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Cyberbit | Cybersecurity Training and Simulation Platform

Looking for connections to Australian potential customers (Public sector, Gov, Defence, Enterprises and MSSP) in addition to potential distributors and resellers.

In Australia, TAFE QLD and Queensland University recently started using the Cyberbit range to train their students. Please feel free to review the videos below and see how Cyberbit has transformed its cyber training:

  1. University of Queensland, Australia chooses Cyberbit – YouTube
  2. Cyberbit delivers next-gen cyber skills to TAFE Queensland students – YouTube

If you are interested to learn more about Cyberbit, please view their website and see the brief:

Websitehttps://www.cyberbit.com/

Brief: Hundreds of organisations use Cyberbit to train their staff and students how to defend against cyber-attacks. The Cyberbit platform delivers hyper-realistic training scenarios that simulate real-world cyber-attacks in a virtual security operations center (SOC), including market-leading security tools and enterprise-grade networks. Cyberbit customers receive hands-on experience detecting, responding to, and mitigating real-world cyber-attacks and developing the muscle memory needed to respond to threats on the job. 

Some of their customers are shown below:

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Avnon Academy | Planting Knowledge – Harvesting Futures

https://avnonacademy.com/

Avnon Academy is part of Avnon Holdings, a derivative of the Avnon HLS Group activities over the past thirty years that can be applied to other market sectors not directly related to HLS and defence. The Avnon Group – is a recognised global leader of HLS & Defence solutions working with governments and HLS organisations in over 70 countries. The foundations of the Avnon Academy Group are built upon years of accumulated knowledge, experience and uncompromising professionalism.  The Avnon Academy provides professionals with new insights and capabilities to implement and help build a safer and sustainable future. 

Our mission is to create an innovative educational platform, combining ield proven expertise with advanced teaching and research methods, creating relevant, innovative, and up to-date courses appealing to students from all over the world.

The Avnon Academy Group aspires to become a primary professional academy and research center in HLS, Cybersecurity, National Security, Fin-Tech, Sustainability, Agri-Tech, Environment & Global Warming, Leadership & Capacity Building

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I-SEE-MATH | Teach Mathematical concepts in a way your students will ENJOY, UNDERSTAND and REMEMBER

https://iseemath.co/

I-SEE-MATH is an internet site with a variety of apps, covering most math topics for Grades 1-6.

Our Apps will make every lesson more effective, dynamic and fun, for the students as well as the teachers.

Each app is easy to use in class and leads students to a deeper understanding of the learning material.

Teachers can create their own lessons and save them in the cloud.

The apps were built to be used with a projector in class but can be used in remote learning via a screen sharing technology very effectively as well.

If you’re a primary school teacher, principal, software distributor for education, please get in touch for a consultation.

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EyeClick | Interactive Entertainment Platform for Kids | JoinBeam

EyeClick is an interactive technology developer and the creator of Beam (formerly EyePlay), an award-winning gaming solution for kids ages 2 and up that can turn any physical space into an immersive, active, and highly addictive gaming experience.

Beam uses projection technology that mounts to the user’s ceiling to create an immersive play space that will work on any flat surface. When activated, Beam comes to life with a variety of games and experiences that react to the movements of up to 15 kids.

Beam fosters active, healthy play in a safe, germ-free environment that doesn’t require cleanup or staffing. Beam has thousands of installations worldwide with millions of kids playing and clients that include McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Wimpy, IKEA, and Virgin.

https://joinbeam.com/about/

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HackerU

HackerU is a world-renowned leader in digital knowledge transfer, technological solutions, and cyber services. Countless professionals, companies, and organizations look to HackerU for an update on today’s latest tools, knowledge, and critical thinking skills necessary to maintain effective teams of technology and security professionals.

A powerhouse leader in the world-renowned Israeli Technology Ecosystem, HackerU is now active in over 12 countries and continues to shape the world’s global workforce.

