Top 10 Post-Pandemic Tech Trends

Alex Roy is host of The Autonocast and No Parking podcasts, a columnist at Ground Truth and The Drive, founder of the Human Driving Association, author of The Driver, and Producer of APEX: The Secret Race Across America. He held the Cannonball Run record from 2006-2013. He is an OurCrowd investor as well as a startup executive.  You can follow him on Twitter.

Ori Inbar is founder of Super Ventures, the first early-stage fund dedicated to Augmented Reality (AR).

Ori is also the co-founder and CEO of AWE XR, a global community dedicated to advancing augmented reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Since 2010, over 5000 companies and 50,000 professionals have trusted AWE to connect, learn and grow their business in the XR ecosystem – via conferences, meetups, classes, award competitions, industry news, and thousands of free videos about everything XR.

In 2009, Ori was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, one of the first venture-backed companies conceived from the ground up to develop and publish augmented reality games – games that are played in the real world.

Ori has been an enterprising champion of the augmented reality industry since 2007. He established Games Alfresco – a leading augmented reality blog that helped popularize AR, and in 2010 co-founded the Augmented World Expo (Formerly ARE) – the world's largest and most influential conference for AR – now in its 8th year.

Ori is a recognized speaker in the AR industry, lecturer at NYU, as well as a sought after adviser and board member for augmented reality startups.

Previously, as Senior Vice President of Solution Marketing for SAP’s platform, Ori was responsible for the positioning and marketing of SAP NetWeaver – which under his leadership grew from a mere concept to a billion dollar business for SAP.

Prior to SAP, Ori joined TopTier Software, as one of the first employees of this start-up.

He lead the development and introduction to the market of more than 15 multimedia and business applications including the world’s leading enterprise portal, which in 2001 was acquired by SAP for $400 Million.

Ori has a double major in Computer Science and Cinema from Tel Aviv University, and is a graduate of INSEAD University business leadership program.

Creative and ambitious Executive Manager with 15 years of hands-on experience building revenue and business. Joined TetaVi as CEO mid 2018 when it had a tech POC and 5 employees. As CEO led the company from stealth mode to sales (NA, APAC and the EU), and opened offices in the US and Japan. During the last two years led TetaVi through two financing rounds (Seed and Round A) significantly increasing the valuation of the company from round to round. In the last few months led a shift in the company’s strategy and tech focus to increase the relevancy of TetaVi to the UGC market, significantly increasing its TAM and putting it in a position to become a market leader in a multibillion-dollar market. Between 2017 and 2018 was the VP Sales & Business Development at Quadream (start up). Joined Quadream as its second employee and led its business development, sales, and marketing efforts. During that time built an international sales team, pre-sales team and numerous distribution channels. At the time of departure from Quadream the company had sold in excess of $10M USD and had a significant deal pipeline, in the tens of millions of dollars. From 2015 to 2017 was the Director of Programs and Business Development at Elbit Systems Land and C4I Division. Head of project groups dealing with complex multi-million-dollar technological programs. Direct responsibility for P&L. Overseeing a team of 8 technical and managerial staff, indirect management of several tens of additional employees (engineering, contracts, procurement, ILS and more) within a matrix organization. Prior to that, spent two years at STL Group (2013 – 2015) as a Business Development Executive. Led the evaluation of new regional business opportunities and carried the opportunities from the initiation phase to the successful conclusion of a project. While at STL was directly responsible for the group’s penetration into new market segments and within the first year of work increased the group’s business backlog by $40M from previously untapped market segments and customers. Director Regional Marketing and Business Development at Elbit Systems's Aerospace Division between 2008 – 2013

Dr. Eyal Zimlichman is an internal medicine physician, a health care executive and a researcher focused on assessing and improving health care quality and value, patient engagement and patient safety.

Dr. Zimlichman is currently Deputy Director General, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital. Prior to this Dr. Zimlichman has held the position of Chief Quality Officer at Sheba.

Preceding his work at Sheba, Dr. Zimlichman held the position of Lead Researcher at Partners Health Care Clinical Affairs Department in Boston where he was involved in the efforts to bring about a strategic care redesign initiative. In that capacity, Dr. Zimlichman has established for Partners Healthcare a program for collecting and reporting patient reported outcomes across the continuum of care, a program that had won international appraisal.

Dr. Zimlichman holds an appointment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School affiliated Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, where he is conducting research on implementing technology to improve quality and patient safety.

Dr. Zimlichman served as an advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is currently appointed as a member at three policy steering committees at the Israeli Ministry of Health. Dr. Zimlichman is a founding member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety in Health Care and an International Expert at the International Society of Quality in Healthcare (ISQua).

