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  Omer Keilaf

  Innoviz

  Co-Founder & CEO

  Omer Keilaf has spent 21 years driving cutting-edge technologies from inception to commercialization. As the co-founder and CEO of Innoviz Technologies, a leading provider of LiDAR sensing solutions, Mr. Keilaf is helping enable the mass commercialization of autonomous vehicles by providing high-performance LiDAR at mass-market prices. He has overseen the company’s tremendous success as it overto…

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Omer Keilaf

Innoviz

Omer Keilaf has spent 21 years driving cutting-edge technologies from inception to commercialization. As the co-founder and CEO of Innoviz Technologies, a leading provider of LiDAR sensing solutions, Mr. Keilaf is helping enable the mass commercialization of autonomous vehicles by providing high-performance LiDAR at mass-market prices. He has overseen the company’s tremendous success as it overtook older, more established LiDAR developers to earn a design win with BMW, marking the industry’s first major design win for the series production of autonomous vehicles. The company has also secured partnerships with Tier 1 solution providers including Aptiv, Magna International, Samsung HARMAN, and HiRain Technologies. Mr. Keilaf spearheaded the company’s rapid growth as it raised $252 million and expanded to over 270 employees in a little over three years.For his efforts, Mr. Keilaf was named CEO of the Year by the 2018 Image Sensors Europe Awards, while Innoviz was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Automobility LA To Three Startup CES Innovation Award winner, among other awards. Before co-founding Innoviz, Omer served as an officer in an elite technological unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), before going on to a distinguished career in optomechanics, electrical engineering, MEMS, and more. He held senior leadership roles at companies including Consumer Physics, STMicroelectronics, and IDF. He served as the System and Product Team Manager, R&D manager, and Project Manager, and System Architecture Manager.He holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, all from Tel Aviv University, where he has also served as a lecturer.

Judges

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  Karin Chen

  Israel Export Institute

  Head of Sectors– Automotive & Smart Mobility; Industry 4.0 | Int'l Organizations

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  Hemdat Sagi

  Konnect – VW Group Innovation Hub TLV

  Chief of Strategy and Business Development Officer

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  Orlie Gruper

  Mobilitech Capital

  Founder

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  Tomer Jakov

  Advanced Solutions

  Managing Director

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  Eyal Lewinsohn

  Oracle Israel

  VP

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Karin Chen

Israel Export Institute

Karin, 31 years old, living in Bat Yam. Since January 2017, Karin is working at the Israel Export Institute as Head of the sectors: Automotive & Mobility and Industry 4.0: coordination and business development. During her period at the IEI, Karin has assisted companies also in the field of technologies for Smart Cities and is in charge of Relations with International Organizations (business connections and seminars related to Procurement). During 2020, Karin has acquired experience in the field of technologies for Mobile (Connectivity) and Relations with the Innovation Ecosystem in Israel. Background:BA in Political Science & English Literature, MA in Diplomacy. Main project at the university: Model United-Nations. Karin has re-established a club with a new agenda and approach, been serving as a co-president and a Chairperson and Secretariat staff-member at various conferences (in Israel and abroad). Following the Masters degree, Karin has served as an intern at the Israeli Mission to the UN (New York): 5th Committee (Procurement issues; Administrative and Budgetary) & Security Council- peacekeeping forces in Africa.In 2016- Karin has served as an intern at the Embassy of India in Israel (Commercial Department) for a short period.

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Hemdat Sagi

Konnect – VW Group Innovation Hub TLV

Hemdat Sagi is the Chief of Strategy and Business Development Officer at Konnect- Volkswagen Group Innovation hub in Tel Aviv since June 2018. Joining Audi in September 2016, Hemdat worked as the brand’s Scouting and Innovation representative in Israel. Later on, In 2017, Hemdat was hired by the VW Group as a freelancer and established the 1st Innovation hub of the VW Group in Tel Aviv, named Konnect. Between the years 2012-2016 Hemdat served as a diplomat in Berlin, heading the Economic and Trade Mission at the Israeli Embassy in German. Hemdat and her local team supported hundreds of Israeli companies and startups in their export, sales and marketing activities in the German market. Prior to that, Hemdat worked at the Ministry of Economy for 3.5 years in several roles and established the India- China fund; 25 million euro government budgeted program aimed to expand and diversify Israeli exports to Asia. Between the 2005-2008 Hemdat worked as a parliamentary assistant to two members of Knesset, advising on governmental, legislation, political and media issues. Hemdat is a lawyer by training and holds two degrees in Law (LL.B, LL.M) from Bar Ilan University. She holds a diploma in management from the Berlin based business school ESMT and in 2020 completed a program on Negotiation by the Harvard Negotiation Program. Hemdat is currently doing her second Master (M.des) in Design and Innovation Management at the Bezalel Academy of Design.

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Orlie Gruper

Mobilitech Capital

Orlie brings 16 years of experience in the mobility world, beginning with her time in the Air Force. With her expertise in aviation, she was recruited to operate a private aviation fleet, then moved on to complete her BA in Business Management at IDC, Majored in IT. Today, Orlie is on the forefront of the smart mobility community as one of the first female entrepreneurs within it, having founded Blitz Motors, a two-wheeled electric vehicle company. Among her other accomplishments, Orlie represented the Israeli Transport sector in the European Commission and in EU for joint R&D. Orlie was the Executive Director of EcoMotion, leading the largest Smart Mobility Community with over 600 startups and 13,000 community members globally. Today, on the EcoMotion Advisory Board, Orlie strives to open new doors for startups in the community. As an extension of her determination to nurture innovation & growth in smart mobility, Orlie founded Women in Mobility. A professional community of women in the field, with the aim to grow the number of women in the field by sharing challenges and opportunities while acquiring new tools for professional growth.Orlie just announced that she will be joining the founding team of Mobilitech Capital as the VP Strategy, the CVC of Dan transportation company. She also continues to work on new projects such as a Podcast on Energy & E-mobility to prepare the people for the smart mobility revolution to come, advisor to mobility initiatives and more.

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Tomer Jakov

Advanced Solutions

Tomer serves as the Managing Director of Advanced Solutions, part of Derech Eretz Group, since January 2020.Advanced Solutions is the business development unit of Derech Eretz Group (operating Cross Israel Highway and the Carmel Tunnels).As part of his role as managing director, Tomer responsible for Derech Eretz Group’s business strategy and business development is Israel and abroad.In addition to his role as Advanced Solutions managing director, Tomer also serves as the group’s CTO with expertise in Toll Systems, Traffic Management Systems and Smart Mobility Solutions.During the years 2008-2011 Tomer served as the head on System Engineering department in the operation company of Cross Israel Highway (Highway 6). In this role Tomer was leading several tolling and traffic management projects, such as the installations of the Carmel Tunnels toll system and the upgrades of Cross Israel Highway Traffic Management System.Before joining Derech Eretz Tomer served as a technical officer in the Israeli Navy, leading several technological projects in the fields of control and communications.Tomer has a B.Sc in Electronics from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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Eyal Lewinsohn

Oracle Israel

Eyal joined Oracle as a VP in 2019, following its acquisition of Iridize (an enterprise platform for personalized and contextual user onboarding and training for cloud applications), which he founded and led as CEO. Eyal is a true believer in the power of innovation and good onboarding to make the digital world accessible to all. Eyal has been developing software for almost 20 years now, having led R&D teams when dinosaurs were still walking the earth.