Prior to founding Vayyar, Raviv was vice-president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of Intel’s Worldwide Mobile Wireless Group. Raviv joined Intel in 2004 as part of Intel’s acquisition of Envara, a fabless semiconductor company based in Israel, where he served as vice president of R&D. Prior to this he held several roles in the Israel Defense Force in the field of large-scale radar and communication projects. Raviv holds a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben-...
Sep 04, 2022•23 min
Roger L. Firestien, Ph.D. has trained more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. He is Senior Faculty and Associate Professor at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State. As president of Innovation Resources, Inc., he consults, creates training programs, runs Breakthrough Labs, and has created a series of courses for Open Sesame. He is the author of several popular books including Create In A Flash: A Leader's Recipe For Breakthrough Innovation....
Sep 03, 2022•22 min
Mr. Walsh currently serves as President & CEO for Peachtree Foods Inc. Based in Atlanta, Georgia. Peachtree Foods is the leading breakfast specialty company in the commercial foodservice and hospitality industry.
Sep 02, 2022•21 min
Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a thought leader, author, business educator, consultant, and coach with over 25 years of experience operating businesses and consulting with Fortune 500 companies both in the UK and internationally. Konovalov is on the Thinkers50 radar, has been recognized as the #1 Global Thought Leader on Culture by Thinkers 360, and is the #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50). Having been named ‘the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership’ by many leading authorities of our t...
Sep 01, 2022•25 min
Before Anomalo, Elliot was the Chief Growth Officer at Instacart, where he led the company through a massive period of change and hyper-growth. Before that, he held senior product and growth leadership roles at fast-growing companies like Wealthfront and LinkedIn. He began his career as an engineer and product manager at companies like Microsoft and eBay. Elliot is a recognized expert on data-driven product management and consumer growth strategies in Silicon Valley, with numerous talks and publ...
Aug 31, 2022•21 min
Merav Bahat is the CEO and co-founder of Dazz, who has spent her career creating category-leading technology products and building high-impact teams. Previously, Merav served as GM for the cloud security global business at Microsoft, and was also Deputy CEO of Microsoft Israel R&D, overseeing more than 2,500 employees. Prior, she was Product Strategy Group Director for Microsoft's Cloud & AI Security business unit, and Chief of Products and Business Development of Flash Networks. Merav h...
Aug 30, 2022•20 min
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, a connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hu...
Aug 29, 2022•24 min
Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and Containerized environments.
Aug 27, 2022•22 min
Rabea Zioud is an entrepreneur, lecturer, and community leader, zioud started his first business when he was 20 years old and has since been involved in the Israeli startup ecosystem. He has served as the VP for the MENA region at Voiceitt (was the Masschallenge Finalist in 2014) and co-founded Hasoub - a non-profit grassroots movement that turns out to be one of the leading organizations that promote tech and entrepreneurship in Arab society. He is currently the CEO of Hasoub.
Aug 26, 2022•22 min
Iesh Dixit is the CEO and Co-founder of Powerplay, an end-to-end construction management SaaS platform that aids in the simplification of communication and synergizing collaboration within project teams in the construction industry. In his capacity within the organization, he heads Powerplay’s corporate team, fostering internal and external communication, implementing the company’s vision, and evaluating the organization’s short and long-term goals. Overall, Iesh supervises the smooth functionin...
Aug 25, 2022•21 min
Yaniv Cohen is the operations manager of Twilio in Israel. Under the technology giant - Aman Group.
Aug 24, 2022•22 min
Yoni Sherizen founded Gabriel after witnessing the hampered response to a terror attack in Tel Aviv and, a few days later, the (then) largest mass shooting in the USA. In turn, Yoni recruited a team of leading technologists and security experts to reimagine how we prepare for and respond to critical incidents. Mass shootings have been their initial focus, and Gabriel has deployed in soft target settings such as schools, houses of worship, care facilities and office buildings. In April 2022, Gabr...
Aug 23, 2022•23 min
Dr. Tal Rotman is a Partner and Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pearl Cohen, a prominent law firm in Israel. He has extensive experience in mediating and litigating stakeholders’ disputes in startup companies. Previously, Tal was a consultant at the New York office of McKinsey and Company, taught at Tel Aviv University School of Law, and clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court. He holds a Ph.D. in law, M.A. in Psychology (summa cum laude), LL.M in Commercial law (summa cum laude), LL.B....
Aug 23, 2022•23 min
Phillip Kane is a husband, father, and businessman. He has had a successful career in some of the world’s best-known corporations. Working for brands like Goodyear, Pirelli, and NAPA, Kane has had the privilege to lead thousands of individuals and has managed billions of dollars in value for stakeholders. Crediting his father, a Polish sales manager, and a Nigerian priest with almost every good thing he has learned about life, leadership, business and the art of storytelling, Kane proved for 30 ...
Aug 22, 2022•22 min
Joe Casey is the Managing Partner of Retirement Wisdom and the author of Win the Retirement Game launching on August 9th. Joe’s an executive coach who also helps people create meaningful lives after their primary careers. He works with people - who aren’t done yet – to figure out What’s Next? It’s not theoretical for Joe. He’s done this himself, becoming a coach 13 years ago after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President & Head of HR for Global Markets & Inve...
Aug 21, 2022•22 min
Ronny Schwartz-Dgani is the co-founder and CMO of expecting.ai - a full stack marketer with 15 years experience In marketing, brand building and CRO in enterprise and startup environments spanning across various industries such as online-marketplace, automotive, retail and more. Ronny leads brand and product strategy and seeks to combine traditional marketing concepts alongside generating a transformation in customer engagement achieved with data-driven marketing methods. Ronny has a masters deg...