In 2007 Dr. Zimlichman was selected as a member of Sheba's Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, a program aimed at advancing the brightest young physicians into leadership roles. He now leads this program since 2017. Dr. Zimlichman is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health Executive Healthcare Management Master of Science program and has earned his MD at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Eli has been a partner and investment committee member at Amiti Venture Capital and a Board member on Amiti’s behalf in Sckipio and Corephotonics. Amiti VC is an early stage Israel-based fund focusing on deep intellectual property multi-disciplinary technologies and teams. Prior to Amiti, Eli had been VP for Research and Development and a member of the management in AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), managing multinational R&D teams. Previously, Eli served as a senior officer in one of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) elite intelligence technological units, heading both operational units and large development groups.

Stav Erez is a Partner & EVP Business Development of OurCrowd Innovation Labs. Stav joined OurCrowd as Director of Business Development in April, 2016. Previously, Stav co-founded and was the CEO of SifTech, the first entrepreneurship center and accelerator program in greater Jerusalem. She was also the founder and director of Jnext, a joint project of the Jerusalem Development Authority, the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs and the Municipality of Jerusalem. Jnext’s mission is to build an ecosystem for entrepreneurs in Jerusalem and foster the development of technology innovation by engaging all the active organizations in the entrepreneurial space in one, city-wide coordinated program. In 2015, Stav was featured in Forbes 30 under 30. Stav holds a BA in Philosophy, Economics, and Political Science (P.P.E) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is a member of the audit committee and sits on the board of governors at Azrieli College of Engineering; Board member at SifTech, PresenTense and Made in JLM.

Paul Rothman is the Dean of the Medical Faculty for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, a $8 billion academic medical enterprise and a health system with a global reach. As Dean/CEO, Dr. Rothman oversees both the Johns Hopkins Health System and the School of Medicine. A rheumatologist and molecular immunologist, he came to Hopkins in July 2012 after having served as Dean of the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa and leader of its clinical practice plan since 2008. Previously, he served as Head of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa, beginning in 2004, and prior to that as Vice Chairman for Research and Founding Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he joined the faculty in 1990.

Zvi Schreiber is best known as a tech entrepeuner, and is currently the Founder and CEO of Freightos. Freightos is the digital platform of the booking platform of the half-trillion dollar international freight industry.

Previously Zvi was CEO of Lightech (acquired by GE), and Founder & CEO of Unicorn (acquired by IBM) and other tech startups. Zvi has spoken widely, authored patents, and popular and academic articles, and has featured in TV and press. He has a PhD in computer science and is author of Fizz which tells the history of physics as a novel and the soon to be published Money, going out of style.

Educated in Cambridge University and Imperial College, Zvi now lives with his family in Jerusalem and London.

Noam Levavi is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of innovations in user experience technologies, including several patents in the areas of personalized media delivery and user-interfaces. In 2017, Noam founded ByondXR, a retail-tech startup that empowers brands and retailers to improve sales and customer engagement through a newgroundbreaking 3D visualization technology. Using ByondXR’s 3D Commerce Platform, brands can transform into the new digital era, creating experiences to enhance Wholesale, Merchandising and eComm that boost sales and improve efficiency.

Prior to founding ByondXR, Noam founded and was the CEO of YCD Multimedia, a world leading on-site digital media provider, helping brands deliver personalized content to their customers, reaching more than 100 million people every month within thousands of venues worldwide, including some of the world’s most recognized brands such as Mercedes, Ferrari, Nike, Chanel, Hugo Boss, AT&T, Microsoft and Coca Cola.

In 2008 Noam was honored to be featured by Forbes Israel as one of the country’s most influential young professionals. Prior to establishing YCD, Noam founded Netune, which provided network communication services and Intranet web applications for small and medium sized businesses. Before that, he served as a system communication manager in the Israeli Defense Force’s elite Intelligence Unit. He is a graduate of the Israeli Military Computing and Information Systems Institute.

Noam loves sharing his experiences and have been the keynote speaker about consumer behavior and the evolution of digital experiences for The Economist, DLD, DSE and Digital Signage Investor, a guest speaker at Washington University, Parsons School of Design and IDC research college, and contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Frost & Sullivan and Platt Retail Institute.

Being a long-time SciFi fan, Noam has been fascinated with advances in virtual reality and human-machine interfaces. He visualizes an emerging reality of digital enhancements to the human body and seamless brain-machine interfaces that extend our mental abilities into a complete and immersive sensory experience, forming new perceptions of reality.

Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and according to the Washington Post (2007) “one of Israel’s leading high-tech venture capitalists.” In the 2008 NY Times Supplement “Israel at 60" Medved was named one of the top 10 most influential Americans who have impacted Israel. Medved is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors which has raised more than $1B for over 170 companies since its launch in February 2013. Bloomberg Businessweek said that OurCrowd “has blown up the exclusivity around tech fundraising” and The Jerusalem Post added that “It has taken OurCrowd only a matter of months to become one of Israel’s most active funds.” TheStreet.com said that OurCrowd is “Crowdfunding for Real Investors.” Prior to OurCrowd, Medved was the co-founder and CEO of Vringo (Nasdaq:VRNG) and the co-founder and General Partner of Israel Seed Partners, with $262M under management.

