dr. Gideon Friedmann, CTO, NetZero Technology Ventures
Company Presentations:
Ilan Ben David, Co-Founder & CTO, Zooz Power, “Flywheel storage technology, current projects & status”
Eric Selmon, Co-Founder & CEO, Mada Analytics, “Liquified Air storage – combined with carbon capture and Gas turbines”
EilatEilot, “a Sodium Sulfur battery project in the Arava”
Yonadav Buber, CEO, Baromar, ” The large scale LDES solution – underwater CAES”
Ophira Melamed, CEO & Co-Founder, NitroFix, “Hydrogen storage in Green Ammonia”
Doron Brenmiller, Chief Business Officer, Brenmiller Energy, “Heat storage – technology and example projects”
Dor Ganor, Director of Business Development, Phinergy, “Aluminum air batteries and example projects”
Prof. Lior Elbaz, Professor, Bar-Ilan University, “Reversible Fuel Cells for Large Energy Storge”
12:00 - 13:30
Green Energy Innovation Session: Pioneering Sustainable Solutions
Moderator: Dr. Vitali Haslavsky, Senior Lecturer, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem
Invited Speakers:
Dr. Alon Grinberg Dana, Asst Prof., Head of the Kinetics and Chemical Technology Lab, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, “Clear Skies Ahead: Sustainable Aviation Fuels for a Greener Future”
Dr. Tamar Elman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, “How to Hijack Photosynthesis?”
Dr. Avraham Arbel, CTO & Founder, HydRoad, “A Road-Based Solar System for Production, Storage, Transfer and Supply of Hydrogen and Electricity”
Dr. Jacob D Paz, CEO, Dr. Jacob Paz and Marty Paz R&D, “Greenhouse, Effects, Techno – Economic Analysis (TEA) of Biofuel and High Value Secondary Products from Microalgae Issues”
Ofer Keren, CTO, Keren Energy, “Daily Energy Management”
Daniel Mellick, Business Development Manager, CI Sensing, “MetCam – A Continues Emissions Monitoring System”
Dr. Hen Friman, Lecturer, H.I.T – Holon Institute of Technology, “Educating Future Generations About Environmental Awareness and Sustainability”
Arik Ganor, VP Business Development, QD-SOL, “Green Hydrogen Production with Nanoparticles Photocatalyst”
Gadi Bar – Ner, Business Development, Clean Flare, “Continuous Flare Monitoring”
- 13:30 - 14:15 | Lunch Break and Exhibition Tour
14:15 - 16:00
Hydrogen Session: The Value Chain of Clean Fuels – Leveraging Israel's Advantage
Moderator: Dorit Banet, Founder, Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Company
Opening remarks: Dorit Banet, “The global perspective and the Israeli advantage”
Company Presentations:
Assaf Sayada, CEO, Hydro-X, “Hydrogen storage and transportation at below US $1/kg”
Rotem Arad, International BizDev, H2Pro, “Green hydrogen production with innovative electrolysis technology”
Yair Korenblit, Co-Founder & CEO, Maygia, “Hydrogen-powered water treatment”
Baruch Halpert, CEO and Executive Chairman, Electriq Global, “Production, storage and backup in hydrogen”
Michael Kuflik, Co-Founder, NAKI, “Production of sludge oils for the synthetic fuel industry”
Expert Panel:
What is needed to support companies in overcoming the ‘valley of death’, enabling them to establish themselves as significant technological players in the global clean fuel market?
Panelists:
Meshi Laks, Innovation & Policy, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
Rotem Arad, Director of Business Development, Entrepreneur, H2Pro
Chen Herzog, Chief Economist and Head of Economic and Regulatory Consulting, BDO
Nimrod Levy, Business Development, Energy Division ICL Group
Rammy Molcho, Business Development, Taavura Holdings Ltd.
Baruch Halpert, CEO and Executive Chairman, Electriq Global
Jonathan Florsheim, Energy Coordinator, Budget Division, Ministry of Finance
16:00 - 17:00
Solar Energy Systems Session: Innovations and Advances in Solar Technology
Moderator: Dr. Pinchas Doron, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem
Invited Speakers:
Shir Esh, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, “Impact of Agrivoltaic Collectors with Spectral Splitting on Crop Yield”
Dr. Avi Niv, Independent Researcher, “Heat Conduction and the Photovoltaic Power Production Efficiency”
Dan Halperin, CEO, BIPV.CO.IL, “Use of Solar Materials Integrated into Construction”
17:00 - 17:45
Fusion energy - The future of distributed clean energy Challenges and limitations with existing solutions. Why fusion? Why compact fusion?
Moderator: Morielle Lotan, Founder, Mile Advisory, Strategic Advisor, nT-tao, New York
Opening Talk:
Oded Gour-Lavie, CEO & Co-Founder, nT-Tao Compact Fusion Power
Panel:
Dr. Gideon Friedmann, CTO, NetZero Technology Ventures
Moran Haviv, Strategic Innovation, Microsoft
Ben Reuveni, Head of Strategic Investments and Venture Partnerships, Honda Innovations
