Inbal Aviad is a highly regarded legal professional and corporate leader, presently serving as the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer (CLCO) at a globally recognized super unicorn valued at $3.7 billion. 
Inbal holds a pivotal position as a distinguished board member and key member of the senior executive management team.
With an extensive background in business and corporate law spanning over two decades, including notable roles in major law firms, where her legal journey began, and where she rose to the 
position of a leading managing partner, significantly contributing to the firm's success.
In her role as CLCO, Inbal bears significant responsibility, overseeing legal, compliance, and privacy aspects across the organization. 
Beyond conventional legal duties, she navigates complex legal landscapes to ensure seamless alignment with global regulations and ethical standards, contributing to the fortification of the company's legal framework.
Inbal's leadership has played a crucial role in securing over $450 million in fundraising rounds and successfully leading and guiding M&A and Global Arbitration processes, showcasing her ability to 
drive strategic initiatives beyond the legal domain. 
In her tenure, Inbal has overseen the establishment and growth of the Legal department, from a single in-house counsel to a team of 20 professionals, strategically stationed in the USA, EMEA and APAC. 
Her strategic vision extends beyond legal matters, fostering interdepartmental cooperation and implementing robust processes, positioning the Legal department as a respected "special operations" team that ensures legal considerations never hinder business deals.

Assaf Shalom Kadosh is a Computer Vision & Deep Learning Algorithms Developer at ELOP (Elbit Systems Ltd.), specializing in Multi-Spectral Aerial imaging and Medical Applications. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, where he focused on Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Signal & Image Processing.
In his current role at ELOP, Assaf is proficient in various neural network architectures, including CNNs, Transformers, GANs, and Cycle-GANs. He performs multidimensional image processing, generates physical and realistic simulations for data augmentation, and is skilled in transfer learning, knowledge distillation, quantization, and pruning for neural network acceleration.
Assaf's work on integrating AI networks for observation systems at ELOP was recognized with the "Outstanding Design Award" in Electronics, Software, and Algorithmics for 2023, highlighting his expertise as the lead developer of the AI solution.
Assaf master's thesis focused on early breast cancer detection using deep learning algorithms and infra-red light. He developed a regularized UNet++ algorithm, significantly improving tumor detection accuracy. His findings were published in the SPIE Photonics West 2023 conference proceedings.

In the last 15 years Chen is an entrepreneur in the fields of computer vision and AI, with a focus on digital health. 
Chen is a co founder of SagivTech, an R&D projects company, DeePathology, a company operating in the computational pathology domain, and SurgeonAI, a company that aims to bring AI to the OR.  Chen has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Tel Aviv University. 
For the last decade Chen volunteers as a Math teacher for high school students. 
 

Avi Mayer is the immediate past Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post, the most-read English-language newspaper in Israel and the leading news outlet in the Jewish world. With more than a quarter-million followers on X (formerly Twitter) and a monthly audience in the tens of millions, Avi is considered one of the most prominent millennial voices in Israel and the Jewish world. In 2013, he was named one of the “Jewish 100”—the top one hundred people positively influencing Jewish life—along with then-U.S. President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other leading figures. In 2016 he was named the third most influential person on ‘Jewish Twitter,’ just behind Prime Minister Netanyahu, and in 2017 he was named one of the most influential English-speaking immigrants in Israeli politics.

He previously held leadership roles in some of the world’s leading Jewish organizations, including serving as Managing Director of Global Communications and Public Affairs at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and as the international spokesperson of The Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish organization in the world, and of its then-Chairman, Natan Sharansky. Avi has met with the President of the United States at the White House and he conducted the first newspaper interview with the Prime Minister of Israel after his election. He has addressed lawmakers in both the U.S. Congress and the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on numerous occasions. He is regularly invited to discuss developments in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world on international news networks and he and his work have been featured in some of the world’s leading publications.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland, he has worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.; Hillel International; and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He has served on the international boards of KAHAL, an organization for Jewish students studying abroad around the world, and ACCESS, AJC’s young leadership program.

