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J-Ventures Portfolio Companies
Cyber, AI, Healthcare IT, Insuretech, Agritech, Cloud, Optimization, Mobility and Fintech
Adi Wallach
Co-Founder and CEO at Dendro Technologies (CalmiGo)
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Agenda
AUG 1
9:00-9:05
Meet & Greet
Track 1- Enabling Technology- Semi Conductors
Amir Faintuch, SVP Global Foundries, Matt Hershinson, Managing Partner PlayGround, Gideon Intrater, VP Dialogue
9:10-9:40
Track 2- Industry in Depth- Social Networks
Ilan Frank, VP Product, Slack, Udi Milo, VP Growth, Tinder, Amir Shevt, C...Former VP Partnerships at Twitch
Track 3
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Networking
16:00
Q & A Session
Confirmed Speakers
J-Ventures LPs/Portfolio
* In order of appearance
FEATURED INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Laura Lauder
Lauder Partners. Co-founded
the Socrates Program of the
Aspen Institute. Chair of the
Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco, with over $2 billion in assets. Board of Social Finance, which facilitates impact investing. Past board of the National Public Radio Foundation and Spark Networks parent company of JDate.
Amir Faintuch
SVP GlobalFoundries, Former SVP
Global R&D Intel, Venture Partner, Pitango. President Qualcomm/Atheros.
Gideon Intrater
VP Strategy & Technology at Dialog Semiconductor, former CTO Adesto (Sold to Dialog Semiconductor for $0.5B)
Dr. Aya Jakobovits
$14B of Biotech exits. Founder,
President & CEO Adicet Bio,
President &Founding CEO at Kite
Pharma (Gilead), SVP, & CSO at
Agensys, (Astellas), Scientific Founder,
Director, Discovery Research and
Principal Scientist at Abgenix (Amgen)
Amir Shevat
CPO Reshuffle, Former VP Product
at Twitch. Ex Slack, Google
Founder & Partner at Recursive Ventures / Chief Business Officer at Life360
Itamar Novick
Gil Frostig
Former VP Qualcomm, Intel. Board member in companies. Investment committee and CTO @ J-Ventures
Sigmund Anderman
Founder of American Home Shield Corporation, Founder, President,
CEO and Chairman of Ellie Mae, ($3.7B exit)
Alison Wagonfeld
Vice President, Marketing- CMO, Google Cloud. Past-Operational partner at Emergence Capital and Co-founded Quicken Loans
Assaf Resnick
CEO and Co Founder BigPanda, Ex Sequoia Capital
Doron Simon
VP, NICE Satmetrix at NICE Ltd,
VP at Luxera Inc, President and
COO at Corcim Technology Inc. President at Tower Semiconductor USA. Venture Partner, J-Ventures
Ramesh Panuganty
Founder and CEO of Macheye, SelectQ (Thinkster), Drustin
(Splunk), Cloud360 (Cognizant)
Merav Weinryb
Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures, Europe & Israel
Andy Cohen
Senior Vice President of Sales, Bill.com
Prof. Udi (Ehud) Peleg
Co-founder of PaceIt and UCLA adjunct professor
Ophir Zilbiger
Partner, Head of Cybersecurity
Center, BDO, Global network
security leader AT PwC, founded
PwC Israel’s information security
business, founded SECOZ
(sold to BDO), and
Cyber-Hat
Benny Czarny
CEO & Founder OPSWAT, Inc.
Sharon Rechter
CEO and Co founder BabyFirst,
First Media
Ori Ellman
CEO at Dentsu Aegis Network IL.
Past CEO, Maple, Efect-Tv
Founder and Managing Director
of Nissim Capital and Co-founder
and Chairman of Grand River
Solutions, Founding CEO and
Managing Director of Workiva
(NYSE: WK), Founder and CEO of Financial Intelligence, Co-founder International Risk Control Inc.
