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DAY ONE | MONDAY, 29 OCTOBER, 2018

	Main Hall - 'Rovina' Fuel Choices Summit	'Habima 4' Hall Side Event	'Bertonov' Hall Side Event	'Rovina' Gallery B2B Area	'Habima' Square
07:30	Side events' registration
09:00	09:00 - 11:30 The 3^rd International Israeli Fuel Cells Consortium Workshop - Side Event	08:45 - 12:15 Roundtable Discussion on Technical Standards and Safety Guidelines for Autonomous Vehicles (Closed Event) Organized by: The Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative together with the Ministry of Transportation
09:30			09:30 - 12:00 Mobility as a Service (MaaS) at the Academia-Industry-Government junction	09:30 - 12:30 B2B Meetings (Pre arranged)
10:00

					10:00 - 17:00 Startups Exhibition
11:00
12:00	Summit's Registration
12:30	OPENING REMARKS AND GREETINGS: MC: Ishai Golan
12:40	OPENING LECTURE Anat Lea Bonshtien, Chairman & Director of the Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative, Prime Minister's Office
13:00	KEYNOTE: Mobility Revolution in India – Inclusive, Sustainable and Transformational Guenter Butschek, CEO & Managing Director, TATA Motors Ltd.
13:20	KEYNOTE: Smart Mobility Revolution - Beyond Visionary Talks - Between Hype and Reality Dinesh Paliwal, President & Chief Executive Officer, HARMAN
13:40	KEYNOTE: Deep Dive - All About Autonomous Driving Amnon Shashua, Co-founder, Chairman & CTO, MobilEye			13:30 - 17:00 B2B Meetings (Pre arranged)
14:00	PANEL: Smart Mobility Revolution - The Impact of Mixing the Right Ingredients Moderator: Carlos Cardillo, Director, Nevada Center for Applied Research, University of Nevada - Reno Jacob Bangsgaard, CEO, ERTICO Assaf Biderman, Founder, Superpedestrian Johann Jungwirth, EVP Mobility Services, Volkswagen Group of America Nishant Arya, Co-Chair, CII (JBM Group)
14:45	INTERVIEW: Noam Bardin, Chief Wazer, Google Interviewed By: Ori Yogev, Founder & Chairman, Future Mobility	14:30 - 16:00 METHANOL – Revolutionary Alternative Fuel for a Better Environment
15:00	Networking Break
15:30	PANEL: Autonomous Driving - "The Road" to Implementation Moderator: Sudhir Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director, Pinnacle Industries Ltd. Chris Leck, Deputy Group Director, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore Danny Shapiro, Senior Director of Automotive, NVIDIA Richard Porter, Director Technology & Innovation, Meridian Mobility Brandon Eldredge, CFO, APTIV Mobility
16:15	LECTURE: Deep Dive - Electric Mobility Padmasree Warrior, Chief Executive Officer, NIO U.S., Chief Development Officer, NIO Board Member
16:30	PANEL: Electric Mobility - "Going Electric" - Road Map to Electrification Moderator: Bracha Halaf, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Energy Abe Chen, VP Digital Technologies, BYTON Francesco Venturini, CEO, ENEL X Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director General, DG MOVE, European Coordinator for Road Safety Andreas Pfeiffer, Head of eMobility activities, E.ON Group
17:15	End of day one

17:20 - Transportation to Hilton Tel Aviv Hotel for the Gala Dinner (*Participation in the Gala is by invitation only)

18:00 - Gala Reception (by invitation only)

