TED to hold major Tel Aviv Destination: Unknown event
1,500 participants set to explore the future of technology, education and arts
Shoshanna Solomon was The Times of Israel's Startups and Business reporter
One of the largest TED events in the Middle East, TEDxWhiteCity, will be held on January 25 in Tel Aviv, focusing on innovation with Destination: Unknown as a theme.
The event is expected to include about 1,500 participants who will juggle issues relating to the future of technology, education and arts through lectures and mingling with entrepreneurs, organizations, students and soldiers from technology units.
This is the second TEDxWhiteCity event. Among the speakers will be the judoka Ori Sasson, a Rio Olympics Olympic medalist; Yaron Schwartz, CEO and founder Tridom, which develops robots for construction of houses and buildings using three dimensional printing; Eran Katz, an Israeli writer, moderator and editor of workshops on the development of memory and intelligence; Galia Ben-Artzi, one of the founders of Mytopia, a social gaming company; Roy Deutsch, considered an expert in new media; Zaki Djemal, co-founder and managing partner of fresh.fund, the first student-run venture capital fund in Israel; and Rim Yunis, founder of the first high-tech company in the Arab sector, Alpha Omega, which develops and researches equipment for brain surgery.
The TEDxWhiteCity organizing team includes members of the Israeli and international TEDx community and is being organized in collaboration with high-tech entrepreneur Yossi Vardi.
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