Archives: Speakers

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Gila Hayat

Gila Hayat is Darrow’s Co-founder & CTO. She was selected for Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List in 2021, as one of the youngest minds in the industry to hold such a position. Gila served in the 8200 intelligence unit for seven years, and upon her release, she took on managing the growth of Darrow’s AI as Chief Technology Officer.

Ido Biger

VP Technologies (CIO & CDO) of Israel’s national Airline. With 20 years record of IT Expertise in various organizations.
A Data & Analytics Leader with a proven ability to make large organizations become Data Driven.
Held 2 successful Chief Data Officer Roles (Telco & Aviation). Leading Big Data Teams, BI Departments, Advanced Analytics Units (Data Science) and Data Literacy programs.
International Speaker, an Adjunct Lecturer at Tel-Aviv University and the Technion for Big Data Technologies, Data Science and Data Visualization . A Data Geek with a business state of mind.

Ido Engel

Ido Engel runs Azure in Israel. He is formerly an entrepreneur and a startup consultant, who has lived in New York and London.

Itai Ben-Shalom

Maya Leventer-Roberts

Michelle Taycher Nishry

Michelle is a senior investment manager at Qualcomm Ventures, based out of Tel Aviv, focusing on investments in Israel and Europe across various domains.

Michelle has more than 15 years of experience in various business roles in high tech companies. Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures she was head of strategic technology partnerships at Intel Sports, where she drove complex business transactions. Prior to that she was a program manager at Replay Technologies, a startup focusing on volumetric video creation that was later acquired by Intel, where she fully owned a relationship with a key partner. Michelle had previously worked at Qualcomm and was the program manager for Snapdragon™ Development Platforms, focusing on enablement of forward looking technologies.

Michelle holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.