19:00 - 21:30 Gala Dinner and Prize Ceremony

SECOND DAY | TUESDAY, 30 OCTOBER, 2018

	Main Hall - 'Rovina' Fuel Choices Summit	'Habima 4' Hall Side Event	'Rovina' Galllery B2B Area	'Habima' Square
08:15	Registration and Refreshments
08:45	OPENING: Yisrael Dancziger, Director General, Ministry of Environmental Protection	09:00 - 11:45 The 3^rd International Israeli Fuel Cells Consortium Workshop - Side Event
09:00	KEYNOTE: Presentation Michel Taride, President, Hertz		09:00 - 11:00 B2B Meetings (Pre arranged)	09:00 - 17:15 Startups Exhibition
09:15	PANEL: Cyber for Mobility Moderator: Roni Zehavi, CyberSpark Grant Courville, VP, Product Management and Strategy, BlackBerry (QNX Software Systems) Yoni Heilbronn, Chief Marketing Officer, Argus Gennaro Faella, Head of Strategic Business Development, Marlink Group
10:00	LECTURE: Deep Dive on Shared Mobility - What it Takes to be Shared Ole Harms, CEO, MOIA
10:15	FIRE SIDE CHAT: The Diablo is in the Details: How Digitization Affects Supercars - and everything else about the automotive industry Discussion Leader: Olaf Sakkers, Partner, Maniv Mobility Massimo Fumarola, Chief Project Management Officer, Automobili Lamborghini Philipp von Hagen, Member of the Executive Board of Porsche SE
10:35	Networking Break
11:00	FIRE SIDE CHAT: Shared Mobility Daniel Ramot, Co-founder, CEO, Via
11:15	PANEL: Shared Mobility - What are We Facing? Current and Future Trends Moderator: Alejandro Zamorano, Energy Finance's Intelligent Mobility Specialist, Bloomberg Tianguang (Tiger) Tang, Co-founder, Truck Alliance Tina Quigley, General Manager, Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada YJ Fischer, Senior Director for Government Partnerships, Bird
12:00	LECTURE: Energy Sector Targets for 2030 In The Field of Transportation Udi Adiri, Director General, Ministry of Energy
12:10	PRESENTATION: Electro-mobility is not a dream anymore. We reach the highways with promising technologies Samson Prize Winner Prof. Doron Aurbach
12:20	PRESENTATION: ''Growth through Innovation: Case Neste'' Samson Prize WInner Dr. Lars-Peter Lindfors
12:30	Lunch
13:20	PANEL: Smart Mobility in Maritime and Logistics Moderator: Hannan Carmeli, Founder & CEO, theDOCK Innovation Hub Luca Pronzati, Chief Business Innovation Officer, MSC Cruises Ran Merkazy, VP Product & Service Innovation, Lloyd's Register Johanna Fraki, Innovation Director, Wartsila Elton Fong, Vice President, PSA unboXed Costantino Baldissara, Commercial, Logistics & Operations Director, Grimaldi	13:30 - 14:30 EcoMotion Session - Startups Looking to Raise	13:30 - 16:30 B2B Meetings (Pre arranged)
14:00	PANEL: Changing the Cities - Future Planning Around Mobility Moderator: Daniel Zucker, Head of Local Market Implementation, Fuel Choices & Smart Mobility Initiative Michael Lee Sherwood, Director, Technology & Information, City of Las Vegas Paola Pisano, Head of the Innovation Department of Turin Rikesh Shah, Head of Commercial Innovation, TFL Jim Ray, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, United States Department of Transportation
14:45	Break	15:00 - 17:15 Smart Mobility Startups Festival
15:00	LECTURE: Where do we drive from here? Ami Appelbaum, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Chairman of Israel Innovation Authority
15:15	PANEL: "Show Me the Money" - Enhancing Growth in a Growing Sector Moderator: Eyal Rosner, Founder, Beyond Mobility Jim Adler, Managing Director & Board Member, Toyota Al Ventures John Suh, Vice President & CRADLE Director, Hyundai Motor Company Juergen Bilo, Managing Director, co-pace GmbH The Startup Organization of Continental
16:00	PANEL: Let the Future Begin! Moderator: Eran Sandhaus, Managing Director, Copia Growth Partners Chew Men Leong, Chief Marketing Officer, ST-Engineering Amit B. Kalyani, Executive Director, Bharat Forge Ltd. Mark Jospeh, Global Chief Development Officer, Transdev North America
16:45	CLOSING REMARKS

2018 Speakers

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel

MK Ofir Akunis

Israel's Minister of Science and Technology

Ofir Akunis serves as a Member of Knesset for the Likud Party, and Minister of Science and Technology. His prior positions include Minister in the Communications Ministry, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, and Chair of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee.

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Anat Lea Bonshtien

Chairman and Director, Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative Prime Minister's Office

Dr. Anat Lea Bonshtien serves as the Chairman and Director of the Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative, at the Prime Minister's Office. Dr. Bonshtien holds a MSc and a PhD in Biochemistry from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. In addition, Dr. Bonshtien is a former Mimshak Fellow, a science and policy fellowship program which integrates scientific knowledge with decision making.

