
AGENDA

The summit's agenda will be broadcasted twice a day to accommodate our international guests different time zones:
First Broadcast Starts at >>
10:00 AM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 09:00 AM CET | 07:00 AM GMT
Second Broadcast Starts at >>
07:00 PM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 06:00 PM CET | 12:00 PM EST | 09:00 AM PST | 04:00 PM GMT
October 25
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First Broadcast Starts at:
10:00 AM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 09:00 AM CET | 07:00 AM GMT
10:00 - 10:15 AM IDT | 07:00 - 07:15 AM GMT
Opening Remarks
Ofra Strauss, Chairperson of Strauss Group
Dror Bin, CEO at the Israeli Innovation Authority
Nourishing a Better Tomorrow: Israeli Food-Tech mini-series, hosted by Sarai Givati
10:15 - 10:30 AM IDT | 07:15 - 07:30 AM GMT
Episode 1: Meat The Future, featuring:
Neta Lavon, CTO Aleph Farms
Shir Friedman, Founder and Head of Operations & Communications, SuperMeat
Rom Kshuk CEO Future Meat Technologies
Fire-side chat:
Bruce Friedrich, Founder & CEO at GFI & Elizabeth Gutschenritter, Managing Director, Alternative Protein at Cargill.
10:30 - 10:45 AM IDT | 07:30 - 07:45 GMT
Episode 2: Dairy and Eggs Scramble, featuring:
Dr. Eyal Afergan, CEO Imagindairy
Liron Nimrodi, CEO ZeroEgg
Prof. Nurit Argov, CTO BioMilk
Taly Nechushtan, CEO InnovoPro
Fire-side chat:
Prof. Eyal Shimoni, CTO Strauss Group, & Eric Melloul, Board Member Oatly and Mutti.
10:45 - 11:00 AM IDT | 07:45 - 08:00 AM GMTEpisode 3: Sweets For My Sweet, featuring:
Ilan Samish, CEO Amai Proteins
Ran Hirsch, Co-Founder & Chairman EatSane
Ari Melamud, CEO DouxMatok
Gali Yarom, COO & Co-Founder and Eran Blachinsky Co-Founder & CEO Better Juice
Fire-side chat:
Prof. Vincenzo Fogliano, Food Qquality and Design Washington University & Maya Schushan Orgad, PeakBridge CTO.
11:00 - 11:15 AM IDT | 08:00 - 08:15 AM GMT Episode 4: Plant-Based Planet, featuring: Racheli Vizman, CEO & Co-founder SavorEatJonathan Goshen, CEO YeapShalom Daniel, CEO Mush FoodsDr. Yishai Mishori, CEO Meat The End
Fire-side chat: Rachel Konrad, former Chief Communications Officer Impossible Foods & Flavio Garofalo, Global Category Director Givaudan.
11:15 - 11:30 AM IDT | 08:15 - 08:30 AM GMT
Episode 5: Making Food Great Again (meals & snacks), featuring:
Roy Naaman, CEO Torr
Anat Natan, CEO, Esti Brantz COO, Meidan Levy PM (Co-Founders) Anina Culinary Art
Yael Artsy, Global Commercialization Director Strauss Group
Dagan Eshel, VP Innovation Strauss Group
Fire-side chat:
Brigette Wolf, Global Head of SnackFutures, Mondelez & Natalie Shmulik, CEO The Hatchery Chicago.
11:30- 12:00 AM IDT | 08:30 - 09:00 AM GMT Closing Session
Inbal Becker- Reshef, Director, NASA Harvest & Research Professor, University of Maryland:
Advancing the use of satellite information for agricultural monitoring at the field to global scales, supporting decisions in food security and agricultural markets.
Second Broadcast Starts at:
07:00 PM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 06:00 PM CET | 12:00 PM EST | 09:00 AM PST | 04:00 PM GMT
07:00- 07:15 PM IDT | 04:00 - 04:15 PM GMT Opening Remarks
Ofra Strauss, Chairperson of Strauss Group
Dror Bin, CEO at the Israeli Innovation Authority
Nourishing a Better Tomorrow: Israeli Food-Tech mini-series, hosted by Sarai Givati
07:15- 07:30 PM IDT | 04:15 - 04:30 GMT
Episode 1: Meat The Future, featuring:
Neta Lavon, CTO Aleph Farms
Shir Friedman, Founder and Head of Operations & Communications, SuperMeat
Rom Kshuk CEO Future Meat Technologies
Fire-side chat:
Bruce Friedrich, Founder & CEO at GFI & Elizabeth Gutschenritter, Managing Director, Alternative Protein at Cargill.
