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Are you a top-notch Smart City or IoT Israeli startup?

 
 

Join us in Harish at the 1st Urban Innovation Center

and gain your PoC before an international outreach!

Who can apply?

We are looking for Smart City / IoT solutions that already have a working product (at least a beta). So, if you’re eager to disrupt the cities with a solution in either: smart mobility, smart retail, smart energy, smart health, smart food or smart community; get you solution working with us. Innovative large enterprises are welcome to join at special conditions.

A City
is calling!

Harish is the only new city built from scratch in the developed world; it is set as a national project to be a Smart City. You will get at the Harish Innovation Center (HIC) the most convenient area and support to make your experiments in a city, collect real-life usage statistics for your improvements and get feedback from early adopters who want to see you succeed. The city’s calling you, are you ready to answer?

The Opportunity

Beginning soon, we want to help you deploy your solution in Harish -it’s about time to boost the “tachless”! So we’re putting in place an urban lab and a post-accelerator program with technology sessions and all help and support needed to make your experiments a success. Did I say we’ve got key players and experts waiting for you too?

What is it
for you?

First, you get the optimal site in Israel to make your proof of concept in the city; just because the whole city is being built from scratch with the Smart City vision!
Second, we’ll take care to bring in the right city leads, partners and investors to help you scale.
We’ll have periodically events with disruptive startups and VIP guests, opportunity seekers, government agencies and experts from the field.

 

Interested? Tell us more about your Urban Product or Solution

 
 

Our Partners

 
 

The Urban Innovation Center Team

 
 

Arik Ben-Yair
CFO and Biz Dev

 

Yossi Dan
Cofounder & VP EMEA

 

Erez Mizrachi
Cofounder & COO

 

David Ben Ichou
Sustainability & Social Innovation

 
 

About HIC

1. Forum set-up

  • We have created an Expert Forum of mentors & consultants in the Smart City field who will help foster urban innovation. We expect to get on board mentors and experts in every major city field at the first batch.
  • When relevant, partners and sponsors will be able to take part in the Expert Forum and contribute to the startups before, during and after the deployment.

2. Engaging the
local community

  • Harish Innovation Center is located in the main boulevard of the city. As such, it will have maximum interaction with the city inhabitants.
  • Most of the Harish inhabitants are yet to come, while each one of them is passing through the “Welcoming New Residents Center”, that will be the first point of engagement with the population and where they will register to the Innovation Center community too.

3- Coaching
the startups

  • Fine-tune all the aspects of the startup before their PoC deployment.
  • Define with every startup its product and technology KPIs.
  • Major help from the Forum, the partners and local community.

4. Deploying
the solutions

  • Deploy the startups’ solution in the Innovation Center and/or with the participation of the early adopters community of individuals and professionals.
  • Quick test/improve iterations of the startups’ solution at all levels to obtain disruptive offers and identify the highest value for the users and customers.

5. Showcase
& events

  • Our showcase will feature the startups PoC and solutions. You may also compete for winning the yearly “Harish Urban Innovation Center” award.
  • The whole innovation ecosystem will be invited: the municipality and gov. agencies, the media, investors, customers and professionals will join… and gain visibility!
 

About Harish

  • Harish is located in the North end of the Sharon district and on Highway 6, making it accessible from any place in Israel
  • Harish is a city built from scratch and is one of its kind in the western world today
  • The city is considered a national project and as such, has benefits for residents and businesses

Harish is built in the high paced ever in terms of building and development; planned to host 100,000 inhabitants within less than 10 years.

The Mayor of Harish is dedicated to building a Smart City and making it accessible to innovation as the largest “pilot city” in Israel.

 
 

What is it for the City? (empowered by Challengy)

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✔ Helping the municipality on the Smarter City challenges

  • Coaching the top-leadership team
  • Helping to develop the city vision
  • Enabling the internal teams engagement

✔ Enabling innovation by building and engaging the ecosystem

  • For inhabitants
    • improve resident-centric services via innovation
    • identify and grow local talent via creativity and innovation-based education
    • engage the citizens via the community, events and more
  • For Businesses
    • set-up and develop PPP (public private partnerships)
    • grow the local startups & strategic businesses (convert, foster or attract new)
    • engage the professionals (conferences, hackathons, accelerator and more)