AI and the Urgency of Real-Time Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Dr. Dorit Dor, Check Point

In her counseling work, Nadine combines her original background in psychology, business, politics, the media, shamanism & wisdom schools. She grew up in Paris, developed a classical music company in New York, spent time near the lava flows in Hawai’i, was the right hand of the leading female politician in Mongolia, had a therapy practice and TV shows in New Delhi. She is now working as a “Joint Journeyer” (a term she prefers to coach or therapist) in the Bay Area and around the world.

26 Aug 202025min

Itai is an Israeli magician & stand-up comedian, having performed and emceed conferences all over the world for over 15 years (most notably in front of the biggest tech companies one can imagine). Due to his ability to effectively convey promotional messages, companies have chosen him as a presenter on social media. He has weekly spots on several TV shows, and co-founded a weekly dinner-show, "Sorcerers Night", that has been ranked #1 activity in Tel Aviv since 2014.

26 Aug 202021min

Or is a composer, music director, and music producer. He has worked extensively on and off Broadway (The Great Comet of 1812, Preludes, Octet), and has collaborated with artists such as Josh Groban, the Trans Siberian Orchestra, and others. His compositions for theater have been performed worldwide, and his work has garnered numerous awards and nominations. A graduate of both Juilliard and NYU, he continuously strives to bridge the gap between various musical genres.

26 Aug 202021min

Gigi is a founding partner of NFX (www.nfx.com), a $275m leading seed venture firm in Silicon Valley and Israel. He founded 6 startups over the years including Playtika and Inception and invested in many others including Kenshoo, Moon Active, Plarium, MyHeritage, Optimove, Selina, Houseparty, R2Net, SimilarWeb, NanoRep, Replay Technology, SpaceApe and others. Gigi serves on the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann as well as on the client advisory council of Facebook.

26 Aug 202025min

Sapir focuses on early stage investments, focusing on her expertise in deep technology, from idea stage to B Rounds. Within Pitango she is responsible for companies' due diligence process. Previously, she was a Software Engineer at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, and more recently Cloudshare. Sapir is also a Board Member of the 8200 Alumni Association. In 2017 she founded the 8200 Alumni Youth Community and has been leading it since.

25 Aug 202020min

Marcel Kornacker is a tech lead at Cloudera and the architect of Apache Impala (incubating). Marcel has held engineering jobs at a few database-related startup companies and at Google, where he worked on several ad-serving and storage infrastructure projects. His last engagement was as the tech lead for the distributed query engine component of Google’s F1 project. Marcel holds a PhD in databases from UC Berkeley.

25 Aug 202018min

Yaron is the founder of Maverick Ventures. Previously, he founded the Tel Aviv Angel Group where he was involved in business development for its portfolio companies and five exits. He is a graduate of Zell Entrepreneurship Program (IDC) and holds an MS in Law. Yaron sits on the board of the United Hatzalah (non-profit Emergency Medical Services Organization which consists of over 6,000 volunteer first responders).

25 Aug 202022min

David is a serial entrepreneur, co-founded 3 startups, and built 6 marketplaces (3 of which exited). He has almost 20 years of engineering and startup experience and has been fortunate to invest in, advise, and mentor many startups in a variety of industries. Today, David is the CTO of Stride Travel, the #1 US marketplace for multi-day tours and adventure travel packages.

25 Aug 202021min