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Shiran is the CEO and Co-Founder at Shield. He has over 20 years of technology and management expertise, mainly in the Financial Services vertical. Prior to Shield Shiran was the Head of Sales at TM-Group, managing the company’s major tier 1 bank accounts. Shiran brings to Shield many years as a trusted advisor and a subject matter expert in the financial compliance market. In early 2018, Shiran created Shield, a regtech company specializing in communications compliance with his long-time friend Ofir Shabtai. Shield is now 60 people spread across Israel, London, and New York.

Or is the Partner and Head Of Global Innovation at Arieli Capital. Arieli Capital is a successful venture capital firm, that operates in a very different model from its industry – the investment model is "evergreen", not looking for fast exits. It is a combination of a private equity and VC. Their investors are mostly wealth management entities and family offices. They have a unique investment approach and equity holding structure with a diverse investment portfolio – from accelerators in Ocean-Tech, Agro-Tech, to direct investment in many start-ups.

Avishay Bransky, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of PixCell Medical, is an expert in microfluidics, with extensive industrial experience in applied physics, software, and systems engineering. He is one of the inventors of the Viscoelastic Focusing technique, cell analysis methods, and the microfluidic-based cartridge. Dr. Bransky holds a B.A. in Physics, B.Sc. in Materials Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, all from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Adi is an internationally renowned expert in innovation and business development, specializing in strategy, partnership building, and global networking. Today, Adi is Managing Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Israel Hub, an organization that aims to create synergies between the European innovation community and the Israeli ecosystem, founding strong collaborations and international partnerships. The EIT Hub that was established in 2019, is focusing on strategic domains such as Health, Climate, Energy, Digital, Manufacturing and Mobility.

Gareth is the President UK&EU at Doceree, the world’s first global platform for programmatic physician marketing. Prior to Doceree Gareth worked on the senior leadership team at PulsePoint where he helped scale the business to the point where they were strategically acquired by WebMD. Gareth has over 15 years experience in digital holding roles at Yahoo and Experian. It was at PulsePoint that he began his journey into the Health vertical, he has lofty aspirations for the role Doceree can play in improving Healthcare globally through more effective physician engagement.

Yotam is the CEO & Co-Founder Gynica, a medical company at the forefront of therapeutic cannabis research & development in the field of women’s health. Previously, Yotam was the CEO & Co-Founder of Lumir Lab, a global leading cannabis research & development laboratory, aimed to provide evidence-based cannabis solutions. Both companies are subsidiaries of Asana Bio Group, a holding company specializing in scientific advancements in the field of cannabis, which Yotam serves as its CEO.

Ari is the Co-founder and CEO of KANDO, protecting public health and the environment though wastewater. Ari is an expert in wastewater and environmental technologies with more than 15 years’ experience in the field of wastewater management. As the VP of DHVMED, Ari led multidisciplinary environmental projects, while managing international teams. Environmental Technologies at the Ministry of Environment, Ari, was responsible for national and international consulting projects and Israeli environmental policy. As the Process Manager and CTO of Jerusalem Wastewater Treatment Plant, Ari was in charge of field operations. Ari holds a B.SC in Biology and Environment from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel’s.

Yanir is CEO and co-founder of Whatslly. He has more than 12 years of entrepreneurship background and vast experience in the management and development of B2B SaaS Solutions. In 2009, Yanir became the first employee of an Israeli startup called Insightera, which was acquired by Marketo, the leading Marketing Automation solution in 2013. He later founded Calisar Solutions LTD, a marketing solutions company that aimed to solve marketing teams’ tech pain points by building integrative tools that help them automate their business and marketing operations.

Moran is the Vice president of Global operations at Semperis, assigned to support the continued growth of Semperis’ global organization. She has been the chief of staff of Izhar Shay in the ministry of science and technology since 2020. Prior to this, Moran was the co-founder and CEO of the largest tech media brand in Israel “Geektime”, for 11 years. She also co-founded in 2011 the first start up accelerator in Israel, Venturegeeks, which successfully invested in pre-seed / seed and nurtured startups. She served as an instructor in the Computers Unit (Mamram). Moran also completed her law degree (L.L.B) at the College of Management and has been accepted as an Advocate by the Israeli Bar Association.

During his career working in the high-tech corporate world, Jeff Shardell learned that the deodorant he used daily was filled with harmful chemicals linked to cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and other illnesses. He realized his body was likely absorbing these nasty chemicals and decided something had to change. Jeff wanted to see if he could make a truly natural deodorant that actually worked, with as few ingredients as possible. After extensive research and a lot of trial and error in his San Francisco kitchen, Jeff stumbled onto a magic formula. Just 4 clean and simple ingredients would change the world of all-natural deodorants for good. Not only was Jeff's formula made from ingredients found in his own kitchen, but it was more effective at naturally beating odors than anything else out there.