Innovation Summit

Registration and Breakfast Bar
Welcoming Remarks
Alon Stoppel PhD, Innovation Authority
- Gili Drob-Heistein, Executive Director, Blavatnik ICRC and Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security
Keynote Fireside Chat
- Shlomo Kramer, Co-Founder and CEO, Cato Networks
- Kobi Samboursky, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Glilot Capital Partners
AI Startup Models for Success: Academia x Industry Collaborations
- Moderator:
  Nancy Shapira-Aronovic, Senior Business Development Director, Gartner Israel
- Prof. Meir Feder, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University and Head, TAD
- Arik Kol, Sr. Director, NVIDIA Inception Startup Program Lead
The Israeli Cybersecurity Oasis – led by Dell Technologies Capital
- Moderator:
  Yair Snir, Managing Partner, Dell Technologies Capital
- Yifat Oron, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
- Liran Grinberg, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Team8
- Rona Segev, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, TLV Partners
Israel War & Tech & Resilience
- Moderator:
  Sidney Gottesman, CEO, Finsec Innovation Lab
- Hamutal Meridor, Defense Tech Founder, Stealth
- Michal Kissos Hertzog, CEO, Poalim Tech
- Colonel Nir Weingold, Head Of Planning, Economics & IT Department, DDR&D
- Raz Bachar, Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups
Coffee Break
Welcoming Remarks
- Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, Conference Chairman Cyber Week;
  Director Blavatnik ICRC, Tel Aviv University
Does Uncle Sam Still Want YOU? American VC Perspectives on the Israeli Market in a Post Oct.7 World
- Moshe Bellows, Managing Principal, Maccabee Ventures
- Yodfat Harel Buchris, Managing Director, Blumberg Capital
Israeli Tech in Transition: A Fireside Chat on AI and Post-Oct. 7 Challenges
- Yorai Fainmesser, General Partner, DisruptiveAI VC
- Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder & CEO, Wix
– Fireside Chat –
- Giora Shaked, Chief Business Officer, Start-Up Nation Central
- Annie Degani, Head of Business Development, FinSec Innovation Lab by Mastercard
Lessons from the Trenches: Successful Startups in a Challenging Arena – hosted by YL Ventures
- Moderator:
  Ofer Schreiber, Senior Partner and Head of Israel Office, YL Ventures
- Zohar Alon, Cybersecurity Pioneer, Entrepreneur, and Investor
- Ran Ribenzaft, Co-Founder and CTO, Epsagon
- Dima Stopel, Co-Founder and VP R&D, Gutsy
- Ohad Bobrov, CTO and Co-Founder, Talon Cyber Security
CISO-Security Leaders Perspectives
- Moderator:
  Dr. Yaniv Harel, Chief Strategy Officer, Blavatnik ICRC, Tel Aviv University;
  Former GM Cyber Solutions Group, Dell
- Andrew Smeaton, CISO, Afiniti
- Matthew Hurewitz, Director, Platforms and Application Security, BestBuy
- Carla Wheeler, Former Healthcare CISO
- Victor Murineanu, Information Security Manager, Chelsea Football Club
Lunch & Cocktails + Networking