Between the Layers: AI Infrastructure

The Israeli DefenseTech Innovation Day, led by 10D, Deloitte, Meitar and Protego Ventures, is designed to bring together founders, innovators, and key industry leaders within the Defense sector for a day of networking, knowledge-sharing, and discussions about the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape. Agenda Defense Tech 2027 Market Overview: The State of the Industry David Chinn, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Leader of McKinsey’s Defense Practice in Europe Panel: The Buyer Is the Bottleneck? From Pilot to Program Inbal Kreiss, Chief Innovation Officer, Systems Missiles & Space Division, IAI Asaf Picciotto, Co-Founder & CEO, Spectralx BG (Ret.) Shimon Tsentsiper, Managing Partner, Ace Capital Dr. Irit Idan, Idan Technology Insights Former EVP R&D Rafael Panel: From Dual-Use to Defense: When Commercial Technology Enters the Battlefield Ido Priel, Co-Founder & CEO, Remondo Avner Bendheim, Co-Founder & CEO, Tenna Systems Shuki Yehuda, EVP Chief Technology Officer at Elbit Yarden Gross, Co-Founder & CEO, Orca AI The D-Fend Story Fireside Chat featuring Zohar Halachmi, Chairman & CEO, D-Fend Solutions Panel: The Future Battlefield: Remote, Unmanned and Autonomous Ofer Ballin, Co-Founder & CEO, Shifters Aviv Shapira, Co Founder & CEO of XTEND Tamar Harary, Co-Founder & CEO, LiteVision Avi Gil, Former Military Secretary and Defense Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister; Managing Partner, Giveon The Dynamics and Evolution of Defense Primes Fireside Chat featuring Alon Dror, Co Founder & CEO of KELA Please note: By registering for this event, you agree to being photographed and filmed, and consent to your registration details being shared with event organizers, partners, and sponsors for event-related communications and promotional purposes.

AI in Go-to-Market Masterclass: Building Advanced Full-Cycle Agents AI has made it easier than ever for GTM, sales, marketing, and ops professionals to build things. This hands-on Masterclass for founders, CROs, CMOs, GTM and Growth leaders will focus building full-cycle agents that work together across the organization: how teams and networks can use AI to learn faster, coordinate better, and build growth systems that compound. Join us on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at the Guardz offices, for the next GTM AI Masterclass, hosted by the TLV GTM community. This event's special lineup will feature forward-thinking GTM experts from across the industry - who will share their thoughts, strategies, and methods with the community. It's an event you won't want to miss! Space is limited and previous events were oversubscribed, so sign up early :) Meanwhile, you're welcome to join our community's WhatsApp group --- Agenda: 5:30-6:15 pm - Pizza, Drinks, Networking 6:15-7:30 pm - Expert talks 7:30-8:00 pm - Networking --- Speakers & Topics: Tal Cohen, Team8 - End-to-end signal GTM motions Ranny Bloch, Bar Sossover, Josh Plit, Guardz - Winning AI-driven creative and performance Amos Bar-Joseph, Swan - Building a GTM brain Tom Granot, Syntax GTM - Agentic competitive intelligence Nimo Shkedy, Tipline - The GTM data lake --- 📍 Location: Azrieli Center (full details will be sent to confirmed guests) 📅 Date: Sunday, October 25, 2026 - 5:30-8:30 pm 🎟 Access: Limited seats available, approval required

