Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In 2013 he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama. His book Thinking, Fast and Slow was published in 2011 and remains an international bestseller. Daniel was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers, and The Economist listed him as one of the most influential economists in the world. He is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Nuseir "Nas" Yassin is the maker of Nas Daily, one of the most popular storytelling platforms on Facebook. At 26 years old (as he says, 35% of his life complete), Nas left his job to travel and tell stories. Each day, Nas produces a fun new minute long video, inviting his community from around the world to dive into cultures, places, and experiences. After 1,000 days of consecutive daily videos, Nas grew to 12 million followers and amassed 4 billion views – making him one of the biggest content creators in the world. While producing fun content, Nas has also been able to create social impact, raise awareness on Israel and Palestine, and bring people together rather than divide them.

Bill Gajda is the SVP, Digital Partnerships, Fintech and Venture for VISA. Prior to joining Visa, Bill was Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for the GSMA, where he led the Mobile World Congress events globally, as well as their Mobile Money, Mobile Innovation and Strategic Partner Programs. Bill also held executive roles in Ericsson, and TELUS. Bill holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an Arts Degree from the University of Alberta.

Ronald D. Fisher is the Vice Chair of SoftBank Group and heads up SoftBank’s Vision Fund activities in the US. Ron is also Chairman of Brightstar, Vice Chairman of Sprint Corporation and a Director of ARM, Fanatics and WeWork. Ron has over 30 years of experience of working with high growth and turnaround technology companies; in 1995 he joined SoftBank overseeing its U.S. operations and other activities outside of Asia, and was the founder of SoftBank Capital. Ron earned an MBA from Columbia University, New York, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Avra van der Zee currently serves as Director of Market Entry at JUMP, where she leads global expansion strategy for Uber’s next gen transportation solutions within the New Mobility division. In her prior role as Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel of JUMP, a pioneering micro mobility company, Avra helped shape a new vision for urban transportation models and oversaw JUMP's strategic sale to Uber in May 2018. Trained as a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Avra holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and attended the Georgetown Law Center for her juris doctorate.

Dr. Ami Appelbaum is the Chief Scientist and the Chairman of the Board of Israel Innovation Authority (IIA). Dr. Appelbaum has more than 36 years’ experience in research, development and senior level management in the field of Semiconductors. Previously, Dr. Appelbaum served for 22 years at numerous executive positions at KLA Tencor, a $15.6B market capitalization company and world leader in the business of capital equipment for the semiconductor industry. Additionally, Dr. Ami Appelbaum served as Corporate Senior Vice President at KLA Tencor and president of KLA Tencor Israel. Dr. Appelbaum held positions as General Manager of Gallium Arsenide Diodes (GAD), an Israeli startup, VP Operations and Program Manager at Semiconductor Devices (SCD) in Israel, manager of semiconductor lasers and detector development at Rockwell International (US), and Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at AT&T Bell Lab (US). Dr. Appelbaum received his Doctorate and Master degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and his Engineering degree from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheba, all in the field of materials engineering. Dr. Appelbaum is the author and co-author of more than 50 scientific and technical publications, and holds seven patents in the field of semiconductor equipment and processing.

A passionate inventor, mother, entrepreneur, and educator from Jerusalem. Amani holds an MBA from the Technion University and a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Palestine Polytechnic University. Where she invented and patented a device for teaching Braille. Amani has demonstrated creativity and leadership, winning several competitions including: Top 10 Startups in 2017 Cohort MassChallenge accelerator, the Intel Challenge me competition, Microsoft Imagine Cup, and Celebration of innovation, as well as receiving Presidential Recognition as one of best innovators of Palestinian Innovation and Creativity. Amani is the founder of WAZZA Inc. a bespoke communication platform for parents and teachers. WAZZA aims to empower teachers and parents with the administrative and communication tools they need to give the children the pre-school education they deserve. Amani allocates part of her time to motivate and influence young girls and ladies from the Arab sector to work hard, fight the obstacles, follow and achieve their dreams to make the world a better place.

Valerio started his carreer with Nestlé in Italy in 1984. He has helped build, establish and reorganize several Nestlé units, across various Technical, Supply Chain and R&D functions. To fulfill his different missions, Valerio lived in India, Thailand, Indonesia, South Africa, and Singapore, where he strengthened and grew the business for three consecutive years, establishing an innovative, fresh and unique working environment. Prior to his stint in Singapore, Valerio drove the innovation strategy for the Coffee & Beverages Strategic Business Unit, tracked its implementation as well as drove the Nestlé Product Technology Centre in Orbe, Switzerland which he transformed into a cross-functional organization, while designing and managing internal and external innovation networks. Valerio took his current function as Senior Vice President, Head of Strategies and Performance in April 2014. Since then, he has been driving a cross-functional culture of innovation that is fast, effective and efficient, enabling innovation to happen across the wider Nestlé. Valerio also drives open innovation as well as all major strategic partnerships and alliances. Together with highly effective teams, he contributes to designing our future. ] Valerio holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Florence, and an MBA from the University of Wales.