07:30- 07:45 PM IDT | 04:30 - 04:45 PM GMT Episode 2: Dairy and Eggs Scramble, featuring:
Dr. Eyal Afergan, CEO Imagindairy
Liron Nimrodi, CEO ZeroEgg
Prof. Nurit Argov, CTO BioMilk
Taly Nechushtan, CEO InnovoPro
Fire-side chat:
Prof. Eyal Shimoni, CTO Strauss Group, & Eric Melloul, Board Member Oatly and Mutti.
07:45 - 08:00 PM IDT | 04:45 - 05:00 PM GMT Episode 3: Sweets For My Sweet, featuring:
Ilan Samish, CEO Amai Proteins
Ran Hirsch, Co-Founder & Chairman EatSane
Ari Melamud, CEO DouxMatok
Gali Yarom, COO & Co-Founder and Eran Blachinsky Co-Founder & CEO Better Juice
Fire-side chat:
Prof. Vincenzo Fogliano, Food Qquality and Design Washington University & Maya Schushan Orgad, PeakBridge CTO.
08:00- 08:15 PM IDT | 05:00 - 05:15 PM GMT Episode 4: Plant-Based Planet, featuring:Racheli Vizman, CEO & Co-founder SavorEatJonathan Goshen, CEO YeapShalom Daniel, CEO Mush FoodsDr. Yishai Mishori, CEO Meat The End
Fire-side chat: Rachel Konrad, former Chief Communications Officer Impossible Foods & Flavio Garofalo, Global Category Director Givaudan.
08:15- 08:30 PM IDT | 05:15 - 05:30 PM GMT
Episode 5: Making Food Great Again (meals & snacks), featuring:
Roy Naaman, CEO Torr
Anat Natan, CEO, Esti Brantz COO, Meidan Levy PM (Co-Founders) Anina Culinary Art
Yael Artsy, Global Commercialization Director Strauss Group
Dagan Eshel, VP Innovation Strauss Group
Fire-side chat:
Brigette Wolf, Global Head of SnackFutures, Mondelez & Natalie Shmulik, CEO The Hatchery Chicago.
08:30- 09:00 PM IDT | 05:30 - 06:00 PM GMT Closing Session
Inbal Becker- Reshef, Director, NASA Harvest & Research Professor, University of Maryland:
Advancing the use of satellite information for agricultural monitoring at the field to global scales, supporting decisions in food security and agricultural markets.
October 26

First Broadcast Starts at:
10:00 AM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 09:00 AM CET | 07:00 AM GMT
10:00 – 10:05 AM IDT | 07:00 - 07:05 AM GMT
Opening Remarks
Dr. Nitza Kardish, CEO, Fund Vice-Chair, AFIC VP, The Trendlines Group
Gideon Soesman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Greensoil Investments
Doron Meller, Executive Director, GrowingIL
10:05- 10:20 AM IDT | 07:05 - 07:20 AM GMT Keynote
Barbara Baarsma, CEO at Rabo Carbon Bank
10:20- 10:35 AM IDT | 07:20 - 07:35 AM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.1
Judge: Hadar Sutovsky, VP External Innovation & General Manager, ICL Planet
Howard Schwartz, Operations Manager at Autonomous Pivot
Yaniv Maor, Founder and CEO at Tevel Aerobotics
10:35 - 10:50 IDT | 07:35 - 07:50 AM GMT
Fireside Chat: Prospera & Valmont
After making the largest Israeli Agtech deal this year, Israeli Prospera meets American Valmont for an insightful conversation.
