Michal Guindy
Head of Ventures and Innovation, a board member of PathoLab Diagnostics, head of medical imaging, Assuta Medical Centers

Dr. Michal Guindy Head of Ventures and Innovation, a board member of PathoLab Diagnostics and was head of medical imaging for the last seven years at Assuta Medical Centers
She holds MD Ben-Gurion University Israel; Rradiology-Flinders, Australia. MPA Harvard Kennedy School. Conducts research & innovation initiatives in radiology, pathology, AI and ML and is involved in medical education as a faculty of BGU Medical School.
Previous managerial positions at Maccabi, including Risk Management & Patient Safety, laboratory, medical director.

Oded Cohn
Former IBM VP, Talent and Tech consultant, DigitalRosh.com

Oded spent most of his career at IBM Research. When he led the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, his chief responsibilities covered the strategy, focus of research directions, and advancement of the research carried out by the lab’s workforce. As an IBM Vice President he was responsible for the skills and talent at IBM Research at the global level.
Back when Oded joined the lab as a researcher, Oded and his team laid the foundation for advanced copy functions and services in storage. He co-authored pioneering patents in this area, which helped IBM make breakthrough steps in the industry. He also published other key patents in the field of computer science. Oded bachelor’s and master’s degrees were done at the Technion. His research in computer science focused on software specification and verification. Since his retirement from IBM in mid-2022, Oded has been engaged in a stealth mode startup and also serves as a consultant in the areas of technology and R&D talent development.

Prof. Yesha Sivan
The founder and CEO of i8 ventures

Prof. Yesha Sivan is the founder and CEO of i8 ventures – a business platform focusing on “Innovating and DigitalRosh – Life Long Learning platform. He is also an MBA visiting professor focusing on digital, innovation, and venture at The Technion. Sivan’s professional experience includes developing and deploying innovative solutions for corporate, hi-tech, government, and defense environments. He focuses on digital strategy (SVIT – Strategic Value of Innovation Technology), innovation and venture, mindful leadership (orange bike workshop), virtual worlds (3D3C platforms), and knowledge age standards (nine keys). After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he has taught executives, EMBA, MBA, engineering, and design courses in his areas of expertise.

Tammy Altarac
MSD Israel Managing DirectorPharma, Digital Health, Customer Experience Executive Leader

Tammy has a more than 25-year record of developing and directing strategic national and international initiatives in dynamic environments. Her expertise covers the hottest, contemporary challenges in the pharma world and includes digital health, personalization, and customer experience.
For the last two years, Tammy has served as the Managing Director of MSD Israel. MSD uses the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives worldwide.
From 2016 to 2019, Tammy served as the General Manager of Patient Care and Innovation in the Chicago-based global marketing commercial operation at one of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies. Tammy successfully led the digital transformation and created a revolutionary infrastructure that enabled the company to generate better real-world patient outcomes.
Previously as the General Manager of AbbVie Israel, Tammy has orchestrated the establishment of Israel's top 5th pharmaceutical company and led the creation of the company's vision, long-range strategic planning, market penetration strategies, and a winning team.
Tammy also serves as the Chairwoman of Pharma Israel; this is her second cadency. In her first cadency, she led the creation of the Pharma Ethical Code in collaboration with the Israeli HMOs and the Physician's Organization.
Tammy holds an MBA from the University of Tel Aviv and a B.Pharm from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She served on boards of directors and is an advisor to pharma and digital health startups.

Orna Berry
Former chief scientist, government of Israel

Dr. Orna Berry is an entrepreneur, computer scientist,industry executive and the former chief scientist in the government of Israel.
In the last three years she has chaired planned research infrastructure in TELEM, established by the Israeli Academy of Sciences; the committees for (1) buildingthe national programsfor Quantum Science and Technologyand (2) Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Effective October 2021 Orna is a Technical Director at the office of the CTO at Google Cloud.
Throughout her career, Dr. Berryhas been the recipient of various awards.

Nir Mashkif
Manager, Intelligent Automation, IBM Research – Israel

Nir Mashkif is a manager and a senior research scientist at IBM Research - Israel, leading the Intelligent Automation group.
His group research areas include AI models and conversational AI for intelligent RPA systems, no-code/programming-by-demonstration for RPA, situation-aware explainability for business processes, and process mining.
Nir has more than 20 years of experience in software development and research, focusing on AI for business automation, conversational AI and analytics, the internet of things (IoT), wearable technologies, software architecture, Systems Engineering, and optimization. He had published numerous papers and patents.

