The Greentech 2024 conference and exhibition will be held between September 17-18 at the Nation Buildings in Jerusalem and are expected to be attended by hundreds of stakeholders in the field of green energy, including: industrial plants, investors, entrepreneurs, start-up companies, managers in local authorities (urban and rural), academic researchers, government officials and more.
The conference will present the critical importance of green energy for the future of humanity and the future of Israel and the economic and technological opportunities inherent in it. The lectures and sessions will reveal an up-to-date picture of the production of green energy using various methods such as: wind, solar, sea waves and more, technologies for energy saving and optimal energy management, energy storage and transfer, technologies for planning, management and control of distributed energy sites and a long list of other topics. As part of the conference, there will be an exhibition where startups will present new technologies that change the rules of the game in the fields of green energy.
The conference will present and illustrate the leading status of women in the Israeli green energy industry who will be prominent participants in the various panels. Thus, for example, only women will attend the innovation session of the conference: the moderator, Tzvia Braun, founder and CEO of CtD, Erwin Tal-Gottlemacher, CEO of Hydrolite, Dr. Beth-el Cohen Wiesel, the chief technologist of Solar-PV, Irit Fidel, CEO of Fidelity Energy Consulting and Ronit Eshel, senior manager and head of climate technologies at the Innovation Authority.
The two chairmen of the conference are: Dr. Moshe Zilberman, head of the Green Energy Center at Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem, and Amos Lasker, CEO of the EnergyCom Community and formerly CEO of the Electric Company.
Amos Lasker, co-chairman of the conference: "Since the war broke out on 7/10, Israel's need to ensure energy resilience and operational continuity at the user level, i.e. reliable electricity supply at the level of the family home, the neighborhood, the settlement, has intensified. "Green Horizon", the name of the conference, will present the potential of blue-white green technologies to contribute a significant part to Israel's energy future and resilience."
Dr. Moshe Zilberman, co-chairman of the conference: "At the conference sessions we will examine, among other things, the strategic plan of the Ministry of Energy for 2050, we will point out gaps, regulatory and economic issues and how the new technologies and the use of local electricity networks can bridge them and ensure that the country will meet Green technologies are also a growing industry with tremendous global economic potential and visitors to the conference will be able to get an impression of Israeli breakthroughs that may be the next big thing in the world market."