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.

Boaz Inbal is the General Manager of Innovation centers at Wix.com, a proud and happy company providing world-class website building platform to over 100 millions of users all over the globe. He is in charge of centers that employ a group of cool, talented and friendly people who love working together in a beautiful space to make something great and making sure that they align with the Wix values and culture.

Joining over 7 years ago, Boaz brought his vast experience in leading operations in top technological organizations to Wix.

Before Wix, Boaz served as Chief Operation Officer at Matrix Global, a global service provider. He was responsible for the overall activities in several development centers in East Europe, Managing customers and in charge of growth.

Before that, Boaz was involved in several startups as a co-founder, leader and heading the operation.

He holds a BA in computer science from the Interdisciplinary center in Israel and an MBA from the Kellogg – Recanati International program.

In addition to his role, Boaz likes to hike, run long distance challenges and drive off-road trips. He also volunteers as a board member and mentor in several NGO’s helping others in life and career issues.

Tal is the head of the TMT Corporate Finance Advisory. Tal has over 10 years of professional experience. Prior to his current position, Tal was involved in providing various services to clients including auditing of public and private companies and reorganization services in the Financial Advisory Group.

Tal is a Certified Public Accountant and has a BA degree in Accounting & Economics and an MBA degree in Marketing & Strategy, both from Tel-Aviv University.

Extensive experience in Intelligent Homeland security solutions for Government authorities and privet companies.

Anna Moshe is a Senior Partner at Pearl Cohen with over 24 years of experience in all aspects of cross-border corporate transactions and commercial law with an emphasis on technology and the hi-tech ecosystem. Additionally, Anna is Chair of the Pearl Cohen’s Russian and CIS, Australia and Malta Groups, an active notary and fluent in English, Russian and Hebrew.

Anna has extensive expertise in forming, negotiating and implementing international strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, licensing, complicated R & D joint venture projects, tailoring holistic and custom-made structures for each individual client to best serve its goals and needs.

Anna’s experience includes public offerings on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Alternative Investment Market (AIM), London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Anna counsels funds, investment groups, startups, entrepreneurs and international corporations on their formation, day to day activity and plays an instrumental part in their commercial international development through various industries including medical device, agriculture, aircraft, cyber, fintech and telecommunication. Ms. Moshe acts as a mentor at several hi tech hubs and accelerators in Israel. As Anna specializes in cross border transactions involving parties from the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Anna was recently appointed chairwoman of the Israel-Russia Chamber of Commerce.

Nir Ben Lavi is an innovation evangelist and investor, Strategic Advisor of multinational companies, industry leaders, Fortune500 companies and various holding groups, head of the joint innovation program at Bosphorus University, Turkey, Global Director of Innovation for the Adizes Institute, founder of AgroNation investment house and CEO of the HYPE sport-tech accelerators in developing countries.

Nir did close-to-impossible innovation until his late thirties. He was appointed to his first managerial position at age 25, and combined it with intensive R&D work, as an innovator and a Predictive Profiler in one of the most demanding academies in the world – the Israel Ministry of Defense. This experience provided Nir with invaluable knowledge of the problems and opportunities of managing businesses and innovating in challenging environments. Today he is deeply involved in the Israeli high-tech and Agro-tech scenes. His unique expertise in how to create innovation, led him to spending much of his time in helping countries create their own start-up nation eco-systems.

Author of three books and inventor of revolutionary software solutions, Nir is one of the most sought-after Israeli experts, having presented customized keynotes and seminars to audiences of thousands of professionals.

Nir received his B.A. in Sociology, with honors, and his M.B.A. from the University of Tel Aviv and his Ph.D. research study in the field of in computerized Dispute Resolution led to the development of unique worldwide dispute resolution software that was adopted by the United Nations as managerial work tool. Nir also holds diplomas in Information System Analysis, Group Therapy and Mediation. In his (little) free time he likes to spend time with his family, practice Aikido, read books and watch Science Fiction movies.

Nir resides in Tel Aviv with his wife, Tammy, and kids.

In 1991-1998, he headed the information department of the U.S.-USSR joint venture Orimi Wood (Saint Petersburg), Danapris Company, and the information analysis department at the Real Group.

