Moderators & Speakers

Amnon Shashua

President & CEO of Mobileye and Senior Vice President, Intel Corporation

Prof. Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His field of expertise is computer vision and machine learning. Amnon has founded three startups in the computer vision and machine learning fields. In 1995 he founded CogniTens that specializes in the area of industrial metrology and is today a division of the Swedish Corporation Hexagon. In 1999 he cofounded Mobileye with his partner Ziv Aviram. Mobileye develops system-on-chips and computer vision algorithms for driving assistance systems and is developing a platform for autonomous driving to be launched in 2021. Today, approximately 32 million cars rely on Mobileye technology to make their vehicles safer to drive. In August 2014, Mobileye claimed the title for largest Israeli IPO ever, by raising $1B at a market cap of $5.3B. In August 2017, Mobileye became an Intel company in the largest Israeli acquisition deal ever of $15.3B. Today, Prof. Shashua is the President & CEO of Mobileye and a Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation. In 2010 Amnon co-founded OrCam which harnesses computer vision and artificial intelligence to assist people who are visually impaired or blind.

Rutie Adar

Head of Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center

Rutie Adar has been heading Samsung’s Strategy and Innovation Center, Israel, after she joined Samsung in 2010. Within this center Samsung Electronics collaborates and invests in startups focused on core technologies to fuel innovative platforms in growth domains including smart machines and automotive, digital health, internet of things, and artificial intelligence.

Rutie has been working in the Semiconductors industry during the past 25 years, at both startup and multinational companies. She started her career developing image processing and parallel processing algorithms. In the past 20 years Rutie held various managerial positions in marketing , strategy, planning and business development. She has BSc and MSc in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University Jerusalem and MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Omer David Keilaf

CEO & Co-Founder, Innoviz Technologies

Omer has spent over 18 years driving cutting edge technologies from inception to commercialization. Before founding Innoviz, Omer led the system and product definition efforts at ConsumerPhysics, building the world’s first handheld molecular sensor for mobile devices. Previous roles include leading the system architecture and engineering teams at bTendo (acquired by ST Micro) and Anobit (acquired by Apple). Omer spent 7 years in the elite technological unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces, where he served in leading and critical roles involving large scale technological systems. He holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, all from Tel Aviv University.

Danny Shapiro

Senior Director of Automotive, NVIDIA

Danny Shapiro is Senior Director of Automotive at NVIDIA, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the development and deployment of safe self-driving cars, trucks and shuttles. The NVIDIA automotive team is engaged with over 370 car and truck makers, tier 1 suppliers, HD mapping companies, sensor companies and startup companies that are all using the company's DRIVE hardware and software platform for autonomous vehicle development and deployment.

Danny serves on the advisory boards of the Los Angeles Auto Show, the Connected Car Council and Udacity. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danny lives in Northern California where his home solar system charges his electric, AI self-driving car.

Michal Varkat Wolkin

Head of Israel Office, Investments and Innovation, Lear Corporation

Dr. Michal Vakrat Wolkin joined 3M in 2014 as the Global head of Innovation in Israel, as part of 3M’s efforts to expand its investments and technical collaborations internationally. Her role was focused on connecting 3M to the Israeli innovation eco system, with emphasize on Nanotechnology, IOT, Energy, Digital Healthcare and Smart Transportation. She is responsible for R&D collaborations & investments relationships with Israeli startups, academia, government, multinationals, VCs and other industrial partners. Michal joined 3M after living in the Silicon Valley for over 17 years. In her last position Dr. Vakrat Wolkin was the technical Chair of the NASA/ Clean Tech Open Night Rover Challenge since 2012. From 2008, Michal was Better Place director of Battery technologies in Palo Alto where she managed multinational business development and technical teams, working with leading automotive companies, battery manufactures, and tier 1 suppliers. Before joining Better Place, Michal was a researcher. As a member of the research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) Materials and hardware labs, she led a group of researchers developing highly innovative materials in Nanotechnology, Fuel cells, Flexible Electronics and Sensors for drug discovery applications. Prior to that Dr. Vakrat Wolkin was a Post Doc at Xerox PARC. Dr. Wolkin received a PhD in Materials Science, focusing on Nanotechnology and Photonics from the University of Rochester, NY, and an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from The Technicon. Her Post Doc is from Xerox PARC. She holds 10 patent applications, and her research is widely cited (over 2000 citations to her PRL paper on silicon quantum dots). Dr. Vakrat Wolkin currently serves on various industrial review panels related to nanotechnology, batteries, EVs and other technical areas, and is a frequent speaker at industry events. She has been an advisor and reviewer to the USA ARPA-E and other government scientific agencies.

