Dr. Farid is a lecturer and Fulbright scholar at the Technion and MIT, and a member of Harvard’s Leadership Program. He completed his Ph.D. with honors as the youngest graduate at the Technion at the age of 24, focusing on seismic protection of nuclear reactors. He served as a Captain and AI researcher in Unit 8200 and was acknowledged as an excellent Scientist (top 3 academics in the IDF). Farid is the founder and CEO of 'Lilmod Lehatsliach' (Hebrew: Learn to Succeed) – an NGO for empowering yo...
Aug 09, 2021•18 min
Dekel Persi is a founding partner at TPY Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund with over $135M under management. TPY Capital partners with both serial and first-time entrepreneurs seeking partners who share similar values and hands-on support. TPY Capital invested in more than 20 companies including AI21, UniPaaS, H2Pro, Qedma, Pasqal, Paramount Data, TabNine, Signals, Seebo and Enzymotec.
Aug 08, 2021•24 min
Sreeram is Director of R&D at VMWare a cloud computing and virtualization company. He runs an R&D team across Geos that provides connectivity and services for workloads that run on multi-clouds using NSX orchestrator or that works based on K8s orchestration. Sreeram has delivered products that help customers to focus on the workloads or apps than on the underlying infrastructure. Sreeram's focus has now been to look at SaaS-based infrastructure services in a multi-cloud scenario.
Aug 08, 2021•24 min
Ziv knew he wanted to work in hi-tech since he was 13, he got closer and closer every summer break. Year after year people gave him a chance to do more and learn more, he hopes he's paying his debt today. In his 20+ years, he mostly worked customer-facing and he truly loves the relationship companies develop with their customers and the importance of it in B2B SaaS.
Aug 07, 2021•24 min
Shimon established and managed the Software Engineering Infrastructure department for 400 engineers at ironSource. Also, as an AWS Community Hero, Shimon runs the largest AWS user group worldwide and is an avid speaker at conferences. Today, Shimon is the CEO & Co-Founder at Datree, an automated policy enforcement solution for Kubernetes. The CLI tool prevents Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring the manifests and Helm charts follow best practices, as well as your organization's policies...
Aug 07, 2021•23 min
Co-Founder and CEO of UBQ Materials, Tato is redefining household waste as a valuable material feedstock for the manufacturing industry. Prior to UBQ, he co-founded and managed Merhav Renewable Energies (MRE), where he developed and implemented large-scale wind, solar, and bioethanol projects around the world. Before selling MRE in 2008, Tato served as the President and CEO of Ampal-American Israel Corporation, an investment company traded on both the NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv stock exchanges. A n...
Aug 06, 2021•22 min
Adam is the co-founder and head of Product of PayMe, an Israeli FinTech company providing financial services to micro-businesses. PayMe is his 3rd company since leaving the military as an officer in military intelligence
Aug 06, 2021•22 min
Sonwabise Mzinyathi started her career in diplomacy and was posted as a Diplomat for South Africa in New Delhi, India. She left diplomacy to join corporate and has worked for PR agencies, tech and FinTech companies including TBWA’s Magna Carta, Cisco, and Refinitiv - a London Stock Exchange Business. Currently, she is in the NGO space working for global advocacy NGO, Global Citizen. She also serves on several Boards and Committees including the SA Women in ICT Forum, Broad-Based Black Economic E...
Aug 05, 2021•22 min
Consul General of Israel to the Pacific North-West, Mr Shlomi Kofman is a 25 years career diplomat with vast experience in diplomacy, tech relations, and public policy. Prior to his posting in San Francisco, Consul General Kofman served as served Policy Advisor to the Deputy Foreign Ministers, as Israel’s Deputy Consul General in New York City, Chief of Staff to Ambassadors in Washington D.C., Deputy Ambassador in Thailand, and Deputy Consul General in Shanghai.
Aug 05, 2021•21 min
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...
Aug 04, 2021•25 min
Credit24 is a Fintech company, which aims to create a One-Stop-Shop for the online lending industry. The company has developed a turnkey solution, which allows fully automated underwriting, operation, and collection, alongside KYC and a sales\retention platform. The company uses a proprietary solution that allows partnerships with various companies, from insurance companies to retail giants to offer loans, credit lines, or POS payments, without the need to develop anything on their end nor setti...
Aug 03, 2021•26 min
Elnor is the CEO and Co-Founder of the credit card company Jasper, formerly known as CreditStacks. Previously, Elnor was Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising platform Pingjam and VP of New Growth Platforms at LG Electronics. Elnor holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Academic College of Law in Tel Aviv.
Aug 02, 2021•22 min
Melissa is a speaker, moderator, and advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and helps to empower women through connecting them to various programs, events, and opportunities - created to give access to investors, mentors, networking, quality education, or job opportunities.
Aug 01, 2021•23 min
Miki Shifman is the CTO and co-founder of Cylus, which provides cybersecurity solutions for the rail industry. Miki is a veteran leader in the development of complex cyber security projects, with over ten years of experience in software engineering, research, and management. Prior to co-founding Cylus, Miki served as an R&D leader in the Cyber R&D Division of the Israel Defense Force’s Elite Technological Unit. He led teams awarded the Israel Defense Prize for exceptional technological b...
Jul 31, 2021•25 min
Aviv is a Staff Data Scientist at Intuit, previously a Lead Data Scientist at PayPal. She specializes in fraud prevention and cybersecurity, and in the past worked at the Prime Minister’s Office in the Cyber Security field, focusing on protocol analysis. Aviv graduated from Tel Aviv University with a double BSc in Computer Science and Life Science, while specializing in Bioinformatics.