Avi currently serves as Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of Global Jewry and is a member of the ROI Community. He is a former participant in the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies’ Jewish communal leadership program. Born in New York and raised in Jerusalem and Maryland, Avi served in the Israel Defense Forces as a spokesperson to the international media. He lives in Jerusalem.

Sharon Gannot obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in 2000. He is a full professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 
He serves as a senior area chair for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, a member of the senior editorial board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, a member of the editorial board of IEEE SPS Education Center, and the chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Data Science Initiative. Previously, he was chair of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee in 2017–2018. He has also held other roles, such as the general co-chair of the 2010 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement and the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. He is the general co-chair of Interspeech 2024, which will be held in September in Greece.
His research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning in the audio processing domain. The methods he develops utilize multi-microphone and multi-modal information. Applications include speech enhancement, noise reduction, speaker separation and diarization, dereverberation, speaker localization, and tracking. 
Sharon Gannot is the recipient of the 2022 European Association for Signal Processing Group Technical Achievement Award and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Yaniv Harel was the Cyber Solutions Group General Manager at Dell EMC, a global group within Dell Technologies. Under his leadership the Cyber Solutions Group won, designed, and built significant CERTs and other cyber projects.

Yaniv is an expert in cyber defense in large organizations, and at the national level, with years of experience in governmental roles. Yaniv led several technology divisions within the IDF as part of his service. He was awarded the Israel National Medal for Security in 2002. In recent years Yaniv acted as the SVP Cyber Defense in Sygnia a Team8 and Temasek company that focuses on cyber premium services. 

In his academic capacity, Dr. Harel is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Cyber Center - ICRC at Tel-Aviv University. 

He assists start-ups, serves on advisory boards, and contributes to several initiatives at the Beer-Sheva Cyber Eco-system. Currently acts as a Co-Founder of a new initiative. In parallel works as an independent consultant to CISOs, Boards of Directors, and global companies.

Stuart Palmer is a Senior Trade Policy Analyst with the Technical Barriers and Regulations Division of the Trade Policy and Negotiations Branch in the Global Affairs Canada Ministry.  He specializes in promoting mutually beneficial international trade in artificial intelligence systems by minimizing the trade impact of standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures. He is also the Canadian lead negotiator for the Technical Barriers to Trade and Good Regulatory Practices elements of the free trade agreement negotiations between Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.  Previously, he held Government of Canada trade policy positions that addressed a range of trade policy issues affecting international trade in goods and services.

Amit Moscovich is an assistant professor in the department of statistics and operations research, school of mathematical sciences, Tel Aviv university.
Prior to that he worked as a postdoctoral associate in Princeton University's program in applied and computational mathematics. He completed a Ph.D. (direct track) at the Weizmann institute's department of computer science and applied mathematics, for which he won the Joseph Putter award from the Israel Statistical Association. His broad research interests include all manners of methodology development for statistics and machine learning and in particular those that involve significant computational challenges.
 

Dr. Omri Rachum-Twaig is an adjunct professor of law and senior fellow at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and a partner at FISCHER (FBC & Co.) co-heading the Information Technology and Cyber Practice. He practices, teaches and writes in the fields of law and emerging technologies, with a focus on cyber and information law, artificial intelligence and data protection. He represents multi-national big tech corporations and incumbent institutions in Israel in various legal aspects pertaining to law and technology. He has published on all these matters in leading law reviews and journals, has won several academic awards and prizes, and his work is frequently cited in scholarly work and courts, including the Supreme Court of Israel. 

Dr. Amit Elazari is the Co-Founder and CEO of OpenPolicy, the world's first tech-enabled policy and advocacy company, aiming to democratize technology policy and access to lobbying. 

She teaches at the University of California (UC), Berkeley School of Information Master in Information and Cybersecurity, & RUNI, and serves as a member of the External Advisory Committee for the UC Berkeley Center of Long Term Cybersecurity. Amit is also a public speaker, and often keynotes or speaks at global conferences such as RSA Security, BlackHat, CES, and SXSW. 