Lior Cohen

CTO & Co-founder, Ride Vision

Lior is an avid motorcyclist that harnesses the power of pragmatic thinking, artificial intelligence and computer vision to make motorcycles safer. Before Ride Vision, Lior was a VP R&D at PicScout where he lead a team of visual algorithm researches and engineers. Prior to that Lior lead mobile and homeland security development teams dealing with complex algorithmic problems.

Lior holds a M.Sc. in information system engineering from the Ben-Gurion University.

Paulo Resende

P2/P3 R&D Product Technical Leader , Valeo France

After obtaining in 2006, a five-year graduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), he worked for ESRIN, the European Space Agency center for Earth Observation, in Frascati, south of Rome (Italy).
In early 2008, he returned to Portugal to work for Critical Software at Taveiro and at Lisbon, in the Earth Observation and Command & Control engineering areas.
In mid 2008, Paulo Resende integrated the project team IMARA at the INRIA research Center of Rocquencourt, close to Paris (France), where he particularly worked on trajectory planning and control of driverless and cooperative vehicles (cybercars).
Since early 2014, he works for Valeo, at the Driving Assistance Research product group, as a System Engineer participating in the development Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) for highly and fully automated vehicles, especially on the Valeo's Drive4U project and developing, integrating and demonstrating technologies that will bring highly and autonomous driving into the roads.

Ayman Mouallem

Sr. Functional Safety Automation Engineer

Optima is the company to resolve the number the #1 challenge faced today by semiconductor companies, that is inhibiting and slowing down their penetrating of the automotive segment of semiconductors: Functional Safety. Autonomous Driving is revolutionizing the structure of the car, converting it into supercomputer-on-wheels, with 10’s of huge and complex chips and systems. These chips need to meet the stringent Functional Safety requirements of ISO-26262 like ASIL-D, with no adequate solution in the market before Optima’s.

Inbal Toren

Senior Product Manager, eyeSight Technologies

Inbal serves as eyeSight’s Senior Product Manager, bringing extensive knowledge in strategic product development and user experience gained over 7 years in various domains. As part of her role, Inbal is responsible for defining of the company’s automotive solutions, founding upon deep industry insights to create solutions that comply with the Automotive industry’s standards and needs. Prior to joining eyeSight, Inbal was a Product Marketing Manager at RISCO Group, where she was responsible for the definition and marketing of the company’s full product life cycle in the home security sector. Inbal further brings rich technical experience to her role, having worked at Texas Instruments as a Firmware Engineer in her past. Inbal holds a B.Sc. in Communications Systems Engineering and an MBA from the Honors MBA program from Ben-Gurion University.

Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz

Co-Founder & CTO, Nexar Inc.

Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz is cofounder and CTO at Nexar, where he and his team are using large-scale machine learning and machine vision to capture and analyze millions of sensor and camera readings in order to make our roads safer. Previously, Bruno was a senior fellow at Yahoo, where he oversaw the development and delivery of Yahoo’s personalization, ad targeting, and native advertising teams; his prior roles at Yahoo included chief architect for Yahoo’s cloud and platform and chief architect for international. Prior to joining Yahoo, Bruno founded OneSoup (acquired by Synchronica and now part of the Myriad Group) and YamiGo; was an enterprise architect for Fidelity Investments; served as manager in Accenture’s Center for Strategic Research Group, where he cofounded Meridea Financial Services and Accenture’s claim software solutions group. Bruno holds an MSc in operations research and transportation science from MIT, with a focus on intelligent transportation systems.

