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

As Global Tech Innovation Director @ Procter & Gamble, Orr’s key goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for P&G by partnering with top entrepreneurs, VCs, and researchers worldwide, in order to incorporate their disruptive technologies within P&G Global Business Units. His broad span of interests includes Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Infrastructure, industry 4.0, Sustainability and more. A former accountant, Orr serves on the boards of startups and nonprofit organizations alike, where his financial expertise and innovation management experience develop strategic direction and enable operating efficiencies. Additionally, he is the co-host of “The Digital Transformers” podcast, where he interviews innovation leaders from large multinational corporates.

2 Aug 202230min

Sapir Hadad was born and raised in Ashkelon, and is currently living in Tel-Aviv.  She is the Co-Founder & CEO of FinityX, a deep tech startup developing AI solutions for investment professionals. Finityx helps investors implement AI tools as part of their investment process to save time and resources and improve quality.

1 Aug 202221min

Jay Jubas is a Senior Partner at McKinsey. Jay is a leader in McKinsey’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, and global leader of Fuel by McKinsey, which serves the start-up and scale-up ecosystem. He is also a leader of  McKinsey Israel TechHub, which provides services to startups, scale-ups, and VCs in multiple tech sectors in Israel. During the last year, Jay did Aliyah due to the huge potential McKinsey has recognized in the Israeli tech ecosystem. Jay holds a BS with highest honors and MS in materials science from Columbia University, and a PhD in physics from MIT. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked as a research associate at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

1 Aug 202222min

Slava is an experienced cybersecurity leader and entrepreneur. As CEO of Cybellum he is responsible for the business, sales, and marketing operations, working with manufacturers and asset owners worldwide on implementing risk assessment solutions. As part of founding Cybellum’s development of a novel Product Security technology, Slava is the official representative of the Standards Institution of Israel in the ISO 21434 standard technical committee, leading ISO21434 Use-Case TF. He’s also a member of the CISA Software Component Transparency committee, working on the future standardization of Software BoM. I hold an M.Sc. In Computer Science, Cum Laude, and a B.Sc. in Information Systems, Cum Laude.

31 Juli 202219min

Founder and CEO, Miri Berger, is an industrial designer by training completed a master's degree from the Pratt Institute and a B.F.A in Ceramic Design from the Bezalel Academy of Arts. She holds patents for her work in design and has over 15 years of experience in a wide variety of projects in the fields of toys, furniture, electronics, and soft goods. Miri specializes in designing products that consider unconventional needs, materials, and uses.

30 Juli 202222min

Aliza built and led APAC businesses for Google, Twitter and Cloudflare. Prior to that, she was in banking and consulting. She is now a senior advisor for BCG, a Forbes columnist, a Non Executive Director on both public and private boards, and an Angel Investor. Once called a ”Kick Ass Woman Slaying the World of Tech”, Aliza is the author of Don't Quit Your Day Job, outlining 6 mindshifts you need to rise & thrive at work as part of  her commitment to empowering the next generation of leaders. Recently listed in the Top 100 Women in Tech (Singapore, 2021), she's also been named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia, 2020).

29 Juli 202221min

Yoav Shoham is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. A leading AI expert, Prof. Shoham is Fellow of AAAI, ACM and the Game Theory Society. Among his awards are the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. His online Game Theory course has been watched by close to a million people. Prof. Shoham has founded several AI companies, including TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba), Katango and Timeful (both acquired by Google), and AI21 Labs. Prof. Shoham also chairs the AI Index initiative (www.AIindex.org), which tracks global AI activity and progress, and WeCode (www.wecode.org.il), a nonprofit initiative to train high-quality programmers from disadvantaged populations.

28 Juli 202241min

22-year-old May Piamenta, co-founder and CEO of Vee founded Vee together with her two partners Gil and Avi to make social impact easier than ever. Since her teenage years, May has been passionate about volunteerism. Before founding Vee in 2019, she led a global non- profit team, where she managed 10 million volunteers in over 32 countries. All the work was done manually, and she found existing technological solutions to be enterprise-oriented and difficult to use. So, May decided to act.

27 Juli 202221min