Kommy Weldemariam
Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for Discovery Science and Applications, IBM Research

Dr. Weldemariam is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Accelerated Discovery strategy at IBM Research. He is responsible for innovative architectures (Data, AI systems, models, cloud, etc.), architectural specialization, augmentation, and integration of accelerated discovery technologies and early products validation across Climate and Sustainability, Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Computing and Nanotechnology at IBM Research in Accelerated Discovery strategy. Dr. Weldemariam is a globally recognized leader and innovator who has made key contributions across IBM's Environmental Intelligence Suite (EIS) offering with differentiated AI-enabled climate and carbon acceleration technologies, the TradeLens platform, and cloud and AI tools for agriculture. He holds more than 300 patents and applications in the fields of software technologies, artificial intelligence, Data, Blockchains, IoT, and application domains such as Agriculture, Healthcare, Climate and Sustainability, Supply Chains, etc. He is the author of over 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as several articles in the media. Dr. Weldemariam has received numerous awards such as an elected member of the IBM Industry Academy (2021), IBM Master Inventor (since 2017), won the Kifra Prize Award (2020), Fellow of the Next Einstein Forum (2016), and the Young Scientist World Economic Forum (2015). His primary research interests currently include advancing technologies that matter and maximizing beneficial impacts for users and society. Dr. Weldemariam received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Trento (Italy).

Hanan Brand
Vice President and Head of Startup Division, Israel Innovation Authority

Hanan Brand is the Vice President of the Israel Innovation Authority and head of the Startup Division, which encompasses all government backed programs to support early stage tech entrepreneurs across Israel, and programs to develop the human resources needed for the future growth of the Israeli tech and startup industry .
Previously, Hanan worked for 15 years as an Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist, investing and supporting tens of early stage companies, from seed to growth. In his last position he was the General Partner of Cornerstone Venture Partner, a US based fund investing in Israeli tech companies, and sat on various boards, including DealHub, Axonize (acquired by Planon Software), Texel (acquired by DAZN) and more.
Prior to Cornerstone Venture Partners, he led the early stage investments for Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)- one of Israel largest and successful funds- working in two innovation authority backed Incubators in Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva, and was an Senior Analyst and business Development Manager at Ofer Tech Group and Naiot Venture Accelerator, an incubator in Israel’s North, investing in Medical Devices, Cleantech and Cyber.
In 2012, Hanan co-founded Made in Jerusalem, a high impact non-profit organization that serves as an umbrella organization of the tech ecosystem of Jerusalem, and was the organization Chairman since inception. He holds an MBA from the Technion Institute of Technology, and a BA in Business Management and Political Science from the Hebrew University with honors. He sits on the Board of Trustees of Azrieli-College of Engineering.

Jay M. Gambetta
IBM Fellow and VP of IBM Quantum, IBM Research

Dr. Jay M. Gambetta is the Vice President in charge of IBM’s overall Quantum initiative. He was named as an IBM Fellow in 2018 for his leadership in advancing superconducting quantum computing and establishing IBM’s quantum strategy.
Under his leadership, the IBM Quantum team has made a series of major breakthroughs in quantum computing: the IBM Quantum Experience – the world-first cloud-based quantum computing platform, Qiskit – an open-source quantum software development kit, and the IBM Quantum System One, a family of quantum processors for clients. IBM Quantum continues to expand in the market by providing Quantum as a Service with over 20 quantum systems available online, building the foundations of the quantum industry.
Dr. Gambetta received his Ph.D. in Physics from Griffith University in Australia. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has over 130 publications in the field of quantum information science with over 30,000 citations.

Ronen Levy
Senior Manager, Cloud Security & Privacy Technologies Department, IBM Research - Israel

Ronen Levy is the department head for Security and Privacy in the IBM Haifa Research lab and also Strategy lead for Securing Data & AI in IBM Research. He has more than 30 years of experience in R&D, driving innovation in hybrid-cloud, software quality, privacy, cyber security and cryptography.

