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Dr. Aviv Yehezkel

Aviv specializes in data science research and solving big data problems using unique and novel machine learning and AI approaches.

Aviv is leading the research and data science in NICE advanced process automation (APA) group, responsible for bringing AI into the process automation market. The group latest release, Automation Finder, is using a novel and patent-pending AI-based solution offering NICE customers with the most effective way to automatically identify robotic automation opportunities yielding optimal ROI and operational efficiencies.

Aviv holds PhD and MSc in computer science from the Technion and BSc in applied mathematics.

Ohad Greenshpan

Speaker

A serial entrepreneur with a track record in building innovative technologies that create impact, Ohad comes with a rich background in advanced Big Data and Machine Learning technologies, security and eCommerce. Ohad is one of the founders and leaders of the Serious Games space – contributing both through his PhD and his activity in IBM Research Labs where he received awards for outstanding performance. Ohad is an alum of the Israeli elite intelligence unit, 8200, where he served as an officer.

Company

Namogoo prevents Customer Journey Hijacking from diverting online customers to competitors and wins back stolen revenue for the world’s leading brands. It has raised $69M to date.

Laurent Nizri

Laurent is the founder and CEO of Altéir Consulting, created just after he helped launch Zebank, the first big internet bank in Europe in 1999. For the last 15 years Alteir and Laurent worked on projects and advised organizations of all sizes across the payments & digital finance industry. He is a recognized digital/mobile payments, banking, commerce and Fintech expert with a focus on strategy, business development, and innovation.

With almost 20 years experience, he has had the opportunity to work across the complete value chain helping telcos, banks, insurers, new incumbents and start-ups to define new strategies and products, to launch new businesses and to manage major international projects in the payments & digital finance sector. Alteir’s footprint is mainly on continental Europe, with a clear focus on France, Germany and Spain. Among its customers are Orange, Vivendi, SFR, most of the French banks, Generali, Allianz, GMF, Visa, PCS Mastercard.

Laurent is also the Vice President of Acsel, the French digital economy association, who gathers almost 150 companies of all sizes and animate French think tank on the digital finance and payments sector.

Seth Juarez

Seth is a Microsoft Evangelist working with the Channel 9 team. When he is not working in that area, Seth devotes his time to an open source Machine Learning Library, specifically for .NET, intended to simplify the use of popular machine learning models, as well as complex statistics and linear algebra.

Seth Juarez holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science where his field of research was Artificial Intelligence, specifically in the realm of Machine Learning.

Rona Segev

Rona is a founding partner of TLV Partners. She currently focuses on Cloud Computing and Cyber Security. Rona, with her background as an entrepreneur, is a true partner and mentor to many Founders.

TLV Partners was founded in 2015 and manages ≈ $115 million in seed and Series A investments. It recently raised ≈ $150 million for its second fund.

Rona is a member of the board of Varonis (NASDAQ: “VRNS”), Aqua Security, Oribi, AiDoc, PureSec, Datree.io and Rookout. Previously Rona invested and partnered with the founders of Skycure (acquired by Symantec), Traiana (acquired by ICAP), Actona (acquired by CISCO), ItemField (Aquired by Informatica) , Identify (acquired by BMC), Aduva (acquired by SUN) , Fring (acquired by GenBend), Worklight (acquired by IBM), SalesPredict (acquired by eBay), Totango, Evolven, and Jethrodata.

Previously, she was a General Partner at Pitango and Evergreen, and was head of the enterprise software sector at both funds. Rona herself was a successful entrepreneur in the computer gaming industry.