Preliminary Timeline
June 30, 2025
18:00 Opening cocktail – TBC
July 1, 2025
09:00-9:30 | Welcome Coffee | ||
09:30-10:45 | Opening Plenary Session Marking 60 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between Israel and Germany | ||
Senior Officials and Government Representatives from Israel (H.E. Prosor) and Germany (BMWK & NRW State Rep) – TBA | |||
Opening Lecture: Challenges and Opportunities in Germany, and Duisburg in Particular, for Implementing Clean Technologies | |||
10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
11:15-13:00 | Presentation of 10 Leading Israeli Startups Tomer Yehoshua, “Hydrolite”, Green Hydrogen production, using environmental materials (fluorine-free) membrane electrolysis technology. Gali Sheskin, ” Ensights”, Digital Management Systems for Optimizing Charging Stations, Storage, and Demand Management | ||
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00-15:00 | Hydrogen economy in the perspective of the natural gas transmission companies Chair: Yair Rubinstein, Vice President & Business Development at INGL, Israel | Driving cities towards achieving ‘carbon neutrality’: Eilat hosts European cities for a dialogue and the Jerusalem Innovative Economic Model for the ‘carbon neutral’ cities network Chair: Mayors Panel: Presentations: Doron Tamir, LAVA Energy’ Israel, Efficient and new technology for heat pumps for urban use | Scaling energy start-ups: entering the German & European market – including a deep dive on hydrogen Workshop leaders: GTAI (Germany Trade & Invest), Digital Hub Initiative, H2UB A closed workshop for the Israeli startups |
15:00-16:00 | The challenges in expansion of Renewables in the power sector: Digital Management Systems for Optimizing Charging Stations, Storage and Demand Management and cyber Chair: Elad Topel, Director of Energy and Smart City, Eilat Municipality: Climate urban innovation in Eilat, Israel Presentations: Oz Levi, VP of Electricity and Regulation at the Electricity Authority, Israel – TBC Alaa Fakhouri, Head of the Renewable Energy Division at the Electricity Authority, Israel – TBC Alex Shulman, Brightsource Energy, Israel, Digital Management Systems for Optimizing Charging Stations, Storage, and Demand Management Dr. Manuel Lösch, Founder & CEO InnoCharge – Turning Energy Flexibility into Value – TBC Siemens Energy Germany – TBC | Technologies, Innovation and the Economy of Green & Blue Hydrogen Production and logistics in the industry & ports Co-chairs: Roy Avrahami, Chief Innovation Officer & Corporate Investment Arm, Ashdod port, Israel – TBC Alexander Garbar, Head of Corporate Development at duisport – Duisburg Hafen AG – TBC Rotem Arad, International BizDev with impact, H2pro, Israeli company, reinventing green hydrogen production Siemens Energy Germany – TBC | |
16:00-17:00 | Carbon Capture Technologies and How to Use them Efficiently (Dena) | The entire investment chain that can support technological innovation Eli Menasheof, Director of Global Strategic Partnerships, The Israeli electricity company’s innovation program “PowerUp” – TBC | |
17:00-18:30 | Happy Hour & B2B |
July 2, 2025
Industrial tour in Duisburg – TBA
July 3, 2025
Industrial tour in Bavaria – TBA