AI and the Cybersecurity Future of Trains: A Conversation with Cylus Co-Founder and CTO Miki Shifman

Rachel Trobman is the CEO of Upside Health, leading the team on business development, strategy and clinical relationships. The company is based on Rachel's personal experience with chronic pain and has worked with more than 15,000 patients and hundreds of clinicians to expand access to chronic pain care. Rachel has nearly two decades of experience building digital products and experiences for Fortune 500 companies and media enterprises including, but not limited to, P&G, Yahoo!, NBC and the New York Times. Most recently, Rachel’s work in the digital health space has earned her recognition by the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Yale School of Medicine, eyeforPharma, and the U.S. Pain Foundation.

26 Jan 202127min

Zvi is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience turning novel ideas into successful businesses. As founder and CEO of CloudShare, he started a Sequoia Capital company that provides a public cloud service for software development and testing to over 200,000 subscribers.  Prior to CloudShare, he founded and served as CTO of Safend, an endpoint security solution that was acquired by NASDAQ: WAVX.

25 Jan 202121min

Mike Cassidy is the CEO of Apollo Fusion, Inc.  Mike Cassidy was recently a Vice President at Google.  He was the Project Leader of GoogleX’s Project Loon (balloon-powered Internet for everyone).  Prior to joining Google, Mike was the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation.  Mike has a BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.  He graduated from Harvard Business School.  He studied jazz piano at Berklee College of Music..

24 Jan 202122min

Arod is a Manager at Deloitte Catalyst, Deloitte Israel's startup practice, focusing on Life Sciences and Healthcare innovation. He also is the co-founder of Wize, one of Israel's largest content platforms, a board member of the 8200 Alumni Association, where he leads the digital transformation project and several other initiatives, and a board member of ISOC-IL, the Israeli Internet Association. Arod is passionate about climate change, an avid reader and a lawyer by training.

23 Jan 202126min

Tess is a Principal at GSV Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on education technology. Tess spent time at Pluralsight on their strategy team, was a top sales executive at Andela (start-up transforming talent across Africa), and the Head of Talent at Timehop. Tess holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in International Relations/Economics from New York University. Tess was a Teaching Assistant at Stanford GSB for “Diverse Leadership in Education.” She serves on the Advisory Board for Girl Develop It, a non-profit providing software engineering courses for adult women.

22 Jan 202123min

Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data (YCS20), the easiest way to spin up a modern data stack.  Previously, he was the Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze, a cannabis technology platform. He has also worked at fast-growing startups including Opendoor, Zenefits, Yammer/Microsoft, Playdom/Disney.  He also has been involved with sports analytics at the Philadelphia Eagles and has run a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce.  He holds a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.

21 Jan 202124min

Spandana is the Founder & CEO of ZoEasy, an award-winning social enterprise in the MENA Region that focuses on educating and matching migrant blue-collar job seekers to the right employment opportunities using ethical and transparent hiring. She is also the Vice Curator of Global Shapers Dubai, World Economic Forum, where she helps lead the Hub in relation to the WEF's key pillars and has also contributed to many of the hub's education and employment initiatives. Spandana is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Awardee, Expo 2020, and Credit Suisse's Lead 2030 Winner, Speaker, and Ambassador at One Young World and an Enterprise for Peace Scholar with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

20 Jan 202124min

Nuri Golan is a serial entrepreneur and Angel investor. Nuri was the CEO and Co-Founder of the GPS technology startup EXO Technologies which he sold to Lear Corporation, a Fortune 150 company. At Lear, Nuri became the Managing Director of Lear Innovation Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Lear. Currently, Nuri is the CEO of Sosivio, a next-gen observability platform for Cloud Native environments. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Nuri served 6 years in the Israeli Navy Seals as a combat officer and also managed the unit's advanced R&D team. Nuri has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the Technion in Israel.

19 Jan 202124min