A Mauritius native, educated in the U.S., Eric is an avid explorer with a multicultural upbringing that taught him to speak seven languages. Before co-founding Klook in 2014, Eric worked in finance at a global investment bank in Hong Kong, traveling extensively worldwide. As Chief Operating Officer of Klook, Eric spearheads the company’s global expansion in the supply portfolio. He is instrumental in establishing partnerships with key travel players such as Universal Studios, Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTR), Japan National Tourism Organization, Hong Kong Tourism Board, and many more. Eric’s leadership contributed significantly to Klook’s diverse product offerings and the company’s popularity across the globe. Eric was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017 List and China’s Yicai (CBN) Brilliant 20 List, recognizing his entrepreneurial spirit and game-changing attitude. Eric has been invited to speak in various world-class tech and travel conferences including TechCrunch, RISE, WIT (Web In Travel), Phocuswright, Arival and ITB.

Roee Adler is a longtime team member at WeWork, joining as Chief Product Officer in 2013. Over the years, Roee built WeWork’s product management, software engineering, digital design, and data analysis groups. He is now spearheading WeWork Labs, the company’s program to power early-stage startups and corporate innovation. Prior to joining WeWork, Roee was part of five different startups, three of which were successfully acquired. Most recently, he served as the Chief Product Officer at Soluto and led the team's launch at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2010 (where Soluto won the startup battlefield). Soluto was acquired by Asurion in 2013. Prior to that, Roee was a product manager at AeroScout (acquired by Stanley Black & Decker), and a device driver developer at Envara (acquired by Intel). A native of Israel, Roee started programming at age 11. Later, while serving in the Israeli military, Roee was a software engineer with an elite intelligence R&D unit. He soon ran software teams and owned part of a system that won the Israel Defence Award, Israel’s most prestigious R&D award, granted by the country’s president.

Debjani Ghosh is the 5th President of The National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM), since 2018. A veteran of the technology industry, and a stanch champion of gender diversity in corporate India, Debjani was the first woman to lead Intel India, Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT). Over her illustrious career spanning over two decades, she held diverse leadership roles across South and Southeast Asia at Intel. She is a firm believer in the power of technology in enhancing lives and livelihoods, leveraging it for societal good. She was instrumental in developing Intel’s ‘Digital Nation’ strategy to support India's digital transformation, working with the government to accelerate technology adoption in India. In January 2018, she was felicitated by the President of India under the auspices of the “First Ladies” program, which honours exceptional female pioneers in their fields. Starting 2012, she has been consecutively named as one of the 20 Most Powerful Women in Business in India by Fortune magazine for 5 years. Debjani holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Osmania University in Hyderabad, and an MBA in marketing from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai.

David Schwartz is Senior Director Venturing & Innovation for Europe & Sub Saharan Africa. In this role, David leads multiple programs that strengthen PepsiCo’s engagement with startups. The PepsiCo programs include Nutrition Greenhouse and PepsiCo Labs. Nutrition Greenhouse supports accelerated growth for food and beverage startups with nutrition solutions for the future. Additionally, David and his team recently launched PepsiCo Labs, to identify and nurture advanced technology-based solutions in marketing, big data analytics, manufacturing and supply chain. Prior to this role, David held multiple positions in PepsiCo including leading Global Snacks Strategy, Global Lay’s innovation & Revenue Management for Russia, CIS & Ukraine. Through these roles David honed a variety of skills from big picture strategy to local Business Unit execution in some of PepsiCo’s largest businesses. Before joining PepsiCo, David spent 6 years at McKinsey, developing commercial strategies across multiple functions and geographies across the United States and Europe. As a precursor to McKinsey, David began his career in The Home Depot’s Business Leadership Program & studied at Harvard Business School. David lives in Israel with his wife and 5 children. David shares many hobbies with his family including skiing, biking, surfing and tennis.

Dorel Blitz is the Head of Fintech at KPMG Israel. Dorel advises local and global FIS on growth strategy, digital transformation, business development, service offerings, innovation management, go-to-market, thought-leadership, M&A, alliances, and talent management. Dorel leads Strategy and IT advisory projects for local and global FIS on Digital Banking. He is also a member of KPMG’s Global Fintech Practice and Leadership. Previously, Dorel led the Innovation efforts at Bank Leumi. At Bank Leumi, Dorel pioneered the launch of innovative and disruptive new strategies, products and services. In addition, he championed a systematic and sustainable innovation process, which reflects the market’s best practices. He built strategic partnerships with VCs, PEs, labs, accelerators, future-focused tech companies, start-ups, and the global Fintech community. Prior to Bank Leumi, Dorel served as the Head of Banking and Finance of the research division at Adkit. Dorel specialized in strategic global business research and advisory in the financial services sector (banks, credit card companies, insurance, investment houses and capital market firms).

