The UK Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy Israel helps drive economic growth in both countries by helping British companies partner with the best of Israeli innovation. The goal is to create partnerships in which British companies gain a global competitive edge via Israeli innovation, and Israeli innovation goes global via the UK.
Learn more about some of our different activities across sectors.
Our activities
A delegation of leading UK retail executives visited Israel to explore opportunities in Future Retail (May 2013)
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove visits Israel and meets cutting edge ed-tech start-ups interested in UK partnerships (December 2013)
GSK's Discovery Partnerships with Academia (DPAc) group visit Israel to explore collaboration opportunities with Israeli researchers to develop new medicines
A delegation of leading UK retail executives visited Israel to explore opportunities in Future Retail (May 2013)
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We organise targeted business delegations between the UK and Israel, offering leading companies and technology experts from both sides unique platforms to identify and pursue collaborations and business opportunities. We also organise bespoke visits for top policymakers or companies to pursue strategic innovation partnerships and exchange best practices.
Business Delegations & Visits
Conferences & Workshops
We bring together leading experts from the UK and Israel to present expertise, research and opportunities in each of our sector areas. Our conferences and workshops always look for the practical angle - identifying possibilities for business and technology collaboration.
Workshop series for Arab tech entrepreneurs in Israel, preparing them to “go global” and create partnerships with British counterparts around the booming opportunity in Arabic Digital Content
A two-day workshop for Israeli medtech and pharma companies on clinical research opportunities in the UK, led by NOCRI (the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure) in November 2013
A delegation from the British water industry participated in WATEC, Israel’s biennial Water Technologies Conference and Exhibition, and held a workshop on collaboration opportunities (October 2013)
Workshop series for Arab tech entrepreneurs in Israel, preparing them to “go global” and create partnerships with British counterparts around the booming opportunity in Arabic Digital Content
Information and Policy
We bring together leading experts and policymakers from the UK and Israel to exchange information and best practices and develop better policy driving innovation, technology cooperation and economic growth in both countries.
Council Co-Chairs UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, meets Israeli Chief Scientist Avi Hasson, at the first UK Israel Tech Council meeting, March 2012.
UK Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude and Chief Technology Officer Liam Maxwell, hosted by Prof Peretz Lavie, President of the Technion Institute of Science in Israel. On a subsequent visit, CTO Maxwell signed a digital government pact with the Israeli government.
Reception and Panel on UK Israel Tech collaboration hosted by Foreign Secretary William Hague in London, July 2013
Council Co-Chairs UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, meets Israeli Chief Scientist Avi Hasson, at the first UK Israel Tech Council meeting, March 2012.
Networking events
We hold targeted networking events in the UK and Israel which bring together leading figures and business people within each sector, creating opportunities to meet potential business and technology partners - and have fun!
A UK-Israel tech exchange programme taking leading Israeli internet entrepreneurs to meet potential partners in the UK (November 2012)
Joanna Shields, Chief Executive of Tech City UK, visits Israel as the guest speaker at the Hub's two-year anniversary event, with over 200 senior business guests (October 2013)
Dinner organised by the Tech Hub for visiting UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Lord Stephen Green, March 2013
A UK-Israel tech exchange programme taking leading Israeli internet entrepreneurs to meet potential partners in the UK (November 2012)