Guy Rolnik, Founder of TheMarker, financial newspaper, who led major reforms in the Israeli economy in the last decade will analyze with the audience the numbers and the political economy process behind Israel’s special interest groups. We will together try to understand why Israel is not exploiting it’s potential, why startup nation is only for 10% of the labor market and why the current path is unsustainable if we want to retain top talent in Israel.

Amit Lang, Director General, Israeli Ministry of Economy

Intimate Briefing with Boaz Chen, General Director,

DemOS Project, The Public Knowledge Workshop

The Public Knowledge Workshop increases public participation in Israel by transforming government data into public knowledge. The Workshop provides open and accessible analysis of governmental information, working with Knesset members to increase transparency and with hi-tech entrepreneurs to incubate the industry's projects working to achieve this goal.

Eyal Rosner Chairman and Director of Administration, The Fuel Choices Initiative, Prime Minister's Office, Israel

Roger Sherman, Documentary Filmmaker

Cinematographer, Still Photographer, Author

Florentine Films/Sherman Pictures

From Medal of Honor to Israeli Cuisine

The Business and Art of A Documentary Career

Craig Gotsman

The first and founding director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.

Professor Gotsman will present an overview of the Institute including the plan and vision for the future campus of Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island – aimed to be an innovative, sustainable academic campus on Roosevelt Island, New York City.

Israeli Business Forum, The Israel National Brain Gain Program and Tech Aviv are honored to host representatives of Rafael and Elbit's technology incubator, to share successes and challenges of the defense industry and to speak about opportunities within the industry.

Speaker: Allon Bloch, CEO of mySupermarket 

A conversation with Nir Lempert, former Deputy Commander of Unit 8200, current Chairman & CEO of Zap Group, Chairman of the 8200 Amuta Foundation

Speaker: Avi Hasson Chief Scientist of Ministry of Economy

Speaker: Gideon Amichay CEO & Founder at No, No, No, No, No, Yes New York and a TEDx speaker.

Speaker: Dan Ben David, Executive Director, Taub Institute for Social Policy Studies

Speaker: Guy Blachman, Founder of MyBuilding and Co-Founder of ActiveBuilding

Speaker: Gidi Grinstein, Founder and President of The Reut institute

Current thoughts of a practitioner Tamir Koch, Founder & CEO, TriPlay

Speakers: Yair Safrai, Chairman at Impact First Investments Cecile Blilious, Managing Partner at Impact First Investments

Sponsored by: Blue White Wines

Speaker: Gil Cohen- Magen, Photographer

Speaker: Jonathan Medved, Serial Entrepreneur

Speaker: Yariv Bash, CEO and Co-Founder of SpaceIL

Speaker: Oren Adler, CPA, Partner at Gideon Adler & Co. CPAs

Speaker: Avner Ronen, CEO and Co-Founder, Boxee, Inc.

Panelists:

Daniel Schultz, Co-Founder and Managing Director, DFJ Gotham Ventures

Anton Levy, Managing Director, General Atlantic Alex Ferrara, Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners

Moderator:

Sass Darwish, Managing Director, Head of Americas Technology Investment Banking at Nomura Securities

Speaker: Professor Neta Ziv, Tel Aviv University