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Ole Harms

CEO, MOIA, Transportation on Demand Services

Ole Harms is the CEO of MOIA, Transportation on Demand Services. Prior to MOIA, Harms served as an Executive Director, Head New Business Models & Mobility Services at Volkswagen Group.

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Guenter Butschek

CEO & Managing Director, TATA Motors Ltd.

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Dinesh Paliwal

President & Chief Executive Officer, HARMAN

Dinesh Paliwal is president and chief executive officer of HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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John Suh

Vice President & CRADLE Director, Hyundai Motor Company

John combines his experiences in tech startups and automotive engineering and manufacturing in his role as the head of CRADLE. Prior to joining Hyundai Motor Company, he worked at General Motors, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and several Silicon Valley startups where he has had roles in corporate investing, product management, and R&D.

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Michel Taride

President, Hertz

Michel Taride is the Group President of Hertz International covering all corporate and franchise operations across EMEA, APAC, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

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Padmasree Warrior

Chief Executive Officer, NIO U.S., Chief Development Officer, NIO Board Member

Chief executive officer of NIO in the U.S. She also serves as the chief development officer of NIO as well as a member of its board of directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NIO's autonomous, electric vehicles and the overall user experience.

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Eugene Kandel

CEO, Start-Up Nation Central

Professor Kandel is the CEO of Start-Up Nation Central, a non-profit dedicated to strengthening Israel’s innovation ecosystem. Formerly Kandel served as the Head of the National Economic Council. Kandel is the Emil Spyer Professor of Economics and Finance at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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Bracha Halaf

Chief Scientist Ministry of Energy

Chief Scientist, at the Ministry of Energy. Serves as a member of the Natural Gas Authority Council, a board member of the Israel-U.S BSF and BIRD-ENERGY, and a member of the National Council for Advancement of Women in Science and Technology.

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Jurgen Bilo

Managing Director, co-pace GmbH the Startup Organization of Continental

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Yisrael Dancziger

Director General, Ministry of Environmental Protection

Director General of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and a former entrepreneur and hi-tech CEO, Yisrael Dancziger has also been an active board member of several organizations that work on behalf of children, youth, and families at-risk, as well as those that work to promote education and employment for those with special needs.

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Philipp von Hagen

Member of the Executive Board of Porsche SE, Mitglied des Vorstands

Philipp is executive board member of Porsche SE, the majority voting shareholder in Volkswagen Group (Audi, Porsche, VW and 9 other brands). He holds degrees in economics from LSE and Oxford and worked in investment banking at Rothschild.

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Carlos Cardillo

Director, Nevada Center for Applied Research, University of Nevada - Reno

Carlos Cardillo is the Director of NCAR at UNR. NCAR is an applied research and development technology center that serves to enhance global competitiveness of Nevada industry by leveraging UNR’s physical and intellectual assets. Among several programs lead by NCAR, Carlos is leading the Intelligent Mobility Initiative, a user-centered, open-innovation, living-lab ecosystem for autonomous and connected vehicles in Northern Nevada.

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Eran Sandhaus

Managing Director, Copia Growth Partners

Eran Sandhaus is a Managing Director at Copia Growth Partners. Eran advises corporates and startups and serves on the boards of leading companies and in the field of smart mobility, autonomous driving, and connected services. He is passionate about social change and using technology as means of promoting economic development.

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Ami Appelbaum

Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board of Israel Innovation Authority

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Matthew Baldwin

Deputy Director General, DG MOVE, European Coordinator for Road Safety

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Tina Quigley

General Manager, Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada

Tina Quigley is the general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada. Tina leads the only agency in the U.S. that is solely responsible for a region’s public transit system, traffic management, roadway design, construction funding and transportation planning

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Chris Leck

Deputy Group Director, Land Transport Authority of Singapore

Chris Leck is Deputy Group Director at the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, where he oversees autonomous vehicle deployment efforts. Prior to this, he served in various capacities within the Singapore Public Service, including at the Transport and Defence Ministries.

