David Siegel - Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles David Siegel serves as the senior representative of the State of Israel to the Southwestern United States. Most recently, David Siegel served as Chief of Staff to Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this role, he was involved in policy formulation and decision-making at the senior levels of Israel’s foreign policy establishment.

Yochai Rozenblat - President of the Americas - NICE Systems Yochai Rozenblat has served as President of the Americas for NICE Systems since September 2009. Yochai was previously President of the Enterprise Group in the Americas. Under his leadership, NICE dramatically grew its business in the Americas. From 2004 until 2008, Yochai Rozenblat served as NICE’s Vice President of Sales, responsible for NICE’s Enterprise sales in the Americas. Before joining NICE, Yochai led the Enterprise Sales Team at Clarify, the CRM division of Amdocs. NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), is the worldwide leader of intent-based solutions that capture and analyze interactions and transactions, realize intent, and extract and leverage insights to deliver impact in real time.

Yoram Yaacovi - General Manager - Microsoft Israel R&D Center Innovative Imagination - Thinking Outside the Windows Yoram is responsible for all technological activities in Israel, including the R&D sites in Haifa and Herzeliya, new core R&D projects, partnering with the local venture-capital and start-up communities, and collaborating with Israeli academic institutions. Yoram previously headed the Amdocs Product Development Organization and later was COO of the Amdocs Products Group. Microsoft Israel R&D Center is one of three strategic regional development centers, and home to some of Microsoft’s most exciting and innovative technologies. The center is comprised of incubations and core product efforts in Telecom, Security, Online Services and Entertainment.

David Sable - Global CEO - Young & Rubicam David’s career in advertising began at Young & Rubicam (Y&R) in 1976. Later, he went on to Wells Rich Greene, then co-founded the award-winning Israeli agency Mimsar-Arielly. David then spent time at PR giant Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe, both parts of Young & Rubicam Brands. David was vice chairman and COO of Wunderman, responsible for managing the agencys global marketing services network. In 2011, David returned to Y&R, Young & Rubicam Brands’ largest division. Young & Rubicam is 6,500 people in 186 offices in 90 countries, all on a mission to Resist the Usual for our clients. Y&R believes the most powerful way to do that is to find the balance between our left- and right-brain thinking.

Peter Guber - Chairman and CEO - Mandalay Entertainment Group Peter Guber produced, executive produced – personally and / or through his company – films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations. Mr. Guber is a professor at UCLA and is the Owner and Co-executive Chairman of the NBA franchise, the Golden State Warriors. Mr. Guber’s third book, Tell To Win, became the No.1 best seller in the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal. He is the co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Mandalay Entertainment Group is a multimedia entertainment vehicle in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment, and new media formed in 1995. Peter Adderton - CEO - Mandalay Digital Group Peter founded Boost Mobile in 2000, purchased by Nextel in 2004, and remains a Director and the largest shareholder of Boost Mobile Australia. Boost Mobile USA is one of the fastest growing mobile brands with over $1 billion in revenue. Peter also founded Amp’d Mobile, creating the first integrated mobile entertainment company targeted for youth, young professionals and early adopters. Mandalay Digital Group delivers a mobile services platform that works with mobile operators and third-party publishers to provide portal management, user interface, content development, and billing technology that enables innovative distribution of mobile entertainment.

Michael Hiltzik - Business Columnist - Los Angeles Times Eli Groner - Israel’s Minister for Economic Affairs to the United States Glenn Yago - Research Directors - Milken Institute Israel Center

Gidi Weiss - Manager, Business Development - Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Behind the Iron Dome - From David’s Sling to the Iron Dome, Novel Innovation Gideon Weiss is a Business Development Manager in Rafael’s Missiles & Net-Centric Warfare Division. He has been working for Rafael in the past 12 years in various positions. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems designs, develops, manufactures and supplies a wide range of high-tech defense systems for air, land, sea and space applications. Rafael was established as part of the Ministry of Defense more than 50 years ago and was incorporated in 2002.

Frank Marangell - President Americas - Objet Geometries Frank Marangell is the President of Objet Geometries North American subsidiary, Objet, Inc. Frank heads Objet, Inc. to support the growing North American customer base, leading all sales, marketing and customer support operations for the North American market. Frank was previously the US President of Elbit Vision Systems and VP Sales of Orbotech’s PCB division. Objet Geometries develops, manufactures and globally markets ultra-thin-layer, high-resolution 3-Dimensional printing systems and materials that utilize PolyJet Polymer Jetting technology. Objet’s solutions are in use by world leaders to reduce product-development cycles. Jason Lopes - Lead Systems Engineer - Legacy Effects Jason is the Lead Systems Engineer for Legacy Effects. He and his team at Legacy Effects have worked on numerous Hollywood blockbusters including Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Iron Man 2, Cowboys & Aliens and many more. Jason and his team are avid users of Objet Geometries 3D printers to build fast and detailed prototypes for their clients. Legacy Effects is a state of the art facility that produces and creates live-action effects in modern-day films, commercials and television. A long time partner of Objet Geometries, Legacy Effects has used Object 3D printers to create props and prototypes for a number of movies.

