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John Chambers spoke on a panel at a "Leadership and Innovation" conference held to mark the anniversary of the death of Shimon Peres.


Outstanding figures of the world of high technology gathered today on an occasion entitled "Leadership and Innovation" held on the occasion of the commemoration of the death of the new Israeli president, Shimon Peres. Among those who attended were the son of Peres and president of the center of Peres for Peace and Innovation, Chemi Peres; social entrepreneur Adi Altschuler; founder of Innovation Africa, Sivan Yaari; Professor Hossam Haick of Technion; Chief Executive Officer of Cisco John Chambers; Check Point Gil Shwed; Orit Gadiesh, president of management consultant Bain & Company; and Joe Schoendorf, partner of Accel Partners.

Before the conference, President Reuven Rivlin said: "This morning, a study was published by the chief economist and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, which again shows in black and white that integration into Israeli high technology remains a function of family history, socio-economic status and place of residence, instead of talent, ambition and hard work. We need to change this image. A clear work plan is needed. Practical, along with courageous vision and compromise implementation. "

With reference to a government plan for the promotion of human capital, Rivlin said: "This is an important program that understands and understands that the fervent need for engineers, programmers and developers is nothing more than a national need is not.

"Everyone today has a responsibility, a role and an opportunity to keep the Israeli innovasiebedryf for the next years, the rocket. It was the dream of my friend, the ninth president of Israel, Shimon Peres. It was his faith and now It's in our hands, "said Rivlin.

At a round table on innovation and future, John Chambers said he has recently found dozens of launches worldwide. "Technology is developing rapidly and has to strengthen its competitiveness in the state of Israel. In a few years, 50% of the work we know today becomes irrelevant. It's time to bring new ones sectors of the population to innovation, "he said.

"Network security is the most important issue in the field of criminals and terrorists using the cyber war, and it can paralyze our lives," said Shwed. Add: "Unfortunately, we are much more vulnerable than we think."

Chambers closed the panel saying: "I have never been more optimistic than I now have about Israel as an innovative country that influences the world." He also said that France has recently become an advanced country of departure and that "will be the economic engine of Europe and overcome Germany and Great Britain."