Oded Margalit
CTO, Citi’s cyber-security innovation center

Prof. Oded Margalit is the CTO of Citi’s cyber-security innovation center in Tel Aviv and an adjunct full professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Previously, he was the CTO of the IBM Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (CCoE) in Beer Sheva and a researcher in IBM Research – Haifa, where he focused on such topics as machine learning, constraint satisfaction problems, optimization, and cyber security. In IBM, Oded was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, an IBM master inventor, and the IBM Research Ponder This puzzlemaster. He serves as a judge in the IEEEXtreme programming competition, and he founded and continues to organize CodeGuru computer science competitions. Oded has a PhD in computer science from Tel Aviv University.

Ateret Anaby-Tavor
STSM, Manager, Language and Conversation, IBM Research - Israel

Ateret Anaby-Tavor is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Manager of the Language and Conversation Group in IBM Research AI. She focuses on developing the next generation of AI for Customer Care, applying Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding, and algorithmic approaches to revolutionize how virtual assistants are bootstrapped and continuously improved. It is her objective to impact IBM products by using SOTA technology, as well as maintain a lively research program in Dialogue Systems. Ateret holds numerous academic publications and patents and received an IBM Corporate award for her contribution to Conversational Insights.

Eli Arbel
Manager, Quantum Computing, IBM Research - Israel

Eli Arbel is the manager of the quantum computing group in the IBM Research - Haifa lab. The group is working on quantum device characterization and simulation methods as well as on quantum circuit optimization algorithms, as part of the global IBM Quantum Qiskit team. Eli has more than 15 years of experience working in and leading research projects within IBM. He co-authored and submitted multiple papers and patents, receiving a best paper award and several IBM technical achievement awards. Eli holds a BSc and MSc in computer science from Haifa University, both with highest honors.

Efrat Hexter
Manager, Medical Imaging Solutions, IBM Research - Israel

Efrat Hexter manages a Multimodal AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences research team that uses and develops AI to accelerate discoveries and bridge the gap between technology and science.
Efrat has over 20 years of experience in software development –spanning various fields, from gaming to location-based applications and data management and analytics, serving small and big companies.

Yishai Shimoni
Manager, Causal Machine Learning for Healthcare, IBM Research - Israel

Yishai Shimoni is a researcher at IBM Research - Haifa and the manager of the Causal Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences team in the lab. He has a PhD in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and did a post doc at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, alongside a junior faculty position at Columbia University. Yishai has over 15 years of experience in analyzing healthcare-related datasets and developing tools for reverse engineering and machine learning to uncover the impacts and mechanisms of various treatments in multiple clinical domains. He is also an adjunct professor at Bar-Ilan University, teaching a course in machine learning for healthcare. Yishai has over 25 publications and patents.

Dany Moshkovich
Manager, Blockchain Technology Platforms, IBM Research - Israel

Dany Moshkovich is the manager of Blockchain Technology Platforms at IBM Research – Haifa responsible for catalyzing scientific progress in AI, distributed systems and Blockchain areas to effectively address trust, fairness, and privacy challenges of complex business eco-systems. In addition to research activities Dany works with partners and clients around the world to define the strategy and drive the development and adoption of novel technologies, concepts, and methods across different industries. Dany has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion and an MBA from the Open University of Israel. He has co-authored 10 technical publications, and 18 US patents.

Nili Guy
Manager, Smart Client Platforms, IBM Research - Israel

Nili Guy holds a B.Sc. in software engineering and and M.Sc. in computer science and distributed computing from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, both Summa Cum Laude. She has been working as a research scientist in IBM Research - Haifa in Israel since 2005 and in 2017 she started managing the Smart Client Platforms group. The group's current activities focus on data and AI platforms for roaming edge devices and automatic AI drone-based inspections. Nili has led and contributed to various projects around web and mobile development runtime and middleware; she has extensive experience in distributed programming, web and mobile development, and computer architecture and design. She has published several papers and has issued numerous patents.