Andrea Wasserman is the Head of Global Commerce at Verizon Media, where she leads a team of engineers, designers, marketers, strategists and operators, accelerating the company’s commerce business and building new shopping experiences for Verizon Media’s 900M global monthly users.

Wasserman is a consumer sector leader, entrepreneur and intrapreneur with a background across stores, ecommerce, marketing, merchandising and product who invests deeply in developing people. She transforms businesses and cultures by connecting dots, visioning what’s possible and rallying teams around the path forward.

Most recently, as Vice President of Retail Experience at Verizon, Wasserman’s scope spanned the entire customer purchase journey – including more than 6,000 stores plus digital retail touch points – for technology products and services, including the once-in-lifetime launch of 5G. Wasserman previously led businesses at Nordstrom (National Bridal Director), Sole Society (CEO), Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor (Senior Vice President/General Manager of Ecommerce) and Nine West (Senior Vice President/Head of Ecom + Stores).

Wasserman earned her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and MBA from Columbia Business School. She and her family reside in downtown Manhattan, where she’s active with UJA Federation of NY’s fashion and technology divisions and mentors startups through the New York Fashion Tech Lab and XRC Labs, among others.

Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 2,615 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents. He was a lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of Security Yearbook 2021: A History and Directory of the IT Security Industry. In 2019 he published Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey. He also wrote Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and Washington Post Best Seller, There Will Be Cyberwar. He writes for Security Boulevard and The Analyst Syndicate. He is a member of the advisory board at several technology startups and sits on the board of Anitian. Stiennon was Chief Strategy Officer for Blancco Technology Group, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fortinet, Inc. and VP Threat Research at Webroot Software. Prior to that he was VP Research at Gartner. He has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and his MA in War in the Modern World from King’s College, London. Follow @cyberwar on Twitter.

Dr. Tammy Meiron is currently the CTO of the Fresh Start food tech incubator. Tammy Lectures the course of New Product Development at The Hebrew University. With over 25 years of experience in managing, leading development, production processes and creating collaborations with global companies. For the past 12 years, Tammy has been successfully leading dozens of Israeli startups, from the concept stage to becoming a real company while penetrating the global market. 

Ilan Reingold, BionicHIVE CEO and Co-Founder

Formerly Chief Business Officer at Sony Semiconductor IoT business unit and Co-Manager of Broadcom’s Small Cells business unit, with experience spanning from 8200 and R&D management to business leadership in IoT, Automotive, AI, Cellular and communications. 

Eran co-founded Bizzabo in 2012, an innovative, cutting-edge event management operating system. Bizzabo helps organizers create successful events by empowering them to build amazing websites, sell tickets, grow communities, go mobile and maximize event experiences – using a beautiful, single user friendly platform. Bizzabo is used by thousands of conference organizers from around the globe and is often named as one of the most promising of Israel's startups. Before founding Bizzabo, Eran was the CEO of Rosh-Pina Media Conference, one of Israel’s most prominent yearly events. 

Eran began his career at the Israeli Air Force, serving as an officer for 9 years. He graduated cum laude from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where he studied for a BA in Business and participated in the prestigious Sam Zell entrepreneurship program.

Nir Minerbi is the co-founder and CEO of Classiq, a company developing a unique platform for quantum algorithm design. Mr. Minerbi has a history of leading cutting-edge technology teams and projects to extraordinary outcomes. He has a Master's degree in Physics and is a graduate of the prestigious 'Talpiot' program, described by Forbes magazine as "a Rhodes scholarship, a presidential fellowship, and a Harvard M.B.A. rolled into one".

Kathy Hannun is the Co-Founder and President of Dandelion Energy. Since Dandelion launched as a spinoff from Alphabet's X lab in 2017, it has quickly grown to become the largest home geothermal company in the U.S.. Dandelion uses high-performance equipment and a proprietary installation process to save homeowners money by replacing their furnaces and boilers with geothermal heating and cooling systems.

Dandelion has raised over $65MM in funding from top VCs, set a new standard for geothermal quality and cost effectiveness, and enabled homeowners to avoid over 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and counting. The company has partnered with Con Edison utility to promote heat pumps as an alternative to gas heating and successfully advocated for increased policy support for heat pumps throughout the northeast. In addition, Dandelion has increased public awareness of the benefits of ground source heat pumps through stories in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fast Company, Wired, Bloomberg, Techcrunch and others.

Kathy graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science. She has been recognized as a TED Fellow, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, one of MIT Tech Review's '35 Innovators Under 35' and has been awarded a C3E Award by the U.S. Department of Energy.