20MinuteLeaders

As the Chief Commercial Officer of Gett (previously Get-Taxi), Keren is leading several revenue streams within the company, including Gett's international b2b division. Prior to this role, Keren established two startups within the company ("startups within a startup") and grew them from nearly a concept into fully profitable business units. Keren began her career in R&D and spent several years as a Product Manager and Technical Project Manager, liaising between technology departments and leading release lifecycles from kickoff to deployment. Keren holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from Tel Aviv University.

5 Jan 202123min

Noam's first UX role was in the military industries, where he was the UX lead for several of Israel's missile-defense systems. He attended a liberal arts college in Israel, studying Psychology and Media, before moving to the US to get his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, Noam has worked at Airbnb, Intercom, and these days Wealthfront in UX research roles. He's currently the Director of User Research at Wealthfront, a Fintech company. In addition, Noam is a UX content creator on his Youtube channel "UX Quests", and on the UXR Collective platform. Noam is a UX mentor on UX Coffee Hours, or directly if you get in touch with him on LinkedIn!

4 Jan 202122min

A seasoned high-tech executive with over 30 years of experience combining technical, operational, and leadership roles. Expertise spanned across large, medium, and start-up organizations in both private and public companies. Held varied positions across the solution value chain from product definition, through go-to-market, business development, and operations. Passionate for building high performing teams with a focus on execution excellence.

3 Jan 202129min

As the founder of GetUplift, Talia and her team provide conversion optimization services for high-growth companies using customer-centric methods, emotional targeting strategies, and data-driven analysis. Talia has been invited to teach conversion optimization on hundreds of stages such as Google, MozCon, Call To Action Conference, SearchLove, and many more and was recently listed as one of the most influential experts in conversion optimization.

3 Jan 202123min

Mike Tung is the CEO and Founder of Diffbot, an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator, and the leader of Stanford's entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In a previous life, he was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Mike studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford.

3 Jan 202121min

Shai is the VP of Innovation and Ventures at Orbia, the world leader in Building & Infrastructure, Datacomm, Precision Irrigation, Fluor, and Polymers. Amongst his responsibilities, Shai is leading Orbia's corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, startup partnerships, new venture development, advanced analytics, internal innovation, and circular economy. Previously he led the Product Management, Product Marketing, and Strategic Crops units at Netafim, the largest irrigation company in the world, and was a Project Manager at McKinsey & Company. He loves sports, nature, off-roading, and his twin kids Ori and Rotem.

3 Jan 202122min

Dotan is a computer vision and image processing professional with over 20 years of experience transforming hard problems into usable solutions. He has lived and worked with Israeli, US, Japanese and Swiss teams, and is a researcher in Samsung Research America. His current passion is leading a team that develops computer vision, graphics, and algorithms for AR and VR.

3 Jan 202121min

Laura is the Founder & CEO of Tattd, an app that connects users to their perfect Tattoo Artist that just launched. She's been working for early-stage tech companies for almost a decade now, is a mentor to other Founders for various accelerator programs, teaches Entrepreneurship, and is an active voice for women in tech.

3 Jan 202123min