Zohar Levkovitz - Chairman - Space IL Zohar is the Chairman of SpaceIL. Zohar founded Amobee and led the company through its recent acquisition by SingTel. Zohar has been at the forefront of mobile and internet technology development for over 10 years. As former CTO of Comverse 3G, MMS and WAP Push activities, Zohar led the development and compilation of several architectures and concepts, currently accepted as standards by the global telecom industry. Yair Bash - Founder and CEO - Space IL Yariv is the Founder and CEO of Space IL. As an electronics and computer engineer, Yariv gained vast technological experience as head of a staff engaged in research and development in electronics. Yariv was previously responsible for the development and deployment of GPS-based advanced products. Space IL’s mission is to make Israel the third country to land on the moon. Space IL is a non-profit organization established by a multidisciplinary team of Israeli space enthusiasts to compete with privately-funded space teams in the Google Lunar X Prize, a global race of lunar exploration offering the largest international incentive prize of all time: a total of $30 million.

David Siegel - Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles David Siegel serves as the senior representative of the State of Israel to the Southwestern United States. Most recently, David Siegel served as Chief of Staff to Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this role, he was involved in policy formulation and decision-making at the senior levels of Israel’s foreign policy establishment.

Ran Poliakine - CEO - Duracell Powermat Ran founded Powermat and, as CEO, leads the company’s growth strategy. Ran previously founded several technology companies in the healthcare, wireless, print, broadcast, and media industries. Powermat Technologies is pioneering the wireless power revolution. Powermat and P&G joined forces in 2011 forming Duracell Powermat, to deliver an ecosystem of best-in-class wireless power solutions.

Shai Shahal - CEO - Comfy Shai is responsible for shaping Comfy’s corporate strategy and forming industry partnerships. Shai served as senior vice president of marketing and sales for Nonstop Broadband Internet, a division of Matav Cable TV Group. Comfy provides interactive edutainment and leisure time solutions for toddlers and young children, enabling their first and ultimate computer experience that is easy to use.

Amit Gavish - General Manager, Americas - BriefCam Amit has 16 years of security and military experience from both the US and Israel, where he served as the Deputy Director of Security at the Office of the President of the State Israel and was in charge of physical and information security. BriefCam is the developer and provider of award-winning security products based on Video Synopsis for the rapid review of captured video, a video clip as short as a minute.

Dan Ostroff - Founder and CEO - Doogma Tec Dan founder Doogma Tec to develop an online platform for selling customizable goods online. Dan has extensive executive experience in start-up and established telecom and internet companies. Self Expression in Online Buying! Doogma provides online sellers with an easy, cost effective solution to offer customers a fun interactive buying experience, ensuring end-users will get exactly what they want.

Tal Keinan - Co-Founder and CEO - AdExtent Tal co-founded AdExtent. Tal was previously in charge of Morgan Stanley’s Risk Management Scenario Analysis product. Tal served in the Israeli Army leading Computer Division’s communication department. AdExtent’s display media ad solution uses proprietary contextual and semantic targeting technology to better connects advertisers with target audiences by bringing search performance to display media.

Jeff Zwelling - Co-Founder and CEO - Convertro Jeffrey co-founded Convertro to productize the marketing software suite that he and David Feldman developped to automate fulfillment and online marketing spend of their prior endeavor, YLighting. Convertro offers advertisers insightful analytics that capture the entire lead source path and its influence on conversion, revenue, and profit, providing cross-channel Metrics to measure ad impact.

Jonathan Fram - CEO - Nularis Energy Solutions Jonathan, CEO, was the head of Bloomberg’s Television, Radio, and Internet businesses, reporting to Mike Bloomberg. He previously was the President of Net2Phone, which went public prior to selling a controlling interest to AT&T. Nularis is leading the lighting revolution by offering LED lighting solutions for residential and commercial markets. No matter the size of the project Nularis can deliver.

Yair Lavi - Founder and CEO - Tonara App Yair is an experienced algorithm designer and researcher in the fields of machine learning and image processing. He previously worked at VLSI Plus and Dblur Technologies. Tonara’s vision is to turn music playing into a fun, cool, and interactive experience by offering innovative products that listen to musicians and help them learn, rehearse and perform; we are leading the transition of sheet music.

David Springer - CEO - Mobile Research Labs (MRL) Before joining MRL, Dave served as CEO of Vumii, developing cutting-edge, laser-illumination night-vision systems for the homeland security domain. He worked on defense projects at ElOp prior. MRL has developed innovative, cost-effective technology to better understand and interact with consumers by measuring consumption patterns of both traditional media and those of new media.