As senior vice president of Siren Ideas, Mesh Gelman was responsible for institutionalizing innovation and to bring entrepreneurial speed and curiosity to Starbucks. Responsible for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible at the company, Mesh and his team establish relationships with entrepreneurs whose great ideas can be propelled by Starbucks scale and expertise. Before Siren Ideas was formed, Mesh was responsible for the retail “lobby” business in the US Market for Starbucks, responsible for 14,000 stores and ~$1B in revenue. Prior to joining Starbucks in 2014, Mesh created retail consulting firm Extreme Rep, Mesh also co-founded Extreme Linen in 2003 , a home fashions company in NYC which had a successful exit in 2015. Mesh’s work furthered the "buy-one, give-one" retail strategy, with a donation from each purchase being made to help eliminate poverty and drive change. At Choose Haiti, he brought sustainable development to the devastated nation in the form of textile development and jobs. Mesh has a Masters in Talmudic Law from Yeshivas Mir and spent four years studying abroad. He lives with his family in New Jersey.

Michael B. Oren served as Israel's ambassador to the USA from 2009-2013.Born in USA and educated at Princeton and Columbia, Dr. Oren has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown, and was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has received fellowships from the British and Canadian governments as well as a Moshe Dayan Fellowship from Tel Aviv University and the Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University. His last two books, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East from 1776 to the Present and Six Days of War, were both New York Times bestsellers. He has won the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. In Israel, Ambassador Oren served as an officer in IDF, in the paratroopers in the Lebanon War, a liaison with the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War, and an IDF spokesman during the Second Lebanon War and the 2009 Gaza operation. He acted as an emissary to Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, as an advisor to Israel's delegation to the United Nations, and as the government's director of Inter-Religious Affairs.

Neil Ackerman is the Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Innovation, for Johnson & Johnson across all segments including Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and Consumer Products. He is responsible for accelerating supply chain innovation and enablement of advanced planning processes and technologies worldwide. Neil is an ex-Amazon executive, successful start-up advisor, published author and expert on e-commerce and supply chain innovations. He has given keynotes globally for his work on the e-Commerce Flywheel. He holds 10 U.S. patents and has been mentioned and interviewed in the WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC, and several other highly selective international publications. Neil is a graduate of the University of Richmond, UVA, and MIT, and holds a PMP, MBA, and M.S..

Nick Sugimoto is the Senior Program Director of Honda Silicon Valley Lab, the open innovation lab of global Honda R&D based in Mountain View, California. Nick oversees Honda’s advanced information technology R&D in Silicon Valley, as well as, strategic partnerships globally. Previously, Nick led the corporate venture capital program at Honda where he invested in a number of innovative startup companies and built strategic R&D partnerships. Prior to joining Honda, Nick was a successful entrepreneur leading a series of technology venture companies in both the US and Japan. Nick received his engineering degree from the University of Tokyo and MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Amir Freund is an entrepreneur with wide experience in growing and managing startup companies. Amir was the co-founder and COO of Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR), co-founder and CEO of ForNova, and the founder of UNVC – 1st startup accelerator in Israel (2nd worldwide after YCombinator). Today Amir advises to Ford on Israeli technology and innovation. Amir has an MBA in entrepreneurship from Swinburne University and BSC in Computer Science from the Technion.

Ms. Ornit Shinar serves as Director & Venture Investing Lead, Israel at Citi Ventures, Inc. since 2019. She was Senior Vice President and Head of Venture Investments Israel at the firm. Ms. Shinar joined Citi Venture in March 2017 to lead its venture investment activities in Israel. Her focus of interest includes data analytics & Machine Learning, cybersecurity and FinTech. She ran External Innovation and Business Development for Lenovo. She founded and ran the first Accelerator out of Citi’s Tel Aviv Lab. Prior to Citi, she founded and served in managerial roles in several companies. She founded Yazamiyot. She serves as the Director of External Innovation at Lenevo. Ms. Shinar serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Plus Ventures LTD. She has expertise in Commerce & Payments, Security & Enterprise IT, Data Analytics & Machine Learning. She received joint honors degree LLB in English Law and French Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science during 1990-1994 and an LLM in international commerce law cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem during 1994-1996. She also studied French Law from U. Robert Schuman in Strasbourg during 1993-1994.

Ambassador David Adelman is a lawyer with Reed Smith LLP in New York who counsels businesses on cross-border transactions. He previously was a managing director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and Singapore, United States Ambassador to Singapore and member of the Georgia State Senate. Adelman was awarded the U.S. State Department Superior Honor Award and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award granted by the U.S. Navy to non-military personnel. Adelman served as a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Capital Markets Committee, Executive Board of the Hong Kong Treasury Markets Association and as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Adelman serves on several corporate advisory boards, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is on the faculty at New York University where he teaches international relations of the Asia-Pacific region at the graduate levelAdelman received his J.D. from Emory University and a master’s from Georgia State University. Adelman and his wife Caroline, have three children.