In this episode, Joey shares stories from his journey as a Jewish American émigré to Israel. We touched on his connection to Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as the remarkable ties Israelis share with New Zealanders. We also discussed the conflict between Hamas and Israel, and he shares his insights as an active IDF reservist.

It was a rich and informative conversation. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it.

In this podcast episode we catch up with Karin Horen, a growth and resilience coach with her own podcast, and author of the book "I am more than just my tits: surviving breast cancer". It was a fascinating discussion about a range of topics include self-promotion, resilience, and investing in your health.

In this session we catch up with Jordan Grimmer, Kiwi living in Tel Aviv, Israel. Jordan volunteers with the New Zealand Israel Innovation Hub network, and a litigation specialist at Darrow, an AI startup located in Tel Aviv taking on the legal world by storm. This was a unique opportunity to hear about life in Israel from the perspective of Kiwi, and the discussion strays from opportunities for tech partnerships to advice for kiwis thinking of locating to Israel. We hope you enjoy.

In this live podcast session, Josh Brown sits down virtually with Jeremy Ungar of the Israel Trade Commission in Sydney to discuss all things trade related.

As part of the Foreign Trade Administration of the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry, Jeremy plays a crucial role in facilitating trade relations between Israel and the Australasian region, including Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. In his role, Jeremy diligently assists Israeli companies in their efforts to enter and thrive in the Australasian market. With a deep understanding of the local business landscape and extensive experience in international trade, Jeremy provides invaluable guidance and support to Israeli companies looking to expand their operations.

In this session, Josh Brown catch's up with Daniel Zatz of Sygnia. Sygnia is a cyber technology and services company, providing high-end consulting and incident response support for organizations worldwide.

For all those interested in, cybersecurity or protecting assets and people from the latest cyber threats, this discussion is for you.

Israel is considered a strong player in the field of AI, with a thriving startup scene and many R&D institutions.

In New Zealand, industry usage and investment in AI applications is growing rapidly.

Researchers from these countries are making significant contributions to the advancement of AI in areas such as computer vision, agritech and biotechnology. In this online round-table discussion, six experts will talk about the latest cutting edge AI tech in these fields. Featuring:

Tamir Tuller - Professor @ Tel Aviv Uni

Dan Erez - Computer Vision Expert @ Taranis

Tal Fialkow - Chief Technology Officer @ Bold

Patrice Delmas - Associate Professor @ Auckland Uni

Mark Billinghurst - Professor @ Auckland Uni

Alex Gavryushkin - Associate Professor @ Canterbury Uni

MC: Izak Tait - Manager @ NAO Institute

This discussion was co-hosted by the New Zealand Israel Innovation Hub and the NAO Institute of Auckland University. The NAO Institute stands for the Natural, Artificial, and Organisation Intelligence Institute. These three facets represent the broad field of intelligence research, from biology and psychology, to sociology and business, to artificial intelligence and machine learning. NAOI covers anything and everything that can think, and we aim to understand all of it. It isa transdisciplinary research centre with affiliated members from a broad diversity of backgrounds, cultures, career stages, research interests, genders and ages; and they all seek to explore the same thing: how do individuals, organisations and machines think; why do they think; and by understanding this, how can we improve the world’s wellbeing?

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This episode was sponsored by SmartHead.

SmartHead is a relatively small “family-style” company of 30 full-time product-minded professionals with HQ in San Francisco. They have almost 16 years of digital product development experience in various domains, including legal tech, robotics, medtech, healthcare, biotech, b2c SaaS, business process automation, martech, and more. The company prides themselves on our holistic product-oriented approach that enables them to implement complex digital projects from raw ideas to cloud scaling with agile cross-functional teams. Their teams have helped Silicon Valley startups like String, and large international corporations like Ancestry and Veeam accelerate the delivery of their products.

How do individuals and business balance keeping ahead of increasingly sophisticated fraudsters, whilst meeting a variety of ever complicated AML and KYC regulations? This webinar for a New Zealand audience, introduced the latest Israeli cybersecurity innovations that can mitigate exposure and impact of cyber threats including financial fraud. This webinar was brough to you by the New Zealand Israel Innovation Hub with support from Jacob Oberman of Co Lab 82.

In this episode, Josh Brown interviews Coralie and Hilla, the founders of an exciting and daring startup that's out to disrupt the skincare sector. Over a bottle wine the discussion ranges across a wide range of topics; from how they met, bio-convergence, beauty tech, starting a start-up in Israel and the attraction of New Zealand to international skincare companies.

The smart mobility tech ecosystem.

In this first episode your host Josh Brown first introduces the podcast and then walks the floor of the EcoMotion conference interviewing exhibitors demonstrating the latest cutting edge smart mobility tech.

EcoMotion Week. Tel Aviv. 9th of May

Interviews:

• Micky Shoham - Watergen

• Ziv Mor - Enigmatos

• Doron Kohadier - Foresight

• Jan Hauser - EIT Urban Mobility

• Ravid Rodney - Optibus

• Gil Livshitz - Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center