In 2003, Khmelnytsky graduated from the Law Department of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

He has been working in the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE), as Vice-President since 2014. From 2015 – first Vice President of ULIE.

Vasyl Khmelnytsky, together with his partners, invests in the development of various businesses in Ukraine and they prefer cooperation and joint management. Almost every project has its own configuration of shareholders and management.

In 2015, Vasyl Khmelnytsky united his public activities into K.Fund. The fund’s goal is to help talented young people achieve success in Ukraine and give young professionals the keys to open up new horizons and find a way towards their dreams.

In the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine since April, 14 2016 Stepan Kubiv is responsible for macroeconomic stabilization and economic reforms. He oversees the work of Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food. As a First Vice Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv is also responsible for Government’s relations with the Parliament.

Stepan Kubiv was born on March 19, 1962, in Western Ukraine.

He majored in mathematics (1984) and finance (2002). Mr Kubiv also holds a PhD. in Economics (2006).

Before starting his political career in 2012, Stepan Kubiv was one of the most successful top managers in Ukrainian banking sector. He served as a Chairman of “KredoBank” (owned by Polish capital) for 8 years. During his governance, a little local bank became an all-Ukrainian financial institution. Later on Stepan Kubiv became a People’s Deputy of Verkhovna Rada (2012-2014), a Head of the National Bank of Ukraine and a member of Council on National Security and Defense of Ukraine (Feb-June 2014), a President’s representative in the Parliament of Ukraine (2015-2016).

During the Revolution of Dignity (2014 Ukrainian Revolution), Stepan Kubiv acted as a commandant of key buildings, seized by anti-government protesters.

Liliia Hrynevych is a Ukrainian politician and Ukraine's Minister of Education and Science since 14 April 2016.

From 2006 to 2009, Hrynevych headed the Kiev City State Administration's education department. Representing Fatherland, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. She served as the chair of the Parliamentary Committee for Science and Education.[6] Placing 9th on the party list of People's Front, she was re-elected in the 2014 parliamentary election.

For many years, 1987 to 2002, she worked in secondary education in Ukraine as a teacher, deputy headmistress and headmistress in a number of Lviv schools. She was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Centre for Educational Quality Assessment, of which she was the Director from February to August 2006, focusing her efforts on the development of External Independent Assessment at a national level. Her political career began with the political party "Front for Change", as an advisor to party leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk on education. In 2012 she was elected as an MP to the Ukrainian Parliament leading the Parliamentary Committee for Science and Education, of which she was the Head until 2016. She has been awarded a Commander of the Order of Princess Olha degree, and has been awarded an "Excellence in Education of Ukraine" medal. She is an Honorary Senator of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Mickey Haslavsky is the CEO of Wing. A digital transformation consulting firm which specializes in helping companies anticipate and seize new business opportunities by connecting to Israeli startups in order to solve problems based on design partnership programs.

In addition, after finishing his military service, Mickey co-founded (With Iddo Gino) and was a general manager and VP product of RapidAPI. RapidAPI is the world’s largest API marketplace where over half a million developers find and connect to thousands of public APIs. RapidAPI has raised over $12M from top notch investors including: Dov Moran, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angels and more.

Mickey is very active in the Israeli startup eco system and he’s an advisor for startups in the field of product management & fund raising and In 2017 Mickey was listed at Forbes under 30 list.

Before that, Mickey co-organised a number of hackathons to promote developers in few places all over the world.

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.

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.

Being a fervent entrepreneur, Nataliia created and grew companies in various spheres, gaining experience in all business processes and sharing knowledge in business planning, strategic development, entrepreneurial leadership and talent management. She is currently a partner of investment and managing company and also contributes to venture community development.

Head of telecom accelerator "VDNG-TECH - Kievstar", Country Ambassador of Seed Stars, CEO of the creative space "Chasopys" in Kiev. Uswd to be CEO of Acceleration Programe of one of the most successful business incubators of Ukraine - Happy Farm, mentor and lecturer of pre-acceleraatory programe Experiment 42.

The Founder of SocialBoost opened database portal. He is an expert in the fields of Digital Communications and Civil Participation. In 2004 he launched SocialBoost, it is the set of innovation instruments , including Open Data Movement in Ukraine, that increases the civil interest and makes the government more digital.