Vita Bortnikov
IBM Fellow, Hybrid Cloud Research, IBM Research - Israel

Vita is a world-class expert in distributed systems — a critical discipline in computer science with applications to cloud computing and beyond. Her passion lies in combining theory and technology to bring about practical contributions for large scale systems. Her focus on high availability, robustness, and scalability ensures that enterprise solutions run well and without failures. Vita’s proven ability to apply deep technical expertise and her leadership have impacted strategic areas including IBM Cloud, IBM Blockchain, PureApp, WebSphere, and more. Her accomplishments include leading the Kubernetes-based control plane initiative through all innovation stages, driving key contributions to Hyperledger Fabric, and co-creating a microservice management framework that evolved into the Istio Service Mesh project. As an IBM Fellow, Vita focuses on establishing IBM and Red Hat as leaders in software-defined infrastructure by defining the technical roadmap, leading the execution of the core architecture, and promoting its adoption and growth. She is also responsible for establishing and maintaining a strategic alignment among IBM Cloud, Red Hat, IBM Software, and IBM Systems to achieve collaboration and cross-unit synergy in IBM’s next-generation, software-defined infrastructure technologies and solutions.

Yaron Wolfsthal
Head, IBM Cyber Security Center of Excellence, Beer Sheva, IBM Research - Israel

Prof. Yaron Wolfsthal is the founder and head of IBM's Security Center of Excellence in Beer Sheva, where his research team is developing technology solutions for detection and prevention of advanced cyber threats. Prof. Wolfsthal has a major role in setting IBM's security research strategy and accelerating the delivery of security innovation into IBM's product portfolio. He has extensive experience in leading multinational research teams and contributing to industrial and governmental working groups.
Prof Wolfsthal also heads IBM Innovation Ventures unit in Israel, and he is missioned to identify, connect, partner and influence IBM’s Corporate VC investments in innovative Israeli startups. In this role, he works closely with leading VC funds and the startup ecosystem in Israel.
Prof. Wolfsthal was recognized by the "Best of IBM" Award, granted by IBM's CEO to select individuals who made key contributions to IBM's business and technology. Prof. Wolfsthal holds BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Computer Science and an MBA degree, all from the Technion - Israel's Institute of Technology. He is an Adjunct Professor in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and works closely with BGU’s university faculty to promote breakthrough research in cyber security and AI, in collaboration with IBM.

Shila Ofek-Koifman
Director, Language Technologies, IBM Research - Israel

Shila Ofek-Koifman is a Director for Language Technologies in IBM Research AI. Shila manages the AI- Language & Media area in the Haifa Research Lab, and co-leads Research AI’s strategy in the area of Natural Language Understanding, and aspects of the AI-Driven Customer Care strategy, including research on natural language generation, summarization, neural information retrieval, conversation and Large Language models. Shila works closely with the Watson products, and under her leadership, her teams deliver differentiating research technologies into the products.
Shila received multiple IBM awards for her research work and contributions to the business, including an IBM Corporate award and the "Best of IBM" award.

Roi Reichart
Associate Professor, the faculty of Data and Decision Science, Technion

Roi Reichart is Associate Professor at the faculty of Data and Decision Science (previously: Industrial Engineering and Management) of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Roi's research is on Natural Language Processing (NLP), and his research group has made contributions to fundamental problems such as out-of-distribution generalization (domain adaptation and cross-language learning), the interface between causal inference and NLP, and developing NLP models for scientific problems in the human and social sciences. He holds the Schmidt Career Advancement Chair in AI at the Technion, and has been a visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge, UK, since 2015. Roi has also been involved in the Israeli start-up industry and is currently the chief scientist of Suridata.ai, a data science based security company.

Asaf Adi
Senior Manager, Business Automation and Optimization, IBM Research - Israel

Dr. Adi is senior manager for business automation and optimization. He turbocharges automation with AI, to make every interaction, every experience, and every process more intelligent, and help make everyone in the business more productive, creative, and innovative. His research focuses on AI-based discovery, generation, automation and optimization of business processes and decisions.

Tal Drory
Senior Research Manager AI Multimedia, Deep Document Understanding strategy lead, IBM Research - Israel

Tal Drory is a Senior Research Manager in the IBM Haifa Research lab, managing the AI Multimedia department in the lab, and leading the Deep Document Understanding strategy in IBM Research. Tal received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computers Science from the Technion – Israel institute of Technology.
Prior to joining IBM, Tal held a research position in HP Research labs, specializing on database systems, and prior to that he held a management position in an information systems and software development company in Haifa.
At the AI Multimedia department, Tal is leading the development of novel AI technologies in document and multimodal understanding and retrieval, and Speech and Audio analytics.