Orr Danon

CEO and VP R&D, Hailo

Orr brings more than a decade of experience from the Israel Defense Forces where he led an elite Technological Team to success in some of the largest and most complex interdisciplinary projects in the Intelligence Community. Orr has been recognized with the Israel Defense Award granted by the President of Israel and the Creative Thinking Award bestowed by the Head of Military Intelligence.

Orr holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from Hebrew University as part of the Talpiot program and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University.

Asaf Moses

Technical Product Manager, Systematics Ltd.

Asaf Moses serves as a technical product manager at Systematics Ltd. and responsible for MathWorks Autonomous Systems products family.
As part of this position, Asaf integrates his extensive experience with different companies, in order to accompany and assist their developing process.
Disciplines of expertise: Aeronautics, Control, Physical Modeling and Robotics.

Asaf Moses holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Amit Benjamin

Product Manager, Director, Texas Instruments

Amit Benjamin is a Product manager director from Texas Instruments, leading the mmWave RFCMOS Radar sensor product definition and key customers engagements in the Automotive ADAS market. Professional experience also includes roles in system engineering and Sales management

Mathias Burger

Reinforcement Learning & Planning, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

Mathias Bürger is heading the research group on Reinforcement Learning and Planning at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. He joined Bosch in 2014 and since then worked in several research activities at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics. Currently, he is also principal investigator for the H2020 project Co4Robots. He studied Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Toronto and holds a PhD degree in control theory from the University of Stuttgart. For his PhD work he received the 2014 EECI PhD Award in recognition of the best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems.

Aharon Aharon

CEO, Israel Innovation Authority

Aharon Aharon is the CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority, an independent public entity that operates for the benefit of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and Israeli economy as a whole. Its role is to nurture and develop Israeli innovation resources, while creating and strengthening the infrastructure and framework needed to support the entire knowledge industry. Prior to his role at the Authority, Aharon served as the VP of Hardware Technologies and General Manager of Apple Israel. His previous roles were Co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Camero, a startup developing through-the-wall micro-power radars, active Chairman of the Board at Discretix, a startup providing solutions for data security, CEO of Seabridge, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens and COO of Zoran. Prior to that, he held a number of senior management positions at the IBM Research Division. Aharon holds a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering respectively from the Technion, where he lectured for more than 15 years.

Benny Daniel

Vice President - Consulting, Mobility-Europe, Frost & Sullivan

Benny Daniel, Vice President – Consulting with Frost & Sullivan's Mobility practice, brings with him over 10 years of automotive consulting expertise, with particular expertise covering - R&D Benchmarking; Competitive intelligence and benchmarking; Market Entry and Route to Market Strategy for Glass Manufacturers in Autonomous World; New business model formulation and growth implementation strategy and Pre-due diligence evaluation. Regarded as a domain expert in the electric vehicle market, and automotive R&D benchmarking at a global level, his business model on E-Mobility is globally used by several leading OEMs and utilities.

Benny, a recipient of the Best Consultant of the Year Award for four consecutive years (2009-2012), is known for his ability to understand client requirements and work as an engagement leader and has been the key speaker at several Electric Vehicles and Automotive theme based symposiums.

Gila Kamhi

Research Lab Group Manager, User Experience Technologies, General Motors

Gila Kamhi is Research Lab Group Manager, User Experience Technologies at General Motors. She is currently leading a team with multi-disciplinary in-depth expertise covering human-factors, cognitive psychology, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, speech and acoustics technologies. The team charter is R&D of user experience technologies covering a wide range of automotive HMI including autonomous vehicles. Prior to General Motors, Gila Kamhi, was a Principal Engineer in Intel Corporation. She led Intel's Perceptual Computing Advanced Technologies team and focused on strategic path-finding as well as perceptually interactive augmented reality experiences. Gila Kamhi holds a MSc degree in computer science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a BSc degree from Israel Institute of Technology, She is a co-author of several publications and patents.

Zvi Shiller

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Ariel University and the director of the Paslin Laboratory for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles

Professor Shiller is the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at Ariel University, director of the Paslin Laboratory for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles, and Chair of the Israeli Robotics Association. He earned the B.Sc. degree from Tel Aviv University, and the M.Sc. and Sc.D. degrees from MIT, all in Mechanical Engineering. Before joining Ariel University, he served on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA. Professor Shiller's research activities have focused on optimal motion planning, obstacle avoidance in static and dynamic environments, navigation of off-road and intelligent road vehicles, and on assistive robotics.

