Eli is the CEO of Bit2C, a company that has developed a trading platform that enables the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies against the shekel, along with the management and preservation of digital currencies and the realization of large-scale transactions. 8 years ago he sat on the sofa playing video games with a friend and thought about opening a company that will make Bitcoin accessible.
Gad Allon is the Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, and the director of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning educator, teaching courses on scaling technology ventures and operations strategy. Gad’s recent research primarily considers gig workers, quick decision-making, and the communication between firms and customers. He is the co-founder of ForClass, helping professors drive higher stude...
Baratang is an award-winning tech founder and a self-taught software developer with robust problem-solving skills and proven experience in building tech startups, incubators, co-working spaces, and creating, designing software in a test-driven environment. She is the founder of the first African software engineering school focusing on women and girls and worked tirelessly to mobilize governments, corporations, and civil society to invest in women and girls education.
Ouriel is the CEO of ZenGo, a new generation of All-in-one crypto wallet focused on simplicity and safety. He’s a former executive at ICQ/AOL, founder of TechCrunch France (sold to AOL), Isai.fr (leading French VC) and was general manager of the internet Lab of Gemini and Lightspeed Ventures. Ouriel is French and Israeli, based in Tel Aviv
Nobukhosi Dlamini is a tech founder of Bahati Tech - a cybersecurity and data protection company with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the GIFT Foundation, which is a non-profit organization focused on assisting rural and informal settlement-based young women to acquire technical and digital skills to improve their livelihoods and break the cycle of poverty.
Tomer Kashi is CEO and Co-Founder of VOOM, an InsurTech company for next-gen mobility insurance products. Previously, Tomer spearheaded interdisciplinary technology projects from within the Prime Minister’s Office in Israel, including a project that has received the "Israel Defense Prize". Tomer is a "Talpiot" graduate and has a BSc in computer science and physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Tomer is based in Tel Aviv and is a proud father of two ...
Sepideh Nasiri is the CEO and Founder of Women of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Technology (previously known as Persian Women In Tech). She is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in the Tech Industry, and a lifetime advocate for women, diversity, and inclusion. Prior, she was Co-founder and Managing Editor of a digital and print Los Angeles Magazine, and later as the Vice President of Women 2.0, with over 250,000 members worldwide and partnerships w...
Alaina Percival is CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code. Under Alaina’s leadership, the organization has grown to serve 290,000 members in 134 countries. Alaina is an accomplished tech speaker, appearing at WSJ.d Live, CodeMotion Milan, Grace Hopper, Columbia University’s Social Enterprise, and more. Alaina has been published by Forbes, Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Alaina holds a Master’s in Organizational Management and an MBA. She is also an Angel Investor, a Venture Partner a...
Arik is an entrepreneur and advisor to startups and capital fund groups, and the President of Commit. He has over 20 years of business development experience in the global technology sector, combined with a vast knowledge of software design, development, and system architecture. Arik successfully completed a number of exits and co-founded several ventures, including Pentera (formerly Pcysys) a fully automated, self-learning penetration tests solution that mimics the hacker's mindset, and Betting...
Omri Paz has a Law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2012 he founded Vegan Friendly which is the leading vegan organization in Israel. Since it was established, Vegan Friendly launched many campaigns that reached millions of people including the biggest animal rights march in history, massive billboards, vegan ads on prime time, and the 10 million lecture.
Roman is the co-founder and chief risk officer of At-Bay, A cyber Insurer. Digital risk is complex and constantly evolving, with breaches in the news all the time driving trillions of annual losses to society. At-Bay helps businesses prevent cyber loss before it happens, and insure them for when the loss couldn't be avoided. Our modern approach to risk management has kept At-Bay ahead of the pack, anticipating new threats and identifying vulnerabilities to help keep insureds secure.
Antonio is a lawyer and in the last 25 years has managed the criminal litigation of an important banking and financial group. He also managed all the compliance activities with particular reference to the activity of the Anti-Money Laundering and fight against terrorism activities. In the last years, he has been a member of the Board of several Reserved Alternative Investment Funds. Today, he is the Managing Director of Art & Luxury Investment Fund.
Pioneer in the startup business and Venture Capital in Italy, Maurizio is cofounder of H-FARM, having incubated and invested in over 140 companies. The organization went public in 2015 and has expanded to an education hub of 51 hectares for 3000 students. In his previous experiences, Maurizio worked in the luxury and sporting goods industries, some involving acquisitions by global leaders such as LVMH fashion holding and other majors sports brands. If in the past Maurizio managed to distinguish ...
Eyal Gruner founded Cynet in 2015. He started his journey in the cybersecurity world when he was 15 when he uncovered a breach in the ATM machine of a large Israeli bank and a high-tech company. They both eventually hired him as a cybersecurity expert while he was still in high school. At the age of 16, he founded his first cybersecurity consultancy company, BugSec, which become one of the biggest consulting companies in Israel. After his military service, he founded a startup called Versafe and...
Dotan is Authomize's Co-Founder & CEO. Prior to co-founding Authomize, Dotan led the product management for the “Infinity Next” platform at Check Point Software, following the successful acquisition of ForceNock Security, where he served as Co-founder & CEO. He also founded and served as CEO at ReSec Tech. Dotan is also a member of the Technion Board of Governors - Israel Institute of Technology.