Tamar Eilam
IBM Fellow, Chief Scientist Sustainable Computing, IBM Research

Dr. Tamar Eilam is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist for Sustainable Computing in the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York.
Tamar is leading WW R&D projects aiming at drastically reducing the carbon emission associated with computing, including AIOps for energy quantification and analysis, and energy and carbon optimization across infrastructure and software. Tamar complete a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in the Technion, Israel in 2000. She joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York as a Research Staff Member that same year. She was recognized as an IBM Fellow in 2014.

Gabi Zodik
Director, Blockchain IBM Research

Gabi Zodik is the Director of Blockchain and Web3 at IBM Research. He works on strategy to transform the fascinating ideas of IBM Researchscientists around the world into new blockchain solutions such as CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) that brings value to clients around theworld. Gabi's vision is to harness blockchain technology for new and existing processes and transactions so they execute in seconds instead ofdays or weeks, increase privacy so individuals own and manage their digital identities, and build applications that have more transparency for allthe stakeholders involved. He also manages the Blockchain and AI Technologies department at IBM Research - Haifa. In this role, he oversees thelab's R&D efforts in blockchain, Business Automation, Drone solutions. Gabi has an MSc and BSc in electrical engineering from the Technion, andan MBA from the University of Haifa. He is a frequent speaker on the challenges and opportunities in blockchain and the future of AI and IoTsystems.

Nathalie Bloch
Chief of Discovery Platform, miR Scientific and Chief Medical Innovation Officer, Impact NRS Group

Dr. Nathalie Bloch is Chief of Discovery Platform at miR Scientific and Chief Medical Innovation Officer at parent company Impact NRS Group, joining the company in 2021.
Nathalie is an industry leader in the digital health and AI in healthcare ecosystems in Israel. She spent the last 4 years as Founder and Director of the Innovation Center for Digital Health ARC at Sheba Medical Center and was responsible for building the hospital’s big data and AI infrastructure, collaborating with dozens of startups, academic institutions and international companies. Nathalie also served as the Director of the Patents Committee at Sheba Medical Center.
Nathalie spent 14 years as a physician at Harvard Medical School, with 4 years as an Associate Medical Director at MACIPA in Cambridge, MA, where she led strategic projects to implement new technologies within the organization, reducing readmissions and moving care into the community.
Nathalie is part of a national committee advising the Israeli government on establishing its strategy for the next decade on Bioconvergence in Healthcare. She leads an educational practicum-based innovation and entrepreneurship program for medical residentsat the Israeli Medical Association, where she integrates 20 residents into 20 startups each year. Nathalie is additionally a senior advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Health for R&D projects in Innovation, Data and AI.
In 2018, Nathalie ranked among Haaretz’s 20 most influential women in healthcare in Israel. She serves on the boards of leading Israeli startups in AI in healthcare.
Nathalie earned her Doctor of Medicine from Tel Aviv University and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was also a Senior Fellow for Innovation in Healthcare Delivery at Harvard Medical School.
Nathalie is active with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and volunteers in the Occupied Territories and the refugees’ clinic.

Dr. Milly Perry
Blockchain Center Chair, The Israeli Chamber of Information Technologies

Dr. Milly Perry is an expert consultant in innovation, blockchain, and R&D for corporations, governments, startups and investors in the fields of 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies.
Dr. Perry is the founder of DAO4DAOs institute and BUG Blockchain University Global consultancy, and serves as Head of Blockchain excellence center at the Israeli Chamber of Information Technology, as board member at the Israel Fintech Community, and as a member of the academic body of the International Trusted Blockchain Applications Association (INATBA). Also, she engaged as an expert in leading international projects including the World Bank, WEF (World Economic Forum), ISO Blockchain Governance group, the European Blockchain Association and Blockchain Alliance Europe.
Dr. Perry holds a PhD in Information Science and a PhD in Art and Culture Sciences. She is an academic lecturer in several academic institutes in Israel and a frequent lecturer in international conferences. Dr. Perry was appointed a member of the Crypto & Blockchain Public Committee of theInstitute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel.
Lastly, Dr. Perry is the author of the book "Blockchain – Turning ego-system to ecosystem", which includes a variety of use cases, blockchain principles, and practical ideas.