Yahal Zilka

Managing Partner, Magma

Yahal is the co-founder of Magma Venture Partners. Magma is positioned as the leading Venture Capital Fund in Israel, with numerous success stories that Yahal has led.

Prior to Magma, Yahal served as the CFO of VocalTec Communications from 1995 to 1999, where he was part of the team that pioneered VoIP. Yahal led the company from seed to its public offering on Nasdaq (NASDAQ:CALL).

Yahal is very active with the business development and financing-related activities of the companies that he works with. Yahal led and was on the boards of Waze (acquired by Google), Onavo (acquired by Facebook), Argus (acquired by Continental), DesignArt Networks (acquired by Qualcomm), Phonetic Systems (acquired by Nuance) and Adience (acquired by Teddy Sagi Group). Yahal currently serves as a director on the boards of Valens, Applitools, Iguaz.io, Hola, Scylla DB, Gloat and Magisto, among others. He is also an investor in leading companies such as Vayyar, Fundbox, MeMed and Replay (acquired by Intel).

For the past several years, Yahal has been very involved in the automotive and mobility ecosystem, building strong relationships and focusing on the automotive industry as a major investment opportunity. As a part of Magma, Yahal has invested in seven companies focused on the automotive space and autonomous driving enabling technologies, including Waze, Autotalks, Valens, Innoviz, Argus, Iguazio and JpU.

Tal Ben David

VP R&D & Co-Founder, Karamba Security

Tal is experienced in developing new, innovative products into viable, market-changing products. He was a Senior Research and Development Manager at Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP), where he oversaw the development of endpoint and mobile security technology. Prior, he gained extensive cybersecurity experience overseeing the development of Check Point’s big data analytics and event correlation products. Before entering the private sector, Tal served as a computer science officer in an elite technological unit with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Tal has a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Statistics from Bar-Ilan University. He is married to Osnat and a father of two children.

Kobi Marenko

Co-founder & CEO, Arbe Robotics

Kobi is a successful entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in leading technology and media startups from seed stage to acquisition. Prior to founding Arbe Robotics, Kobi was the Founder and President of Taptica, a mobile DSP acquired by Marimedia, and Founder and CEO of Logia, a mobile content platform acquired by Mandalay Digital.At Arbe Robotics, Kobi and the team work toward making autonomous driving a reality, developing their proprietary imaging radar to provide real-time 4D mapping in high resolution. As the winner of the “Most Innovative ADAS Technology” award from Tech.AD as well as the TechCrunch Disrupt Tel Aviv Contest, Arbe Robotics continues to innovate and be at the top of the real time 4D mapping game.

Rami Khawaly

Co-Founder and CTO, MindoLife

Co-Founder and CTO Of MindoLife, Rami is a veteran software engineer with hands-on experience in designing and creating secure IoT networks and solutions. Previously, Rami was an R&D Team Leader at Vigilance Networks and has been consulting in complex development issues to R&D companies since 2011. Before that, Rami held development positions at several software companies including RealCommerce & Clal insurance. Rami holds a B.Sc. in Software and Management Engineering from Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering.

Shmoolik Mangan

Algorithms Development Manager, VayaVision

Dr. Mangan has over 25 years experience in machine learning, machine vision algorithms, physics and optics at Orbotech, Applied Materials and CI Systems. He has a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, as well as MSc and BSc from the Technion Institute of technology.

Yaniv Sulkes

VP Business Development and Marketing, North America & Europe, Autotalks

Yaniv brings to Autotalks over 15 years of experience in developing, productizing, marketing and selling innovative technology products. Prior to Autotalks, Yaniv spent a decade serving in various positions at Allot Communications, mainly in product management and marketing. In his last role as the Associate VP of Marketing, he was responsible for Allot’s marketing strategy and execution. Prior to Allot, Yaniv managed a large-scale project at the Electronic Research Department, a top research and development unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering & Management and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.

