Hackathon Challenges 2019 of the Kibbutz Industry opened at Kinneret College

Hackathon Challenges 2019 of the Kibbutz Industry with the Sustainability, Agriculture and Environment mark opens at Kinneret Academic College. Bhakthon, held in conjunction with a plant plant group, is participating
150 professionals from the kibbutzim and factories, engineers and students who will cooperate during 44 hours to achieve a breakthrough in the challenges of their solution is the time order. High emphasis is placed on finding a solution to environmental and ecological problems that companies face, as well as countries around the world such as waste and recycling and the healthy food industry.
The CEO of the Kibbutz Industry Association, Miriam Druck, who opened the Hakaton, said it was a gathering of the best minds and professionals to enable the kibbutz industry to promote innovation, collaborations and business sustainability. And the industry's coping with the challenges that lie ahead.
Menashe Shalom, CEO of Plant Plant: "We are proud to open the Akaton Challenges that strengthen the connection between agriculture, factories and academia for the benefit of the region. We have set ourselves the goal of providing solutions to the growing population of the world, along with reducing environmental damage from human activity, which we are promoting with the help of participants. "
According to Elad Shamir, executive director of the Kinneret Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the partner in Hakaton, in order to propel the northern economy forward, we must develop innovation, using the phenomenal human capital of the younger generation and the old. We can bring a significant leap, as our parents and whistleblowers did in setting up the magnificent settlement.
Among the challenges faced by the participants are the Thama company with the remaining plastic challenge in the fields, a transport plant - utilization of vacant space for transport trucks, a Plasson company with a liquidity prevention challenge in the pipeline, a thermokir company with the use of alternative materials for construction, a banana plant with the organic waste challenge and a Strauss company Water with finding a replacement for disposable glasses.