Jul 30, 2021•21 min
John Rossman is the author of The Amazon Way book series, a former Amazon leader and Managing Partner at Rossman Partners. John is an expert leveraging the Amazon leadership principles to help others innovate, compete and win in the digital era. John was an executive at Amazon.com where he played a key role in launching the Amazon marketplace business as the Director of Merchant Integration and went on to have responsibilities for the enterprise business at Amazon.
Jul 29, 2021•22 min
Omri Lavie is a serial entrepreneur and an Angel investor. He co-founded NSO Group and is the co-founder and CEO of Orchestra Group, a holistic cybersecurity platform for proactive cyber defense. Omri founded several technology companies in various fields, specializing in Enterprise SW, Telecom, Cyber Intelligence & Cyber Security. He is also the co-founder at Founders Group, a private investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. He is an active philanthropist continuously supportin...
Jul 28, 2021•31 min
Hannah started as a commercial lawyer advising and managing transactions in the tech ecosystem. Her curiosity led her to change sides and become an entrepreneur and tech executive, and since 2015 has been focusing on the Robotics and Automation industries. She is the General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer of Caja Robotics, automating solutions for order fulfillment.
Jul 27, 2021•22 min
Yael is the founder of Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform working to increase transparency in the startup ecosystem. Former investment banker turned strategic advisor to innovators, she is on a mission to bring the same level of analysis she saw in the corporate world to startups, but in the flexible timeframe and formats that they need. With over a decade of experience in the industry, she has worked with hundreds of startups, helping them raise over $1B (and counting).
Jul 26, 2021•20 min
Shahar is an Israeli Entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He's the CEO of Eternity, a post-investment Israeli startup established to change the way people commemorate and celebrate the life stories of their loved ones in a respectful, accessible, and moving way. Shahar majored in Business and Data Science at IDC and graduated with honors. His managerial approach is "all-around", hands-on involvement, the idea to execution process, and data-driven decision making.
Jul 25, 2021•23 min
Tony is an Iconoclast, Founder, and CEO of Accounting Seed, technology entrepreneur, ForbesBooks author, and CPA for 20+ years. He embodies iconoclasm, the idea of challenging the prescribed way of doing things and coming up with a better, more innovative solution. Accounting Seed – the world’s first accounting platform – is disrupting the cloud accounting industry and has over one thousand customers and fourteen thousand users, and has sustained double-digit growth for over ten consecutive year...
Jul 24, 2021•23 min
Myra founded Sama to make the power of excellent executive coaching available to all employees. She trained as an M&A lawyer, but spent most of her career as an investor in private equity and venture capital at PSP Investments and BCI, large institutional asset managers, investing billions globally. She benefited from coaching in her career and believes that it is the best way to unlock potential in people and live a life of purpose.
Jul 23, 2021•20 min
Kyle Lacy brings over 14 years of experience in marketing with a slice of revenue. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Lessonly. Prior to joining Lessonly, Kyle held senior positions at OpenView, Salesforce and ExactTarget. He is also the author of three books, Twitter Marketing for Dummies, Branding Yourself and Social CRM for Dummies. He wears monotone, loves history and hates onions.
Jul 22, 2021•21 min
Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec.
Jul 21, 2021•22 min
A former CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors SA, Dr Claudelle is the founder of Brave Inflexions. Her practice focuses on leadership, governance, change management, ethics, culture and whistleblower support. Her approach is transformative with an emphasis on purpose and empowerment. She is an experienced executive and non-executive director and has served on numerous international committees and task teams. She holds a Master’s in Business Leadership and her doctoral degree is in leadershi...
Jul 20, 2021•21 min
Sharel Omer is an Israeli entrepreneur whose passion for personal connections and building relationships has made him dedicated to bringing the consumer voice's power to brands and organizations. He's the CEO & Co-Founder of Affogata, a leading Consumer Intelligence Platform that enables brands to be truly customer-obsessed by bringing their customers' voices to the right teams in the organization. Affogata's portfolio of clients includes names like Wix.com, Fiverr, Lemonade, eToro, MyHerita...
Jul 19, 2021•24 min
Jillian is the current VP of Marketing and Investor Relations at GuardKnox Cyber Technologies, a world-leading Autotech company and the automotive industry’s first Cybertech Tier, where she was also one of the first employees. Originally from Cincinnati Ohio, she completed her undergraduate work at Tulane University before joining Teach for America as an inner-city high physics and chemistry teacher. She is a mentor in the flagship program through Women in Mobility, an Expert at Quantum Hub Acce...
Jul 18, 2021•21 min
Raz Bachar is the Global Lead for Startup Emerging Technologies & Managing Director - Israel at Microsoft For Startups. He is a business development professional and strategist, in generating growth for tech services and products. Before Microsoft, Raz built and drove the growth of AWS across several startup ecosystems in Europe, Middle East, and Africa through strategic planning, community building, and partnerships with VCs and accelerators.
Jul 17, 2021•22 min
Dmitry Geyzersky is a software architect and technology consultant with a proven record of building military-grade intelligence systems. As the Co-founder & CTO of Click-Ins, he has two patents pending and his fields of research include ontology, domain-driven design, graph technologies, link analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Dima has created companies and worked with a wide range of customers from startup companies to government organizations. He holds a B.Sc degree in...
Jul 15, 2021•19 min
With 15 years of cross-sector experience in founding, managing and directing private and public companies in the tech and Cannabis industries, Omer has been leading M&A processes, global strategic partnerships, and deal-making worldwide. Omer has also been teaching as a senior lecturer in various academic institutes, both for Computer Science and for Behavioral Sciences, with a specialization in Cannabis.
Jul 15, 2021•19 min
