Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is internet entrepreneur and the chairman of DLD.

With 40 years experience of co-founding, leading and participating in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel's early entrepreneurs.

Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging as the founding investor and the former Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd., the creator of the highly popular instant messaging program ICQ now owned by AOL.

Mr. Yigal Erlich is the founding father of the Israeli venture capital industry. At the beginning of the 1990s, Mr. Erlich identified a market failure and a huge need in Israel to establish for the first time a professionally-managed venture capital industry.

In 1992, Mr. Erlich convinced the Israeli government to allocate $100 million for his venture capital vision. Within a period of three years, Erlich, along with the core team at Yozma, established ten venture funds. These successful funds invested in more than 150 start ups and were the backbone of the vibrant and sophisticated venture capital market that Israel has today. Yozma was privatized in 1998 and Mr. Erlich and the team continue to raise privately three more funds.

Between 1984 and 1992, Mr. Erlich served as the Chief Scientist of Israel's Ministry of Industry and Trade, commanded an annual budget of $200 million, primarily directed at research and development projects of high-technology companies.

Mr. Erlich also started the Generic Technology program for long term R&D and the Technology Incubator Program that led to the creation of 24 Incubation Centers throughout Israel. Mr. Erlich was instrumental in the establishment of several bi-national industrial and technology R&D cooperation agreements with Canada, France, the Netherlands, Singapore and Spain.

Mr. Yigal Erlich is the founder of the Israel Venture Association and served four years as its Chairman.

Mr. Erlich was the Deputy Chairman of the National Research & Development Council of Israel; Mr. Erlich was a Board Director of the Dead Sea Works, Israel Chemicals, Israel Oil Refineries, Hadassah's commercialization company - Hadassit, and the Technion Research and Development Co. Ltd. A Board Member of the Russian Venture Capital Company (RVC), a $1 billion government fund of funds and was a consultant to several governments including New Zealand, S.Korea, Russia, Greece and more.

Mr. Erlich holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry and an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

With over thirty years of experience in software engineering from R&D through Bizdev, Sales and marketing. Eli Schwarzfuchs oversees the entire scope of GlobalLogic’s Israeli operations through a unique blend of business development and offshore project management expertise. As the CEO and co-founder of InterObject (which was acquired by GlobalLogic in 2008), Eli was pivotal in growing the company from a start-up in 2000 to a leading provider of innovative intellectual property and advanced outsourced engineering services to the Israeli market. Prior to InterObject, he served as Software R&D Manager for AG Israel (a developer of automated tools for the semiconductor industry), which has since been acquired by Mattson Technology (a global innovator in fields related to integrated circuit fabrication). Eli holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Dov is one of Israel’s most prominent hi-tech leader, entrepreneur and investor. He is known as a pioneer of several flash memory technologies, most notably as the inventor of the USB flash drive.

Dov was a founder and CEO of M-Systems, a world leader in the flash data storage market. Under Dov's leadership, M-Systems grew to $1B revenue, and was acquired by SanDisk Corp for $1.6B. This ranks as one of the biggest acquisitions in Israel.

In addition, Dov was the founder and CEO of “modu” which developed a revolutionary modular phone. Modu’s assets were acquired by Google in 2011 and are the basis for Google's modular phone Project Ara.

Dov has invested in many successful start-ups in the digital health, media, SaaS and IoT sectors. He currently serves on the boards of Comigo, Glucome, Rapid API, Geneformics and was previously the Chairman of Tower Semiconductors.

Dov is one of the most famous and highly appreciated hi-tech leaders in the world with many prestigious awards, such as IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award and Edward Rheine Award (Nobel Prize for technology) and is the inventor of over 40 patents.

Dov holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. He served in the Israeli Navy for seven years and was commander of its advanced microprocessor department.

After several years of successful angel investing, Moran founded Grove ventures, a $US110 million venture capital fund primarily investing in startups with hard-to-replicate technology in the areas of IOT, Digital health, Semiconductor, Artificial Intelligence and Automotive. There are currently 5 portfolio companies.