Daniel Kopel, CEO at Prospera
Darren Siekman, Vice President of Water Management & Business Development - Global Irrigation and Tubing at Valmont Industries
10:50 – 11:05 AM IDT | 07:50 - 08:05 AM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.2
Judge: Ori Ben-Herzel, VP of Value Creation at Migal, and CEO of Galileo- Migal Tech Transfer
Orly Savion, CEO at EcoPhage
David Eshed, Business Development at FreezeM
11:05 - 11:20 AM IDT | 08:05 - 08:20 AM GMT Fireside Chat: CropX & Dacom
As part of the series of mergers and acquisitions by Israeli company CropX, an insightful conversation with Dutch Dacom, the latest acquisition, will take place.
Tomer Tzach, CEO at CropX Technologies LTD
Janneke Hadders, CEO at Dacom Farm Intelligence
11:20 – 11:35 AM IDT | 08:20 - 08:35 AM GMT AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.3
Judge: Ronen Kreizman, Ph.D., VP Business Development Life Sciences at Yeda Research & Development.
Josef Melchner, Co-Founder & CEO at GO Smart
Shir Baor, CEO at IBI Ag
11:35 - 11:55 AM IDT | 08:35 - 08:55 AM GMT
Climate Smart Agriculture Panel
This panel will focus on how sustainability issues are affecting the way we grow our food, and what is the role of the industry leaders in this aspect.
Moderator: Galit Ofer, Head of Environmental Law, Cleantech & Climate Change Practice at Shibolet
Panelists:
Natasha Santos, Vice President, Head of Global Stakeholder Strategy & Affairs at Bayer
George Roche, Senior Investment Manager, Yara Growth Ventures
Erik Bruun Bindslev, Director, Value creation & Partnerships, Vaekstfonden
11:55 – 12:10 AM IDT | 08:55 - 09:10 AM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.4
Judge: Arnon Columbus, CEO at InNegev Incubator
Iddo Geltner, Co-Founder & CEO at Arugga AI
Yossi Levi, CEO at Todos Technologies
12:10- 12:30 AM IDT | 09:10 - 09:30 AM GMT Review:Projection – Investors POV Panel
This Panel will look back at the last 10 years of investments in agtech, as well as new trends like the overlap between agtech and climatetech, take a closer look at financial success stories and look forward to what we may expect in the next ten years, in Israel and beyond.
Moderator: Gideon Soesman, CO-Founder and Managing Partner at Greensoil Investment
Panelists:
Yoav Hineman, Partner at Fortissimo Capital
Philip Erlanger, PhD - Managing Partner, Pontifax AgTech – Los Angeles
Sedef Köktentürk, Managing Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Blue Horizon
Stefan Tresch, Head of AgInnovation & New Business at BASF Agricultural Solutions
12.30 PM IDT | 09:30 AM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition: Winner Announcement
With: Ofer Ben-Yehuda, Partner at Shibolet law Firm
and Itay Zetelny, Partner at EY
Thanks to the competition's steering comitee:
Leor Ben Yakov, Chief Innovation Officer - Head of Partnerships & Ventures (TLV), Mitsubishi Corporation
Eyal Cohen, Managing Partner, COPIA Ag&Food Technologies Fund
Michal Levy, Ph.D., Acting Chief Scientist & Senior Deputy Director General, Agricultural Innovation
The Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development
Amichai Baron, VP Business Development, Ramot at Tel Aviv University
Uri Fishleson, Head of Technology Scouting, Deloitte
Second Broadcast Starts at:
07:00 PM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 06:00 PM CET | 12:00 PM EST | 09:00 AM PST | 04:00 PM GMT
07:00 – 07:05 PM IDT | 04:00 - 04:05 PM GMT Opening Remarks
Dr. Nitza Kardish, CEO, Fund Vice-Chair, AFIC VP, The Trendlines Group
Gideon Soesman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Greensoil Investments
Doron Meller, Executive Director, GrowingIL
07:05- 07:20 PM IDT | 04:05 - 04:20 PM GMT Keynote
Barbara Baarsma, CEO at Rabo Carbon Bank
07:20 - 07:35 PM IDT | 04:20 - 04:35 PM GMT AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.1
Judge: Hadar Sutovsky, VP External Innovation & General Manager, ICL Planet
Howard Schwartz, Operations Manager at Autonomous Pivot
Yaniv Maor, Founder and CEO at Tevel Aerobotics
07:35 - 07:50 PM IDT | 04:35 - 04:50 PM GMT Fireside Chat: Prospera & Valmont
After making the largest Israeli Agtech deal this year, Israeli Prospera meets American Valmont for an insightful conversation.