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Danny Shapiro

Senior Director, Automotive, NVIDIA

Danny Shapiro is senior director of Automotive at NVIDIA, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the development and deployment of safe self-driving cars, trucks and shuttles. The NVIDIA automotive team is engaged with over 370 car and truck makers, tier 1 suppliers, HD mapping companies, sensor companies and startup companies that are all using the company's DRIVE hardware and software platform for autonomous vehicle development and deployment.

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Johann Jungwirth

EVP of Mobility Services, Volkswagen Group of America

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Assaf Biderman

Founder, Superpedestrian

Assaf Biderman is an inventor, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Superpedestrian, an award-winning robotics company revolutionizing personal urban mobility. Biderman’s work explores how distributed and embedded technologies can improve urban livability and create a more sustainable future.

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Amnon Shashua

Mobileye Co-founder, Chairman & CTO; Sachs Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His field of expertise is computer vision and machine learning.

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Abe Chen

VP, Digital Technologies, BYTON

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Alejandro Zamorano

Energy Finance's Intelligent Mobility Specialist, Bloomberg

As Bloomberg New Energy Finance's Intelligent Mobility Specialist in San Francisco, Alejandro conducts research relating to autonomous vehicles and mobility services globally.

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Jim Adler

Managing Director & Board Member, Toyota Al Ventures

Mr. Adler is managing director and board member at Toyota Al Ventures, where he is making early stage investments in talented, tenacious entrepreneurs from around the world in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous mobility, data, and cloud. Mr. Adler also serves as VP at Toyota Research Institute.

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Nishant Arya

Co-Chair, CII (JBM Group)

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Dr. Lars Peter Lindfors

Senior Vice President, Technology, Neste
2018 Samson Prize Winner

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Jacob Bangsgaard

Chief Executive Officer, ERTICO; President, MaaS Alliance

Jacob Bangsgaard has been leading ERTICO - ITS Europe since January 2017. ERTICO is a multi-sector platform with 120 partners from more than 25 countries promoting research and defining Intelligent Transport Systems industry standards.

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Sudhir Mehta

Chairman & Managing Director, Pinnacle Industries Ltd

Chairman & Managing Director at Pinnacle Industries Ltd, Pinnacle is India’s largest commercial vehicle seating and Interiors Company. Mehta has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Economics - Depauw University, USA and MBA in Finance & International Business - University of Chicago, USA. Co Chair CII National Startup Council & Immediate Past Chairman , CII Western Region . Serial entrepreneur who has started and successfully led several ventures in India, Spain & Israel.

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Prof. Doron Aurbach

Chemistry Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel
2018 Samson Prize Winner

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Udi Adiri

Director General, Ministry of Energy

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Francesco Venturini

CEO, ENEL X

CEO at ENEL X. Mr. Venturini graduated cum laude in Economics from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy. He is a London Business School alumnus and in 2015 he has been awarded an MBA at the MIT Sloan Business School.

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Daniel Zucker

Head of Local Market Implementation, Fuel Choices & Smart Mobility Initiative

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Andreas Pfeiffer

Head of eMobility Activities, E.ON group.

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Gennaro Faella

Head of Strategic Business Development, Marlink Group

Mr. Faella is Head of Strategic Business Development for the Marlink Group. He is responsible for establishing business development strategies for the Marlink Group and to support the initiatives of Maritime, Enterprise and Bridge Electronics divisions by identifying new ideas and ventures in line with group strategic objectives.

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Costantino Baldissara

Commercial, Logistics & Operations Director, Grimaldi Group

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Paola Pisano

Deputy Mayor for Innovation, Smart City, Demographic and Statistical Services and Information Systems, City of Torino.

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Mark Joseph

Global Chief Development Officer, Transdev North America

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Tianguang Tang

Co-founder,Truck Alliance

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Yoni Heilbronn

Chief Marketing Officer, Argus Cyber Security Ltd.