Oren Betzaleli

General Manager, Harman Israel

Oren Betzaleli is the General Manager of HARMAN Israel, and a Senior Vice President of HARMAN International, responsible for the Software Platforms Product Business Unit which includes various Software Products such as Automotive Cloud Platform, Remote Software Management (OTA), Device Management, Automotive Cyber Security, Device Virtualization.
Oren has joined HARMAN from the Redbend acquisition in 2015, where he was EVP of Products and Marketing. Prior to that Oren was 4 years in Retalix in similar role, before it was acquired by NCR, and 12 years in Amdocs, most of them in senior product management roles.

Moritz von Grotthuss

General Site Manager, Gestigon

Moritz von Grotthuss is a tech-nerd, innovation enthusiast, automobilist and entrepreneur. After some successful (but somehow boring) years in legal, sales and consultancy, he followed his heart and joined gestigon as a late founder and CEO in 2012. Today he is responsible for the strategy of the company, his collection of frequent traveler cards, and most of the commercial stuff. gestigon has been working closely with the automotive industry since more than 5 years and demoed a number of behavior tracking solutions at different shows including CES, IAA and others. Moritz has been driving this strategy and the focus of gestigon to have an automotive DNA since day one. Early 2017 gestigon was acquired by Valeo and is now a center piece of Valeo’s Interior Cocoon strategy to further improve automotive safety and enable enhanced usability and user experience. Additionally to his job as CEO of ‘gestigon – a Valeo brand’ he is part of the technology and startup scouting team of Valeo/corporate. Moritz is married, has kids and loves - if he is not working or at home - outdoor activities.

Zohar Fox

Co-founder and CEO, Aurora Labs

Zohar Fox is the co-founder and CEO at Aurora Labs. He is pioneering Self-Healing Software to make the rollout of software driven functionality more predictable for the automotive OEMs. Prior to co-founding Aurora Labs, Zohar's 20-year career focused on orchestration, design, implementation, and manufacturing of Embedded HW and SW-Cloud based products for TELCOs and technology service providers. Zohar and his teams deployed more than 10M devices in the area of Automotive, banking systems and IOT devices. Over the past several years, Zohar also led product sales in the US and created technology and business alliances with Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, DSPG, and BOSCH. Zohar was formerly CTO at Rosslare Security products, a 1000-employee access control and home automation IOT technology leader.

Guy Raz

CTO, Guardian Optical Technologies

Guy experience is in building and leading multidisciplinary professional teams to solve complex technological challenges. A Ph.D physicists (from the Weizmann Institute of Science) with years of track record in R&D of a wide range of systems and products. Before joining Guardian Optical technologies as CTO, Guy was founder and VPR&D of SiteAware, working on drone based solutions for construction tech. Previously Guy was a researcher at General Motors, working on wide range of automotive sensing technologies, was heading the electrooptics at Pebbles Interfaces (acquired by facebook) and at Elbit Systems lead a few projects and research groups.

Hilla Tavor

Senior Director, Advanced Development , Mobileye

Hilla is Senior Director of Advanced Development at Mobileye. She manages the Advanced Development department overseeing Mobileye's future technology business development activities, that lead all pre-production/advanced development programs. With a Computer Science and Math degree, Hilla has held in the past various software development management positions in several tech companies. Hilla lives in Rehovot with her wife Noga and 4 children.

Moshe Shlisel

CEO & Co-Founder, GuardKnox

Moshe Shlisel serves as GuardKnox Cyber Technoligies CEO since 2015.
He brings with him over 15 years of successful managerial experience in various global companies, including specific experience in management technology companies marketing, sales and business development. He served as the CEO of Trumedia , COO of SatixFy, a Fabless semiconductor Company where he was responsible for; Business Development, Marketing, Operations & Project Management. Prior to this Moshe served as Executive Vice President & General Manager of ExactCost Israel and as a Senior Director at Elbit systems, a leading provider of advanced, high-performance defense electronic and systems. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the IAF. He currently also serves as a visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center

Anat Lea Bonshtien

Panel Moderator, Chairman & Director, Fuel Choices & Smart Mobility Initiative, Prime Minister's Office

