2026 AGENDA
25-27 OCT 26 | EILAT, ISRAEL
25.10
Check-in | Cocktails & Mingling 🛎️🥂
Opening Cluster: From Vision to Reality
Welcome & Opening Remarks - Setting the stage for TECH1 2026
Israel and the Infrastructure of the Future (1:1)
Dror Bin, CEO, Israel Innovation Authority
Markets Meet Technology – 2026
Jason Greenberg, Co-Head of Global TMT Investment Banking, Jefferies
Finding Exceptional AI Builders
Lak Ananth, Global Managing Partner, N47
Using AI Tech Stack in the Real World
Hanan Friedman, CEO, Bank Leumi
The Paradigm Shift & Digital Frontier
VC Panel: Paradigm Shift in Investments - AI is rewriting the VC playbook
Irit Kahan (Goldman Sachs), Jon Galitzer (General Atlantic), Rami Branitzky (Sapphie Ventures, Mod.), Dan Amiga (Island/Picture)
Stable, Borderless, and Sovereign: The Crypto Moment has Arrived (1:1)
Zack Witkoff, Co-Founder & CEO, World Liberty Financial
The Sky is NOT the Limit (1:1)
Eytan Stibbe, Astronaut (Ax-1 Mission) & Chancellor of the International Space University
Gala Dinner - Networking & Live Show
Curated tables and industry networking at the Herods Palace waterfront
Official Summit Party | Day 1# 🎉🥂
26.10
Morning Activities 🧘🏻♀️ Yoga & Sup 🏄🏻♀️
Breakfast (Each guest at his hotel)
Trends in Deep Tech
Hanan Brand, Head of Startup Division, Israel Innovation Authority
The Big Picture
Cyber at the age of AI?
Liran Grinberg, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Team8
The Fintech Opportunity
Industry Leader (To Be Announced)
Deep Tech thesis IRL
Industry Leader (To Be Announced)
SNC - The Middle East Gentrification: From Sand to Silicon
VC Panel
Red and Blue: The Novel Cyber Game
Yoran Sirkis (Seempplicity), Sanaz Yashar (Zafran), Guy Rinat (Descope) | Mod. Guy Franklin
From Traditional to cutting edge (1:1)
Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, Managing Partner, Team8
Blue & White Deep Tech
Itamar Sivan (Quantum Machines), Erez Freibach (ZutaCore), Moshiel Biton, (Addionics), Mod. jason Wolf (Iron Nation)
Ten Years From Now
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Pitango
Real World Attacks
Mod. Nofar Amikam (Glilot), Benny Lakunishok (Zero Networks)
Stablecoins and the Future of Cross-Border Finance (TED Talk)
John Caplan, CEO, Payoneer
Physical AI Promise
Sanday Hefetz (Bellboy Robotics)
Data Centers Economy
(Industry Leader TBA)
Cracking Europe: From IL to EU
Shira Kaplan, Founder (Cyverse)
Neo-bank Challenges
From Lab to Scale
Rona Samler, General Manager, T3
The Tel Aviv innovation hub - A Global Lesson
Michal Michaeli, Director Of International Economic Development at Tel Aviv Global
Is Cyber a Bubble?
Amit Karp (Bessemer), Amit Assaraf (Koi), Mod. Yoav Manor (Shibolet & Co.)
Beyond Banks - Consumer
Fintech Industry Leaders (To Be Announced)
Break & Refreshments
New International Language - TikTok
Anna Pelkin, Country Manager, TikTok
iPhone Moment? AI Innovation Products and Adoption
Boaz Peer (Qualcomm Ventures), Yuval Passov | Haleli Barath (Cerca)
Family Offices - The Secret Fuel
Industry Leader (To Be Announced)
Trends in eCommerce
Yoni Elbaz (Loox)
Employee Retention in a Non-Exit World
Mod. Odelia Pollak (IBI), Eynat Guez (Papaya Global), Alon Yariv (Crusoe), Dan Amiga (Island/Picture)
Data Fueling the AI Revolution
Or Lenchner, CEO, Bright Data
The State of Secondary investments
Amine Baji (Quadrille)
B2C Playbook
Nicole Priel (Mustang)
New Wealth IL
Asaf Banai, Founder & CEO, Profit Financial Services
From Disney to Physical AI
Lightricks
The State of Growth
Fireside chat with Gal Gitter & Steve Brotman (Alpha Partners)
From Fandom to Unicorn
Asaf Peled, Founder & CEO, Minute Media
A culinary love-tale
Mod. Eitan Singer (Cibus Pluxee)
The New AI worker
Industry Leader (TBA)
State of The VC
(Vintage)
B2C Startups Showcase
The Future of Work
Niel Grunberg (Storytime Capital)
The Secrets of M&A - Exit Behind the Headlines
Dikla Reznik-Erez (ESOP), Hila Goldman Aslan (RUNI), Mod. Shelley Oppenheimer-Levi (EY)
Lunch & Mingling at the Startup Exhibition
The Cyber Bullet Train
Rob Bartlett, Managing Director, Jefferies
The infrastructure of the Revolution
Paddy Srinivasan, CEO, DigitalOcean
Agentic future for SaaS
Zoho CEO
🎖️ Tech1 Lifetime Achievement Award | Rethinking Startup Nation 🎖️
Alan Feld, Founder & Emeritus Managing Partner, Vintage
The long road (1:1)
Moshe Zilberstein (General Partner, N47) & Shay Levi (Co-founder and CEO, Unframe)
Then came AI - Unicorns Panel
Eynat Guez (Papaya Global), Guy Tytunovich (CHEQ), Mod. David Siegel (Meetup)
VC Panel: Tech Trends Roast Party
Amit Karp (Bessemer), Liron Azrielant (Meron), Guy Katsovich (Fusion)
🏆 The Podium: Startup Competition Final 🏆
The 2026 title track for Cyber, Fintech, and Deep Tech finalists
Dinner (Each guest at his hotel)
Live Show & Official Summit Party | Day 2# 🎉🥂
27.10
Morning Activities 🧘🏻♀️ Yoga & Sup 🏄🏻♀️
Breakfast (Each guest at his hotel)
Raising Seed: Flash Insights on First Date
Oded Hermoni (J-Ventures)
Introduction to Non-Dilutive Funding
Scaling without equity sacrifice
Venture Lending: Debt as Growth Fuel
Ella-Tamar Adhanan, Managing Director at Hercules Capital
Secondary: Liquidity on the long road
Fiona Darmon, Founder & Managing Partner, Sunvest Capital
Speed-Dating & Match-Making Event (1:1)
Structured 1:1s between founders and investors
Sustainable SWAG Potluck
The "Community Exchange" — trade your gear, swap contacts & head home
Official Conference Closing