Jerry Behar
Jon Soberg
Managing Partner at MS&AD
Ventures. Investor in Insurance and
fintech companies like Hippo and
Hourly
Nathaniel Krasnoff I
Co-Founder & CEO, Reframe
Oded Eran
Co-Founder & CEO,
Connie Health
Murray Brozinsky
CEO at Conversa Health, Chief strategy officer Health line (Summit Partners), President Netcentives (IPO)
Jorge Myszne
Founder & CEO Kameleon, Co-Founder of Wilocity/ $360M exit to Qualcomm
Gadi Bashvitz
President & CCO at NeuraLegion
Shlomi Kofman
Consul General of Israel to the Pacific North West
Matt Hershenson
Founding Partner at Playground Global, Former Director of Hardware in Google’s Android group
Dr. Kathy Fields
Co-creator of two successful billion
dollar skincare brands: Proactiv
Solutions and Rodan + Fields. In 2016 sold the Proactiv royalties to a joint venture
between Guthy Renker and Nestle. Forbes America's Self-Made Women 2020.
Ilan Frank
VP Product Enterprise, Slack. Leading Product positions in companies
Udi Milo
Vice President of Product, Growth at Tinder. Past Lyft, Pinterest, Linkedin
Dr. Cormac Conroy
Former VP & GM for wireless solutions
at Qualcomm and at Intel
David Tennenhouse
Chief Research Officer, VMware. Past partner, NVP, Ceo A9, VP, Microsoft, Intel
Dan Rubin
Managing Partner, Alloy Ventures, Founder of Artisan Components ($1B IPO)
Alon Girmonsky
Founder/CEO UP9, Blazemeter/ Acq by CA, VP Broadcom
Dr. Alon Halevy
Director, Facebook AI, Ex CEO
Megagon Labs, Transformic (Google)
Igor Taber
SVP CorpDev DataRobot, Ex Intel Capital
Brett Rochkind
Former GP, CRV, Head of the Palo Alto office and Co-Head of the Global Internet & Technology sector at General Atlantic. Investor in Box, Ali Baba, AirBnb, Uber
Jake Seid
Managing Partner, Stone Bridge Ventures, Former Managing Director, Lightspeed, President, Ten-X.Investor in Brix, Bird
Sergio Fogel
Co founder of the Fintech company Dlocal, the first Unicorn in Uruguay
Slavik Markovich
Founder and CEO of Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $0.5B), Former VP & CTO, database security at McAfee, Former CTO at Sentrigo Ltd.
Jake Flomenberg
Partner at Wing Venture Capital, past- Partner at Accel Partners
Michael Rolnick
Midas list, Forbes, Com Ventures, CDO, News Corp, SVP E*Trade
Guy Piekarz
Media services at Apple, Founder of Matcha (acquired by Apple) and Unisfair (acquired by West Corporation)
Jacob Nizri
Founder & CEO weEndeavor
Dr. Adam de la Zerda
Founder, CEO, Visby Medical
Associate Professors, Structural Biology and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Tom Sagi
Co founder, CEO, Hourly
Dr. Itay Bengad
Co-Founder & CEO, MDGo
Dan Y. Rubinstein
CEO at Physera (Omada Healthcare), Singer, Product Management at Google, Facebook, Palantir, Founder and CEO of Reflectivity (TI)
Erez Kalir
CEO of Stansberry Asses Management, and
founded Sabretooth Capital
(just under $1B). Invests in Bio
tech and Real estate
Guy Miasnik
Co-Founder & CEO of AtHoc (acquired by BlackBerry), Chief Strategy Officer at BlackBerry, Co-Founder and CEO of Kinetica
Adi Ruppin
CEO & Founder, Ananda Networks.
Past- CEO, Exoshpere, CTO Watchdox (Blackberry), CMO, BelnSync (Phoenix),
CEO SofaWare (Checkpoint).
J-Ventures Team moderating
Jim Koshland
Co-Founder and Chairman, J-Ventures. Past Partner, DLA Piper, Board: Levi's, Launch Media. LP in Sequoia, August capital, Maven. Past president of the Jewish Federation in SF
Oded Hermoni
Managing General Partner, Co founder of J-Ventures. Past Partner at Rhodium and Coin Ventures, Head of IATI, VP CP, Founder of TopIdea (YellowPages Group.