Eran Cohen is the Israel Country Manager at Ciklum, who serves many successful online gambling vendors (e.g. PlayTech) with Own Development Centers in Ukraine and Belarus. Performance-driven Executive: Sales, Marketing, and Product professional with a proven track-record driving multi-million dollar revenue, by turning technologies, products, and services into profitable businesses:

• Over 20 years of hands-on experience in Sales, Biz Dev., and Marketing.
• Software Development & Product Management background with a versatile technical knowledge.
• Software, Telecom, and Outsourcing industries in diverse international markets.
• Native level speaker in English and Hebrew, with a dual citizenship (American and Israeli).

Karin Mayer Rubinstein is the CEO & President of IATI, Israel’s Umbrella Organization of the High-tech, Life Science and other advanced technology industries, with hundreds of paying members from every level and aspect of the ecosystem, including Venture Capital Funds, Israeli R&D Centers of Multinational Companies, Start-Ups, Incubators & Accelerators, leading global Stock Exchanges, Tech Transfer Organization, Academic Institutions, Innovation Centers, Hospitals, Municipalities, service Providers and more. Through this broad range of members, IATI connects Israel’s tech ecosystem, provides solutions and support at all levels, and integrates the various sectors of the industry with strategic and ongoing governmental goals.

Prior to her current position, Karin served as a senior partner and managing director of business development in leading commercial law firms. Karin is a member of Advisory Boards and Steering Committees of leading industry organizations, a Member of the Board of Governance of Tel Aviv University and a Board Member of Israel-America Chamber of Commerce. Karin is a keynote speaker at many leading global conferences.

Karin holds a BA in Economics, an LLB and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University. Karin was named, twice in a row, as one of the Top 100 Influential Young Business Persons in Israel by Forbes Magazine, as well as one of the Marker's Top 40 Leading Young Business Persons.

Igor began his angel investor career long before "startup" and "innovation" became buzz terms, 20+ years of investment experience. Turning into a ‘super angel’, following his successes during the start-up boom, Igor put together a team and founded Altair Capital. Since then, Altair Capital raised several funds and has numerous exits as well as managing successful investment syndicates.

Nicholas Tymoshchuk is one of the most inspiring and innovative Ukrainian business leaders. He established enterprises in Ukraine, the EU, and the US, and launched greenfield projects with the world’s leading multinational corporations. On top of business development, Nicholas is a corporate, government and public affairs professional with significant experience in Ukraine, North America and across the EU. During his dynamic career, he has obtained extensive expertise in policy and regulatory framework, trade, and economic affairs, investment and financing. Nicholas also specializes in the energy industry, both fossil fuels, and renewables, and possesses growing competence in IT and innovation.

Starting August 2017, Nicholas assumed a position of Chief Executive Officer at UFuture Investment Group (ufuture.com) a conglomerate and investment company founded by the Ukrainian entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky (http://ufuture.com/en/founder). Leading UFuture, Nicholas is in charge of coordinating the group’s international activity and facilitating its transition into the industries of the future.

In 2015 – 2017 Nicholas served as Director of the Representative Office in the EU for the Ukrainian League of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs (ULIE – uspp.ua), the biggest association of the Ukrainian business, based in Brussels. Before ULIE, Nicholas managed Government Affairs activity for the world's (today) sixth largest energy company Chevron (chevron.com) in Ukraine. Prior to Chevron, he spent five years in Russian-British oil and gas giant TNK-BP (at the time – the tenth biggest oil company in the world - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNK-BP) on a position of Director of International Affairs, and before that five years in American-based political and philanthropic NGOs.

Nicholas was one of the founding members of the Fuel and Energy Committee in American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (2007) and was also an active member of the peer committee at the European Business Association. During his oil and gas career, he served as Energy Industry Representative to the Board of Directors of the US-Ukraine Business Council and was a Member of EITI (eiti.org) Multi-Stakeholder Group for Ukraine. In 2014 Nicholas was chosen to be the Leader of the Ukrainian Delegation to Young Generation Task Force on Euro-Atlantic Security, an initiative managed jointly by the European Leadership Network and Nuclear Threat Initiative (US). In 2015 Nicholas became a member of the Organizational Committee of annual Kyiv International Economic Forum (forumkyiv.org).

