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Amir is a VP Investments & Business Development at InNegev Incubator which invests in promising ventures in the fields of Climate Tech, Food Tech, Agritech, Prior to that Amir was Investment banking Manager leading major transactions. Also as a student Amir was the president of the Student board of the Management school in the Hebrew university.

As a former award-winning BBC News and Current Affairs journalist, Keren covered the top news and current affairs stories for more than a decade and led the news, political and social agenda during her tenure. Leaving the BBC after 14 years, Keren moved to marketing leadership roles in the technology space and volunteered as the spokesperson for various non-profits to help advance their valuable g...

A Harvard graduate, Tamara held Producer and Executive Producer roles at production companies in London, NYC and LA. Producing content for global brands and artists such as Converse, MasterCard, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. She launched the Digital division of Pulse Films and their NYC operation. In 2015 VICE Media acquired Pulse. Tamara has won awards from Webby's to Gold Cannes Lions....

Bill has 30+ years’ experience as an executive coach, senior line manager, clinician (licensed in NY and CT) and academic. Bill has advised executives from multiple industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and technology companies, and worked with CEOs and teams at the C-suite, managing director, and general/functional management levels. Bill started his own software...

Participants: Yael Benjamin, Founder, Y.Benjamin Strategic Marketing Nimrod Vromen, CEO, Consiglieri Liat Aaronson, Co-Founder, Horizen Labs, Prev. Exec Director of Zell (IDC) Timor Arbel-Sadras, CEO, LeumiTech

Guy Franklin is the founder and General Partner of ‘Israeli Mapped in NY’, an interactive platform of the Israeli startups operating in NY. The platform serves as a one stop shop which connects the startups to the local ecosystem in NYC including investors, corporates and business opportunities. The platform Franklin created received several awards and recognitions, as this was something that chan...

Taly is an experienced CEO and strategy leader in global companies. She brings over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and in expanding product lines using innovative strategies and brand management. Taly holds a BA in Economics and an MBA, both from Tel-Aviv University

Yael is an EVP of Synamedia Security Business and the head of Synamedia Israel. Synamedia is a leading technology company working with the world’s leading streaming platforms, studios, and sports leagues to protect their content from industrialized piracy and to provide consumers the best possible experience for consuming the video content. Yael has more than 25 years of experience in the technolo...

Micha is a repeat entrepreneur who’s founded a few great businesses (e.g. chorus.ai acquired for $575M by ZoomInfo), and a few less successful ones. He’s currently Co-founder and CEO of NeuraLight.ai – a venture-backed startup on a mission to transform the lives of more than 1 billion people suffering from neurological disorders by digitizing neurological insights and care – a venture he hopes bec...

Ralf is a visionary business leader and creator of the Soul System™, a framework that aligns value-creating employee action with broader corporate strategy through shared understanding and shared purpose. As a founding partner of Spark44, he was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover, which grew under his leadership as CEO to a global revenue of $100+m...

Eyal Amir is the CEO and founder of Parknav, a growing startup that offers AI technology to find parking in real-time.

Shiran is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shield. He has over 20 years of technology and management expertise, mainly in the Financial Services vertical. Prior to Shield Shiran was the Head of Sales at TM-Group, managing the company’s major tier 1 bank accounts. Shiran brings to Shield many years as a trusted advisor and a subject matter expert in the financial compliance market. In early 2018, Shiran c...

Or is the Partner and Head Of Global Innovation at Arieli Capital. Arieli Capital is a successful venture capital firm, that operates in a very different model from its industry – the investment model is "evergreen", not looking for fast exits. It is a combination of a private equity and VC. Their investors are mostly wealth management entities and family offices. They have a unique inve...

Avishay Bransky, Ph. D., CEO and co-founder of PixCell Medical, is an expert in microfluidics, with extensive industrial experience in applied physics, software, and systems engineering. He is one of the inventors of the Viscoelastic Focusing technique, cell analysis methods, and the microfluidic-based cartridge. Dr. Bransky holds a B.A. in Physics, B.Sc. in Materials Engineering, and a Ph. D. in...

Adi is an internationally renowned expert in innovation and business development, specializing in strategy, partnership building, and global networking. Today, Adi is Managing Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Israel Hub, an organization that aims to create synergies between the European innovation community and the Israeli ecosystem, founding strong collaborati...

Gareth is the President UK&EU at Doceree, the world’s first global platform for programmatic physician marketing. Prior to Doceree Gareth worked on the senior leadership team at PulsePoint where he helped scale the business to the point where they were strategically acquired by WebMD. Gareth has over 15 years experience in digital holding roles at Yahoo and Experian. It was at PulsePoint that...

Yotam is the CEO & Co-Founder Gynica, a medical company at the forefront of therapeutic cannabis research & development in the field of women’s health. Previously, Yotam was the CEO & Co-Founder of Lumir Lab, a global leading cannabis research & development laboratory, aimed to provide evidence-based cannabis solutions. Both companies are subsidiaries of Asana Bio Group, a holding...

Ari is the Co-founder and CEO of KANDO, protecting public health and the environment though wastewater. Ari is an expert in wastewater and environmental technologies with more than 15 years’ experience in the field of wastewater management. As the VP of DHVMED, Ari led multidisciplinary environmental projects, while managing international teams. Environmental Technologies at the Ministry of Enviro...

Yanir is CEO and co-founder of Whatslly. He has more than 12 years of entrepreneurship background and vast experience in the management and development of B2B SaaS Solutions. In 2009, Yanir became the first employee of an Israeli startup called Insightera, which was acquired by Marketo, the leading Marketing Automation solution in 2013. He later founded Calisar Solutions LTD, a marketing solutions...

Moran is the Vice president of Global operations at Semperis, assigned to support the continued growth of Semperis’ global organization. She has been the chief of staff of Izhar Shay in the ministry of science and technology since 2020. Prior to this, Moran was the co-founder and CEO of the largest tech media brand in Israel “Geektime”, for 11 years. She also co-founded in 2011 the first start up...

During his career working in the high-tech corporate world, Jeff Shardell learned that the deodorant he used daily was filled with harmful chemicals linked to cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and other illnesses. He realized his body was likely absorbing these nasty chemicals and decided something had to change. Jeff wanted to see if he could make a truly natural deodorant that actually worked, w...

Anat is co-founder and managing partner at Aristagora VC. Prior to establishing Aristagora VC, Anat was a VP, head of the Asia Practice at Discount Capital Underwriting, a subsidiary of Discount Bank. Prior to that, Anat led the Asia Practice at one of Israel's largest law firms. Anat has expensive experience in advising Asian based investors and leading investment transactions in the Israeli...

Manu leads the marketing at Walnut.io. He worked for 7 years at Wix, where he managed the social presence and blogs - and took part in 5 Super Bowl campaigns.  He has also spoken about social media content at many marketing events, including Social Media Week. Most recently, Manu created an employer branding video for Walnut that went viral in Israel (and did it in less than a week).

Miriam Mark serves as CRO of Compete, a company revolutionizing the world of HR Tech. Prior to that as an executive member of the core sales team at WeWork she was instrumental in building their global sales organization from acquisition to retention and growth. Miriam began her career at Shopping.com, an online comparison shopping company which was acquired by ebay. Prior to her current position,...

Ziv Binyamini is the CEO of Foretellix, a company dedicated to autonomous vehicles verification and safety. He is a world-renowned verification visionary with more than 30 years of experience. Previously, Ziv served as Corporate VP at Cadence, running its simulation and verification business. He also served as VP of R&D at Verisity and at Intel, leading the development of Coverage Driven V...