1. Guiding Start-Ups through Water
Application Industry
EU - Israel Seminar on Technology Transfer
with an Emphasis on Clean Tech
Dr. Gilead Fortuna
Shiri Freund Koren

2. Our goals
• Making the world a better place – helping protect
the environment.
• Enable industry growth in a world of population
growth and rapid urbanization.
• New markets – innovation based – for the water
industry.

3. Methodology
Global Industrial
Sectors
Process Analysis
Long term
Challenges
Academy Start-Ups Industry

4. Selected Water Intensive Industrial Sectors
Pharmaceutics Mining
Oil and Gas
Food & Beverage Tourism Microelectronics
Metal Industry
Seven industrial sectors where water treatment is an impediment to the sector growth.

5. Methodology
Global Industrial
Sectors
Process Analysis
Long term
Challenges
Academy Start-Ups Industry

6. Relevant inputs
for the
Industry
Feed
Water
Preliminary
treatment Manufacturing Wastewater
plants
Productions of
the industry
Reuse
Treatment
Permitted Emission to the
environment including solutions for
the environment
Additional
Other applications including treatments
compatibility with such application Recycle

7. Methodology
Global Industrial
Sectors
Process Analysis
Long term
Challenges
Academy Start-Ups Industry

8. Technology
Long term
Challenges
Geography/ Regulatory
Customers

9. Methodology
Global Industrial
Sectors
Process Analysis
Long term
Challenges
Academy Start-Ups Industry

10. Idea / Knowledge
Start-Ups
Technology (Academy )
Challenge / Bridging the gap between
Need
application and innovation

11. • Mr. Nir Sahar – Veolia Israel – Technical Advisor for all Sectors
• Dr. Miriam Lev-On and Dr. Perry Lev-On - The Lev-On Group LLC
• Prof Rafi Semiat – Chemical Engineering Faculty, Technion
• Ms. Ella Offenberger - Blumenstein Family Water Information Center, Technion
• Arnon Goldfarb - Israel Cleantech Ventures
• Ariella Grinberg - Israel Cleantech Ventures
• Orly Dansky Greenberg – Advisor in the mining Industry
• Mr. Itzhak Goren - AHMSA Steel (Israel) Ltd. / Arava Mines Ltd.
• Meirav Avigdor – TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
• Dov Landman – Coca Cola Israel
• Rotem Arad – Atlantium Technologies Ltd.
• Ilan Shamir – Intel Israel
• Ronit Shahar – Strauss Group
• Michael Lurie - Tower Semiconductor Ltd.