HopOn is the pioneer app for transit payments in Israel. It serves more than 1M users a month who use our services for navigating and paying through their commute on buses, trains and big taxis. HopOn today has a presence in 5 different countries, which include (Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, UK and Israel). it was founded in 2013 by Ofer Sinai, while he was taking his daily commute from Petah Tikva towards the KPMG office in Tel Aviv.
Zviki founded Lightico to empower businesses to effectively sell and service customers completely in the first call. Zviki is an expert in contact center management technologies in the field of innovation and analytics. His experiences in contact center management and technologies have sharpened his industry knowledge and his innovations have impacted millions of customer interactions. Prior to Lightico, Zviki led product innovation and deployment across leading CX companies including Nice Syste...
Eli can't sleep at night (literally) when an idea is bumped into his mind. He won't relax until he materializes it. He is an entrepreneur since he can remember himself, and raised money for his first startup when he was a cab driver on a ride from Jaffa to Ramat Aviv.
Madison Campbell is a trailblazer and sexual assault advocate. After going to college to study epidemiology in space populations, Madison has become a well-seasoned entrepreneur. She led a company prior to Leda Health called “Iyanu,” which was a software development shop based in Lagos, Nigeria. Today, she is working hard to promote the autonomy and self-actualization of sexual assault survivors through Leda Health by developing and providing resources to help them overcome their difficult traum...
Tomer is the CEO and co-founder of Logz.io. Before founding Logz.io, he co-founded and was the CTO of Intigua, a company that developed innovative, Docker-like containers designed for large enterprises. Prior to Intigua, Tomer spent six years at CheckPoint, where he led its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) product from concept to market, generating $100M in revenue in the second year. Tomer has an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a B.A. in computer science.
Suzan is a 26 years old Druze Israeli married woman, a software developer and a team lead in the hi-tech industry in CodeValue. She is working on a project of a complex imagery analysis system, integrating solutions for presenting a big amount of 2D and 3D imagery data on web platforms, and seeking to be an influencer in the tech industry.
Dave Harden is the Managing Director of the Georgetown Strategy Group, a Washington, D.C. next-generation firm that leverages talent, technology, and capital to help solve some of the world's most complex problems. In May of 2019, President Trump awarded Mr. Harden the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service, the highest award in the Foreign Service, for “sustained extraordinary accomplishment in the conduct of the foreign policy.” He led a bureau focused on global crisis response and poli...
Elram Goren is CEO and co-founder of Fabric, a micro-fulfillment company building on-demand fulfillment and customer experience solutions for retailers. He has led the company from its inception in 2015 through its first deployments and now is at the helm of its rapidly scaling operations. Before co-founding Fabric, Elram served as a Major in the Israeli Defence Forces managing R&D teams and multidisciplinary operations in the Intelligence Technology Unit. He is a graduate of the elite Psago...
Yaron's interest in marketing began 15 years ago while researching a McDonald's case study. In 2010 he joined Matomy and four years later founded his own company with two great friends. He later joined Apester and spearheaded the entire business and media operations. He recently joined Sciplay, a social gaming behemoth, as VP Growth and is looking after their global marketing efforts starting from organic and paid user acquisition to marketing tech, art, and innovation.
Sabina is a strategist with eleven years of marketing and sales experience and a master’s degree in Business Administration focusing on tech and entrepreneurship. Her previous experience includes working at Omnicom Group with large companies such as Visa, McDonald's and Wrigley. After completing her MBA, Sabina was consulting B2B tech startups. Recently she founded her own company that is aimed to change online dating habits and create a new dating experience for women.
Tami's expertise is in driving change and supporting organizations through massive growth and transformation by partnering with leaders, teams, and employees to think through business problems and collaboratively move the businesses forward.
After building and managing teams in different places in the IDF Intelligence Corps, I was head of the hardcore R&D section at 8200. I then took a giant risk and built a new SaaS product for Intsights, hoping I’d quickly adapt to the modern tech stack and it turned out to be very successful. I started anecdotes with two friends, Roi and Eitan, and we currently have 30 employees in Tel Aviv. Transforming from R&D Manager to CEO means managing Marketing and Sales, which is another big move...
Jeff serves as CEO of Jeeng, an innovative technology company helping publishers bring their audiences back. Before joining Jeeng, Jeff was President & CEO at Oversee.net and served in leadership positions with X1 Technologies, Digital Insight (Intuit), Siebel Systems (Oracle), Loudcloud/ Opsware (Hewlett-Packard), and McKinsey & Co. A frequent speaker at Digital Media conferences, he has also been featured on CNN & CNBC. Jeff earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and his B.A. in ...
Urit is originally a low-level security researcher from 49 center in 8200. She has been working in CYMOTIVE since its earlier days as Diskin Advanced Technologies, and among her roles in the company, she served as a Penetration Testing team leader. She is currently leading new opportunities with automotive industry clients from Europe and the USA and supporting the incubation of innovative product ideas inside the company. Her passions include understanding how things work and making them work b...
Ofer Schreiber, Partner, and Head of Israel Office at YL Ventures have broad responsibilities across the firm’s portfolio company management, value-add activities, and investment due diligence. Prior to joining YL Ventures, Ofer spent three years at IVC Research Center researching and analyzing the technology and venture capital industry. He also served in the elite technological unit of IDF, Unit 8200. Ofer regularly speaks, writes, and features in interviews about the state of the cybersecurit...
