JERUSALEM, Israel, March 10 / IsraelNewsAgency.com - Facing Tomorrow, the first annual conference of Shimon Peres' presidency will take place in Jerusalem, Israel, May 13-15, marking Israel's milestone 60th anniversary, at the International Convention Center.
World leaders both Jewish and non-Jewish, thinkers and doers, artists and scientists, rabbis and entrepreneurs including the next generation of leadership will take part in the Facing Tomorrow Israel 60 Birthday event.
The Facing Tomorrow Israel 60 Birthday Conference will examine what the future holds for the global community, the Jewish people and the State of Israel. It will also focus on Jewish and Israel contributions to humanity.
Confirmed Facing Tomorrow Israel 60 Birthday conference participants thus far include: former British PrimeMinister Tony Blair; French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner; formerPresident of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev; former US Secretary of State, Dr.Henry Kissinger; former Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Havel; President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili; Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Ambassadors MartinIndyk and Dennis Ross, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and Professor Alan Dershowitz.
Business luminaries such as Google founder Sergey Brinn, Mark Zuckerman, founder of Facebook, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch and Ratan Tata, Chairman, the Tata Group have also confirmed their participation.
Honorary Chairs of The Israel President's Conference are: Dr. Miriam andSheldon Adelson. Sheldon Adelson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ofthe Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Miriam Adelson heads the Dr. Miriam andSheldon G. Adelson Drug Rehabilitation Clinics in both Tel Aviv and LasVegas. Yair Green, attorney-at-law, will serve as Co-Chair. Elliott Broidy,Chairman of Markstone Capital Group, is heading the Conference's Benefactor Committee.
The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) is developing the Facing Tomorrow Israel 60 Birthday conference program. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as the Chairman of the Board of JPPPI, Professor Yehezkel Dror is its Founding President, and Avinoam Bar-Yosef is the JPPPI's Director-General.
The Conference's steering committee is headed by Israel Maimon, former Israel Cabinet Secretary.
Eyal Arad, co-Chairman of the Euro Israel Group, will serve as spokesman.
Charley J. Levine, CEO of Lone Star Communications, is managing the conference's international media relations and public relations.
Yoni Sa'ar, CEO, Promarket, is in charge of production.
Contact: Elie Bennett, elie@lonestar.co.il, +972-54-4766393
SOURCE The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Contact: Elie Bennett, elie@lonestar.co.il, +972-54-4766393
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the Israel Presidential Conference
RAMAT GAN, Israel - (Israel News Agency) EarlySense, developer of the EverOn™, a continuous, contact-free, early detection, patient supervision system, announced today that it is part of a short list of sixty companies chosen to exhibit at Facing Tomorrow: the Israel Presidential Conference to be held at The Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, May 13-15, 2008.
EarlySense is also one of six companies selected from the sixty to be featured in the concluding visual presentation at the opening ceremony of the conference on May 13, 2008.
The conference will mark Israel’s 60th birthday with a preview of what the future holds for the global community. The event will feature Jewish and Israeli contributions to humanity. Guests will include presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers, statesmen, Nobel Prize winners, prominent journalists and leaders from the world’s business community.
“EarlySense’s technology promises to revolutionize patient care in hospitals, nursing homes and private homes. In fact, we are creating an entirely new industry: continuous, contact-free patient supervision, empowering clinicians to be at the right place at the right time. We are honored to be part of history in the making, by both participating in this historical international gathering and, in the long term, by positively influencing the future for patients and caregivers worldwide,” said Mr. Avner Halperin, CEO of EarlySense.
EverOn measures patient parameters from under the mattress on which the patient is lying. There are no leads or cuffs to connect to the patient, who has complete freedom of movement and need not suffer from any irritating attachments. EverOn detects heart and respiration rates as well as bed entries and exits, patient movement and quality of sleep. The device sounds an alert when a pre-set parameter threshold is crossed. EverOn also displays and records real time data on a continuous time-line. The time line is designed to help predict the deterioration of a patient’s health and consequently avert a critical event.
EarlySense also announced today that the company has begun clinical trials of the EverOn system in the U.S. The company has been and continues to conduct studies of the system in Israel at several prestigious clinical sites. The data generated to date prompted the company to begin clinical testing in the U.S.
“EarlySense plans to continue the clinical development of the system throughout 2008 and to launch the product into the market in 2009,” said Mr. Halperin.
EarlySense is developing a pioneering technology designed to advance proactive and preventive patient supervision to enable better patient outcomes. The flagship product, EverOn, is an automatic, continuous, contact-free patient supervision device. The base technology of the EverOn system was cleared by the FDA in November 2007.
EarlySense was founded in 2004 by Avner Halperin, Dr. Danny Lange, Yossi Gross, and Guy Shinar. The company is headquartered in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For additional information or to schedule an interview with Mr. Halperin, please contact Marjie Hadad, Media Liaison, at +972-54-536-5220 or marjie@netvision.net.il.
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60th Independence guest list takes shape for Facing Tomorrow:
the Israel Presidential Conference
President Shimon Peres did not invite Syrian President Bashar Assad to Facing Tomorrow, the mega-conference he is organizing, which will be held in Jerusalem from May 13-15 in celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary - despite his belief in dialogue with adversaries.
However, several presidents who were invited - most notably US President George W. Bush - have confirmed their attendance.
Like Bush, some of the other dozen presidents on the list have been to Israel before, but this will be a first visit for Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar, among others.
The agenda for the conference covers a myriad of topics, including the future of the world economy; the content and meaning of a Jewish state; the extent to which Jewish tradition is relevant in tomorrow's world; whether a green Israel is possible; the tipping point of the geopolitical arena; Israel's ability to continue to be a leading contender in the world of science; and cultivating future leaders of Israel and the Jewish people.
Expected presidential attendees include: Victor Yushchenko of Ukraine; Lech Kaczynski of Poland; Paul Kagame of Rwanda; Michael Saakashvili of Georgia; Stjepan Mesic of Croatia; Bamir Topi of Albania; Blaise Campoare of Burkina Faso; Danilo Türk of Slovenia, Tommy Remengesau Jr. of Palau; and Valdis Zatlers of Latvia.
The prime ministers of the Slovak Republic and of Hungary, Robert Fico and Ferenc Gyurcsany, will also take part, as will several former world leaders, among them Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair and Henry Kissinger.
As a Nobel Prize winner, Peres thought it important to invite other Nobel Prize laureates, at least seven of whom will be coming to Israel to share their views of the future.
The influx of so many dignitaries will provide logistical challenges for the Foreign Ministry and the tourism industry, as hotels in Jerusalem will be fully occupied.
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