So, hi, everyone. Uh I'm a get it down there and uh I will share with you uh my journey uh with Von. Yeah, just a minute, please. This is actually the last day. Yeah. Uh OK, you can see my screen, right?And the Von is actually uh something about recognizing an opportunity and doing something about it. And um it has been uh established, it, it was established during COVID-19 when everyone was uh locked down and uh it's about experimental hackathons. So if you don't know what are hackathons, I will explain. But first, I want to share with you uh uh my background. So you understand how I connected the dots uh in my journey a when I was about 20 years old, I uh understood that um if I want to fulfill my skills and uh my um uh full potential, I would have to be a entrepreneur. And uh I established a company with my husband uh named uh named Galli, which is Galli and Eldad, his name and the 3.14. And I believe, you know what it is uh the pie. And then we developed over the years many uh projects you can see here uh the list of them. And what I actually want to show you is that all the X are those who failed and the, those with the ticks are those who succeeded, that succeeded.

And um uh most of them failed. And actually this is the, the journey of an entrepreneurs. Uh you try and uh in most cases you will fail and that's exactly what happened to us and it's not easy because uh to fail uh over and over again as you can see, but that's the way you choose to live. Actually, we succeeded. Um uh 20 35% of our ventures were success. And I, I don't know if you know, but this is pre pretty good because um in most cases, we talk about 1 to 10% of uh success. And what I want to share with you is my uh last one Von and how I uh came to this um uh venture. So to, to go back, I will share with you uh the entrepreneurship for Kids program which I uh developed. And um it started as a side project and um become a great success, not just in Israel, uh where I am coming from, sorry. Uh when I, where I'm coming from. And um actually it started at 2009 when my son was at the seven at the sixth grade. And the I taught students uh about the entrepreneurial skills, how we uh define uh opportunities needs and what we can do about them. And then I will show you that over the years, many schools uh joined uh uh this program here in Israel.

Uh currently is, it is one of the most popular uh entrepreneurial programs for schools. I will skip it. So I started with, by teaching the students themselves. I went from school to school and taught to the students. A I did it for a few years. Then I reached what we call a product market fit. And when I reached this and I wanted to expand, I found that the best way to do it is to teach uh train the teachers and they will teach the students. And that's what I have done since then, I teach the teachers and they teach the students. And in this way, I can reach many, many students um all over Israel, but not just in Israel. So you can see here what I this is in Hebrew. It means EFK entrepreneurship for kids. I started with elementary schools and then um junior high schools and high schools asked me to make such a program for them as well. So I uh uh uh made something for uh for them. And then I thought for myself, why only in Israel, why not spread to other country uh countries? And then I uh translated the program into English. I am uh established a website in English the same as in hew. And what happened was that um people all over the world that are looking to teach um students, young students, entrepreneurial skills that I truly believe this is something e essential for them to succeed in life. Uh They find find me and they start teaching this program.

So the first one was the school in um the USA then uh it was just one school but then a company from China uh reached me and they um got a license to teach the program in China. And in Hong Kong after that, for uh the same happened with the uh company from India and Vietnam and uh Papua, New Guinea and South Africa. And in Brazil, it's the one school you can see here that the Vietnamese came to Israel and the also the Indians team came to Israel. Uh I trained them, I took them to schools and then they went back to their countries and they teach the program in their countries and it spread. And during the COVID-19, what happened is that uh we can't meet uh and this is the team from uh uh South Africa. So we did it online and this is a team from uh USA. So this is one part of my journey of teaching entrepreneur skills, entrepreneurship program uh in schools.

But when you do this, um you come to the hackathons and hackathons, I I believe, you know, but I will say uh it it's a competition events where participants sit in teams and they come up with ideas for ventures, they try to solve problems. They uh that uh we present to them, they do it in a limited time, but on a certain issue or topic and at the end, they all make their pitch or uh present a prototype and then we choose the winners. So this is a kind of hackathons. It can be for a few hours or even three days, even more. And I uh because of my old tech ventures, I took these hackathons from the high tech and uh make adaptations to the uh schools. And actually I led the first hackathon uh for students in Israel. Uh there were students from four schools um in uh four different cities in the country that uh gathered and the, the students sit together and try to solve problems here. You can see that they presented their prototypes to everyone. And then I started to make hackathons for um educators and the organizations and many others um uh uh uh audiences. So this was hackathons and the entrepreneurship for kids program. I just say tell you about the dots. OK. These were two dots. So the third dot was that my program, entrepreneurship program actually is not technological one, but there was only one element that was uh uh uh an internet app and it was the business plan.

Uh We built this app because uh we wanted when I say we, I mean, I mean, me and my husband because he is a great programmer and the a uh we built this app because we wanted uh to save papers to schools because there are many students and the business plan uh has uh uh at least five pages and we wanted to save the pages for the schools.