Onn Shehory
Vice Chairman Graduate School of Business Administration, Bar Ilan University

Onn Shehory is an associate professor of information systems at Bar Ilan University. He has 30 years of academic and industrial research experience. His fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, software engineering, autonomic systems, and machine learning, to count a few.
Recently, he has focused on data-driven modeling and prediction of human behavior, and on adversarial machine learning. He serves and an associate editor on the board a several scientific journals. He has organized and co-chaired dozens of international scientific meetings. He has more than 100 scientific publications in leading journals and conferences, most of them in AI and software engineering. Some recent publications of his focus on the application of machine learning to healthcare, to medicine and to management.

Amit Klein
Associate Professor of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amit Klein is an associate professor of computer science in the Hebrew University. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Hebrew University. Amit holds a PhD in computer science from Bar Ilan University. Before his PhD studies, Amit spent more than 20 years as an executive of several Israeli cyber security startups. He was a VP Security Research for Safe breach; before that, he was the CTO of Tusteer (after Trusteer was acquired by IBM, Amit became the CTO of IBM Trusteer); before that, he was a chief scientist of Cyota (acquired by EMC); and before that, he was a director of security content for Sanctum (acquired by Watchfire, which was subsequently acquired by IBM). Prior to his career in the Israeli cybersecurity industry, Amit was an officer in the IDF, where he served in two elite R&D research units. Amit is a Talpiot programme graduate.
In his long research career, Amit published numerous cyber security research papers and works in top tier academic conferences (IEEE Security&Privacy, Usenix Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, etc.) and industry conferences (BlackHat, DefCon, RSA Conference, Hack-in-the-Box, BlueHat, etc.).In 2007, Amit appeared in TheMarker's "40 under 40" list, in the hi-tech category.
Photographer: Noam Feiner

Avner Goren
Vice president, Datacenter and AI group (DCAI), Intel

Avner Goren is vice president, Datacenter and AI group (DCAI) in Intel. Currently he is the Executive In Residence for Habana Labs, and startup acquired by Intel in 2019, and responsible for the integration of the company and its products into Intel.
Before joining DCAI, Avner was vice president in the Intel Architecture, Graphics and Software Group (IASG). Based in Israel, he led a global team of architects responsible for creating architectures for system-on-chip (SoC) products in the PC and IOT markets. As a member of Intel Israel management team – Goren is also responsible for Intel Israel growth areas and startups ecosystem.
Goren joined Intel in2017 after a 15-year career at Texas Instruments Inc. (TI), culminating in his role as general manager of strategic marketing for TI’s embedded processing division. Goren was influential in shaping a broad set of the division’s product portfolio, spanning processors, digital signal processors(DSPs), microcontrollers and connectivity devices focused on the industrial, automotive and Internet of Things market segments. Earlier in his tenure at TI, Goren played a key role in the company’s wireless business unit, architecting the OMAP products for the smartphone market.
Goren earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Technion –Israel Institute of Technology. He has been granted10 patents in the areas of chip architecture and communication systems.

Eyal Gershon
Automation IL Community and CallBox

Eyal is an entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing and Business Automation. He is the CTO and co-founder at Callbox, an official Partner for CallTrackingMetrics. Eyal is the founder of the “Automation Professionals” community in Israel and a co-organizer of the Global Business Automation Summit, A.IL. With more than 10000 members, the community brings together automation professionals in Low Code No Code, Integration as a Service, Robotic Process Automation, and Intelligent Workflows.

Ittay Eyal
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Prof.), Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Technion

Ittay Eyal is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty at the Technion. Eyal completed his PhD at the Technion, followed by a post-doctorate at Cornell University. Eyal was awarded a 2018 Alon Scholarship and a 2022 Krill Prize. His research focuses on performance and security in decentralized systems.

