AT&T opened a new innovation center (AT&T Foundry) in Ra’anana, Israel, together with Amdocs. The new facility is designed as a collaborative environment where AT&T and technology providers will work with start-ups and developers to “get the latest innovations and services into the hands of AT&T customers” more quickly than ever before.

AT&T Foundry development tracks include mHealth, HTML5, new ways to deliver rich media, advanced check-in and location-based applications and APIs.

The AT&T Foundry holds “speed dating” or “fast pitch” proposal reviews to evaluate projects for inclusion in the program, and anticipates more than 400 sessions to be held in locations across the globe this year alone. Earlier this week, more than a dozen fast pitch meetings were held at AT&T Foundry in Ra’anana in addition to a developer session calling for device applications for AT&T’s U-verse service.

The Ra’anana center is the second permanent AT&T Foundry facility to open worldwide that effectively replaces a temporary facility where dozens of collaborative projects have been underway since AT&T and Amdocs announced plans to collaborate last July…