HackerU strives to provide opportunity and upward mobility for millions of individuals worldwide. Their career-oriented training programs empower almost anyone to obtain a high-paying job in the digital workforce.

An initiative to export Israel’s core factor for its cybersecurity excellence, for Australia’s industry to blossom
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Playwork

Playwork, formerly Gemon, has developed an innovative big data solution for turning common physiotherapy equipment into smart, gamified rehabilitation products.

Playwork’s solution is designed to bring digitally connected workouts to the masses by seamlessly integrating IoT technology into existing workout equipment, making the transition easy, affordable, and natural. At the same time, it will monitor patient performance and generate data-driven care plans to maximize healthcare reimbursement.

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Start-up Nation High-Tech Versus the Coronavirus

Israel, as a global centre of research and development, is leading efforts to use technology to mitigate the coronavirus crisis on three fronts: developing a vaccine, improving testing for the virus, and innovating technological developments to improve patient care.

There have been seemingly daily updates about Israeli breakthroughs in this area. This article will try to provide a helpful overview of many of those breakthroughs and how quickly they are expected to be available for use.

Vaccines and other Treatments

Early reports that Israel was ready to export a coronavirus vaccine to the world were premature, but there are at least two important Israeli institutions working towards the development of a vaccine.

The first is Israel’s state-run Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), which has been tasked with the job of creating a vaccine by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Fifty top scientists at the Institute are working on the vaccine, in three separate teams, alongside a global biotech company with complementary expertise. On March 31, sources told Reuters that the IIBR had begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents.

Other researchers at IIBR are also involved in plasma collection from people who have recovered from infection with the novel coronavirus, hoping that this might assist in the research.

In addition, Migal Galilee Research Institute, located in Kiryat Shmona in Israel’s far-north, has spent four years working on a vaccine for a coronavirus disease in poultry that has many similarities to the current novel coronavirus which is causing the current pandemic among humans. The Institute announced in late February, that this vaccine would be adapted to deal with COVID-19.

David Zigdon, the CEO of Migal Galilee Research Institute, said his lab was working hard to accelerate the vaccine’s development.

“Our goal is to produce the vaccine during the next 8-10 weeks and to achieve safety approval in 90 days. This will be an oral vaccine, making it particularly accessible to the general public,” Zigdon said in a press release.

Meanwhile, scientists at Israel’s Weitzmann Institute of Science, together with Diamond Light Source laboratory in Oxfordshire, are “pioneering a revolutionary method of scientific research that could see a candidate for an anti-coronavirus drug emerge ‘within weeks’” according to the UK’s Jewish Chronicle.

According to Dr Nir London, who heads the team at Weizmann, the technique involves using the “crowd-sourcing of global intelligence” to quickly generate an “unprecedented amount of preliminary data” and then using tests conducted on all proposed molecules in parallel, rather than linearly, enabling scientists to follow up on “500 to a 1,000 compounds” in the same period it would normally take to test a “few tens of compounds.”

Testing

Testing for coronavirus has been a highly fraught aspect of the current outbreak given the slow pace and labour intensiveness of traditional testing methods.

Israeli researchers have committed themselves to improving testing using technology.

There are reports that in the next six weeks, an Israeli company – working under the guidance of Israel’s Defence Ministry – will be ready to test a COVID-19 screening method that uses only a patient’s voice. Through artificial intelligence technology, the test would observe the patient’s breathing and speech patterns in order to detect the illness. It would be particularly useful because possible cases could be tested from home and could also help monitor the health of patients who have already been diagnosed.

Israel’s Ministry of Defence is also trying to teach dogs from the IDF canine unit to help identify coronavirus patients by smelling saliva samples – a technique that is also being explored in other parts of the world.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology collaborating with experts at Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa, have come up with a new method of processing test results that could vastly speed up the rate at which tests for the virus can be completed. The technique, known as“pooling”, involves protocols which make it possible for a lab to test samples from up to 64 people at the same time, rather than one at a time, as is the usual practice.

