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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 <<

✨About This event is for builders, visionaries, entrepreneurs and curious people who want to turn ideas into reality, from complete beginners to semi-experienced builders looking to level up. We’ll explore the journey from fundamentals to production and entrepreneurship, combining practical AI skills, multidisciplinary thinking, and real-world lessons on turning ideas into products, brands, and businesses. 🎤 Talks The Builder’s Journey — Turning Ideas into Reality Guy Aga - Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist, lecturer, and Generative AI explorer. The Builder’s Mindset — Becoming a Beginner Again Tali Despins - Builder, Claude Ambassador, Psych-Informed AI Adoption The Builder’s Toolkit — Turning Curiosity into Action Amir Harel - Backend Developer; Symphony by Wix 📅 Agenda 17:00 | Registration, Set Up & Mingling 17:30 – 20:30 | Speakers 20:30 | Closing 🤝 Hosted with generous support from Wix. 🤝 Wix Engineering is responsible for the products, platforms, and infrastructure behind Wix, serving more than 300 million users worldwide. Its teams work across areas including AI, AI agents, distributed systems, Cloud, Web, Mobile, Data, and open source, as well as products and platforms such as Base44, Symphony, and Wix Headless. 📖 Full Talk Descriptions The Builder’s Journey — Turning Ideas into Reality By Guy Aga - Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist, lecturer, and Generative AI explorer. How do you go from “I have an idea” to a real product, brand and business? Guy Aga shares the journey of building Matar from scratch: transforming a book into a knowledge base, researching the market, developing and testing products, using generative AI to visualize ideas, 3D printing custom tools and accessories, and building a complete WordPress e-commerce operation with Claude Code. A practical story about creativity, learning, experimentation and execution — and what becomes possible when AI works alongside human curiosity and craftsmanship. The Builder’s M

Everyone’s been talking about software factories lately. But what does that actually mean in practice? And how do you know your factory is producing anything good? Once agents take over the coding, the bottlenecks move somewhere else: environments, builds, CI, testing, and evals. As agent output scales, evals become the quality gate, the way you know whether what your agent's ship actually works. The teams pulling ahead aren’t only adopting agents. They’re building the infrastructure, and the evals, that make AI development work at scale. Join the 3rd Autonomous Engineering meetup, where platform and AI leaders who run these systems today will share what works, what breaks, and where to begin. Agenda 17:00 Doors open, food and drinks 17:30 Opening words 17:40 Evals for software factoriesAdam Gold, Founder & CPO @ islo.dev 18:00 The path to #1 in Enterprise RAG Benchmark Evaluating our retrieval harnessRegev Ben Simon, Co-Founder & CTO @ Flexor.ai 18:20 Short break 18:30 You Have Agents. Do You Have a Factory?David Mark, VP Platform Engineering @ Incredibuild 18:50 Don't build good evals, just build honest onesGad Benram, Co-Founder & CTO @ TensorOps 19:10 Good time! Details Location: AWS Experience, Menachem Begin Rd 121, Floor 28, Tel Aviv November 4, 2026, doors open 17:00 Talks in Hebrew Please bring an ID. It’s required at the entrance. Join the Autonomous Engineering community on WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CZrhaCokDFI83ANmlyE7Yr

MusicTech Tel Aviv 2026 – Sound Forward Sound now powers far more than music: hearing health, drone detection, smart wearables, in-car audio, predictive maintenance, and much more. Like deep tech, sound isn't a vertical. It cuts across industries. Building on last year's success, we're taking it even higher We're moving to a larger venue, widening the circle, and turning up the volume. Don't miss it. Where the whole ecosystem meets Israel's flagship sound technology summit brings everyone who matters into one room: startups and scale-ups, multinational corporations, VCs and family offices, academia, and government. On the agenda Keynotes and panels with leaders from industry, investment, and research Live demos of the technologies shaping the future of sound A focused Tech Expo of startups across audio AI, acoustic sensing, hardware, hearing and neuro-sound, and creator tech A first look at MusicTech's next chapter and its new bootcamp programs Why be there Discover the sound technologies coming next, before they reach the market Seize the chance to meet founders, corporate decision-makers, investors, and researchers Start the conversations that turn into pilots, partnerships, and investments See how sound is reshaping health, defense, mobility, energy, and many other industries Join a growing community of innovators, where the next big thing in sound begins! Seats are limited Registration is free and subject to approval. We curate the room to keep a strong mix of startups, corporates, and investors. Apply early to secure your seat. Move Sound Forward. Partners:

Join us at The Swamp for an exclusive Security Research Meetup hosted by JFrog! Whether you're looking to dive into the latest industry trends, tackle complex threats, or simply grow your professional network, this is the place to be. Connect with fellow security professionals and hear from industry experts on the evolving threat landscape. Featured speakers: Charles-Edouard Bettan, Principal Security Research Manager at Microsoft: When Attackers Go Hybrid: The New Physics of Modern Intrusions. Shavit Satou, Security Researcher at JFrog: JavaScript Deobfuscation 101 Eddy Tsalolikhin, Security Researcher at JFrog: Do 0-days even matter? *Space is strictly limited. Secure your spot today and we'll see you at The Swamp!

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. Your information will be handled in accordance with NVIDIA’s Privacy Policy. --- The Wonders of AI Science We are living through a historic paradigm shift. Artificial Intelligence has evolved far beyond pattern matching into a genuine engine for scientific discovery—accelerating breakthroughs in protein folding, materials science, drug discovery, genomics, and advanced nanomedicine. Yet, the journey from scientific theory to production-grade real-world application comes with steep hurdles. From navigating compute bottlenecks, massive datasets, and model efficiency at scale to managing biological complexity, validation, and safety in high-stakes environments—the challenges are as vast as the opportunities. Join us for an exclusive evening exploring the bleeding edge of AI for science. We’re bringing together a powerhouse lineup of industry pioneers, deep-tech founders, and leading researchers at the intersection of AI, pharma, and advanced computation to dissect current bottlenecks, explore real-world deployment, and uncover where the next wave of scientific value will be created. Hosted by: NVIDIA Israel Or Azulay - Founder at Specks of Light Featured Speakers Sagi Gidali, Founder & CEO at Rafa’s Moonshot Sigal Kalmanson Cusnir, Co-Founder & CEO at Starget Pharma Amit Bleiweiss, Senior Data Scientist at NVIDIA Prof. Rachela Popovtzer, Full Professor at Bar-Ilan University & Co-Founder at Nanocarry Therapeutics What We Will Discuss AI as a Force Multiplier for Discovery: How generative models, high-performance compute, and computational biology are transforming drug discovery and complex science. F

When Agents Own Delivery: The Architecture of AI Teammates in Production What if your AI agent was a teammate who picks up tickets, opens PRs, ships to production, and takes responsibility for what it delivers? At monday.com, AI agents join engineering squads with names, roles, and team context. They participate in Slack conversations, review code, deliver features, and monitor what they shipped. Getting there required rethinking our architecture, engineering practices, and how people collaborate. Join us for three talks exploring what it takes to make AI teammates work in production with practical lessons, real failures, and a look inside the systems behind them. Becoming an AI-Native Organization | Netanel Abergel How do you move from developers using AI tools to teams delegating delivery to agents? Netanel will share monday.com’s journey, the organizational and engineering changes behind it, and lessons on adoption, ownership, and measuring impact. Agent Architecture in Depth | Tomer Brook A deep dive into the platform powering AI teammates: event-driven orchestration, persistent memory across multi-day tasks, and the guardrails and evaluation loops that support reliable delivery. Tomer will share how production failures shaped the architecture—including lessons from Atlas, one of monday.com’s AI teammates. Humans and Agents: Collaboration in Production | Guy Hadas How do people and agents work effectively on the same team? Guy will explore task delegation, shared context, reviews, and escalation patterns showing how teams build trust, expand agent autonomy, and keep human judgment where it matters most. מה אם האייג׳נט שלכם היה חבר צוות שפותר טיקטים, פותח PRs, מעלה לפרודקשן ולוקח אחריות על כל מה שהוא מספק? במאנדיי סוכני AI מצטרפים לצוותי פיתוח עם שמות, תפקידים והקשר צוותי. הם משתתפים בשיחות ב-Slack, עושים code review, מספקים פיצ'רים ועוקבים אחרי מה שהעלו. כדי להגיע הצוותים במאנדיי היו צריכים לחשוס מחדש על הארכיטקטורה, על פרקטיקות הפיתוח ועל האופן שבו אנשים עובדי

