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Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, a connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere.

Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and Containerized environments.

Rabea Zioud is an entrepreneur, lecturer, and community leader, zioud started his first business when he was 20 years old and has since been involved in the Israeli startup ecosystem. He has served as the VP for the MENA region at Voiceitt (was the Masschallenge Finalist in 2014) and co-founded Hasoub - a non-profit grassroots movement that turns out to be one of the leading organizations that promote tech and entrepreneurship in Arab society. He is currently the CEO of Hasoub. 

Iesh Dixit is the CEO and Co-founder of Powerplay, an end-to-end construction management SaaS platform that aids in the simplification of communication and synergizing collaboration within project teams in the construction industry. In his capacity within the organization, he heads Powerplay’s corporate team, fostering internal and external communication, implementing the company’s vision, and evaluating the organization’s short and long-term goals. Overall, Iesh supervises the smooth functioning of all departments while overseeing the holistic development of the organization.

Yaniv Cohen is the operations manager of Twilio in Israel. Under the technology giant - Aman Group.

Yoni Sherizen founded Gabriel after witnessing the hampered response to a terror attack in Tel Aviv and, a few days later, the (then) largest mass shooting in the USA. In turn, Yoni recruited a team of leading technologists and security experts to reimagine how we prepare for and respond to critical incidents. Mass shootings have been their initial focus, and Gabriel has deployed in soft target settings such as schools, houses of worship, care facilities and office buildings. In April 2022, Gabriel was 'battle tested' when a shooting broke out at a customer site and the technology successfully automated the critical response to save lives.

Dr. Tal Rotman is a Partner and Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pearl Cohen, a prominent law firm in Israel. He has extensive experience in mediating and litigating stakeholders’ disputes in startup companies. Previously, Tal was a consultant at the New York office of McKinsey and Company, taught at Tel Aviv University School of Law, and clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court. He holds a Ph.D. in law, M.A. in Psychology (summa cum laude), LL.M in Commercial law (summa cum laude), LL.B., and B.A. in Accounting (both magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. He also earned LL.M. in Corporate Law from New York University, where he was a Hauser Scholar.

Phillip Kane is a husband, father, and businessman. He has had a successful career in some of the world’s best-known corporations. Working for brands like Goodyear, Pirelli, and NAPA, Kane has had the privilege to lead thousands of individuals and has managed billions of dollars in value for stakeholders. Crediting his father, a Polish sales manager, and a Nigerian priest with almost every good thing he has learned about life, leadership, business and the art of storytelling, Kane proved for 30 years that the need to choose between winning and caring for others is a myth. Kane lives in Ohio with his wife, three children, and four wonderdogs. The Not So Subtle Art of Caring is his first book.

Joe Casey is the Managing Partner of Retirement Wisdom and the author of Win the Retirement Game launching on August 9th. Joe’s an executive coach who also helps people create meaningful lives after their primary careers. He works with people - who aren’t done yet – to figure out What’s Next? It’s not theoretical for Joe. He’s done this himself, becoming a coach 13 years ago after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President & Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking. Business Insider named Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference.

Ronny Schwartz-Dgani is the co-founder and CMO of expecting.ai - a full stack marketer with 15 years experience In marketing, brand building and CRO in enterprise and startup environments spanning across various industries such as online-marketplace, automotive, retail and more. Ronny leads brand and product strategy and seeks to combine traditional marketing concepts alongside generating a transformation in customer engagement achieved with data-driven marketing methods. Ronny has a masters degree in communication and management from Tel Aviv University, she started her career at Adler Chomski/ Grey, one of Israel’s largest advertising agencies managing global accounts and then switched to the client side as the head of marketing for Switch, the online marketplace startup by Colmobil Corp. Following her startup experience, Ronny led Hyundai’s marketing in Israel where she initiated a digital transformation across the distribution chain, transforming the brand to a data-driven operation.