Denis also works on complicated strategies for governmental and commercial sectors. He also governs the movemnt of governmental database in Ukraine under the govern and support of municipality and activists.

Currently he is launching official opened governmental portal of the database of Ukraine and the act on opened database.

Entrepreneur, mentor, Founder and CEO at Global Israeli Initiative. Since 2012 Alyona has been working in the field of acceleration programs for technological startups (2012-2016, project leader of the Happy Farm business incubator). She has also organized acceleration programs for startups and investors in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, US and Israel. Moreover, Alyona was the event planner for global tech-conferences (Europe Venture Summit, Kiev 2013; UTGem, US 2014; Techconnect.tech Kazakhstan,2015, Israeli-Ukrainian Innovation Expo 2018 Israel).

Tanya Romanyukha serves as an Co-founder and COO at Global Israeli Initiative(Israel),Executive Director at UAngel, Ukrainian Business Angels Network. For three years of its operation, UAngel members invested $8M+ in 100+ deals around the world. One of the goals of UAngel lies in cross-border syndicating with fellow angel groups in Europe, as well as inviting international investors to screen Ukrainian companies alongside local angels.

Before joining UAngel, Tanya hosted competition «STEP GPS» for CRDF Global and served as a program manager of Dubai based company IMTIAZ Middle East. She was leading implementation of Eurasia Mobile Challenge across 8 countries which gathered 25% startups of the Eurasia region during 2015-2016.

Tanya studied VC executive program in Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley serving as Associate in $25M VC Fund Imperious Group, that was named the most active seed-investor in Ukraine that period.

She started to boost Ukrainian startup ecosystem in 2012 as a startup-relations manager in the first full cycle US-UA business accelerator Happy Farm with 30+ companies in the portfolio.

Managing Partner at JSCapital, an Israeli Investment Platform that provides access to international investors, corporations and government agencies to the Israeli startup market, as well as an ecosystem of innovation and invaluable experience, which has been accumulated over years of state development. Working with Venture Capital and Private Equity funds, family offices and business angels based in UK, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, China, Singapore and Switzerland.

Founding Partner of Israeli Blockchain Association that aims to educate, develop and empower the blockchain community of Israel and connect with both global leaders and best practice.

Interested in investment opportunities, focusing on venture capital rounds into Israeli startup companies, as well as in entrepreneurial initiatives around the world.

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.

Managing Partner at JSCapital, Israeli Investment Platform that provides access to international investors, corporations and government agencies to the Israeli startup market, as well as an ecosystem of innovation and invaluable experience, which has been accumulated over years of state development. Working with Venture Capital and Private Equity funds, family offices and business angels based in USA, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, China, Singapore and Switzerland.

Interested in investment opportunities, focusing on venture capital rounds into Israeli startup companies, as well as in entrepreneurial initiatives around the world.

The CEO of Etgar Strategic Solutions and Entrepreneurship, lecturer and until recently the academic manager and director of the local government institute in the Bar-Ilan University.

Dr. Lasri held in the past senior roles in the government and in the Knesset, amongst others, as the senior advisor of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, as a consultant in the Netanyahu prime minister ministry, as a consultant to Michael Eitan, minister of science and technology, and more.

Managing marketing strategy and business development for leading organizations and companies, leading business procedures for merger and acquisition, management and winning tenders, marketing and management of business enterprises and raising investment funding both in Israel and overseas.

Political strategy advisor, involved in dozens of election campaigns (for government and the Knesset as well as for municipal authorities and for leading organizations) providing strategic counseling services, together with his partners, to candidates and managers as well as writing speeches and managing crises.

Dr. Degree in public administration and political science from the Bar-Ilan University – Doctorate on “applying reforms and the privatization process in Israel” including assistance in solving crises and promoting negotiations between the employees, the management and the government concerning centralization and competition.

M.A. Degree in public administration and political communication from the Tel-Aviv University and a B.A. Degree in political science and education (society and state) from the Bar-Ilan University.

He Published a professional academic book on:”Economy, society and privatization in the local government” together with the local government institute in the Bar-Ilan University, and with about 20 researchers from other universities and the leading mayors in Israel.

Member of the judging team (10th year) of the Israeli Oscar competition – Webi this year’s website. Chairman of the technology and communication-marketing managers’ club forum (Shivutek), press interpreter and publicist.