ההרשמה התמלאה- מוזמנים להרשם על בסיס מקום פנוי במידה ויתפנה אחרי השקעה ב-27 חברות, ו 6 יוניקורנים🦄— נמרוד כהן מגיע למפגש הפתיחה של תוכנית ה VC CLUB היוקרתית🤩 *נמרוד הוא שותף מייסד ומנהל TAU Ventures, קרן ההון סיכון של אוניברסיטת תל אביב.*💼 במפגש נציץ אל מאחורי הקלעים של עולם ההון סיכון ונשמע על הדרך שלו — מהלימודים וההתמחות במשפטים, דרך יזמות והשקעות, ועד הקמת הקרן. נדבר על: מה זה בכלל הון סיכון, ולמה סטארטאפים צריכים קרנות? ⁠אילו סוגי קרנות קיימים, ואיך הן מחליטות באילו חברות להשקיע? ⁠איך פועלת TAU Ventures, ואיך נראית החלטת השקעה מבפנים? ⁠מה משקיעים מחפשים ביזמים ובחברות — ואיך מזהים את ההצלחה הבאה לפני כולם? 📅 יום שלישי, 10.11 📍 מרכז היזמות, אוניברסיטת תל אביב 🕠מתחילים ב־18:00 🍕 מספר המקומות מוגבל — מהרו להירשם! לשאלות-0502429727

>> 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 <<

Deep Inside Israeli Innovation invites participants to experience Israel’s innovation ecosystem from the inside. The event includes a guided tour of the Israeli Innovation Center, followed by the opportunity to meet leading deep tech founders featured at the Israeli Innovation Expo and hear firsthand about the technologies they are building to shape the future. Founded by President Shimon Peres, The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation is a leading Israeli nonprofit advancing innovation, collaboration, and shared prosperity. Its Israeli Innovation Center in Jaffa showcases the story of Israeli innovation, from its roots and defining breakthroughs to the technologies shaping the future, while serving as an active platform connecting Israeli innovators with global leaders, companies, investors, governments, and communities. The Luzzatto Group is proud to partner in this event, bringing the intellectual property perspective to the conversation. With extensive experience advising deep tech companies across diverse technological fields, The Luzzatto Group works closely with innovators from early-stage development through growth and commercialization, helping them protect the technologies at the core of their businesses and build strong IP strategies that support long-term value and global growth.

AI is making drug discovery look increasingly like software: faster, cheaper, and more powerful with every generation of models. But the rest of drug development has not moved at the same speed. AI can now design and identify promising drug candidates faster than ever, while the path through clinical development remains narrow, expensive, and uncertain. If discovery becomes dramatically easier, the bigger question is where the bottleneck moves next, and where the value moves with it. As part of DeepTech Week, Grove Ventures and ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center are bringing together biotech founders and industry leaders to examine where AI is genuinely changing biology, where fundamental constraints remain, and what will define the next generation of biotech companies. From proprietary data and new business models to clinical translation and Israel’s unique healthcare infrastructure, we’ll explore what happens when AI removes one bottleneck and exposes the next. If you’re building at the intersection of AI, biology, healthcare, or drug development, this is a conversation you’ll want to be part of.

AI infrastructure is scaling fast, but not always efficiently. GPUs sit idle waiting on memory, power is paid for but not fully utilized, and networking is becoming harder to ignore as clusters grow. As part of DeepTech Week, Grove Ventures and Arm are bringing together the people building across the AI infrastructure stack to examine where the real constraints are moving, and which layers are becoming more critical in the next cycle. The evening will include perspectives from Dov Moran (Grove Ventures) and Nir Shafir (Arm), followed by a panel led by Renana Ashkenazi (Grove Ventures) with Ofer Shacham, Co-Founder & CEO of Majestic Labs, Tomer Tamir, Co-Founder & CEO of Niv.ai, and additional AI infrastructure leaders to be announced. We’ll explore where capacity is being lost today, how agentic workloads could reshape the role of CPUs and networking, and where new infrastructure companies have the most room to build.

