IsraelNaama Ben-Zvi serves as the Biometric Commissioner and the Head of the Identity & Biometric Application Unit, a division within the National Cyber Directorate (INCD) in the Prime Minister's Office of Israel. Naama joined the Prime Minister's Office Legal Department in 2008. Over a decade ago, she played a key role in establishing the Identity & Biometric Application Unit and served as the Unit's legal advisor for seven years. Her responsibilities included overseeing all legal and privacy aspects of the unit's missions in biometric applications across Government, public, and private sectors in Israel. From 2019 to 2022, Naama held the position of Department Manager of Biometric Projects, and from 2022 to 2023, she served as Director of Oversight & Compliance, responsible for supervising National Biometric projects and establishing policy and guidelines for the Unit. She has held her current position since October 1, 2023. In addition to her role within the INCD, Naama is also the Gender Equality Officer, tasked with promoting and monitoring equal opportunity and gender sensitivity within the organization. Naama earned her LLB degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002 and her LLM degree from Bar-Ilan University in 2018. She has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 2003, holds certification as an Information System Analyst from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and is an IEEE certified Biometrics Professional. In November 2023, Naama joined the Biometrics Institute Director Board, alongside other civil servants from around the world.

Graduate of Tel Aviv University, M.A. in political communications. Gili manages events and activities at the Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security at Tel Aviv University, which includes more than 100 conferences and numerus publications. Since 2014, she has also been managing the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC) at Tel Aviv University. The Blavatnik ICRC is a leading international body that seeks to increase academic efforts and awareness in the field of cyber security.

Hamutal Meridor recently started a defense tech startup, still in stealth mode. Between 2021-2024, she was a partner at Vintage, leading Fund investments and early to growth-stage investments focused on Artificial Intelligence and Data.

Before joining Vintage, Hamutal acted as GM of Palantir Israel for six years, after heading the open-source web intelligence division at Verint, working at YaData (a data analytics startup acquired by Microsoft) and being an entrepreneur at her own startup.

Hamutal has been focused on data technologies for enterprises, governments, and online throughout her career. She was a founding member of “Cracking the Glass Ceiling,” a non-profit promoting girls from social and geographical peripheries to STEM.

She holds a BSc in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University, and an MSc in Natural Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh, where she received numerous awards for academic excellence.

Yifat Oron is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and head of the firm’s office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to joining Blackstone, Yifat Oron was the CEO of Leumitecg. She spent most of her career as a Partner at Vertex Venture Capital. Before joining Vertex, Ms. Oron was a technology investment banking associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Previously, she spent three years at the Directorate of R&D of the Israeli Ministry of Defense where she achieved the rank of Lieutenant in the Economics, Budget & Control Department.

Ms. Oron currently serves as President of the Tel Aviv University Friends Association, sits on the board of The Israel Innovation Authority, and is a trustee of Sheba Medical Center.

She holds an M.B.A. from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Management from the Technion.

Meet Raz! An innovative and results-driven executive with extensive experience in international business development of technology products who focuses on establishing scalable mechanisms to drive revenue, growth and building trust with customers & partners. Raz supports hundreds of Start-Ups as they scale to international markets, recruit new customers, establishing sales channels and raising funds from venture capital. He has vast experience in managing large scale and complex operation. Along with his Business Development expertise, he has a track record of driving successful outcomes in fast-paced and ambiguous environments. This impressive Entrepreneur also has a great passion for storytelling, public speaking, social entrepreneurship and practical use cases of AI & Ethics.

Shlomo is Co-Founder and CEO of Cato Networks. He is a network security expert and a serial entrepreneur. Shlomo has co-founded Check Point Software, who created the first commercial Firewall, and Imperva, the innovator of the Web Application Firewall. Shlomo has made early investments in highly successful enterprise software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Trusteer, Gong, and numerous others.

David is currently CTO and Co-Founder of Jit, the Continuous Security platform for Developers. David has a PhD in Bioinformatics and for the past 20 years has been a full-stack developer, CTO & technical evangelist, mostly in the cloud, and specifically in cloud security, working for leading organizations such as MyHeritage, CloudLock (acquired by Cisco) and leading the 'advanced development team' for the CTO of Cisco's cloud security (a $500M ARR BU).

Hadar Sharvit Joined Urecsys in November 2022 as a Machine Learning Researcher, and now leads the ML
team. He holds a Dual Major BSc in Physics and Computer Science and an MSc in Computer Science, both
from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Specializing in time series analysis, mostly in the world of phys-
ical systems, Hadar focuses on leveraging advanced machine learning techniques to address environmental
challenges

As one of the two Deputy Directors of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation(STI), Audrey Plonk is responsible for the OECD’s portfolio of work on digital policy that includes data governance and data flows, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, security and safety online, and connectivity and infrastructure. She plays a leading role in overseeing and advancing evidence-based policy analysis on the drivers, opportunities and challenges of digital transformation in collaboration with policy communities and stakeholders. She also supports and represents the OECD in related international initiatives.

From 2019 to 2023, Ms Plonk served as Head of STI’s Digital Economy Policy Division. She was responsible for leading two OECD committees and six working parties across digital and consumer policy. She has successfully grown the OECD’s digital portfolio delivering a key Ministerial meeting in 2022, the launch of the Global Forum on Technology, and the Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities. Ms Plonk had previously worked on digital security issues in STI in 2007, including malicious software and the protection of critical information infrastructure.

Before returning to STI in 2019, Ms Plonk was Senior Director of Global Security Policy and Senior Director for Public Policy at Intel Corporation. During her more than 10 years at Intel, she led a global team of policy experts focusing on issues such as connectivity, data, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving policy issues. She also specialised in China cyber policy and advised Intel business and product teams on China strategy.

Ms Plonk, an American national, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University (Washington, DC, United States).

Adv. Daria Tsafrir – Haskin is a Senior Legal counsel at the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) leading legal aspects of cloud computing, Security Operations Centers, emerging technologies and international law. Ms. Tsafrir – Haskin is an experienced legal counsel.

Before joining the INCD she served as The Legal counsel for the Office of Strategic Affairs and for the Ministry of the Diaspora. She has also served as a legal counsel at the Prime Minister’s Office.

In addition, Ms. Tsafrir – Haskin has held several positions in the Public Service including: The Director of the Foreign Press Department at the Prime Minister’s office and at the Foreign Ministry.

Ms. Tsafrir-Haskin holds an LLB, LLM from Bar Ilan University as well as an MA in Mass Communication from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.