⌘ Tech
Leverage Israel W/ Anthropic, Palantir, Cognition, Greylock, Ribbit Capital and more

- When
- Wednesday, October 7 · 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Listed by
- Lu.ma — Bay Area Founders Club
On stage: GPs, executives, senior directors and operators from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Cognition, NVIDIA, Palantir, Ribbit Capital, Greylock, Box, Redpoint, Cerebras Systems, 1Password, Red Hat, Onyx Security, Fenwick, monday.com, Deel, Cognition, Eragon, UpWest, Dell Technologies Capital, Decart and more.
The day: keynotes, workshops, panels, lunch and happy hour, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
Run of show
9:00 AM - Open doors, networking & activations
9:45 AM - Opening remarks
Nir Naamani, Co-founder & CEO, Leverage
10:00 AM - From zero to IPO, expanding globally and growing in the US Moderator: Ari Haber, Partner, Fenwick Shuly Galili, Founding Partner, UpWest Eran Ashkenazi, CBO, SentinelOne
10:30 AM - Who owns the data layer
Moderator: Yaron Singer, CEO, Ex- Harvard CS ProfessorTamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering, Box Reah Miyara, Sr. Director & Head of Models, Google Anthony Goldbloom, Founder, Kaggle · CEO, Sumble
11:00 AM - The Case for Open Source Models
Moderator: Dr. Roy Nissim, AI Inference Lead, Red Hat
Dr. Yair Adato, CEO, Bria
Eyal Niv, Managing Partner, Pitango
Ron Efroni, Co-founder & CEO, Flox
11:30 AM - How to Ensure Israel Is Not Losing the AI Race
Moderator: Col. (Res) Ryan Gity, Secretary & Member, Israel's National Committee for AI Strategy
Reah Miyara, Sr. Director & Head of Models, Google
Hagay Lupesko, SVP Engineering, Cerebras Systems
Itai Zadok, Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA
12:00 PM - Deep Tech & Defense
Moderator: Lee Jacobs, Co-founder & Managing Director, Long Journey Ventures
Col. (Res) Ryan Gity, Secretary & Member, Israel's National Committee for AI Strategy
Sam Feldman, Corporate Affairs & Special Projects, Palantir
Special guest
12:30 PM - Lunch and the partner expo
1:30 PM - Ops & GTM in the U.S. Market
Camilla Matias, COO, Monaco (ex-COO, Brex)
Ron Miasnik, VP of Business Development, Cognition
Gili Guri-Mill, VP Product Marketing, Deel
Sophie Rose, Founding GTM, OpenAI
2:00 PM - Cybersecurity in the AGI-era
Moderator: Shir Chorev, Co-founder & CTO, Leverage
Gil Elbaz, Co-founder & Chief AI Officer, Onyx Security
Evyatar Ben Asher, Member of the Technical Staff, Anthropic
2:30 PM - Future of Physical AI
Moderator: Avidan Ross, Managing Partner, Root Ventures
Elana Lian, Partner, Dell Technologies Capital
Hagay Lupesko, SVP Engineering, Cerebras Systems
Sam Nagar, Founder & CEO, Terragrit
3:00 PM - Building the Next $100B AI Infra Companies
Moderator: Lior Alexander, CEO, AlphaSignal
Josh Sirota, Founder & CEO, Eragon
Ron Kimchi, CTO & Co-founder, Eon
3:25 PM - Agents Restructure The Financial Stack
Moderator: Michael Morgenstern, Head of Startups, Airwallex
Seth Rosenberg, General Partner, Greylock
Nick Shalek, General Partner, Ribbit Capital
3:55 PM - Navigating U.S. and Israeli Culture Differences
Shuly Galili, Founding Partner, UpWest
Zachary Potter, Program Lead, VCs & Startups, monday.com
4:15 PM - Closing remarks Nir Naamani, Co-founder & CEO, Leverage
4:30 PM - Closing reception on the rooftop
Each registration is reviewed and requires approval - tickets will be refunded fully if not approved.
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