Mr. Yair Avidan
Israel's Supervisor of Banks
H.E. Shaikh Nawaf Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa
Chief Executive Officer, Electricity and Water Authority, Kingdom of Bahrain
Dorit Davidovich Banet co-founded and CEO of Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Initiative for the past 14 years and co-founder and chair of directors at “Keilot Israel” & “Keilot Kenya” founded two years ago. Prior to those positions Dorit was the founder and the head of the environmental office at the Eilot Regional Council and Eilat town’ in southern Israel for eight years.
The Eilat-Eilot initiative has raised more than $20 million, to operate and demonstrate a self-sustaining model for solving the energy crisis by advancing all necessary components while generating sustainable regional development:
Keilot company, valued at $2.5 million after two years of operation, operates among small holder farmers by demonstrating and implementing Zero Carbon innovative technologies for essential households needs, and building clean energy solutions for big energy “off takers”. Keilot is using microfinance program for the farmers & cooperatives and at the same time operates an R&D center for Zero Carbon technologies in the Arava valley, Israel.
Dorit holds a master’s degree in Geomorphology from Ben-Gurion University, focusing on stratigraphic issues and earthquakes. She holds a B.A. in Geography from Haifa University.
Noam co- founded in 2011 Capital Nature, the most successful cleantech investment company in Israel – 4 of the company’s portfolio companies are currently traded in the Tel Aviv stock exchange, among them Electreon.
In 2006 Noam was co-founder of the Eilat Eilot renewable energy initiative, one of the founding entities of renewable energy in Israel, promoting renewable energy development and implementation as a regional engine for the southern part of Israel. Noam has been also the founder and co-chair of the Eilat -Eilot renewable energy conference, one the leading cleantech conferences in the world
In 1995 Noam co-founded and was the CEO of Cortext Ltd. one of the first Internet related software companies in Israel
Noam has a BA in business and MA in environmental studies, both from the Tel Aviv university
With a background in law (LLM in competition law and M&A) and 20 years of experience at the European Commission (mainly in the fields of Energy, Research and Innovation and External relation), Andrea Carignani is leading the Research & Innovation Section of the Delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel since August 2019. The mandate of the Section is to provide support in the negotiation process of Israel’s association to Horizon Europe, to promote the regional cooperation in research and innovation through science diplomacy as well as to consolidate the EU and Israel Research & Innovation cooperation around European Commission priorities.
Before being posted in Israel, Andrea Carignani headed for 3 years the Unit responsible for International Cooperation in R&I with European Neighbourhood, Africa and the Gulf at the Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission.
Andrea Carignani has headed between 2012 and 2016 the Unit of the European Commission managing the international project ITER (EU, US, Japan, China, India, Russia and Korea) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. ITER will be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based carbon-free electricity.