Conference Program
June 30, 2025
18:00 Opening Cocktail – TBC
July 1, 2025
09:00-9:30 | Welcome Coffee | ||
09:30-10:25 | Dorit Banet, Conference Chair – Opening Remarks | ||
Opening Plenary Session Marking 60 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between Israel and Germany – TBA | |||
Senior Officials and Government Representatives from Israel (H.E. Ron Prosor) and Germany (BMWK & NRW State Rep) – TBA | |||
10:25-10:45 | 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 Leading Israeli Startups Tomer Yehoshua, Business Development Manager, “Hydrolite”, Green Hydrogen Production, Using Environmental Materials (Fluorine-Free) Membrane Electrolysis Technology TBA, “enSights”, Digital Management Systems for Optimizing Charging Stations, Storage, and Demand Management Yoni Haran, Co-Founder, “Oasix”, Self-Sufficient Heat Pump that Provides Hot Water and A/C Power Using 100% Renewable Power, with Zero-Carbon Emissions Marat Maayan, CEO & Founder, “Airovation Technologies”, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Enabling Methane Based Low Carbon Hydrogen Production Liran Dor, CEO, “Boson Energy”, Turn Local Non-Recyclable Waste Into a Clean Driver of Local Energy | ||
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, Israel Natural Gas Lines – INGL, Israel | Driving Cities towards Achieving ‘Carbon Neutrality’: Eilat Hosts European Cities for a Dialogue Chair: Assaf Admon, Head of the Eilat Eilot Environmental Unit, Israel Mayors Panel: Presentations: Dorit Banet, Consultant to Business Development Manager “Eden” Jerusalem Municipal Company | Scaling Energy Startups: 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 of Introducing Renewables into the Grid: Digital Management Systems, Grid Development, Optimizing Charging, Storage and Demand Respond Management Chair: Elad Topel, Director of Energy and Smart City, Eilat Municipality, Israel Urban Climate Innovation in Eilat, Israel Presentations: Oz Levi, VP of Electricity and Regulation, the Electricity Authority, Israel – TBC Shiki Fisher, Chief Operations Officer, NOGA – Israel Independent System Operator Alaa Fakhouri, Head of the Renewable Energy Division, the Electricity Authority, Israel – TBC Alex Shulman, Brightsource Energy, Israel Siemens Energy Germany – TBC | The Ports’ Dilemma: Gateway to Hydrogen or to Ammonia & what Are the right Economics and Technologies for Zero-Carbon 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 | The Feasibility of Operating a Hydrogen-based Power Plant Chair: Elad Shaviv, Head of Business Development, IEC – Israel Electric Corporation | The Entire Investment Chain to Support Technological Innovation Chair: Felix Krause, Managing Partner, Vireo Ventures, Germany, The angle of VC’s Investments in Clean Energy Innovation & the German View Regarding Investments in Clean Energy Innovation Presentations: Gilli Haizler, Head of Global Innovation and Investments, Israel Electric Corporation Achmed Junusov, Co-Founder and COO, H2UB, Building the European Open Innovation Platform for Hydrogen Start-ups and Corporates, German | |
17:00-18:30 | Happy Hour & B2B |
July 2, 2025
Industrial tour in Duisburg – TBA
July 3, 2025
Industrial tour in Hesse – TBA