Shai is responsible for the IBM Cloud Business in Israel, including IBM Analytics, IBM Watson and IBM Cloud.

IBM Cloud’s mission is to help clients with their adoption of cloud, and how they infuse cognitive and analytics in everything they do.

Shai has a BSc in computer science and MBA from the Technion. He has been with IBM since 2006.

As a multimedia producer during 2001-2017 Maxim has produced more than 50 animated commercials, 3D-movies, commercial and industrial applications, computer games. Worked with international retail and industrial brands such as Unilever, Yukos, TPE, Metro Cash&Carry, Severstal Group, Ferrexpo, commercial banks, investment and insurance companies.

Maxim has been a member of the IPO team of Ferrexpo on the London Stock Exchange, the biggest iron ore producer in Ukraine. Since 2014 he has been investing in drones development, AI and AR multimedia start-ups.

Robin is CEO of CrowdFlower – the essential human-in-the-loop AI platform for data science and machine learning teams.

Robin has spent the past two decades helping high growth companies launch and scale platforms and products into rapidly transforming markets.

Prior to CrowdFlower, Robin was the VP & GM, Strategic Consumer Industries at Marketo where he launched and led the business unit selling to consumer digital marketing teams.

Robin holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Max is the Lead Evangelist for Amazon Alexa in Europe. His main mission is to introduce Alexa to European developers, and demonstrate how they can build natural and delightful voice experiences for customers.

Max has held several technical leadership roles during a career spanning over 15 years. He led the teams that brought Alexa Skills Kit to UK and Germany, and the Solutions Architects team for AWS in Europe.

Max is passionate about topics including Human Computer Interaction, the Internet of Things and the materialization of science fiction predictions.

Shai is the Co-Founder & Chief Lemonade Maker at Lemonade – one of the leading InsurTech startups, which has raised $180m to date.

Lemonade offers homeowners and renters insurance powered by AI and behavioral economics, and is the world’s first peer to peer insurance company.

Shai is a veteran tech entrepreneur and inventor, who founded several companies including Fiverr – the world’s largest marketplace for creative and professional services.

eToro is the world’s largest social investment network with millions of traders and investors from around the world. It has invented the CopyTrader™ technology and raised $73m to date. Yoni founded eToro to build the first global market place for people to trade currencies, commodities, indices and CFD stocks online in a simple, transparent and more enjoyable way. eToro empower over 4.5 million users in more than 170 countries worldwide to manage their funds through its innovative online investment platforms and active trading community.

Yoni has shown an interest in finance and computer science since his youth and so decided to merge his passions. It was this very passion along with the social revolution, which led to the founding and development of eToro’s investment network, where users connect, share, trade and invest in the world’s financial markets. Yoni is as passionate about his business, as he is for his family, wife plus 4 kids, which often results in excessive use of the word awesome, and hi-fives around the office.

Liron is a General Partner at Meron Capital and has over 10 years of experience in the investment and tech industries.  Liron also manages the Young Venture Capital Forum in Israel – a professional organization connecting over 150 young partners, principals and associates from all VC firms in Israel.

Prior to joining Meron Capital, Liron was a Principal at Blumberg Capital and led Cyber, SaaS, Marketing-tech and Infrastructure IT deals. Prior to that, she was a Strategy and M&A consultant at Bain Capital and PwC’s PE group in New York, where she lead commercial and operational due-diligence projects for the largest private equity firms in the US.  Before moving to the US, Liron was a technical Applications Engineer at Agilent Technologies, where she worked with blue-chip clients in Europe, Asia and the US.

Liron has an MBA from MIT-Sloan, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from MIT and a B.Sc. in Math and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At 25, she was the youngest student ever to graduate MIT’s dual MBA / M.Sc. degree program. She started her bachelor’s degree at Talpiot, the elite Israeli Defense Forces program, and completed it while serving full-time as a technology analyst and researcher at the Israeli intelligence unit 8200.

Igal leads Cortica’s vision, strategy, and technology. Cortica is one of Israel’s leading AI companies. Its unique self-learning technology for visual perception, backed by more than 200 patents, allows Cortica to develop multiple products that can read and understand images on a human level­–thereby significantly exceeding the capabilities of the major tech companies. Cortica was founded in 2007 and has raised ≈$70 million to date.

Igal is an award winning innovator with over 50 patents. His career began in an elite intelligence unit in the IDF, before founding LCB, Ltd. – a real-time voice recognition technology. Igal began his Ph.D. research at the Technion but left prior to graduation to pursue his ambitions with Cortica.

Oren leads the global Inference Group, part of Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Products Group. He is responsible for the Inference silicon and software product line, from definition to customer delivery.

Previous roles at Intel included managing a Computer Vision and AI Development team and a Strategic Planning group. Prior to that Oren managed business development and strategic planning at Samsung Israel.