Avi Jorisch
Avi Jorisch is a seasoned entrepreneur and the author of five books, including Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World (2018), which, by 2022, will appear in over 40 languages. A former official in the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Defense, Avi is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, a member at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). He is also the founder of IMS, a merchant processing company that works with clients nationwide. In the past two decades, Avi has lectured around the world and has published articles in nearly 50 influential outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, and has appeared on CNN, CSPAN, Fox News, MSNBC and the 700 club.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the secret sauce behind Israel’s tech prowess
- Exposure to specific innovations that are curing the sick, feeding the hungry and helping the needy – and that are positively impacting the lives of billions of people
- Sneak peek into how tech will influence the world in the decades to come and how humanity is solving its grand global challenges
*This event has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit