AGT International

AGT International
Formation	2007
Founder	Mati Kochavi
Headquarters	Zurich, Switzerland
Interests	RFID, IOT
Membership	•  Alexander Bauer •  Martin Berchtold •  Rafael Broshi •  Tom Clegg •  Diego Costantini •  Christian Debes •  Manuel Görtz •  Mathias Held •  Roel Heremans •  Roman Katerinenko •  Aleksandra Kovacevic •  Gadi Lenz •  Bin Liu •  Rohit Mande •  Kostas Mathioudakis •  Giorgos Mazarakis •  Marek Meyer •  Konstantinos Sasloglou •  Joachim Schaper •  Markus Schlattmann •  Saied Seghatoleslami •  Pavel A. Smirnov •  Jason Stark •  Martin Strohbach •  Wenhui Zhang •  Holger Ziekow
A data analysis company founded by Israeli-born billionaire spook/businessman Mati Kochavi, including work on RFID and IOT

AGT International is a company based in Zurich, Switzerland, focused on big data analysis and security. It was founded by Israeli-born billionaire spook/businessman Mati Kochavi in 2007. The IT-company keeps a low internet profile.

Official Narrative

The webpage's about page stated on 7 May 2019:

AGT and its family of companies provide advanced IoT solution to customers in different industries all over the world. In the past few years, AGT International has worked with municipalities and partners in the manufacturing, security, agriculture, health, sports, and entertainment industries to save billions of dollars. AGT's core product, IoTA, is an IoT platform enhanced with AI technology that provides the cognitive and emotional computing skills necessary to understanding complex physical environments. IoTA provides all the building blocks required to sense, interpret, understand, and analyze the physical world through advanced sensors. Founded in 2007, AGT International is a privately held company based in Switzerland employing hundreds of highly skilled data scientists and developers in R&D centers located in Germany, Israel, and New York.

Activities

Mati Kochavi interviewed with Bill Clinton, opining that even with the technology available, predicting people is harder than ever, because of the increased complexity of "globalisation".

AGT International has been called Kochavi's "flagship company" and described as a "cybersecurity company". He founded it in Switzerland both to avoid Israeli taxes and to "shield from his Arab customers the Israeli origins of his products and services." It was reported in 2014 to have "$8-billion in projects under management and $1-billion in annual revenue.". It was given government contracts worth hundred of millions of dollars to carry out two major projects with the armed forces. Logic Industries was founded as the Israeli branch of the company, but much about it is secret, so it has no website. In 2014 it was reported to have "mushroomed from an initial 20 employees to 600, making it one of Israel’s fastest-growing companies."

The company’s business model seems not to develop its own original technologies, but rather to license various independent (mostly Israeli) technologies and integrate them for a complex security environment. AGT created 'Falcon Eye', reported by The Middle East Eye to be a nationwide surveillance system, unveiled in the UAE in 2016. The Abu Dhabi Monitoring and Control Centre (ADMCC) said the new surveillance system “links thousands of cameras spread across the city, as well as thousands of other cameras installed at facilities and buildings in the emirate.”

The company has also sold urban monitoring products for Singapore, security systems for electrical grids, and flood management systems in China and the Netherlands.

Staff

Some members of staff are listed at the group's ResearchGate profile page.

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