Team:Technion-Israel/Collaborations
Eastern Mediterranean Meetup
Purpose
Although this year the Giant Jamboree will not take place at MIT-Boston, we decided that it would still be a good idea to practice presenting our projects and answering questions in a Q&A session. We invited all the iGEM groups in the Mediterranean region to join us two weeks before the deadline for the presentation video. By participating in this event, we believe that all the teams can have a chance to practice their presenting skills, get advice from different aspects as well as getting to know each other’s project at a closer look.
Participants and Lecturers
Three teams have presented in the meet up on October 21st, which were:
- Hippocrates from iGEM Patras, Greece
- sTAUbility from iGEM Tel Aviv, Israel
- ACT. from iGEM Technion, Israel
We also invited three lecturers to share with us their experience regarding the entrepreneurship world and give us tips and advice regarding our first steps in it. These guests were:
- Omri Drory (Ph.D.) from Tech.Bio.
Tech.Bio company engages in founding small companies and funding them starting from people's private ideas at the intersection of technology and biology to a startup. Omri Drory is one of the company founders and the topic of his lecture was "What it takes for small ideas to get a big fund". - Tammy Meiron (Ph.D.) from Fresh-Start.
Fresh-Start is a global food-tech incubator, providing an experienced, resourceful, and supportive international network to develop early-stage ideas and startups into maturity. Tammy Meiron is the company's Chief Technology Officer, and the topic of her lecture was "Idea and project development in food & biotech incubators". - Ilan Brajzblat from the BeeFree, the 2019 iGEM team from the Technion, Israel.
The Technion 2019 iGEM team engineered a synthetic replacement for honey called BeeFree. After the competition, four of the group's members took this project to the next stage and have been working, for the past year, to make it commercially available. Ilan came to share his experience of what it is like to take those first steps that Omri Drory and Tammy Meiron talked about just a few minutes before, which is a point-of-view that we found very important.
The Meetup