Israel has also recruited more than 600 doctoral students from across the country’s top universities and medical centres to help with testing.

“The level of collaboration between faculty, physicians, health professionals and medical and graduate students at the universities, hospitals, health maintenance organisations, Magen David Adom, and Ministry of Health, is unprecedented in Israel,” said Professor Karen Avraham, Vice Dean of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine. “This will set the stage for years to come for how much we can accomplish when working together so selflessly.”

Defence industries pivot to the war against the coronavirus

Israel’s defence industries have shifted into addressing medical needs in the country. According to the Jerusalem Post, the Defense Ministry, in collaboration with medical company Inovytec and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), have completed a production line for Ventway Sparrow ventilators, established on the grounds of a classified IAI missile production site. Ventilators, ready for deployment to hospitals, have already begun rolling off the line.

Meanwhile, the IDF has tasked its famous Unit 81, the military intelligence technology unit, with working to find a way to easily convert simple and inexpensive breath regulating devices known as CPAP machines into ventilators suitable for use in intensive care units. The unit will also produce 1,000 face masks for healthcare providers a day, as well as outfit 50 vans with internal separators to protect drivers from infected patients, and produce information management software for laboratories testing for coronavirus.

Additionally, Unit 108 of the Israeli Air Force has teamed up with Microsoft Israel Research and Development, Ichilov Medical Center, Magen David Adom (MDA) and others to develop a simple respirator that could be mass-produced in labs at low cost. It is being developed as “open source” so that countries around the world could ramp up manufacturing locally, affordably and in a short period of time.

The IDF has also retooled assembly lines previously used to build seats for tanks in order to produce protective goggles for health care workers.

Harnessing the top minds at Israeli universities

All of Israel’s universities have initiated multiple research projects designed to quickly help address the coronavirus crisis:

  • The Technion: Besides the previously mentioned testing breakthrough, Haifa’s renowned Technion has 20 different laboratories at the university working on COVID-19 related projects in the spheres of diagnostics, vaccine development, therapeutics and aids for medical teams. TheTechnion academics on the job include Avi Schroeder, who is developing a targeted drug for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), based on existing drug delivery methods, while at the same time, developing a vaccine for coronavirus based on a vaccine he has previously developed for shrimps.
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: The Beersheva-based BGU has launched a “Coronavirus Task Force”, according to the Jewish News Service (JNS), “In a meeting attended by 50 scientists from diverse departments within the university, ideas were presented and the task force broke into several groups working on the most promising projects and collaborations, including self-sterilizing facemasks, medical emergency drones, a coronavirus test that could take just five minutes using chip technology, and a telemedicine and remote triage system.”
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem: A March 31 report in theTimes of Israel interviews HU Professor Shy Arkin, who is using his lab to test chemicals to be used to attack the virus. “What we’re trying to do — and again, I would hope and anticipate that others are doing — is trying to repurpose drugs” and find drugs already on the market that may be effective in reducing the most dangerous effects of the virus, Arkin told David Horovitz.
  • Tel Aviv University has opened a dedicated coronavirus research lab, which will also be able to perform 1,000 tests for coronavirus a day, adding to the country’s ability to slow the spread of the virus.
  • Bar Ilan University is experimenting with autonomous, driverless buses which could be used to transport coronavirus patients without creating unnecessary risks, and remote-sensing technology which could assist in early detection of coronavirus.

Other innovations

The Israeli company Elbit Systems has developed an automated radar-based system to measure a patient’s heartbeat, respiration rate and body temperature from a distance, without any need for physical contact by a medical worker. It is currently undergoing medical trials at Rabin Medical Center.

Israeli company Kryon Systems has developed an automation system to help Israel’s health insurance companies quickly process the mountains of data coming in from the country’s growing number of coronavirus patients – as well as those who have tested negative. Kryon is now offering this automation technology to any other health insurance providers globally free of charge, in order to help in the current pandemic.

