TEDxBatGalim

Speakers

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• Denise Bar-Aharon

  Denise Bar-Aharon is the President and CEO of Make-A-Wish Israel. Together with her husband Avi, in 1996 she co-founded Make-A-Wish in her brother David Spero's name. Denise was the owner and President of B.T.C. International, a buying agency in Israel that represents top US firms that wish to export goods out of Israel.

• Dr. Angelica Edna Calo Livne

  Through performing arts, Dr. Angelica Edna Calo Livne is an advocate of peace for students from different backgrounds. She comes from Kibbutz Sasa, and in 2002, Angelica created the Arcobaleno Rainbow Theater, designed for making young Jews, Arabs, Christians, Muslims and Druse connect through stage performance. In 2005, Angelica was candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Dr. Ben Meir Maoz

  Dr. Maoz is a faculty member at the Sagol School of Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at TA University. Dr. Maoz is using tissue engineering to develop "Organ-on-a-Chip platforms" for studying human relevant physiology, and personalized medicine.

• Dr. Maor Farid

  Dr. Maor Farid is the Founder & CEO of Learn to Succeed (NGO) and co-Founder at Datability. He is an AI and Chaos Theory scientist at the Technion and MIT, and was Israel's representative at the Harvard leadership program. Dr. Farid is a former Captain in Unit 8200, and a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He is the moderator of the Scientific Segment in Channel 13.

• Efrat Garber Aran

  Efrat Garber Aran has a BA and MA in Hebrew Literature from BGU. However, after a short career in the fields of NGOs and Renewal Judaism, she successfully retrained and became a Data Scientist. Additionally, she performs as a spoken word poet and also publishes poetry.

• Ophir Guttman

  Vice President and General Manager at P&G Israel & Best selling Author. Leader of both regional and local businesses across Europe and Africa and leading House of Innovation with links to Israel's startups ecosystem. He is also a best selling author of the kingdom of eureka trilogy, world's first management book for kids. During his international career, Ophir won 7 times at the Cannes Lions advertising festival and his marketing team was ranked no. 1 in the world in 2020.

• Oren Tene

  Dr. Tene is a psychiatrist, Vice chair of the psychiatric division at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. He is a brain researcher and a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. In his research work, he studies the complex interface between psychiatry and neurology, focusing on brain mechanisms that influence human behavior.

• Roei Ben-Tolila

  Roei Ben-Tolila is the founder and CEO of Roim Leadership Development. He was seriously injured while serving as an officer in an elite unit. Today he helps leaders and organizations turn crises into opportunities

• Sara Tancman

  Sara Tancman is the founder and CEO of the Briah Foundation, an organization that is dedicated to improving women’s health in Israel and strives to change the way women are treated by the medical system. The Briah foundation accomplishes this through advocacy, research, and raising awareness.

• Stas Zaslavsky

  Stas Zaslavsky is an experienced digital marketer, serial entrepreneur, founder of a multi-award-winning startup in the tech eventspace, and a B2B metaverse pioneer evangelist.