Michael Matias
J-Ventures Senior Associate, Forbes 30/30, 20 min Leaders
Eran Sandhaus
Managing Director, Copia Growth Partners, Venture Partner at J-Ventures, NextGear, Advisor Target Global, EIR at PlugNPlay. Former VP & GM at Aptiv, Cypress, Qualcomm, TI.
Tal Faintuch
Associate, J-Ventures
Nilesh Trivedi
Principal Investor, J-Ventures, Founder and Managing Partner at Summation VC
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Agenda
AUG 1
Meet & Greet
Track 1- Enabling Technology- Semi Conductors
Amir Faintuch, SVP Global Foundries, Matt Hershinson, Managing Partner PlayGround, Gideon Intrater, VP Dialogue
9:10-9:40
Track 2- Industry in Depth- Social Networks
Ilan Frank, VP Product, Slack, Udi Milo, VP Growth, Tinder, Amir Shevt, C...Former VP Partnerships at Twitch
Track 3
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Networking
16:00
Q & A Session
Agenda
Pacific Time Zone
DEC 14
6:00 - 8:00 Pm
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Pre-conference LP Virtual Cocktail Party and J-Ventures traditional Hanukkah candle lighting with
Gary and Laura Lauder
Shlomi Kofman, Israel's Consul General to the Pacific Northwest -
Discussion about the next generation and keynote by Laura Lauder
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A showcase of LP's NGO's
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Mingling
DEC 15
7:00 - 8:00 Am
Virtual Coffee Rooms - Networking
8:00 - 9:00
Closed LP Meeting - updates about the fund with
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Oded Hermoni, General Founding Partner at J-Ventures
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Jim Koshland, Chairman and Founding Partner at J-Ventures
9:00 - 9:05
Meet & Greet
Track 1 - Enabling Technology - Semiconductors
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Amir Faintuch, SVP Global Foundries
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Matt Hershenson, Managing Partner Playground Global
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Gideon Intrater, VP Dialogue
9:05 - 9:30
Track 2 - Building $B Companies
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Fireside chat with Dr. Kathy Fields, Co-creator of 2 Billion Dollar leading Dermatological companies: Proactiv and Rodan + Fields. Forbes list of 20 Successful self madwoman in the USA
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Fireside chat with Dr. Aya Jacobovits, Founder of 5 bio companies which exited in over $14B: Founder, President & CEO Adicet Bio, Inc., President & Founding CEO at Kite Pharma (Gilead), SVP, Corporate Development & CSO at Agensys, Inc. (Astellas), Scientific Founder, Director, Discovery Research and Principal Scientist at Abgenix, Inc. (Amgen Inc)
Track 3 - Industry in Depth - Social Networks
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Ilan Frank, VP Product Enterprise, Slack
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Amir Shevat, CPO Reshuffle, Former VP Product at Twitch. Ex Slack, Google.
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Udi Milo, Vice President of Product, Growth at Tinder.
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Moderated by Itamar Novick, Founder & Partner at Recursive Ventures / Chief Business Officer at Life360
9:30 - 10:00
Track 1 Part 1- Enabling Technology - 5G
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Fireside Chat with Dr. Cormac Conroy, Former VP GM for wireless solutions at Qualcomm and at Intel
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Moderated by Gil Frostig, VP Qualcomm, Intel, J-Ventures IC and CTO
Track 2 Part 2 - Enabling Technology - Enterprise Blockchain
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Fireside Chat with David Tennehouse, Chief Research Officer of VMWare, former CEO of A9 and VP in Microsoft, Intel and A partner at NVP
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Moderated by Nilesh Trivedi, J-Ventures Principal
Track 3 - Building $B Companies
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Fireside chat with Sigmund Anderman, Founder of American Home Shield Corporation, Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of Ellie Mae, Inc.
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Fireside chat with Dan Rubin, Managing Partner, Alloy Ventures, Founder of Artisan Components ($1B exit to ARM)
Track 4 - Enabling Technology - AI
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Prof. Alon Halevy, Director, Facebook AI, Ex CEO Megagon Labs, Transformic (Google)
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Igor Taber, SVP CorpDev DataRobot, Ex Intel Capital
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Assaf Resnick, CEO, and Co-Founder BigPanda, Ex Sequoia Capital
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Ramesh Panuganty, Founder and CEO of Macheye, SelectQ (Thinkster), Drustin (Splunk), Cloud360 ( Cognizant ).
