Inside Israeli Innovation

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 22.

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews CEO Yair Amsterdam and VP of R&D Hila Geva from Verbit, a company using artificial intelligence to create captions and transcribe and to then analyze these transcriptions in real-time. 

Yair and Hila explain how their products can help professional like lawyers to analyze court testimonies and even compare them to documents in real-time to find contradictions or provide other insights.

They also touch on how and why they are keeping humans "in the loop" and working with the AI, rather than trying to replace professionals with technology, and how this can revolutionize the field.

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 21.

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews online ground transportation booking platform, Travelier's Omer Chehmer – Co-Founder & COO, and Noa Greenfield - Brand & advertising leader. Omer and Noa explain how Travelier is working to make land travel accessible to travellers all around the world, even in remote locations, or areas where ticket purchases are typically still made in person.

They talk about how Travelier is working to take the uncertainty out of foreign land travel, especially for women, with their tailor-made safety feature. They touch on how this innovation was an employee's idea, and more generally, how a diverse group of innovators can produce better innovation. 

Omer and Noa share about the complexities, on both a technical and cultural level, of working in such a global environment; and share about their close work with local vendors in the countries in which they operate.

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 20

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Zack Levine, end-to-end Payment Services Provider Checkout's Vice President & General Manager, Israel.

Zack explains how online payments work and how Checkout is striving to optimize this process and make it as smooth as possible for both consumers and companies. He also talks about why the company is moving into Israel, and what kind of talent he has encountered in the Israeli ecosystem.

Eve and Zack also discuss the importance of resilience - why he sees so much of this in Israeli workers, and why it is important in the tech world.

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 19.

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Einat Mesterman, director of the strategic program for quality employment in east Jerusalem in the Strategy and Innovation Department at the Jerusalem Municipality

Einat explains what barriers residents of east Jerusalem with tech and STEM degrees are facing when looking for employment, and how the municipality's "EastTech" hi-tech center is working to address this. She also talks about the importance of reaching out directly to populations that are underrepresented in companies, and how role models make a difference.

Eve and Amy also discuss how and why the City of Jerusalem is investing in innovation hubs in east Jerusalem and how they hope this will impact the city in the long run.

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Amy Ariel, Chief Marketing office of Komodor, an Israeli tech company helping other companies manage Kubernetes at scale.

Amy explains what Kubernetes is, how it impacts all of us as consumers and how Komodor is helping companies use it better. She also talks about the democratizing impact tech, and especially open source code, can have.

Eve and Amy also discuss how and why Israel became a leader in cloud computing and what it's like being a woman in the Israeli tech scene.

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Liran Zelkha, Co-founder of Lili, a fintech company making life easier for small businesses in the US with their software solutions.

Liran explains how Lili is using artificial intelligence to help small business owners get the information that they need to make the right business decisions. He also talks about how AI is impacting fintech, and how multiple AI models can be used in tandem to improve the answers it gives users. 

Eve and Liran also discuss how technology can be a force for equality and accessibility, how it can make expensive services available to small business owners, and help level the playing field.

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 16.

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Michael Braginsky, Co-founder and CTO of Aidoc, an Israeli tech company that develops computer-aided triage and notification systems. Michael explains how Aidoc is using artificial intelligence to help doctors do their jobs better. He also talks about how AI is impacting health tech, and how health tech can change our lives as patients and as healthcare professionals. Eve and Michael also discuss the relationship between entrepreneurs and those in the industry in which they are working, and how this improves innovation. They also touch on what makes Israel a great place to innovate (hint, it has to do with good old Israeli chutzpa).

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young

This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Doron Zaur, founding partner at Earth and Beyond Ventures - an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in Israeli deep tech and space tech.

Doron explains why deep tech may be harder to replicate and how it can lead to incredible and unexpected innovation. He touches on quantum, and shares how he thinks artificial intelligence fits into the Israeli innovation ecosystem.

Eve and Doron also discuss the relationship between Israel's industry and government, and how this relationship can push Israel's innovation to new frontiers.

The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young

This week, incoming host Eve Young, chief economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Emma Lipski, a principal at early-stage venture capital firm 10D, which works with Israeli entrepreneurs. Emma explains how venture capital influences innovation and shares exciting trends in Israel's start-up space to be aware of. Eve and Emma also discuss how innovation can impact inequality, especially in healthcare,  and discuss the business case for femtech.

An Israeli technology company that a famous US gaming company acquired has developed a platform to fight censorship of October 7 massacre videos on social networks.

Get to know Mavens and what makes the company tick in this week's episode of Inside Israeli Innovation.

Then, host Maayan Hoffman will speak with Liat Ashkenazi, senior vice president of engineering at Own Company. A passionate innovator, Ashkenazi is committed to building strong engineering teams and fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous learning to achieve business goals and customer satisfaction.

Finally, we flip over to an interview with Dr. Dorit Rozner, chief technology officer at the Kitchen FoodTech Hub, who talks about the future of food technology and how it could be the secret sauce to Israel’s food security.