Dr. Anat Lea Bonshtien serves as the Chairman and Director of the Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative as of January 2017. Prior to this, she served as the Technology and Regulation Manager of the Initiative. In addition, Dr. Bonshtien serves in the Board of Directors of the Capsula Israeli Smart Transportation Center. She is also a member of the National Science Committee for Energy under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Dr. Bonshtien is a former Mimshak Fellow, a science and policy fellowship program which integrates scientific knowledge with decision making. Dr. Bonshtien holds a MSc and a PhD in Biochemistry from Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Michael Lipka

Manager Technology Planning, Huawei Technologies

Michael Lipka received a diploma in communication engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1991 and a PhD in semiconductor technologies for RF devices from the University of Ulm in 1996. Different management positions in the communication industry from 1991 to 2007, in particular working for Alcatel, Siemens, and NOKIA with focus on technology management for narrowband switching and mobile communication systems. From 2007 to 2016 project manager for strategic long term technology planning activities within Siemens Corporate Technology. Development of long term visions for different Siemens businesses. Since 2017 director for technology planning in Huawei’s European Research Institute.

Raj Rajkumar

George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, T-SET University Transportation Center; Director, Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Lab

Rajkumar's interests lie in all aspects of embedded real-time systems and wireless/sensor networks.

His research interests lie in all aspects of embedded real-time systems and wireless/sensor networks. In the domain of embedded real-time systems, my interests include but are not limited to operating systems, scheduling theory, resource management, wired/wireless networking protocols, quality of service management, hardware/software architecture, model-based design tools and power management. In the context of wireless/sensor networks, my research interests span hardware, devices, power-efficient networking protocols, run-time environments, large-scale system architectures, visualization and administrative tools.

Danny Atsmon

CEO & Founder, Cognata

Danny Atsmon, an expert in ADAS and deep learning, is the CEO at Cognata Ltd., a dynamic young technology company that brings the disruptive power of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision to simulated testing for autonomous cars. He has been in the business of launching high-tech products for more than 20 years. Before joining Cognata, Danny served as Harman’s (NYSE:HAR now Samsung) Director of ADAS and Senior director of Machine learning. He has co-founded two startup companies, Picitup, a computer visual shopping suite, and iOnRoad, which uses a phone’s native camera and sensors to detect vehicles in front of a car (later acquired by Harman International). Danny holds several United States utility patents and has created a pipeline of dozens of patent-pending applications. He has also won many top industry awards, including Design and Engineering Showcase Award (2012) for innovation in design, CTIA award (2012) for Best Mobile Application for Automotive, Safe Driving & Transportation, Microsoft Think Next (2012), and the QPrize (2013), which is awarded after Qualcomm Venture’s seed investment competition. Danny is a graduate of the prestigious Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Haman Talpiot program, where he served in the elite Unit 8200, and holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Tel-Aviv University.

Micha Risling

SVP Marketing and Business Development, Head of the Automotive Business Unit, Valens

With more than 20 years of experience in marketing and R&D executive roles in established NASDAQ and startup companies, Micha heads the company’s automotive business unit and leads the company’s marketing and business development activities in several verticals. Over his tenure at Valens, he played a major role in establishing the company’s reputation as a leader in the digital connectivity space. Micha is also the Chair of the HDBaseT Alliance’s Marketing Committee, where he is responsible for the organization’s strategy and marketing activities.

Yoni Kahana

VP Customers, NanoLock

Mr. Kahana brings more than 20 years of experience in managing¸ leading and developing large-scale projects in secure telecommunications and embedded systems¸ from idea-stage to completion in R&D¸ product and business environments. Prior to joining NanoLock¸ Mr. Kahana was the Product Cybersecurity Group Manager for General Motors (GM) in Israel. At GM¸ he managed the Israeli Cybersecurity Group responsible for securing crucial elements in the car. He also was a Security System Team leader and Security System Product Engineer at Qualcomm. He served as an officer in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in elite unit where he led and developed cybersecurity solutions.

Alex Shulman

Director of Products, Foresight

Alex Shulman serves as Director of Products in Foresight and he oversees all aspects of product management and product marketing.

