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Brain-research Inspired Technologies for Education

Program:

9:30

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

10:00

OPENING SESSION

 

 

Miriam Reiner   (Technion, Head of VR.NeuroCog lab, BITE)

Orit Hazzan   (Technion, Head of the Department of Education in Science & Technology)

 

10:30

SESSION I          (Moderator: Miriam Reiner)

Brain-Science, Technology & Learning

 

Shai Piron   (Knesset member, former Minister of Education)

Itzik Ben-Israel   (Chairman of Israeli Space Agency & National Council for Research & Development)

Efrat Furst  (NeuroEducation Researcher & Practitioner)

11:50

COFFEE BREAK & DEMOS

12:15

SESSION II          (Moderator: Rotem Bennet)

Tricking the Brain: Mixed Realities & Multiple Senses

 

Amir Amedi   (Hebrew University, Multisensory research lab)

Oshri Even-Zohar   (MOTEK Entertainment & Medical, CEO)

Yoram Gutfreund   (Technion, Visual-Auditory Systems lab)

Giora Yahav   (Microsoft, Advanced Imaging Technologies, HoloLens)

14:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:45

SESSION III          (Moderator: Alex Dan)

Enhancing Human-Machine Cognition & Performance

 

Miriam Reiner  (Technion, Head of VR.NeuroCog lab)

Gila Kamhi   (Intel, Human-Computer Interaction, Perceptual Computing)

Gil Benesh   (Elbit, Technical Manager)  

Doron Friedman   (IDC, Head of Advanced-Reality lab)

Asaf Tzadok  (IBM, Cognitive-Vision & Inetraction)

16:40

COFFEE BREAK & DEMOS

17:00

SESSION IV          (Moderator: Anat Dahan)

Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Education @ Israel

 

Idan Katz   (Incubit, VP Business)

Avi Warshavsky   (MindCet, CEO)

Roni Zehavi   (CyberSpark, CEO)

18:00

CONCLUSION

Towards the Hackathon: The Practice of Innovation

 

Rotem Bennet   (Technion, VR.NeuroCog lab, BITE)

Miriam Reiner   (Technion, Head of VR.NeuroCog lab, BITE)

18:20

FAREWELL

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