It was a pleasure to host in our conference hall the IATI – Israel Advanced Technology Industries Association MNC Forum’s Annual Meeting for the leaders and CEOs of multinational companies in Israel.

As part of the event, we were honored by the presence of Israel’s president, Mr. Yitzhak Herzog, who gave an inspiring speech.

The event was attended by CEOs and executives of big multinational companies, including Google, Microsoft, Intel, and many others.

We heard riveting talks by Karin Mayer Rubinstein, CEO and President of IATI; Prof. Yossi Matias, Vice President of Engineering and Research at Google and Managing Director of the Israel Google Center; Meir Linzen, Herzog Chairman and Shai Aharonovitz, Director of the Israel Tax Authority, among others.

The meeting also included a veritable who’s who panel of CEOs, featuring:

• Karin Eibschitz Segal, Corporate VP & Co-General Manager, General Manager of iVE and Israel Development Center, Intel Israel.
• Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, Corporate VP, Security Division CTO, Israel R&D Center Managing Director, Microsoft.
• Adi Soffer Teeni, VP & General Manager, Meta Israel.
• President & CEO of Mellanox Technologies which was acquired by Nvidia.
• Oren Sagi, Managing Director, Cisco Israel.
• Lior Bonfis, Head of ISC International Region & President, Philips Israel.
• Panel Moderator: Gigi Levy-Weiss General Partner, NFX