Orna Raz
STSM, AI Quality and Software Engineering, IBM Research - Israel

Dr. Orna Raz is a senior researcher at IBM Research - Haifa. She holds a PhD in software engineering and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Sc. in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Her current research interests are in data analytics, machine learning, and quality. She also has experience in the areas of quality of service, fault tolerance, developer tools, code coverage, problem analysis and log exploration for complex systems. Orna has a variety of publications and patent disclosures and previously worked at Intel R&D labs in Haifa, ChipExpress Israel, and NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

Michal Rosen-Zvi
Director, AI for Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM Research - Israel

Prof. Rosen-Zvi is a Director of health informatics at IBM Research and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University. At IBM Research she co-leads the research strategy of a worldwide team who are experts in AI applied to health data and she is the local senior manager of the IBM Research Haifa department who focuses on deep learning, machine learning and casual inference technologies applied to patients data. Michal holds a PhD in computational physics and completed postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and the Hebrew University in the area of Machine Learning. She joined IBM Research in 2005 and has since led various projects in the area of machine learning and healthcare. Michal has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and served as program committee in conferences such as AAAI, ICML and UAI and reviewer in journals such as Machine Learning and Nature. She serves at various boards and committees such as the Israeli national digital health committee and is elected to serve at the managing board of the Israeli Society of HealthTech.

Yair Weiss
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Hebrew University and the former Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering

Yair Weiss is the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Hebrew University and the former Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Neural Computation. He has held visiting scientist appointments at MIT, UC Berkeley and Microsoft Research. He served as the program chair of the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (2004) and the European Conference on Computer Vision (2018). From 2002-2019 he was a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and he is currently a fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems. With his students and colleagues he has received best paper awards at UAI, NIPS, CVPR and ECCV.

Dr. Jeffrey J. Welser
Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, IBM Research

Dr. Jeffrey Welser is Chief Operating Officer for IBM Research and Vice President, Exploratory Science and University Collaborations. He oversees IBM Research Labs based in California, Brazil and Japan, as well as the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge. He oversees exploratory and applied research to advance data technology and analytics for Hybrid Cloud and AI systems and software, with a strong focus on advanced computing technologies for AI, neuromorphic devices and quantum computing.
After joining IBM Research in 1995, Dr. Welser worked on a broad range of technologies, including novel silicon devices, high-performance CMOS and SOI device design, and next generation system components. He has led teams in both development and research, as well as running industrial, academic and government consortiums, including the SRC Nanoelectronics Research Initiative.
Dr. Welser received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He holds 21 US Patents and has published over 75 technical papers and presentations. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the American Physical Society, and Chairman of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium. He serves on several university and industry technical boards, and has participated in numerous Federal Agency, National Academies and Congressional panels on advanced semiconductor and computing technology.

David Bernstein
Government Business Development Executive, IBM Research

David Bernstein is currently the Program Manager of Technology Collaboration between IBM Research Division and institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. As part of this job, David is in frequent contacts with local IBM organizations in CEE, as well as he is in charge of developing collaboration opportunities with universities, government institutions and commercial companies in these countries. In addition, David is overseeing IBM’s participation in European collaboration projects in the context of the EU Horizon 2020 framework. David is IBM’s representative in the EU NESSI and BDVA working groups.
On his previous job David was managing the STG Lab in Israel. The Lab includes several departments in the areas of PowerPC chip design, storage advance copy functions and deduplication technology for tape products. David was responsible for lab’s day-to-day operations such as budgeting, hiring, worldwide connections, etc.
Previously David was the Department Manager of Software and Verification Technologies in IBM Haifa Research Laboratory. Since 1989 David Bernstein held a range of technical and managerial positions in IBM Haifa Research Lab in the areas of programming languages, compilers, processor architecture, hardware verification, software testing, etc. Before joining IBM Haifa in 1989, he spent two years in IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York doing research in the area of parallel processing.
David Bernstein is an adjunct lecturer in Haifa’s Technion, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In addition, he supervises graduate students in advanced research towards M.Sc. degree. Dr. Bernstein holds B.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion.

Miki Kenneth
Director, Strategy & Operation in Eco System Engineering, Red Hat

Michal (Miki) Kenneth - Director, Strategy & Operation in Eco System Engineering, Red Hat office of the CTO, and leads the R&D Center in Israel. Miki has decades of experience in software development and product management. Miki has managed Research and Development teams as well as Product and customer-facing teams in various companies from incumbents and small start-up companies to global enterprises. Miki has been in Red Hat for more than 14 years, joined with the acquisition of Qumranet back in 2008.