The Israeli Defence Ministry has also developed a new software called “coronameter” which analyses data gathered from the mobile phones of Israelis to help locate likely carriers of the coronavirus in order to test them. Its use is now awaiting cabinet approval.

Other Israeli researchers are working on projects as diverse as CT scanning technology that can test for coronavirus using artificial intelligence, portable blood-testing devices for coronavirus patients who do not require hospitalisation and a sensor that allows contactless monitoring of a patient’s condition.

Once again, Israel has proven itself to be at the cutting edge in helping solve this dangerous pandemic. Time is of the essence, but Israel appears to not be wasting any of it.

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Why Israeli EdTech Continues Ranking Best in Class

The Startup Nation is not only known for its strength in high tech, but also its world-renowned academic institutions. From the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University to the Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel’s educational institutions are developing Israel’s human capital and employing some of the globe’s top academic minds– particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – to produce world-class research.

There is one area in particular where the two worlds of high tech and academia converge, applying the very best of the country’s research and innovation: education technology.

EdTech utilizes technological resources to improve the learning styles of all types of learners, from childhood to adulthood. There are an estimated 30,000 EdTech  companies across the globe and somewhere between 300 to 500 such companies in Israel.

The local ecosystem is committed to building on its impressive track record in the sector. Headquartered in southern Israel, one organization – MindCET – is bringing together educators, and entrepreneurs to develop the latest ground-breaking technologies for real-world use by students, teachers, and lifelong learners worldwide.. Established by the Center for Education Technology (CET), MindCET believes EdTech has the power to “fill the void” between education provided at school and knowledge required in adult life. Since 2012, the organization has been seeking out EdTech startups, tapping into gaming, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to transform the modern learning environment.

Here are some of the startups leading the way:

  1. Plethora  – a joint venture by the Weizmann Institute of Science and the CET – is a pedagogical platform that enables children aged between 7 to 14 years old to practice the skills required to understand complex systems, by changing a system’s behavior and watching it in action.  The platform was recently selected by the Israeli Ministry of Education to be featured at the 2019 Nationwide Cyber Championship.
  2. Inflow helps researchers refine their search for reputable publications – saving them valuable research time. Focusing primarily on the bio-medical field, the company is developing an algorithm that automatically evaluates scientific publications and ranks them according to a range of metrics, including credibility and reproducibility, in their respective field of research. 
  3. Moving beyond traditional classroom and computer-based learning, GEM (Guided Experience in Museums) is a personalized mobile app designed to enhance people’s experiences of visiting museums. Powered by AI, GEM give each unique visitor an enriching experience via their mobile app.

Market intelligence platform HolonIQ predicts the global education market will reach $10 trillion by 2030. In our digital world, technology will be central to the sector’s future growth – and Israel will be at the forefront.

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Time to Know

Time to Know is a Ed-Tech solutions company founded with the goal of enhancing human connection in digital learning. By placing the learner and instructor in the center of the learning process, they are closely connected to boost learner success. With 15 years of Ed-Tech experience and expertise working with top organizations to deliver effective learning through a social learning environment, 360° views of data analytics and actionable insights.

Time to Know is seeking a local distributor that shares this vision

 

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Chameleon Smart Media

Chameleon Smart Media is seeking to distribute its digital story book to educators in primary schools and after-school care settings. The company has developed an app-based digital story book that aims to advance children’s cognitive abilities and decision-making skills, and can easily be integrated in classroom settings.

Chameleon Smart Media is a media production house that specialises in the creation of supplemental digital educational content for children. Collaborating with university researchers, experts in education and human behavior specialists, Chameleon’s focus is on creating the most effective experiences possible while simultaneously collecting a robust amount of data that can later be assessed, measured, and analysed and offer insights on the child’s ongoing development.

The story book, “Neighborhood Watch Kids”, is a ‘choose your own adventure’ reading experience that features 10 integrated mini games, 16 decisions to make, 21 alternative endings, 280 total pages and an original soundtrack.

The story book won the U.S. Academics’ Choice Smart Media award for best mind-building media and toys.