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

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 Professor
Tamar 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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