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Your go-to podcast for all things to do with innovation in Israel!
Join Eve Young as she delves into the heart of Israel's tech and business scenes and uncovers the groundbreaking ideas and visionary minds working to shape the future. Join her each week as she shines a spotlight on the latest trends and entrepreneurial spirit propelling Israel to the forefront of global innovation.
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This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews co-founders Shai Goel and Tomer Biton, who together are working to help "miluimnikim" (reservists) transition from their reserve duty to the hi-tech ecosystem with their project - MiluimTech. Shai, the CEO, and Tomer, the COO, are working to help reservists who have never been in the tech sector or reservists who were working at tech companies but faced challenges or were fired after extended periods of reserve duty during the Israel-Hamas war.The two will talk about how they encountered the problems faced by reservists, which included cold shoulders from employers and illegal firing, and how they are working to solve these by raising awareness and helping reservists network and connect to key players in the field.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Oracle's Senior Vice President, Partner and Operations Strategy, Leah Yomtovian.Leah shares what drew her to tech, and how she ended up at Oracle. She will also talk about Oracle's transition from a product-oriented to a service-oriented company, and what the company's part is in the artificial intelligence boom.Leah and Eve will talk about how large companies view and advance innovation and how they work and interact with smaller startups.Leah will also touch on her experiences as a woman in tech, and share tips for women interested in the field. She will talk about Oracle's commitment to Israel - where it comes from and what it means.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews generative AI coding platform Qodo's CEO and co-founder Itamar Friedman and Venture Capital firm TLV Partners, Partner Brian Sack. Eve, Brian, and Itamar will discuss what makes a good investor-founder relationship and what the most important parts of Brian and Itamar's relationship are.They will share red and green flags for investors and founders to look out for when exploring work together. Itamar will explain how Qodo uses AI to help developers write quality code and the future of AI for coding. He will also talk about the relationship between innovation and academia.Brain will talk about what makes early-stage startups a different kind of challenge and opportunity for investors, and what he likes about this.
On this week’s episode of Inside Israeli Innovation, this week's hosts Corey Tusak and Ellie Esquenazi take a deep-dive into Aardvark Israel’s Tech Track.This gap-year program specializes in preparing students for the Israeli technology industry. During their 9 month-long stay in Israel, students on the Tech Track spend one semester taking computer science courses, where they learn to code in various programming languages. During their second and final semester, participants work as interns at different startup companies and tech businesses in Israel. They utilize their coding expertise at these internships and are able to become fully integrated into the Israeli workforce.Within the episode are interviews with Eitan Kiperman, Aardvark’s Tech Track coordinator, Maya Michaeli, a current student on the program, and Emily Poltrack, a former participant in the Tech Track. These three individuals share their thoughts on Aardvark’s program as well as provide insight into their personal experiences while on the Tech Track.Michaeli explains the computer science course Aardvark Israel offers through the Tech Track as well as the tours she has been on, exploring Israeli startups. Poltrack recaps her work as an intern at Anima Biotech, an Israeli company that specializes in AI tracking technology with the goal of photographing mRNA lifecycle images.
Guest hosts Ellie Esquenazi and Corey Tusak, discuss some of the innovative stories breaking this week with a key theme of Israeli resilience and effects of the Israel-Hamas war. Among other exciting articles, Corey and Ellie share the story of Noga Sela Shalev, founder of Fresh Start - a food technology incubator, who was evacuated from her home in Kiryat Shmona and discuss how the war has affected her business and other startups, according to Calcalist. Corey and Ellie also discuss the influx of startup Israeli business migrating to Miami following the Israel-Hamas war. The city has become a booming spot for business people and entrepreneurs alike, Calcalist highlights.They also discuss the Israeli state-owned company, Rafael Advanced Defense System Ltd after their announcement of their latest defense capabilities.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Ravid Granov, the founder of Mami, a podcast aiming to support families handling the mental illness of their loved ones. Ravid will explain where the idea for the podcast came from, and why she and her team are seeking to support the families of those dealing with mental health issues. She will talk about cycles of shame and stigma that surround mental health, how they created challenges for Mami's team, and how Mami is seeking to break these cycles.
1This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Yehuda Niv, Founder & CEO of Spines - an online book publishing platform.Spines creates another option for authors beyond traditional, untraditional, and self publishing options, and it uses AI to drastically shorten the timeline for publishing a book or audiobook. Yehuda will share how he came up with the idea for Spines, and how he took it from an idea to a business. He will share about the importance of publishing and, in a broader sense, of storytelling. As an entrepreneur who has founded companies by bootstrapping and by fundraising, Yehuda will also compare these two paths and share which works best for him.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary - a technology company that provides cloud-based image and video management services.Tal will tell us about how Cloudinary is using generative AI to help companies use images in a better way. He will also touch on the potential risk of using gen AI with images and how these risks can be minimized. He will tell us about how the company is defining the standards of how images should be used on the web - literally, through work with the International Organization for Standardization.Tal will talk about why Cloudinary bootstrapped rather than raised funds in its earlier stages and what advantages this had for the company. He will also talk about the company's values and culture and how they make Cloudinary a better company.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder & CEO of Datarails - an AI-powered financial planning and analysis platform. Datarails is using AI to change how Microsoft Excel users do financial planning and analysis. Didi will tell us about why the Datarails founders decided to work to fix a problem arising from the use of a product rather than trying to replace it. He will also explain the importance of product-market fit and tell us about Datarails' journey to find it.He will talk about how he fell in love with coding and how this sent him on his path to tech, and he will touch on his education - why he dropped out of high school, and why this didn't hold him back.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Ofer Shalev, CEO and co-founder of a startup that is using nanotechnology to prolong the life of stage-four metastatic cancer patients without adverse effects to their health.Ofer will explain how the fact that cancer cells are more sensitive to heat than healthy cells enables New Phase to use electromagnetic hyperthermia technology to target tumors. He will also share the story of how he and co-founder Dr. Rafi Hof started the company, inspired by Rafi's mother Sarah's battle with cancer and tell us about the company's nanotechnology, Sarah Nanoparticles - which are named after her. He will also touch on the importance of the diversity, both of personal and professional backgrounds, of his company's employees, and how it makes their work better.
