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Kyle Lacy brings over 14 years of experience in marketing with a slice of revenue. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Lessonly. Prior to joining Lessonly, Kyle held senior positions at OpenView, Salesforce and ExactTarget. He is also the author of three books, Twitter Marketing for Dummies, Branding Yourself and Social CRM for Dummies. He wears monotone, loves history and hates onions.

Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec.

A former CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors SA, Dr Claudelle is the founder of Brave Inflexions. Her practice focuses on leadership, governance, change management, ethics, culture and whistleblower support. Her approach is transformative with an emphasis on purpose and empowerment. She is an experienced executive and non-executive director and has served on numerous international committees and task teams. She holds a Master’s in Business Leadership and her doctoral degree is in leadership with a particular focus on change management.

Sharel Omer is an Israeli entrepreneur whose passion for personal connections and building relationships has made him dedicated to bringing the consumer voice's power to brands and organizations. He's the CEO & Co-Founder of Affogata, a leading Consumer Intelligence Platform that enables brands to be truly customer-obsessed by bringing their customers' voices to the right teams in the organization. Affogata's portfolio of clients includes names like Wix.com, Fiverr, Lemonade, eToro, MyHeritage, Plarium, and more.

Jillian is the current VP of Marketing and Investor Relations at GuardKnox Cyber Technologies, a world-leading Autotech company and the automotive industry’s first Cybertech Tier, where she was also one of the first employees. Originally from Cincinnati Ohio, she completed her undergraduate work at Tulane University before joining Teach for America as an inner-city high physics and chemistry teacher. She is a mentor in the flagship program through Women in Mobility, an Expert at Quantum Hub Accelerator, Competitive Powerlifter and Crossfitter, Advisor to the Alexander Muss High School in Israel for Entrepreneurship, among others.

Raz Bachar is the Global Lead for Startup Emerging Technologies & Managing Director - Israel at Microsoft For Startups. He is a business development professional and strategist, in generating growth for tech services and products. Before Microsoft, Raz built and drove the growth of AWS across several startup ecosystems in Europe, Middle East, and Africa through strategic planning, community building, and partnerships with VCs and accelerators. 

With 15 years of cross-sector experience in founding, managing and directing private and public companies in the tech and Cannabis industries, Omer has been leading M&A processes, global strategic partnerships, and deal-making worldwide. Omer has also been teaching as a senior lecturer in various academic institutes, both for Computer Science and for Behavioral Sciences, with a specialization in Cannabis.

Dmitry Geyzersky is a software architect and technology consultant with a proven record of building military-grade intelligence systems. As the Co-founder & CTO of Click-Ins, he has two patents pending and his fields of research include ontology, domain-driven design, graph technologies, link analysis, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Dima has created companies and worked with a wide range of customers from startup companies to government organizations. He holds a B.Sc degree in Economics and Information Systems Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology.

HopOn is the pioneer app for transit payments in Israel. It serves more than 1M users a month who use our services for navigating and paying through their commute on buses, trains and big taxis. HopOn today has a presence in 5 different countries, which include (Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, UK and Israel). it was founded in 2013 by Ofer Sinai, while he was taking his daily commute from Petah Tikva towards the KPMG office in Tel Aviv.

Zviki founded Lightico to empower businesses to effectively sell and service customers completely in the first call. Zviki is an expert in contact center management technologies in the field of innovation and analytics. His experiences in contact center management and technologies have sharpened his industry knowledge and his innovations have impacted millions of customer interactions. Prior to Lightico, Zviki led product innovation and deployment across leading CX companies including Nice Systems (NASDAQ), Netcom and Exbee (Cisco solution).