Events

Featured at the 20th Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles was our panel on Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies and two related working sessions on scaling technologies and implementation of the Cal-Israel MOU. The panel, moderated by Prof. Yago, featured Clare Akamanzi, CEO, Rwanda Development Board; Jeremy Bentley, Head of Financial Institutions and Public Sector, Citi Israel; Richard Blum, Chairman, Blum Capital-Founder, Blum Centers for Developing Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Groner, Director General, Prime Minister’s Office, Israel; Angela Homsi, Director, Angaza-Africa Impact Innovation Fund; Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture.  Two additional sessions covered Scaling Technology for Developing Economies and the California-Israel MOU 2.0: Lessons Learned.  Speakers included Former Gov. Gray Davis, Senator Robert Hertzberg, Prof. David Zilberman, Michelle Moskowitz, and MaryAnne McCormack of UC-Berkeley, Naty Barak of Netafim, and Michael Ben-Eli of the Sustainability Laboratory.