This week, in a special Tu B'Av episode, host Eve Young - economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Post's Molly Myers discuss AI innovation in dating apps. Tu B'Av is a Jewish holiday associated with love.Today, especially in Israel, it is often seen as a Jewish version of Valentine's Day. Dating apps use machine learning algorithms and tools to help users find love.This episode explores various apps, including two Israeli platforms that incorporate not only AI and technology but also traditional matchmaking techniques. The episode focuses on how these apps and others have transformed the dating world, highlighting the pros and cons of the rapidly evolving landscape. Eve and Molly also address concerns about privacy in dating apps and how these technologies use personal information.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Amitai Carney, co-founder of an AI project that helps Israelis and pro-Israel activists do better hasbara (public diplomacy) on social media.The tool uses AI to help Israelis overcome language barriers and cultural gaps by optimizing their comments or posts. It customizes suggestions based on the audience, the social media platform, and the region. Amitai also discusses the importance of continued dialogue and engagement; and what he thinks about whether social media can be a platform for real dialogue. He describes a new workshop his team created for highschool students that helps them do better hasbara and supplements the online tool.
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 25.This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Omri Shalev, co-founder and CTO of Reeco - an AI-based hospitality procurement company. Omri explains how he, and co-founder and CEO Henrik Shimony, learned about the disadvantages of the low-tech procurement systems normally used by hotels, and how they took their experience and turned it into a solution for these problems.Omri shares tips and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, especially for those who relocate to advance their businesses. Omri also touches on the differences between the Israeli and US ecosystems, and how he learned to bridge the gaps involved in taking his Israeli business to the US.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Mickey Haslavsky, CEO and founder of Enso, a company making all kinds of services accessible to small businesses using AI bots.Mickey will explain what AI agents are, and what makes them different from the chatbots we are more familiar with.He will also explain what Enso does, and how it is using AI to help companies with everything from social media management to hiring.Eve and Mickey discuss what the ability to use AI agents to provide services might look for the service industry and its workforce, and how AI agents can help small businesses.Mickey will also talk about what it was like to found a new company in Israel during the Israel-Hamas war - what challenges he faced, and why he would do it all over again.
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 23.This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Dr. Karny Ilan, CEO and co-founder of femtech startup Feminai.As a team of female co-founders, the Feminai team ran into interesting reactions from potential investors, including meeting investors who told them that they needed a man on their team, Ilan explained on the podcast.Karny and her co-founders, CTO Shani Klein Antman and CPO and R&D Gal Yanuka, are working to create an at-home breast cancer screening device that utilizes AI. Karny will also tell us about the challenges the femiai founders have encountered along the way, especially as a team of female founders and talk about how her team is breaking through glass ceilings. She will explain the importance of diversity for innovation, and talk about how a lack of diversity has led to poorer healthcare for women.
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 22.This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews CEO Yair Amsterdam and VP of R&D Hila Geva from Verbit, a company using artificial intelligence to create captions and transcribe and to then analyze these transcriptions in real-time. Yair and Hila explain how their products can help professional like lawyers to analyze court testimonies and even compare them to documents in real-time to find contradictions or provide other insights.They also touch on how and why they are keeping humans "in the loop" and working with the AI, rather than trying to replace professionals with technology, and how this can revolutionize the field.
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 21.This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews online ground transportation booking platform, Travelier's Omer Chehmer – Co-Founder & COO, and Noa Greenfield - Brand & advertising leader. Omer and Noa explain how Travelier is working to make land travel accessible to travellers all around the world, even in remote locations, or areas where ticket purchases are typically still made in person.They talk about how Travelier is working to take the uncertainty out of foreign land travel, especially for women, with their tailor-made safety feature. They touch on how this innovation was an employee's idea, and more generally, how a diverse group of innovators can produce better innovation. Omer and Noa share about the complexities, on both a technical and cultural level, of working in such a global environment; and share about their close work with local vendors in the countries in which they operate.
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 20This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Zack Levine, end-to-end Payment Services Provider Checkout's Vice President & General Manager, Israel.Zack explains how online payments work and how Checkout is striving to optimize this process and make it as smooth as possible for both consumers and companies. He also talks about why the company is moving into Israel, and what kind of talent he has encountered in the Israeli ecosystem.Eve and Zack also discuss the importance of resilience - why he sees so much of this in Israeli workers, and why it is important in the tech world.
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 19.This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Einat Mesterman, director of the strategic program for quality employment in east Jerusalem in the Strategy and Innovation Department at the Jerusalem MunicipalityEinat explains what barriers residents of east Jerusalem with tech and STEM degrees are facing when looking for employment, and how the municipality's "EastTech" hi-tech center is working to address this. She also talks about the importance of reaching out directly to populations that are underrepresented in companies, and how role models make a difference.Eve and Amy also discuss how and why the City of Jerusalem is investing in innovation hubs in east Jerusalem and how they hope this will impact the city in the long run.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Amy Ariel, Chief Marketing office of Komodor, an Israeli tech company helping other companies manage Kubernetes at scale.Amy explains what Kubernetes is, how it impacts all of us as consumers and how Komodor is helping companies use it better. She also talks about the democratizing impact tech, and especially open source code, can have.Eve and Amy also discuss how and why Israel became a leader in cloud computing and what it's like being a woman in the Israeli tech scene.
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