Privacy Notice: By registering for this event, you consent to the collection and processing of your personal information by event hosts such as Specks of Light for registration management, event administration, participation-related services, and communications regarding the event. Your contact details may also be shared with event sponsors, for related updates and offers. --- Deep Diving Into AI Infrastructure The race to build the intelligence layer is accelerating, but the underlying stack faces unprecedented demands. From compute bottlenecks and silicon innovation to orchestration, cost optimization, and enterprise scaling - AI infrastructure is the foundational battleground of the next tech wave. Join us for an exclusive morning of high-impact discussions in front of 200+ early-stage founders, as some of the best investors in the space dissect where the infrastructure stack is heading, what gaps still need to be filled, and what founders need to build to win. Hosted by: Google for Startups Or Azulay - Founder at Specks of Light Speakers: Amir Shevat, General Partner, Darkmode Ventures Renana Ashkenazi, Managing Partner, Grove Ventures Yair Snir, Managing Director, Dell Technologies Capital Guy Fighel, Partner & Head of AI, Hetz Ventures Agenda: 9:30-10:00 - Snacks, Drinks & Mingling. 10:00-11:30 - Live panel & Audience Q&A See you there :)

On election eve, we're talking about a different kind of choice. Three Israelis who switched into AI security and now work in the field full-time, from abroad, share their careers and their choices: how they got in, why they bet on it, and what they'd do now if they were in your shoes. Speakers Asher Brass Gershovich, AI Security Researcher at RAND Before RAND, Asher was a Senior Researcher on the compute policy team at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), and Head of the Cyber Analysis Team at Cynerio. He served as a cybersecurity officer in Unit 8200 and as a Senior Technological Researcher at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. Asher is also a co-founder of Heron AI Security. Guy P., Member of Technical Staff at the Security Level 5 Task Force Before SL5, Guy worked as an HPC chip engineer, vulnerability researcher and R&D project lead. He also wrote a musical about AI, Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans). Ariel Gil, Senior Research Manager at Pivotal Research Ariel co-founded and co-led the AI Standards Lab, which helped shape the EU AI Act implementation and the EU GPAI Code of Practice. Before that, he was a mechatronics engineer in ophthalmic surgery robotics. Who it's for People with at least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity or ML who are transitioning into AI security, or seriously considering it. Please note: Spots are limited. We'll approve the participants we think will get the most value from the evening.

🍂 Figma Israel Autumn Meetup 🍂 Monday | 26.10.26 | HiBob Offices | 18:30 We all feel it every day: the way we work is changing faster than ever. We've moved from static screens and prototypes to working with agents, building internal tools, and designing right inside production. AI is no longer a side experiment; it's part of the team. In the upcoming meetup, we'll meet teams who didn't wait for anyone. They built their own agents, "digital brains," live design environments, and micro-tools, and they'll share honestly what worked, what didn't, and along the way, we'll ask the hard question: where does Figma fit into all of this? So, without further ado, meet the speakers: 🍁 Yarden Bashevkin & Vivian Pienika // Product Designers at HiBob How we built an AI Agent for a design team, from the inside out What happens when a design team doesn't just use AI, but builds the tool it wants to work with? Meet Leonardo, the HiBob design team's Design Agent. It's a bottom-up initiative that grew from designers' own needs and knowledge into a tool the team uses every day. We'll see how they turned the team's knowledge, processes, and practices into something the agent can use, and how collaboration across the organization helped move it forward. 🌰 Snir Bahar // Director of Product Design at JFrog Security How do you make AI truly "understand" your product instead of designing generic screens? Instead of getting lost in information overload, the team built a brain that brings all of the design and product team's knowledge into one place. We'll see how connecting user understanding, business goals, and design principles makes it possible to generate living, precise concepts in minutes, how to harness AI as a real partner in day-to-day work, and how you can start applying it in your own team. 🍄 Anat Komarovsky Vodkov // Product Design Team Lead at Coralogix Building a live design environment: from design system and real data to a working prototype At Coralogix, the team built a li

>> RSVP here << What does it actually take to migrate code and infrastructure at Wix scale? Two migrations. Two very different challenges: 1. Automating code changes across hundreds of codebases without pulling dev teams out of their context. 2. Migrating 1,000+ MySQL servers across 160+ clusters, multiple regions and two major platform changes in 30 days, with zero downtime. Dana Avital and Shmuel Mekonen will go behind the scenes: the architecture, automation, tradeoffs, things that broke, and the decisions that made these migrations work. >> RSVP here <<