Daniel Kopel, CEO at Prospera
Darren Siekman, Vice President of Water Management & Business Development - Global Irrigation and Tubing at Valmont Industries
07:50 – 08:05 PM IDT | 04:50 - 05:05 PM GMT AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.2
Judge: Ori Ben-Herzel, VP of Value Creation at Migal, and CEO of Galileo- Migal Tech Transfer
Orly Savion, CEO at EcoPhage
David Eshed, Business Development at FreezeM
08:05 - 08:20 PM IDT | 05:05 - 05:20 PM GMT
Fireside Chat: CropX & Dacom
As part of the series of mergers and acquisitions by Israeli company CropX, an insightful conversation with Dutch Dacom, the latest acquisition, will take place.
Tomer Tzach, CEO at CropX Technologies LTD
Janneke Hadders, CEO at Dacom Farm Intelligence
08:20 – 08:35 PM IDT | 05:20 - 05:35 PM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.3
Judge: Ronen Kreizman, Ph.D., VP Business Development Life Sciences at Yeda Research & Development.
Josef Melchner, Co-Founder & CEO at GO Smart
Shir Baor, CEO at IBI Ag
08:35- 08:55 PM IDT | 05:35 - 05:55 PM GMT
Climate-Smart Agriculture Panel
This panel will focus on how sustainability issues are affecting the way we grow our food, and what is the role of the industry leaders in this aspect.
Moderator: Galit Ofer, Head of Environmental Law, Cleantech & Climate Change Practice at Shibolet
Panelists:
Natasha Santos, Vice President, Head of Global Stakeholder Strategy & Affairs at Bayer
George Roche, Senior Investment Manager, Yara Growth Ventures
Erik Bruun Bindslev, Director, Value creation & Partnerships, Vaekstfonden
08:55 – 09:10 PM IDT | 05:55 - 06:10 PM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition Pt.4
Judge: Arnon Columbus, CEO at InNegev Incubator
Iddo Geltner, Co-Founder & CEO at Arugga AI
Yossi Levi, CEO at Todos Technologies
09:10 - 09:30 PM IDT | 06:10 - 06:30 PM GMT Review:Projection – Investors POV Panel
This Panel will look back at the last 10 years of investments in agtech, as well as new trends like the overlap between agtech and climatetech, take a closer look at financial success stories and look forward to what we may expect in the next ten years, in Israel and beyond.
Moderator: Gideon Soesman, CO-Founder and Managing Partner at Greensoil Investment
Panelists:
Yoav Hineman, Partner at Fortissimo Capital
Philip Erlanger, PhD - Managing Partner, Pontifax AgTech – Los Angeles
Sedef Köktentürk, Managing Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Blue Horizon
Stefan Tresch, Head of AgInnovation & New Business at BASF Agricultural Solutions
09:30 PM IDT | 06:30 PM GMT
AgriVest Startup Competition: Winner Announcement
With: Ofer Ben-Yehuda, Partner at Shibolet law Firm
and Itay Zetelny, Partner at EY
Thanks to the competition's steering comitee:
Leor Ben Yakov, Chief Innovation Officer - Head of Partnerships & Ventures (TLV), Mitsubishi Corporation
Eyal Cohen, Managing Partner, COPIA Ag&Food Technologies Fund
Michal Levy, Ph.D., Acting Chief Scientist & Senior Deputy Director General, Agricultural Innovation
The Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development
Amichai Baron, VP Business Development, Ramot at Tel Aviv University
Uri Fishleson, Head of Technology Scouting, Deloitte
