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

Nikos is the COO of MarineTraffic, a startup aimed at transforming shipping tech. Previously he founded SpaceNation and 1derground. He is a proud StartUp Grind Ambassador with a passion for politics (working with the Greens). A former journalist, Niko transitioned to a leadership role at a multinational pharmaceutical company before joining the startup community. He was Head of Sales & Innovation for Brand Collective in Australia and New Zealand. Find him somewhere between US + Europe + Australia, speaking at conferences and events.

31 Dec 202025min

Ayal is the CEO of Anjuna and has been building enterprise security products for over 20 years. He was previously VP of product management at SafeBreach–a Sequoia-backed enterprise security startup–and led the Umbrella product management team at OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco for $635M). Ayal held senior PM positions at Lookout and Imperva and was a part of Imperva’s IPO in 2011. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a B.Sc in EE and CS from Tel Aviv University.

31 Dec 202024min

Ginny is currently a Director of Executive Recruiting at Google where she leads non-technical executive recruiting, as well as diversity for leadership hiring, and internal mobility for senior Googlers. Previously she was a Partner at Spencer Stuart and co-founded and led their global Diversity Practice for 12 years. She is the host of the Fifth Dimensional Leadership podcast and is the author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work.

31 Dec 202022min

Andy is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), which he helped scale to a successful IPO. Previously he founded and sold Caring.com, the nation’s leading online destination for those caring for aging loved ones. Andy grew the company to a profitable business with a team of 150 people. He held various sales and marketing leadership positions at SuccessFactors, Intuit, Instill, Peapod and SC Johnson Wax, and earned an MBA in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

31 Dec 202023min

Jordan is an investor, military veteran, and author from Los Angeles, California. After college, Jordan spent five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer, serving two combat tours overseas in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Currently, he is a Director and the Head of Talent at Schmidt Futures, a new company founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Princeton University.

31 Dec 202024min

Dr. Yael Benvenisti is the CEO of Mediterranean Towers Ventures, the first and only fund investing exclusively in technologies for aging well. She is the chairperson of technologies for aging well group in the society of electrical and electronics engineering in Israel and represents Aging2.0, an international organization dealing with technology and aging. She was selected in 2019 and 2020 as one of Israel’s top influencers on the longevity spaces.

31 Dec 202021min

Chana Kanzen is the CEO of JI (Jewish Interactive) - a global non profit that delivers online education to over 300,000 kids in over 100 countries. Passionate about improving the quality of education, Chana manges a global team in 4 continents, an international board and has initiated projects being used across the world. Chana regularly lectures and has spoken at Oxford University, Google HQ London /Tel Aviv, Apple HQ NY/London and regularly writes educational features in the Jewish press.

31 Dec 202022min

Alon Girmonsky is a serial entrepreneur, a passionate software engineer and the CEO and Co-founder of UP9, a new startup in the field of microservice software reliability. Alon has spent over a decade building developer products and companies. Alon’s previous company, BlazeMeter was acquired by CA technologies, where Alon served as Vice President and Business Unit Executive until the acquisition of CA technologies itself by Broadcom.

31 Dec 202023min