8:30 am Departure from hotel
Sde Boker Campus
9:00 am Shark Tank BGU: The Next Big Exit
Student entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of “sharks”
Moderator: Dana Gavish-Fridman, Yazamut 360 Entrepreneurship Center
George Evens Family Auditorium
10:00 am
Learning from the Past: Public Health Crises in Historical Perspective
Annual Halpérin Event
Michel Halpérin Memorial Research Prize ceremony
And a conversation with Prof. Allan Brandt, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Moderator: Prof. Nadav Davidovich, Head, School of Public Health
George Evens Family Auditorium
11:00 am BGU Electives: Breakout Sessions
12:00 noon Lunch with students
Esther and Michel Halperin Student Center
1:00 pm BGU Radio Live
With Prof. Simon Barak, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
and Dr. Buzi Raviv, BGU Radio
George Evens Family Auditorium
2:00 pm Academia in Transition
A conversation between two presidents: Prof. Michael M. Crow, President of Arizona State University and Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, President of Ben-Gurion University
George Evens Family Auditorium
2:45 pm Return to hotel for break
5:30 pm Departure from hotel
6:15 pm Sunset Over Mamshit
Closing event at the Nabatean town declared a UNESCO world heritage site
Here Comes the Sun: performance by Israeli singer-songwriter Danny Robas