/// DREAM. DARE. DELIVER. ENCOURAGING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE ARAB SECTOR

The new 3D program (Dream. Dare. Deliver.) was created to encourage entrepreneurship and impart technological knowledge and skills to entrepreneurs from the Arab society. The program lasted two semesters, with 40 participants, experts, and mentors, in collaboration with academic professors from various fields and industry managers. The program combined guest lectures with speed dating events with leading companies in the Israeli ecosystem and prominent figures from the industry.

The program took participants from passion to action: team building, finding venture ideas, designing business models, best practices in entrepreneurship, soft skills, mentoring, and more.

It was run as a collaboration between Takwin, a top VC led founded famous serial entrepreneur Mr. Imad Telhami, Dr. Yossi Maaravi, Dean of the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship and the University’s Executive Education unit, with The Israeli Innovation Authority as a sponsor.

Among the projects presented were Buddy, an the onboarding caregiver project aimed at improving the absorption of new employees in the organization; Ovolixa, a project that offers optimization of tracking the fertility window and ovulation times during fertility treatments, through a simple home test; Biocomf, a platform for monitoring the effectiveness of medical cannabis treatment in cancer; and Sorlis, a project that develops stickers for diagnosis and monitoring treatment of pressure ulcers for those admitted to hospital or hospitalized at home.

At the closing ceremony, Dr. Maaravi, who acted as the academic director of the program, stated that its purpose is to empower participants with various skills and soft skills that they have not been exposed to in their day-to-day lives. It lets them dream big and strengthen their confidence, leadership, team management, creative thinking, while dealing better with failures. The program emphasized the acceleration of people and technological ventures while combining entrepreneurial skills, personal skills, and connections to high-tech industry leaders.

Prof. Uriel Reichman gave strength to participants with the message, “Believe in yourself, write your own life story, and don’t let others dictate it for you.”