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Ori Yogev

Founder & Chairman, Future Mobility IL

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Luca Pronzati

Chief Business Innovation Officer, MSC Cruises

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Daniel Ramot

Co-founder & CEO, Via

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Rikesh Shah

Head of Commercial Innovation, Transport for London

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Amit Kalyani

Executive Director, Bharat Forge Limited

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Ran Merkazy

VP of Product & Service Innovation, Lloyd’s Register

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YJ Fischer

Senior Director for Global Partnerships, Bird

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Hannan Carmeli

Founder & CEO, theDOCK Innovation Hub

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Olaf Sakkers

Partner, Maniv Mobility

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Jim Ray

Senior Advisor to the Secretary, United States Department of Transportation

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Elton Fong,

Vice President, PSA unboXed

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Noam Bardin

CEO, Chief Wazer, Google

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Roni Zehavi

CyberSpark

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Johanna Fraki

Innovation Director, Wartsila

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Chew Men Leong

Chief Marketing Officer, ST Engineering

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Massimo Fumarola

Chief Project Management Officer, Automobili Lamborghini SpA

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Michael Lee Sherwood

Director, Technology & Innovation, City of Las Vegas

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Brandon Eldredge

CFO, APTIV Mobility

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Grant Courville

VP, Product Management & Strategy, BlackBerry (QNX Software Systems)

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Richard Porter

Director, Technology & Innovation, Meridian Mobility

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Eyal Rosner

Co-founder & Managing Director, Beyond Mobility

Founder of Beyond Mobility. Prior to this, Chairman of the Fuel Choices & Smart mobility Initiative, under PM Netanyahu. In the past, CEO of the BMG and Vice President at Bankers Trust.

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2018 Award

The 2019 SAMSON - PRIME MINISTER’S PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN ALTERNATIVE FUELS FOR TRANSPORTATION
The $1 million prize is the largest monetary prize awarded in the field of alternative energy.

THE WINNERS OF THE ERIC and SHEILA SAMSON PRIME MINISTER’S PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN ALTERNATIVE FUELS FOR TRANSPORTATION

The Eric and Sheila Samson Prize, totaling one million US dollars, is the world’s largest monetary prize awarded in the field of alternative fuels and is awarded yearly to scientists who have made critical advancements towards achieving this goal. The winners are selected from a long list of worthy candidates recommended for the prize by university presidents and CEOs in industry, from Israel and from around the world. The winners are selected by a committee of international experts who submit their recommendation to a board of trustees, headed by former Technion President, Professor Yitzhak Apeloig.

2018 Winners

Doron Aurbach

Chemistry Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Doron aurbach, full professor, chemistry, BIU, Israel, leads the electrochemistry group since 1985, develops high energy density batteries for electro-mobility, large energy storage and water desalination technologies, published > 600 papers, dozens of patents. 55 PhD and 80 MSc students received degrees under his supervision. Leads INREP-Israel National Research center for Electrochemical Propulsion (23 research groups, 6 institutions), senior editor, journal of the Electrochemical Society ,ECS, ISE, MRS fellow, recipient of Israel Chemical Society prize of excellence (2012), IBA E. B. Yeager Award (2014), the Electrochemical Society Alan Bard Award (2017), the International Society of Electrochemistry Alexander Frumkin medal (2018).

Dr. Lars Peter Lindfors

Senior Vice President, Technology, Neste

Lars Peter Lindfors received his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of technology, Sweden in 1989. He received his doctoral degree with honors in the field of chemical reaction engineering, from Åbo Academy, Finland, in 1994, while working as a researcher in catalysis at Neste.
He held several researcher and managerial research positions at Neste (1989–2001), both within the Oil & Gas and the Chemicals division. He then moved to the Perstorp Group, where he was Executive Vice President, Renewal, Technology and Development (2001–2007). He then joined Neste for the second time in 2007, taking on the responsibility as Vice President for the company's Research and Development unit (2007–2009). Now he is the Senior Vice President, Technology, being responsible for, among other units, the Research & Development, on the Corporate level. Previously he served as Senior Vice President, Technology and Strategy (2009–2012).
He has had a key role in leading the Technology development related to the Renewable Business since 2007, regarding the broadening of the feedstock base and developing process technology.
In 2013 Lars Peter Lindfors received the Finnish ‘Energy Initiative of the Year Award’ and in 2014 he was recognized with the ‘2014 CTO of the Year Award’, by the Technology Academy Finland. In 2015 he received the Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland, mark of honor by the President of Finland.

Dr. Lindfors is a board member of e.g. the Fortum Foundation and Neste Engineering Solutions

Doron Aurbach

Chemistry Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Dr. Lars Peter Lindfors

Senior Vice President, Technology, Neste

Dr. Lindfors is a board member of e.g. the Fortum Foundation and Neste Engineering Solutions