Being the co-founder of Sigma Software, Valery Krasovsky headed the company since its inception, first as a Chief Operating Office, and then as Chief Executive Officer. Under Valery`s leadership the company has grown from a small business with few clients in Europe to a premier software provider offering superior quality IT services for such companies like Volvo, AT&T, SAS, Fortum, Formpipe, Scania, and other world-known brands.

Valery has been involved in the cooperation with state bodies within the frameworks of the European Business Association and its Information Technology Committee. In 2011 he headed the Working Group under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine aimed at Ukrainian IT education development and building the bridge between business and educational establishments.

Experienced speaker at Ukrainian and global conferences: Sweden-Ukraine Business Forum, Seattle Tech Days, UTGem (San Francisco), Nordic Days, Tiger conference, and others.

Richard Norman is Managing Director, Funds at OurCrowd. In this role, he is responsible for sourcing and diligence new fund investment opportunities and managing OurCrowd’s growing fund portfolio. Prior to joining OurCrowd Richard worked in the hedge fund industry in New York.

Oksana Markarova is Government Commissioner on Investments and First Deputy Minister of Finance.

As Commissioner, she has oversight of UkraineInvest, and works across the government and with the business community to support current investors and attract new investments into Ukraine.

Prior to her government service, she had extensive private sector experience including as President and CEO of ITT-Invest, work with the International Foundation of Election Systems and with Chemonics Consulting, as an Economic Policy Advisor and External & Corporate Relations Manager for Western NIS Enterprise Fund and as an intern at the World Bank headquarters in the Financial and Banking Group for the ECA region.

She is currently a member of the Supervisory Boards of Oshadbank, Eximbank, Ukrgazbank and Privat Bank.

In his current position, Eyal responsible for promoting foreign direct investments on behalf of the Israeli government.

Before Eyal joined "Invest in Israel", he held key positions as Economic Advisor and Project Manager to different General Directors, such as The Ministry of Finance, Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Interior affairs and the Ministry of Economy.

Eyal has a bachelor degree in Economic and Business Management from The Hebrew University and a M.A in Law for Graduates in Economics, Business Administration and Accounting.

Vitaliy is responsible for managing planning and implementing of an Export Promotion Policy Program of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund, including development of a national export promotion policy for Ukraine focused primarily on small and medium sized companies to broaden/deepen the country’s exporter base and expand their global business sale. He joined the Western NIS Enterprise Fund in September 2014. Vitaliy holds an M.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and M.S. in Economic Theory from National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The professional in the field of active bank sales with the strategic large-scale thinking, the diplomatic, proactive leader who is determined to achieve the necessary results.

The experience in the building of the banking network from the small branch to the powerful and successful banking unit which has more than 60 sales outlets and more than 240 professionals.

The experience as the head of the regulator of the banking market provides the opportunity to find the solutions required for the successful business in Ukraine.

The direct participation in the preparation of the development strategies of the Bank with McKinsey, KBC (Belgium), KredytBank (Poland), PKOBP (Poland).

The personal acquaintance with the leaders and owners of large and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine.

Boaz is responsible for the overall activities of several development centers of Wix in Europe, establishing new sites and overseeing planning, budgets, local partnerships, legal issues, recruiting, human resources and cross-organizational team processes. But the most fun part of his job is creating a cool and unique working environment for employees.

Joining over 5 years ago, Boaz brought his vast experience in leading operations in top technological organizations to Wix. He served as Chief Operating Officer at Matrix Global, where he was responsible for company growth and activities in Eastern European development centers. Before that, he was the co-founder and head of operations at several startups.

Boaz holds a BA in computer science from IDC Herzliya in Israel, and an MBA from the Kellogg Recanati International program of Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University.

During his 25 hours a day, he likes to run marathons and participate in other challenging events, travel off-road mainly in deserted areas and to volunteer in several NGOs mentoring others in life and career issues.

IVC has been providing for two decades researches, data and insights about High Tech companies, VCs and Startup environment in Israel.

