AI and the End of Traditional Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Barak Schoster

Adam is CEO of Visby Medical (formerly Click Diagnostics), which he founded in 2012 to develop easy-use diagnostic tests. In March 2020, the company pivoted from work on a sexual health test to tackle the coronavirus, and in July received FDA emergency authorization approval for its portable COVID-19 test. He is also an associate professor in the Departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University School of Medicine, with research interests spanning a broad field of molecular imaging. His lab is developing new optical imaging tools with applications to cancer and ophthalmic diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration.

7 Dec 202122min

Yotam Manor, 33 years old, lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Hili and their 6 months old baby boy Carmel. He is an 8200 Alumni and a Hebrew University Graduate in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE), and is self-trained as a Software Engineer. An experienced Tech Leader combining expertise in software, data, product & people, Yotam was until recently the Head of Engineering at Trellis.ai, and not too long ago joined Versatile as an R&D Manager. He volunteers for almost a decade in the Civic-tech NGO "The Public Knowledge Workshop" (Hasadna), as an Open Source Project Leader and Board Chairman, among other roles.

6 Dec 202121min

Dror is a Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors, which he cofounded with Eric Schmidt. He invests in early-stage startups that are driving exponential rates of change in their industries, leading to a Super Evolution. Dror has invested in over 100 different companies from Seed through Series B. He led the firm’s investments in Uber, SoFi, Planet, Zymergen, Freenome, Blue River Technologies, and others. Before becoming an investor, he was a team leader of R&D at NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE). Dror earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University. He is an ML7 Associate at Creative Destruction Lab and a member of the Steering Committee of Israel Collaboration Network.

4 Dec 202130min

Dotan is an experienced multidisciplinary leader in tech, 4x published author, and an avid open source contributor. He is the CEO & Founder at Spectral, a devsecops startups, and previously was CTO at HiredScore, Klarna TLV, and Como (Conduit). With a solid background in hacking, reverse engineering, and software engineering, Dotan has spent years bridging the gap between developers, security, and productivity, from a developer's point of view.

3 Dec 202122min

Minal Bopaiah is the author of Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives. She is the founder of Brevity & Wit, a strategy + design firm that combines human-centered design, behavior change science and the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility to help organizations transform themselves and the world. Bopaiah has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Hill and has been a featured guest on numerous podcasts and shows, including the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU. She has also been a keynote speaker for many conferences, inspiring thousands with her credible, authentic, and engaging talks. For more information, please visit https://theequitybook.com

3 Dec 202118min

Orly joined Vintage in 2016. Before joining Vintage, she worked for McKinsey & Co. in Belgium, France and Israel in the Fast Growth Tech division. Prior to McKinsey, Orly lived for 10 years in California, USA where she worked for Merrill Lynch in wealth management and private banking. Orly started her career as a mechanics and electronics engineer for Indigo, an Israeli startup in the printing industry that was later acquired by HP. Orly has also managed and advised technology startups.

1 Dec 202121min

Entrepreneur, CEO and experienced investor in startup companies. CEO and co-founder of Millennnium Food-Tech, a traded (TASE) venture capital fund.  Before establishing Millennium he initiated, established and managed the Food-Tech incubator in Kiryat Shmona, Israel. Chanan was the entrepreneur of IndaMed, and managed start-up companies such as Beta-o2, Nitiloop and others, from the initiation to market penetration. As CEO of these companies, he raised significant amounts from VC funds and strategic partners in Israel and  abroad. In addition, Chanan was a managing partner at the VC fund, Agate.

1 Dec 202122min

Guy is a Partner at DTCP in the Growth Equity team in Silicon Valley. Guy led DTCP's investments in Replay Technologies (acquired by Intel), FireGlass (acquired by Symantec), and Dynamic Yield (acquired by McDonald’s). He also led DTCP’s investments in SafeBreach, Morphisec, AppsFlyer, and PerimeterX and represents it as board member/observer.

1 Dec 202121min