I’m a technology Geek with over 20 years of experience in the world of databases. I’m eager to continuously learn and improve while removing obstacles out of the way. I’m keen to reach success and always strive to achieve a true win-win. I believe that doing business is “all about the people”, and finding the shared road to success. For 8 years, I worked for John Bryce and delivered technical database training for thousands of people globally, following that I founded my training and services bo...
Nimrod is a co-founder and Head of Product at BigID. He is experienced in enterprise product and a security executive and served in various capacities ranging from engineering, product and business management. Prior to founding BigID, Nimrod served as VP Product Management, Product Line Manager for CA Identity Management product line and as an advisor to security startups in the area of identity management and user behavior analytics.
Chen is co-founder and co CEO of DeePathology, and also co-founder of SagivTech and SurgeonAI. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Math from Tel Aviv University specializing in Computer Vision. Chen loves Math and the mix of algorithms and healthcare. She lives in Gaash with her husband, twin girls, and two dogs.
Eran is the co-founder and CEO of Nanolock security from day 1. He was a consultant to Cimagine that was sold to Snapchat and was the co-founder and CEO of OREE that were acquired in 2015. He was a senior consultant to Tel Aviv University Nanolock Science center and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China’s MIT. Eran was also the co-founder of On-Eden that was sold to the formula group and created 5 comedy shows among them the highly successful show, The Leash.
Isaac is the co-founder and CEO of Trullion, an AI-powered SaaS platform that automates financial workflows for CFOs, accountants, and auditors. Trullion unifies the unstructured and structured worlds of accounting by reading PDFs and Excel and translating them into financial workflows, such as Lease Accounting and Revenue Recognition.
Idan is a co-founder at Avo, a fast-growing e-commerce startup focused on reducing costs for consumers by aggregating demand. Before starting Avo Idan started a couple of other companies and was also an early employee at Monday.com. He was also the founder of a podcast called startup camel, where he interviewed over 80 founders from the Israeli start-up scene.
Marius Hanganu has been a manager in the software industry for over 20 years. He has been overseeing complex projects from sales to deployment and support. He serves as the Managing Partner of Tremend, with a focus on operations and shaping the organization to become a top software Romanian provider.
Anna is currently SVP of Content Strategy & Evangelist for KnowBe4 Africa where she drives security awareness across the African continent. Collard founded security content publisher Popcorn Training, now part of KnowBe4, which is a South African company that promotes cybersecurity awareness by using innovative, story-based techniques and gamification to make complex content simple to understand and easy to remember.
Jessica Richman serves as a San Francisco-based Trade and Investment Director for The Australian Trade and Investment Commission. In this role, Jessica helps US-based tech companies launch and expand in Australia. She also assists Australian tech companies with their US expansion. Additionally, Jessica acts as Founder and CEO of The Visible Collective® where she advises companies on product development, marketing, and new business development to better serve customers labeled overweight or obese...
Emendo was founded in 2015 by Rachel and a group of classmates from Weizmann. Her role at Emendo as Chief Intellectual Property Officer & Head of Pipeline Development includes building is to design an IP strategy for Emendo that both generates an extensive patent portfolio to cover various novel aspects of the technology and products and also navigates the IP space. Additionally, she is building Emendo’s pipeline of clinical programs and the academic and industrial collaborations and partner...
Tomer is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Gusto, a software company helping hundreds of thousands of businesses start, build and grow their teams. He's optimistic, easily excitable, chronically impatient, and a loving father of 3.
Amitai is an experienced CEO, specializing in growing early-stage tech ventures from no revenue / early revenue to tens of millions in ARR across regions and verticals. As Pentera CEO, he's led exponential growth since January 2018, to becoming the de-facto market leader in Automated Security Validation, through 3 funding rounds, from AWZ Ventures, The Blackstone Group, and Insight Partners, the most prominent cybersecurity investor of our times.
Oded is an investor, entrepreneur and journalist. Since 2005, he has invested in over 70 companies (5 of which became Unicorns), as is currently the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of the J-Ventures Fund (a "Capitalist Kibbutz") in Silicon Valley. Oded is active in philanthropic organizations and has been a Board Member at the Jewish Federation SF, JFCS, Friends of Hebrew University, ICON, Intro, and more.
Amit Daniel is a Marketing leader with two decades of experience in global high-tech companies. Since joining the Cognyte business in 2015, Amit has been responsible for global marketing, employer brand, and demand generation for driving business growth. Prior to joining the Cognyte business, Amit was EVP Marketing and Products at cVidya (now an Amdocs company) and VP Marketing, Business Development and Products at Starhome (now TOMIA).
Limor is a proud mother of 4 and very happily married. She has over 18 years of experience in tech, last 11 years in product management in startups, eBay and WeWork. During her career, she was always attracted to data and ways to leverage it to make a business impact. Her last two roles before joining Pecan were eBay where she led the product team for the eBay catalog and in WeWork billing and payments. Today she leads Product at Pecan, with the mission to empower every data analyst to create bu...