Aug 19, 2022•23 min
Michael Reddington, CFI is a certified forensic interviewer and president of InQuasive, Inc., which integrates key components of effective non-confrontational interview techniques with current business research for executives. In his new book, The Disciplined Listening Method: How a Certified Forensic Interviewer Unlocks Hidden Value in Every Conversation (Per Capita Publishing, March 2021), Reddington draws on his background in forensics and his understanding of human behavior through interroga...
Aug 18, 2022•22 min
I’m a results-driven Product Director with an agile approach to developing, delivering, and marketing amazing products. With a technical background and passion for cutting-edge technology, I can lead a startup company to a winning product. Direct and immediate relations with clients enabled me to conceive ideas and new products to provide better value to clients and create new and winning products and features to generate new revenue streams and a better world. Fields of expertise: SaaS, B2B, We...
Aug 17, 2022•20 min
Alon Gilady graduated with a BA in economics and philosophy from TAU, a serial entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. During his last year at university, Alon founded a start-up company in the sports & entertainment collectibles industry. Alon signed big licensing deals with notable brands such as FC Barcelona and Man. City, NBA, WWE, and Disney, selling over 1.5M units through major retailers in Europe and the USA. In 2017 he co-founded a 3D-rendering studio creating virtual reality experiences fo...
Aug 16, 2022•21 min
Matt's an enterprise software leader with experience growing businesses, building global teams, and delivering products. Before founding Vivun, he worked at Zuora, BigMachines, and Deloitte.
Aug 15, 2022•22 min
Manik is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health and planet. Therma builds safety and sustainability tools to eliminate food waste, improve energy efficiency and reduce refrigerant emissions — protecting consumers and combating climate change. Therma is deployed across restaurants, retailers, distributors and manufacturers worldwide, with leading brands including Mcdonald's, Starbucks, NOW Foods, 7-Eleven and Marriott Hotels. Previous...
Aug 14, 2022•24 min
Justin Hayet is the COO of Bnai Zion, aiming to accelerate Israel's growth and perpetuate social impact through partnerships and meaningful projects. He is a very young leader (28) who made an aliya a year ago and currently lives in Tel Aviv. Previous to that he worked at the UN as a senior strategic consultant for Dani Danon. He used to give him tips before meetings, comments on his speeches and had a major input in building strategic plans. Justin describes those years as "the proximity of pow...
Aug 13, 2022•23 min
Aran Erel, senior high-tech leader by day, best-selling author by night. Aran Erel is the Country Manager of F5 in Israel, Greece and Cyprus and a respected author whose books have reached the top of the bestseller list. Aran published his first novel, "Foretelling Yesterday" in 2011 by Yedioth Ahronot, and last year he has published his second novel "The Human Element" by Kinneret Zmora (also known as “A Plan to Kill”). His writing work is influenced and driven by the changes and experiences in...
Aug 12, 2022•23 min
Amir Zolty is a lawyer and the head of Lipa Meir & Co. Advocates ' Hightech practice. Over the last 20 years, he's been dealing with high-tech, corporate finance, privacy, and data security. Prior to that, he worked closely with the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and before that - with the Attorney General. Amir is also n 8200 (semi-techie) alumnus.
Aug 11, 2022•22 min
At age 16, I founded a breast cancer charity in memory of my late mother - that sparked my passion for social impact, and making a dent in our universe. My campaign has since raised over $500,000 (including $48,000 in under an hour), and spread nationwide. In 2018, I joined insuretech Lemonade to lead Social Impact and ESG. I have distributed over $4M in donations to our 100 partners organizations and our impact has grown 4,232% higher. I was named one of the 100 women to watch by Barclays, and ...
Aug 10, 2022•21 min
Dr. Joshua Broggi is the founder and CEO of Woolf, a platform that makes it possible for companies and academic groups to launch branded degree programs with the same accreditation as major universities – in weeks, not years. He was previously a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford and a member of the governing Congregation of the University. He also held a Humboldt Fellowship, during which he worked the role of modern universities in support human progress.
Aug 09, 2022•23 min
Inbal is a graduate of the programing course in Mamram and 8200 alumni as an officer. She had 20 years in tech executive positions in local and global companies before deciding to be an entrepreneur. Inbal is a mother of 3 teenage boys. Homaze is a unicorn from the beginning; it's so rare to find a construction-tech company founded by women only.
Aug 07, 2022•22 min
Oshik Efrati is the CEO, Co-Founder and Board Member at HomeBiogas. Oshik graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Sciences, specializing in water treatment. Oshik led the product development team at Shoresh, Israel’s largest tactical gear manufacturer and exporter, where he launched an innovative product, sold on a global scale. His next entrepreneurial endeavor was founding HomeBiogas together with his co-founders Yair Teller and Erez Lanzer in 2012.
Aug 06, 2022•22 min
Malcolm is a thought leader in the field of Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Governance and has consulted to some of the largest businesses in the world on their enterprise information management strategies. He is a frequent public speaker on data and analytics best practices and cherishes the opportunity to share practical and actionable insights on how companies can achieve their strategic imperatives by improving their approach to data management.
Aug 05, 2022•21 min
Drew is a Founding Partner of Fiat Growth and General Partner at Fiat Ventures. He is no stranger to the world of growth, technology, and marketing. From his time at Steady where he led marketplace development and growth to Namely, Fjord, and Portal A, he navigated the ins and outs of Go-to-Market strategies and user acquisition.
Aug 04, 2022•23 min