Prior to OpenPolicy she was Head of Global Cybersecurity Policy at Intel Corporation, responsible for shaping and executing Intel’s global security policy and government affairs engagement across all of Intel technologies.  

In 2023 she chaired the Cybersecurity Policy Committee for the Information Technology Industry Council, U.S. leading Tech trade association, and the Linux Open Source Security Foundation public policy committee. 

Amit holds a Doctoral Degree in the Law (J.S.D.) from UC Berkeley School of Law, the world’s leading law institution for technology law, and graduated summa cum laude three prior degrees in law and business. 

She is the first Israeli LL.M. graduate to be admitted to the doctoral program at Berkeley or any other top U.S. doctoral program in law, on a direct-track basis.

She has an extensive background in technical, policy and legal roles, and practiced Hi-tech, Venture Capital and M&A law in one of Israel’s largest law firms GKH-Law. 

Her research in tech law and policy has appeared in leading technology law and computer science journals, presented at conferences such as RSA and USENIX Security, and featured at leading news sites such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the New York Times. You can find her publications on Google Scholar. 
 

Dr. Roey Tzezana is a futures studies researcher at Blavatnik Center at Tel Aviv University, and is currently acting as a futurist and head of methodologies in SparkBeyond – an AI startup that uses the power of artificial intelligence to provide answers to complex questions.
Before that, he had been a lead researcher in XPRIZE – an organization that creates massive competitions with tens of millions of dollars in prizes, to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. Dr. Tzezana led the research in the organization about human longevity, which should eventually, hopefully, lead to the development of treatments to stop and reverse aging.
Dr. Tzezana is acting as a scientific consultant to several firms and international organizations (including the prestigious World Future Society), and is a member in high-ranking future-focused bodies like TechCast and the Millennium Project. 
Dr. Tzezana is the author of several best-selling books about the future of technology and society. His books have been translated to several languages, and the latest one has been described by the Israeli Secretary of Treasury as “a book that every politician should read”. He is also the creator of several TED-ED clips, has lectured in two TEDx conferences, and is a highly-read writer on Quora.
Dr. Tzezana has co-founded the SimPolitix project for political forecasting and TeleBuddy - a firm that operates telepresence robots around the globe, allowing him to teach, lecture and live in three different continents at the same time, using robotic avatars as his bodies. Altogether he has delivered nearly 300 lectures in his various robotic bodies.
His research has led him to journey worldwide - from Kazakhstan to Latin America and even Antarctica (where he became one of the few people in the world to capture pokemon on that barren continent) - trying to understanding how technology will impact humanity and reshape our society and institutions.
As part of his exploration of the future, Dr. Tzezana has also provided consultation about the future of technology and society to many international firms and organizations, including AbbVie, Bayer, Groupo Bollivar and CMPC. He also took a leading part in creating Israel’s strategic AI plan, under the auspices of the Shmuel Ne’eman Institute, and in highlighting both the opportunities and the challenges in this space for the nation. He has also led the creation of the ‘future-oriented floor’ and simulations in the Shimon Peres’ Center for Peace and Innovation.

Ian Mak was appointed as Singapore’s first resident Ambassador to the State of Israel in November 2023. 

Ian has served in the Singapore Foreign Service for more than 20 years in various capacities covering issues related to Southeast Asia, Europe, maritime security, international law and the ICJ. 

His most recent assignments prior to his Ambassadorial appointment were as Assistant Chief Executive (International) at the Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority, and concurrently as Director of International Affairs in the Ministry of Communications and Information. Ian led the development of Singapore’s international strategy for digital collaboration and engagement, covering multilateral negotiations and bilateral partnerships in Digital Economy Agreements, digital trade policies, cross-border data flow mechanisms, the development of inter-operable digital technology standards, and capacity building initiatives with fellow small states. 

Ian graduated from Stanford University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction) in Economics and a Master of Arts in International Policy Studies.