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Moderated by Doron Simon, VP, NICE Satmetrix at NICE Ltd, VP at Luxera Inc, President and COO at Corcim Technology Inc. President at Tower Semiconductor USA
10:00 - 10:30
Track 1- Enabling Technology - Cloud
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Fireside Chat with Alison Wagonfeld, Vice President, Marketing -- CMO, Google Cloud
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Moderated by Alon Girmonsky, Founder/CEO UP9, Blazemeter/ Acq by CA, VP Broadcom
Track 2- Investing in $B Companies. Panel with VCs
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Brett Rochkind, Former GP, CRV, Head of the Palo Alto office and Co-Head of the Global Internet & Technology sector at General Atlantic - Investing in Ali Baba Group, Airbnb, Box, Line, Uber.
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Jake Seid, Managing Partner, Stone Bridge Ventures, Former Managing Director, Lightspeed, President, Ten-X. Investor in Brix, Bird, Bolt, Carta
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Merav Weinryb, Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures, Europe & Israel. Investor in SentinalOne
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Moderated by Michael Rolnick, Midas list, Forbes, Com Ventures, CDO, News Corp
Track 3- Industry in Depth - Fintech
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Sergio Fogel ,Co Founder at dLocal, Leading Fintech Latin American Unicorn
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Andy Cohen, Senior Vice President of Sales, Bill.com
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Moderated by Prof. Ehud Peleg, Co-founder of PaceIt and UCLA adjunct professor
10:30 - 11:00
Track 1- Enabling Technology - Cyber
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Slavik Markovich, Founder and CEO of Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $0.5B), Former VP & CTO, database security at McAfee, Former CTO at Sentrigo
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Ophir Zilbiger, Partner, Head of Cybersecurity Center, BDO, Global network security leader AT PwC, founded PwC Israel’s information security business, founded SECOZ (sold to BDO), & Cyber-Hat
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Jack Flumenberg, Partner at Wing Venture Capital, past partner Accel Partners.
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Moderated by Benny Czarny, CEO & Founder OPSWAT, Inc
Track 3- Industry in Depth - Media
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Jacob Nizri, Founder & CEO weEndeavor
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Sharon Rechter, CEO and Co founder BabyFirst and First Media
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Guy Piekarz, Media services at Apple, Founder of Matcha (acquired by Apple) and Unisfair (acquired by West Corporation)
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Moderator - Ori Ellman, CEO of Dentsu's Japan's 3rd largest advertising agency in Israel
11:00 - 11:30
Main Stage
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Fireside Chat with Prof. Adam de la Zerda, Visby Medical's Founder & CEO
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Moderated by Jerry Behar, Founder and Managing Director of Nissim Capital and Co-founder and Chairman of Grand River Solutions
11:30 - 12:15
J-Ventures Portfolio Company Panels:
Insuretech
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Tom Sagi, Co-founder and CEO at Hourly
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Oded Eran, Co-Founder & CEO at Connie Health
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Nathaniel Krasnoff, Founder Reframe
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Itay Bengad, Co-Founder & CEO at MDGo
Healthcare IT
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Y. Dan Rubinstein, CEO at Physera, Inc., (Product Management at Google, Facebook, Palantir)
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Adi Wallach, Co-Founder and CEO at Dendro Technologies (CalmiGo)
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Murray Brozinsky, Chief Executive Officer at Conversa Health
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Moderator - Erez Kalir, CEO of Stansberry and founder of Sabretooth Capital
Cyber
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Gadi Bashvitz, President & CCO at NeuraLegion
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Jorge Myszne, Founder & CEO Kameleon (Co-Founder of Wilocity/$360M exit to Qualcomm)
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Adi Ruppin, Founder & CEO at Ananda Networks (formerly 8e14 Networks).
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Moderator - Guy Miasnik, Co-Founder & CEO of AtHoc (acquired by BlackBerry), Chief Strategy Officer at BlackBerry, Co-Founder and CEO of Kinetica
12:15
Closing
12:45 - 6:00 Pm
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Virtual coffee rooms - networking
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