Member of global strategy team at Better Place to teach master class in Almaty

ALMATY. June 14. KAZINFORM International Forum "Innovations: the age of contentious revolutions" has started today in Almaty.

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"Global trends of innovative development," "Kazakhstan's transition from raw economy model to innovative one", "Models of business innovative development " and many others themes are being considered within the Forum.

The participants will have a unique chance to visit author's master-class - Jonathan Adiri, who is the founder of Chief Executive Officer of Diagnose.Me Company.

Jonathan Adiri is a member of the global strategy team at Better Place, the world's first electric vehicle network provider. From 2008 to 2011, Adiri served as Chief Technology Officer to the President of Israel, where he was the architect of an innovative diplomatic strategy driven by scientific and technological advancements. In recognition of his achievements in this role, Adiri was among an exclusive group of 30 leaders selected to the inaugural class of NASA's Singularity University, where he co-founded www.getaround.com. The company won the prestigious 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt award. Adiri started his career as a combat zone negotiator between the Israel Defense Forces and the ICRC. He holds earned an MA in Counter Terrorism and Law from Northwestern University.

The Adiri's master-class devoted to a "X of Disruption " factor, that displayed how an accelerated technological growth causes price reduction, poses challenges facing today's leaders, and to what structural changes it leads, at the the example of such industries as defense, the economy, health care, etc.

According to Adiri, modern global challenges to a sustainable human development form a request for innovations. Innovations, new technologies' development are one of the main vectors of Kazakhstan's economy modernization. In this context, issues of the effectiveness of innovation's development mechanisms and the success of technology transfer become more actual.