Mr. Shulman has deep experience in multiple high-tech product categories: opto-electronics, mechanics, software & algorithms in several successful startups that became leading Israeli high-tech companies.

He has led several successful new product launches resulting in significant market share gains in highly competitive markets worldwide. Mr. Shulman holds degree in engineering and MBA.

Yoav Hollander

Founder and CTO, Foretellix

Yoav is a world expert and leader in verification. He Invented the “e” verification language and related VLSI verification methodology (later followed by the UVM methodology). Yoav founded Verisity to deliver "e" and related tools.

In the last few years, Yoav has been researching complex-system verification.

He founded Foretellix, and maintains a blog at https://blog.foretellix.com.

Ophir Herbst

CEO, Jungo Connectivity Ltd.

- Serial entrepreneur, with over 20 years of operational and technology-driven experience

- CEO and founder of Jungo Connectivity, spinoff from Cisco, developing ground-breaking computer-vision automotive driver monitoring product

- GM at Jungo (acquired by NDS $107m); Executive at NDS (acquired by Cisco, $5b)

- Founder and CEO of Mathtools, specializing in MATLAB compilers and related technologies (acquired by MathWorks)

- B.Sc in Electrical Engineering (cumma sum laude) from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

- World-class Bridge player, holding international wins, often representing Israel in international competitions

Xavier Perrotton

Software Department Manager at Driving Assistance Research, Valeo

Currently Valeo's Software Department Manager at Driving Assistance Research, Perrotton is leading a department of research engineers on research and innovation projects around autonomous driving.
He develops state of the art machine learning and computer vision methods to power cool and innovative products. Xavier Perrotton's expertise includes computer vision, AI, deep learning, applied math, software architecture, sensors and high performance computing. After working on Augmented Reality, creating prototypes and contributing to their industrialization through project such as MiRA (an augmented reality solution already deployed in Airbus), he is now focusing his research on AI & Autonomous Driving.

Amir Freund

Chief Product Officer, Otonomo

Amir is Otonomo’s Chief Product Officer, responsible for setting the company strategic definition of the product & technology offering. Amir Freund is a highly experienced entrepreneur, previously a co-founder of Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) & a co-founder and CEO of ForNova. During 2015 - 2017 Amir was leading the Ford Motor Israeli activity, involved in Ford acquisitions / investment in Israel and creating collaborations with >40 local automotive startups.

Adham Ghazali

CEO & Co-Founder, Imagry

Adham Ghazali is the CEO of Imagry. He spent the last 10 years working on various machine learning problems including large scale computer vision, Brain computer interfacing and Bio-Inspired facial recognition. He is interested in the intersection between biology and computer science. At his current post, he is responsible for strategic R&D and Business Development.

Prior to cofounding Imagry, Adham was a brain researcher focusing on the study of the visual system in infants.

Danielle Holtz

Director of Business Development, Maniv

Danielle manages Maniv’s Business Development efforts, overseeing Maniv’s portfolio support and managing the fund’s relationship with its Limited Partners.

Before joining Maniv, Danielle was the Manager of Partnerships at OurCrowd, one of the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platforms. As one of OurCrowd's early employees, Danielle played a critical role in shaping and implementing the company's business development efforts seeing the company through three financing rounds that raised over $200M. Danielle holds a B.A. in Business Administration & Italian Literature from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also attended the Universita` Di Perugia in Italy where she received a Certificate of Proficiency in Italian.

Avi Bakal

CEO & Co-founder, TriEye

Avi Bakal is a multidisciplinary leader, and CEO at TriEye. TriEye is a Semiconductor startup that develops a disruptive solution which adequately addresses the challenges of smart and autonomous vehicle safety under the adverse weather/low visibility conditions. Avi is an experienced R&D engineer and large-scale projects manager. Avi has a BSc in computer and electrical engineering and an MSc in applied physics specializing in optics and lasers.

Daniel Rezvani

Security Engineer, Argus Cyber Security

Daniel Rezvani is a cyber security Engineer at Argus Cyber Security. Prior to joining Argus, Daniel served in the elite IDF cyber intelligence unit (8200) where he led a team of cyber security researchers. Daniel holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.