For the eighth time: The Smart Transportation Conference of the Prime Minister's Office will be held in Tel Aviv

The Prime Minister's Office's Smart Transport Conference is back.

This is after a one-year break in the Corona period.

This will be the eighth time the conference is being held and it will take place between 8-9.11 in Tel Aviv.

This year, too, more than 5,000 participants from 60 countries are expected to attend the conference, along with many speakers, including senior government officials.

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From the automotive industry you can find a respectable list of speakers: Martin Yahan, a senior Skoda sales and marketing expert, Dr. Luke Goliya, the CSO of the Renault Group, and who was responsible for the development of Apple pots, Tiffany Cho, founder of REMIX and senior vice president at -Via, Prof. Alex Pentland of MIT, one of the world's most important data scientists in collaboration with Google's founders and former Google board member, Estee Peshin, IAI's cyber director, Giovanna Desposito, Southern Europe's regional director at uber, Yunseung Wang , Head of innovation at Hyundai and also Arkady Wolutz, CEO of Yandex.

The main interest at this year's conference will revolve around the important issues in the industry today: vehicle electrification, artificial intelligence and big data and its impact on the world of transportation, the transition to transportation as a service (MAAS) and more. In addition, the event will include a startup exhibition, in which about 70 start-up companies in the field of smart transportation in Israel will physically entertain the participants to allow them to be impressed by their activities with tangible demonstrations. Among the companies presenting are Hailo, which develops artificial intelligence processors for end devices, Innoviz, which develops laser sensors (LiDAR) that allow the vehicle to "see" its surroundings and detect obstacles, and is traded on NASDAQ, the cooperative transport company GoTo Global (formerly Car To Go, operator of Ototel and CAR2GO) and the payment and travel planning company HopOn which has the app for paying by public transport.

In addition, Arbe, a radar company that recently became the first imaging radar company on NASDAQ, NoTraffic, which has developed a traffic management platform that makes urban intersections digital and serves over a million vehicles in the US, and Foretellix, which develops automated authentication and testing solutions .

In the two-wheeled field, RiderDome will present its system that provides real-time warnings to prevent accidents, Anachoic whose system can be installed on helmets and detects dangers and threats 360 degrees and up to one hundred meters with voice and more.

The conference will be held at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv on 8-9.11 from 12:30 - 18:00.