What happened actually was that all those that said, wow, this is great. We will use it. No one use it. So um no one used uh uh this feature of the entrepreneurship uh for kids program. But then COVID-19 entered our life and uh then we uh uh students couldn't sit together but only online. And we thought that OK, we can take this feature and make adaptations for um hackathons. Uh I will show you in a minute, what, what does it mean? But what we did is actually it helps us uh lead uh virtual hackathons. Um So we called it von from virtual hackathons. Uh And we led the first virtual hackathon for students and I I in Israel. But I, I think it was, it was in uh April 2020 20. And I believe that uh it was the first virtual hackathon for students uh all over the uh in, in, in the world, not just in Israel. And um I'm proud to say that before all the um high tech uh programmers and the adults, the first who uh went to uh participate in a virtual hackathon were students in third to sixth graders and I think it was amazing. Uh This is the young girl uh Yael, her name is Yael. She won the first place in this hackathon then. Um of course, all the time we change and uh uh improve uh von.

Uh but the second um organization that uh took it to lead a ha a virtual hackathon was uh the tech Technion institution. I don't know if you know, but this is one of the most um uh exclusive uh uh institution in Israel for a high education. And they uh took uh vic Aon and led the um virtual hackathon. They did it twice, then they did another one. And then the, the Ministry of uh the Foreign Ministry in Israel also led a hackathon for um for educators from uh developed countries. And uh this is another uh hackathon for teenagers. Uh It was uh dedicated and to solve problems about health and social and social impact. And this is a virtual hackathon for students from four countries. India, Israel, China and Kong. They all set together, working on vicat and on zoom together. Uh This is how um what we made, what makes Von so unique is um that features but not features that it's, I think it's about how you lead hackathons. So you can uh it, it's good for unlimited number of teams uh that can work simultaneously uh it's a very friendly and intuitive uh user interface. Uh I told you that the students in the third grade work on it but also, um people from the high tech uh walked on it. It, it's something that everyone can just enter and know what to do.

Um in hackathons, I don't know if, you know, but uh one of the problems is that um teams work on their projects but after the hackathon ends, uh only, you know, only about the winners. Uh All other information uh usually uh lost here. You have all related materials in one place and it can be saved and you can be used and you can continue working on it um later. Um OK, we don't collect um uh information about the participants. You can use even nicknames. Uh uh the mentors in hackathons, there are mentors who guide the participants. So we did it the same in our virtual hackathons. Uh mentors can uh uh answer questions that the participants asked on the uh on the document. And uh it's uh has real time synchronized uh accessibility from any device because it's an internet app. Um uh We use it, I told you in uh China in uh Hong Kong, in uh India, Israel. So you know that it can be uh easily uh customized to any language in Chinese Hebrew English. Uh There are uh integrated uh tutorials that can guide the participants. And uh at least with like in real hackathons where you vote for your um um most favor uh ventures you can do the same in on Von. So this is about uh Von uh for leading experimental hackathons.

Uh If I started before COVID-19 in F with fal hackathons, uh then we uh now we do hybrid hackathons because, and during COVID nine, we did only virtual hackathons, but it can be any combination. And uh this is what makes uh it's so flexible for us to lead hackathons. And uh this is my last slide. I want to talk about the impact of uh running such hackathons. Um Because what I see when I do it, I, I think it's amazing. Um First, we bring innovation to everywhere, everywhere and to anyone. Uh it doesn't matter where you live as long as you have an internet, you can join the, these hackathons and um bring yourself uh be innovative and the working teams. Um Also, we can use the uh uh mass um uh uh um you know, walking together and coming up with the idea uh brainstorming of uh of uh many people together because uh we have all have uh uh issues and problems that we can uh get help from people all over the world to solve them.

It's not just the only Israel can solve the problems. Once you, we communicate with other people in the world, it uh we can uh even come with more um with better solutions it brings opportunity uh to people to be proactive and uh people who sit at home uh and don't know what to do with themselves or uh think, how can there are so many problems out there?

But what can they do about, what can they do about them here? We give them a platform come you can do, of course, we connecting people. Uh I can tell you that working together is Israeli students with Chinese and Indians. It makes something uh uh getting the cul uh knowing the other cultures and it um not just connecting people, but it makes them um understand each other. And it's about the empowerment. We empower those who participate in the hackathons because we um they also learn many things from the entrepreneurial arena in a very short time and they acquire life skills uh in uh in, in, in an entrepreneurial uh event. They learn many life skills from the entrepreneurial arena, uh like team walking, uh walking under pressure, public speaking, uh problem solving, creativity, many other things. OK? I don't think I have a time. Um But this is the way all the participants enter the vat on each vat uh has a name, we call it uh organization name and each team has its own code. So once uh there is a team that wants to work together, they uh put here their code and they work on the same uh file. And we as the, as the uh moderators can see uh at what stage they are.

If they have questions, we get notifications and we know, OK, team number this and this has a questions and we can give them answers. Uh That's it. Uh I had my 20 minutes here. Uh I hope you enjoyed this session and it would be my pleasure to connect with you on linkedin. I may uh put this uh on the, on the chat if you want. Thank you very much.