Inbal Shalev, Head of Solutions Engineering at Placer.ai. I am a creative solution-oriented analytic expert. Experienced in Technology and Intelligence environment. Have performed across the lifecycle from requirements analysis to solution design and implementation. Hands-on experience in Data Analytics and Big Data applications. I have a passion to bridge between end-users and development teams. Technology-oriented Intelligence officer (KABAR), with vast team leader experience.
Yinnon is the CEO of Sompo’s Digital Lab in Tel Aviv. Sompo is Japan’s largest insurance company which also operates a chain of nursing homes for the elderly. His group is responsible for partnering and investing in startups in areas such as Insurtech, Digital Health, Smart Mobility, and Agritech. Prior to that, Yinnon spent 13 years at General Electric (GE) in various management positions. He established GE's company’s startups partnership program, which included 26 startups. Yinnon holds a BA ...
Ron is the founder and CEO of Gigantic, creators of the Clawee app. Ron (MBA) has been managing online marketing teams for about 19 years, at various companies such as 888, PartyGaming & eToro. For 7 years Ron was the CEO of Performance Revenues – an international mobile marketing firm.
Yonit has spent her career supporting innovators and connecting networks first in the public sector as a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Economic Development team and then as an investor and executive. Today she is the Managing Director of MassChallenge Israel helping startup founders and other stakeholders build groundbreaking solutions.
Michael brings with him more than 20 years of experience in business development and a deep understanding of technology. He is passionate about technology, sport, music, and art, especially woodcraft and clay sculpture. Michael holds a BSc from Bar-Ilan University and an MBA from Derby University. He is a loving husband (married to Michal, a Physiotherapist) and a proud father of 4 daughters.
Zachary Mannheimer is the CEO and founder of Alquist, a 3D printing construction company that uses cutting-edge technology to create houses, buildings, and other structures aimed at dropping the cost of homes and solving the housing crisis. After a road trip from NYC to 22 cities around the country, Zachary chose and settled in Des Moines in 2007 founding the Des Moines Social Club, an art and educational non-profit. In 11 years of operations, DMSC hosted over 10,000 events for over 1,000,000 pa...
Ronen is a serial entrepreneur and a skilled manager with a track record of success across various industries. Prior to founding MySize, he established and led startups in the medical devices and communication sectors. Among his other endeavors, Ronen founded Malers, a company that has grown to be a leader in the global security solutions market and provides some of the most advanced technological solutions for integrated communication infrastructures, security, and control systems. Prior to tha...
Ori Yankelev is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and founding team member of OwnBackup where he leads the company's global go-to-market strategy. Based in Tel Aviv, Ori led the expansion of OwnBackup’s global sales organization from 1 employee to what is today over 200 employees globally with a presence in the US, UK, France, Israel, and Australia.
We are Belen and Ana, two very enthusiastic 25-year-old friends from childhood with previous experience in banking, consulting and Amazon, who always knew wanted to create a business together. We co-founded Flipeat 6 months ago with the aim of creating a more efficient restaurant reservation process through digitalization, adding a social component that allows creating a personalized network of friends to share culinary experiences and recommendations. We are present in Madrid and soon to open B...
Itamar Ben Hamo is co-founder and CEO at Rivery, a DataOps platform that streamlines data integration, transformation, and orchestration. A seasoned business executive, Ben Hamo was co-founder and CEO of Vision.BI, a leading data consulting firm acquired by Keyrus Group. At Keyrus, Ben Hamo was group vice president for North America. Itamar holds a BSc in Computer and Information Systems Security from Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Chemi Katz is the current CEO and Co-Founder of Namogoo, a Digital Journey Continuity platform serving over 250 global brands in eCommerce. With over 17 years of experience in the eCommerce, security, commerce, and advertising spaces, Chemi is an experienced visionary and serial entrepreneur who builds disruptive technologies. Prior to co-founding Namogoo, Chemi was General Manager of DoubleVerify Israel and co-founded Seapai and Reissod. Earlier in his career, Chemi led Production Operations at...
Michael Eisenberg is an Equal Partner at Aleph, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $500M under management. Aleph focuses on partnering with great Israeli entrepreneurs to build large, meaningful companies and impactful global brands. Since its founding in 2013, Aleph has invested in more than 40 companies including Melio, Lemonade, Bringg, JoyTunes, Healthy.io, and Nexar.
With more than 10 years of experience in the hi-tech industry in various business development, marketing, and product management roles, Dana is responsible for the Valens’ marketing activities. Dana leads the company’s messaging, positioning, go-to-market, and general marketing activities, including communications, tradeshows, media, digital marketing, and more. Dana has contributed to building the Valens and HDBaseT brands and establishing the company’s leadership in both the audio-video and au...
Yonatan is co-founder and CEO of Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI. He co-founded Deci after completing his Ph.D. in computer science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research focused on making Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) more applicable for mission-critical tasks. Yonatan was also a member of Google AI’s MorphNet team where he worked on developing an automated machine learning algorithm based on neural network pruning.
Gadi was born in Israel right before they put a man on the moon. He Moved to NY upon completing his three years of mandatory military service and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from NYU (Stern school of business) as well as with an MBA degree from Harvard University. He had been working his entire professional life in the music industry, assuming various roles in Major Record companies. Currently, he is enjoying his independence as a freelance artists' manager/consultant. Gadi is married to ...