Eitan Katz, 48, entrepreneur, Co-founded theneo.vc to foster innovation and create new entrepreneurial ecosystems in Ukraine and other countries. In addition, he mentors young startups and is involved in various initiatives as an investor and advisor. In the past, he established the HP Global Corporate Incubator and filled various technical and executive roles.

Yulia has 10+ years of international experience in consulting in more than 10 countries around the world.

Ex-consultant at McKinsey&Company, completed the 3 year internal prime GE leadership program, worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit and Advisory.

Got degree in mathematics and economics. Holds the INSEAD MBA degree.

Maxim started his career in UMC Company as a call-center operator, where he has grown to a leading expert dealer network. After that, he worked as a business development director in Leo Burnett agency and a sales manager of Samsung in Baltic States.

In 2015, software company SoftServe acquired UGE. Joint project was estimated over 2 million dollars. Maxim famous showman, founder and active participant of the Comedy Club in Ukraine.

From June 2015 to April 2017 Maxim with his partners engaged active development of VDNH as an innovation and cultural center.

In April 2017, they left VDNH project and announced plans to create a “city in the city”, an innovation park UNIT.City.

Founder & Director of the LiCBT program in Wingate Academic College. An experienced CBT instructor, organizational & operational manager.

Mr. Bart brings over a decade of experience in the investment banking industry from New York and Kiev. Amidst the depth of the financial market crisis in 2013-2014, Alex oversaw more than $100 million in both secondary and primary market turnover. He began his career in New York with the loan syndications group of BNP Paribas and then moved over to the credit derivatives trading desk at Deutsche Bank. Possessing an entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. Bart moved to Ukraine in 2009, where he worked on the sales and trading desks at some of the top local investment banks in Kiev, the last of which was Foyil Securities. Nowadays, Mr. Bart is focused on offering his experience to Ukraine as an advisor to the international investment banking sector and frequent speaker on business panels. Current projects include Empire State Capital Partners’ annual New Ukraine Investment Conference, which attracts global leaders of government, business, and industry. Mr. Bart contributes to the economic transformation of Ukraine through ES Ventures, which develops and invests in local startups and attracts international co-investment in Ukrainian hi-tech; as well as the Business Incubator Group Ukraine (BIG.U) which is an NGO effort to support SME development and entrepreneurship throughout the regions of Ukraine. Mr. Bart graduated from New York University’s Stern School of Business with a dual major in finance and international business and a minor in Russian studies. He is a fluent Russian speaker.

Dmytro Ovcharenko is a CEO of Alcor, the BPO alternative to the traditional IT outsourcing model. He has significant experience helping American and Israeli companies in opening R&D centers in Ukraine and further support from an operational standpoint. Also Mr. Ovcharenko is Vice President on Legal Issues at Association "IT Ukraine” (50+ the major IT players) and one of the few IT lawyers in Ukraine who holds an International Master's Degree in Law from the University of California, Berkeley.

Eyal is the General Manager at Payoneer responsible for managing the growth strategy in 200 countries worldwide.

With a rich background in online advertising and an entrepreneurial spirit, Eyal has a track record of building and managing new products.

Eyal holds a BSc (Hons) in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Interdisciplinary Center.

For more than ten years he has been helping start-ups from all over the world grow and discover new markets.

He mostly deals with managing projects, developing marketing strategies, analysing the markets, establishing and maintaining strategic business ties.

For a long time he's worked for Zerto. As a result, Zerto platform entered the European market, as a standard for providing business security and emergency restoration based on the cloud technologies.

As of now — he is head of sales emerging markets at SimilarWeb.

CEO and Founder of an Israeli software development company Stairway Soft Ltd. And Business Development Director at Alcor - Ukrainian BPO company.

Dmitriy has experience at top positions in Kyiv, Moscow and Tel Aviv in a variety of businesses: a loyalty programs e-commerce and software development. PhD in economics MBA Ariel university, Israel.

