Archives: Speakers

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Avi Veidman

Bio

Before founding Nucleai Avi served more than 20 years in the Israeli intelligence forces in unit 9900 and unit 8200 in various R&D leadership roles. During his service, Avi Established an AI-Data science department specializing in computer vision and spatial information.

Avi holds an MSC in Geoinformation (Cum laude) from the Technion. He is married to Efrat and a proud father of Yahli and Reshef.

Company

Nucleai is an AI-healthcare company improving cancer diagnostics by making it accurate, effective and accessible in order to treat patients better. It was founded in 2017 and has rasied $5M to date.

Eran Bielski

Bio

Eran is a General Partner at Entree Capital. Eran led a number of Entrée investments over the past years, and overseas SigmaLabs, Entrée’s accelerator based in Tel Aviv. He previously worked at JPMorgan Chase.

Company

Entrée Capital provides multi-stage funding for innovative start-ups and companies all over the world.

Entrée Capital was founded by successful entrepreneurs with a track record of having successfully invested and exited over twenty businesses on five continents in the past decade.

They have offices in London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Gabi Zodik

Gabi is the Director, CTO and Head of Development for Watson Assistant Solutions, as well as the Department Group Manager of the IoT and Cloud Technologies department at IBM Research – Haifa. He oversees the lab’s research and development efforts in IoT, mobile, wearable solutions, and emerging cloud computing platforms.

Over the past years, Gabi played a leadership role in applying AI to IoT solutions. Gabi oversees the R&D activities in the areas of IoT for consumer businesses, where one of the major activities is to build Watson Assistant Solutions for enterprise clients (e.g., automotive, hospitality, and retail) and a cross industry Assistant Framework.

Gabi has an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion, and an MBA from the University of Haifa.

Gabi is a frequent speaker on the challenges and opportunities in the future of AI and IoT systems.

He also serves as the relationship manager for IBM IoT Consumer Business, IoT platforms and MobileFirst with Research.

Specialties: Personal Intelligent Assistants, IoT, Mobile, Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing. Moving innovations from ideas to practice

Yael Rozencwajg

Blockchain Israel is the largest organisation in Israel dedicated to Blockchain Solutions and Crypto Technologies. Among its partners are Microsoft and IBM.

Yael is also the founder & CEO of an advanced platform based on a distributed ledger architecture + ML/AI + IOT networks working with enterprises and focusing on social impact and security.

Yael is a serial entrepreneur, advisor and mentor @ Google.

Liron Langer

Liron is responsible for the commercial due-diligence of applying companies, as well as mentoring and escorting teams to build sustainable world-class tech products.

Liron is an entrepreneur at heart and a high-tech veteran with proven experience as CEO, VP products, VP Business Development and CTO at private and public companies. Liron brings more than 20 years of experience in leading, managing and introducing products and services to diverse international markets, across both enterprise and consumer sectors.

Liron’s career experiences include various management roles on both technical and business tracks including the establishment and management of startup companies.

Prior to Nielsen Innovate, Liron had served as EMEA GM at Portnox, VP Business Development at RADVISION (acquired by Avaya), VP Products at Verint (NASDAQ:VRNT), Founder & CEO of CellGlide, CTO at Vocaltec (NASDAQ:VOCL) and senior team leader at Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX).

Liron served six years at MAMRAM (the IDF Computer Center) in technology and command positions.