October 27
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Startups Pitch-Day
First Broadcast Starts at:
10:00 AM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 09:00 AM CET | 07:00 AM GMT
AgTech
Aquaculture
AquiNovo, Nissim Chen, Founder & CEO
AlgaHealth, Eran Itzkovitch, CEO
Biofishency, Igal Magen, CTO
Crop Protection and Biotechnology
IBI- Ag, Shir Baor, CEO
EcoPhage, Orly Savion, CEO
Agrowing, Ira Dvir, CEO
BugEra, Yoav Etgar, CEO
Novel Growing Systems and Indoor Farming
Agwa Farm, Alon Wallach, CEO
Kinoko Tech, Jasmin Ravid, CEO
Plant-DiTech, Keren Moshelion, CEO
EZPack Water Ltd., Alex Harel, CEO
Post-Harvest and Supply Chain
Vanilla Vida, Oren Zilberman, Co-Founder &CEO
Yarok Microbio, Jonathan Sierra, CEO
Clarifruit, Elad Mardix, CEO & Co-founder
Smart Farming
Agritask, Amir Rubin, VP Marketing
Saturas, Anat Halgoa, CEO
Solchip, Tidhar Golan, CEO
Viridix, Tal Maor, CEO
BumbleBee AI, Thai Sade, Co-Founder & CEO
FruitSpec, Raviv Kula, CEO
FoodTech
Alternative Proteins - Ingredients
Flying Spark, Eran Gronich CEO
Imagindairy, Eyal Afergan CEO
Mush Foods, Shalom Daniel CEO
NextFerm, Boaz Noy CEO
Hargol FoodTech, Dror Tamir Co-Founder& CEO
Alternative Proteins - Products
Aleph Farms, Meirav Yom-tov, VP Corporate Development
Rilbite, Barak Melamed CEO
Yofix, Steve Grun CEO
Zero Egg, Liron Nimrodi CEO
Healthy Eating - Products
Anina, Anat Natan CEO
Maolac, Maya Ashkenazi CEO
Torr, Roy Naaman, CEO
Healthy Eating - Technologies
Amai, Ilan Samish CEO
Better Juice, Gali Yaron Founder & COO
Phytolon, Tal Zeltzer CEO
Food & Water Safety
Bio Fence, Ofer Shoam CEO
Prevera, Gal Shamri CEO
TasteWise, Ron Herick CEO
Second Broadcast Starts at:
07:00 PM IDT (Israel Day Time) | 06:00 PM CET | 12:00 PM EST | 09:00 AM PST | 04:00 PM GMT
AgTech
Aquaculture
AquiNovo, Nissim Chen, Founder & CEO
AlgaHealth, Eran Itzkovitch, CEO
Biofishency, Ofer Shoham, CEO
Crop Protection and Biotechnology
IBI- Ag, Shir Baor, CEO
EcoPhage, Orly Savion, CEO
Agrowing, Ira Dvir, CEO
BugEra, Yoav Etgar, CEO
Novel Growing Systems and Indoor Farming
Agwa Farm, Alon Wallach, CEO
Kinoko Tech, Jasmin Ravid, CEO
Plant-DiTech, Keren Moshelion, CEO
EZPack Water Ltd., Alex Harel, CEO
Post-Harvest and Supply Chain
Vanilla Vida, Oren Zilberman, Co-Founder &CEO
Yarok Microbio, Jonathan Sierra, CEO
Clarifruit, Elad Mardix, CEO & Co-founder
Smart Farming
Agritask, Amir Rubin, VP Marketing
Saturas, Anat Halgoa, CEO
Solchip, Tidhar Golan, CEO
Viridix, Tal Maor, CEO
BumbleBee AI, Thai Sade, Co-Founder & CEO
FruitSpec, Raviv Kula, CEO
FoodTech
Alternative Proteins - Ingredients
Flying Spark, Eran Gronich CEO
Imagindairy, Eyal Afergan CEO
Mush Foods, Shalom Daniel CEO
NextFerm, Boaz Noy CEO
Hargol FoodTech, Dror Tamir Co-Founder& CEO
Alternative Proteins - Products
Aleph Farms, Meirav Yom-tov, VP Corporate Development
Rilbite, Barak Melamed CEO
Yofix, Steve Grun CEO
Zero Egg, Liron Nimrodi CEO
Healthy Eating - Products
Anina, Anat Natan CEO
Maolac, Maya Ashkenazi CEO
Torr, Roy Naaman, CEO
Healthy Eating - Technologies
Amai, Ilan Samish CEO
Better Juice, Gali Yaron Founder & COO
Phytolon, Tal Zeltzer CEO
Food & Water Safety
Bio Fence, Ofer Shoam CEO
Prevera, Gal Shamri CEO
TasteWise, Ron Herick CEO