Mr. Shestakov, 31, earned Master’s degree in Economics from Chernivtsi National University in 2009 and graduated Kyiv-Mohyla Business School [KMBS] with the diploma of Master of Business Administration in Banking and Finance in 2013. Dmytro has almost 11 years’ experience in the field of investment management and strategy development. Before the IDP he was heading Investment and Innovations at State Enterprise «Spetstechnoexport» of State Concern «Ukroboronprom» and was working as Vice-President for Strategy and Development at Ukrainian Cluster Development Agency (NGO) and Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange.

I am CEO of DevRain Solutions, IT company from Ukraine. We are good in creating web, cloud, mobile and artificial intelligence solutions. In 2013 company was awarded as "Lead partner in creating mobile solutions on Windows Phone 8 platform" by Microsoft Ukraine.

I am a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in several categories - previously ASP.NET/IIS, Windows Phone, Windows Platform Development and now it's an Artificial Intelligence. Also I was nominated as Telerik Developer Expert for several years and got "The Best Professional in Software Architecture" Ukrainian IT award.

I am CTO of DonorUA - automated blood donors recruitment system and CTO of Udonors - the most intelligent system for recruiting blood donors. We won several competitions such as Stockholm Startup Weekend: Social Innovation, IDCEE Hackathon, "Ukraine is looking for startups" etc.

I am PhD. in Computer Science. My work was connected with Data Mining, information search, NER/NLP problems. Published 20 science articles and one book about IT in Ukraine, education and R&D.

I founded my first User Group in 2005. It was Microsoft .NET User Group Vinnytsia. After that I founded "Windows Phone 7 Rocks!" and now driving "AppClub { build, monetize }" community for IT startups and entrepreneurs.

Open Data expert in Ukrainian state agency of e-government, community lead in Kyiv Smart City initiative, ex-coordinator of EGAP Challenge (contest for e-demIT startups), mentor of 1991 Open Data Incubator, Apps4Cities, EGAP Challenge etc.

PhD, researcher (Lorraine University, France), founder of Global Ukraine News (media & PR agency) & Global Business Hub (global investment & development opportunities agency).

Founder of the Global Ukraine Foundation, initiator and co-founder of Global Ukrainians Forum (network of Ukrainian leaders, highly educated & globally-connected expatriates). Senior expert on international development, public administration and local self-government reforms, honorary President (founder) of French-Ukrainian NGO Exchanges Lorraine – Ukraine.

Violeta has more then 15 years of professional experience teaching at the Lorraine University and doing strategic consulting for different international development and technical assistance projects (working in European, African, Caribbean and Pacific area countries) in collaboration with ENA Paris, Council of Europe, Inter-American Development Bank, etc.

Igor Braginsky is a pioneer in the Ukrainian IT industry. He founded NIX Solutions in 1994. Three years later, in 1997, he was eager to bring Ukrainian IT into the international market. So, he opened the first sales office United SoftHouse in Israel. Thanks to the years of hard work of the whole team, NIX Solutions has established itself as a powerhouse service provider to offshore clients. With over 1500 specialists today, it delivers innovative software solutions in various business domains, including Biopharmaceuticals and Healthcare, Fintech and Banking, E-learning and Distance Education.

In 2015, Igor formed the NIX Group -- consolidating NIX Solutions, United SoftHouse, the newly launched United Perfectum, and a few partner offices from around the world.

Despite his company’s success, Igor does not sit on his laurels. He continued his personal academic pursuits. In 2013, he obtained his PhD in Software Development Quality Processes at the Kharkiv State Polytechnic University. In 2014, he graduated from the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he completed the Senior Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Now Igor is a member of International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, The Global Sourcing Association, IT Ukraine Association, Supervisory Board of Kharkiv IT Cluster, Supervisory Board of National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute".

Head of Communications of Unit.city Innovation park

F​ormer PR Manager at one of the biggest IT company of Ukraine Ciklum.

Networking guru. TEDx Woman. Google Empowerment Ambassador. Speaker at Tech conferences.

​I​ndependent startup consultant, former Head of Business Development Turkcell group companies, the most innovative mobile operator of Ukraine. Networking guru. Speaker at Tech conferences. Traveller to 40+ countries.