בונים סטארטאפ מאפס? בואו לשמוע מה קורה בין הרעיון הראשון להחלטות שמתחילות להזיז את החברה קדימה. ב-17 בנובמבר, פודקאסט "האקוסיסטם" עולה לבמה ב-Startup Nation Central בתל אביב. ערב של שיחות חיות בהנחיית אלון צינמון, איתן גירון וטל גלעדי עם יזמים, מייסדים ובכירי תעשיית הטק על המעבר מ-0 ל-1, מגיוס ופיננסים ועד לבניית מותג חזק וסיפור זכיר. השיחות יוקלטו לייב ויפורסמו כפרקי פודקאסט בהמשך. 🕒 לוח זמנים וסדר המופעים: 18:00 - 18:30 | התכנסות, דרינקים, ונטוורקינג 🍻 18:30 - 19:00 | כסף מדבר - פיננסים לסטארטאפים - ניהול פיננסי, תכנון Runway וגיוס הון בעולם האמיתי. דוברים: ד"ר גיא נבון (מנכ"ל Discount Tech) וערן בן חורין (סמנכ"ל כספים proteanTecs) 19:00 - 19:30 | מבלתי נראה למותג בלתי נשכח - איך בונים סיפור ומותג בולטים, שמייצרים אימפקט. דוברים: כרמל יואלי (מייסד Atreo) וליאור אבישר (מייסדת TYM) 19:30 - 19:40 | הפסקה קצרה (10 דקות) 🥂 19:40 - 20:20 | להקים חברה (נוספת) - שיחה פתוחה עם יזמים שכבר הצליחו על מה עושים אחרת בפעם השנייה. דוברים: רן ריבנזפט (שותף-מייסד ו CTO ב Harmony) ואלון ארבץ (שותף-מייסד ומנכ"ל PointFive) 20:20 - 21:00 | דרינקים וסיכום 🎉 האירוע מתקיים בשיתוף עם Startup Nation Central ודיסקונטק ובהפקת Valuebell. נתראה שם!

What does it take to scale AI infrastructure to meet growing demand? Hear from the people who are actually building the industry, from hyperscalers to financers to chip designers, as they discuss this very problem across the full stack – from how data centers get built, to what happens inside them, and all the way down to the silicon layer. Hosted by Earth & Beyond Ventures, Silicon Catalyst, and Arnon Tadmor-Levy. Agenda: 09:00 Gathering & Networking 09:30 Opening RemarksDoron Zauer - General Partner, Earth & Beyond Ventures 0945 Panel 1: Building the Data Center: Capital, Energy, & RegulationBarak Platt (Mod.) - Partner, Arnon Tadmor-Levy Yacine Saidji - MD & Europe Co-Head, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners Sharon Hatzor - VP Strategy, Israel Ministry of Energy Danny Biran - Senior Policy Fellow, RISE 10:15 Panel 2: Inside the Data Center: Power, Cooling, & ConnectivityZack Fagan (Mod.) - General Partner, Earth & Beyond Ventures Omri Geller - VP Product, DSX-OS Platform SW, NVIDIA (ex. Co-Founder & CEO, Run:AI) Robert Elkins - VP of Optical Connectivity, Corning Roi Bar-Kat - Israel Head, Intel Capital 10:45 Panel 3: The Silicon Core: Chips, Materials & Future ComputeMoshe Zalcberg (Mod.) - Managing Partner Israel, Silicon Catalyst Ido Bukspan - VP Silicon Engineering, Google Kohavit Baliti Levy - EMEA Sales & BD, TSMC Hesham Taha - GM & VP of Teramount at Molex Isaac Sigron - Managing Director, Koch Disruptive Capital 11:15 Fireside Chat with Michael Kagan, CTO of NVIDIA, in conversation with Brandon Reeves, Partner at Lux Capital 11:45 Closing Remarks & Networking *The agenda is subject to change.