A week that attracted and connected fast growing startups, corporate international innovation teams, exceptional talents and investors from Holland and Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WSe6BUUIbc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GBPJRy6z4Q

Latest news on the sustainable fish farms built by Israel’s LivinGreen that I featured previously in Jan 2014. In 2014, LivinGreen led an educational project in Ghana, building farms from local materials. LivinGreen also participated in other projects in Ethiopia … Continue reading →

India’s Natural Organic Farmers’ Association is working with Israeli companies to import Israeli grafting technology in order to improve crop yields and pest resistance whilst reducing water usage and the indiscriminate use of fertilizers. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/vijayawada-firm-to-commercialise-israeli-grafting-tech/article7189720.ece?ref=tpnews

Most exporters perform random checks on their produce. Israeli fruit exporter Eshet Eilon inspects every piece of fruit for quality and ripeness. It uses spectral imaging at a rate of five tons an hour and rejects anything that contains disease … Continue reading →

Israel’s Pointer Software Systems has developed Pickapp – a quality assurance (QA) monitoring application for farm managers. It provides real-time tracking of the progress of harvesting and the quality of the produce harvested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynkVEjwYHk http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194839#.VUMYbfApqSo www.pickapp.farm

Glide, JoyTunes, 24me, TL;DR and Vonage among the made-in-Israel applications already available on Apple’s new wearable. http://itrade.gov.il/us-dc/2015/05/01/israeli-apps-already-ticking-on-apple-watch/

Israel’s Sookasa provides encryption security for sensitive data even when it is accessed from a mobile device. Copies of data are as important as the original, and Sookasa is the result of a rethink to the entire security approach. https://www.sookasa.com/ … Continue reading →

Fourteen Israeli companies were on display at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), one of the world’s largest annual trade shows for the oil and gas industry. 94,700 people from 130 countries attended the conference. http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/5/10/fuel-up-nation-israel-has-robust-presence-at-major-oil-and-gas-trade-show#.VVXNpPApqSo=

Please watch three creative individuals increase their productivity using the digital pen that Microsoft acquired when it bought out Israel’s N-Trig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owf93l1YkOs http://blog.surface.com/2015/05/msft-acquires-pen-tech-from-n-trig-ltd/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/01/microsoft-acquires-surface-3-pen-tech-from-n-trig/