Erez Kreiner, Five C
Security Threats to the World of Transportation
President of Five C, a global security solutions company providing cyber defensefor companies, organizations, and governments. Former Director of Israel’s National Cyber Security Authority. In this role, he was responsible for preventing cyber-attacks on Israel’s critical infrastructures and assets and to secure classified information in government ministries, institution and companies. Over his twenty five years career at the ISA (Israel Security Agency), Mr. Kreiner has dealt with a range of risks in both the physical and virtual domains. He led the development of new methodologies and tools to defend power supply, information, communications, transportation, finance, health, and other essential services. Previously, he was the Director of Information Security at the ISA and the Director of Israeli Security in Europe. During his career Mr. Kreiner collaborated, lead, and coordinated international cyber defense activities with companies, governments, agencies, and cyber organizations.
Israel Ronn, Spotam
Global Trends in Transportation
President and Founder of Spotam – A knowledge center and consultancy entity for the connected car, M2M (Internet of things) and location based services industries.
Israel Ronn brings to the table over twenty five years of executive management as well as vast technology and marketing experience. Mr. Ronn's background includes leading local and multinational companies in the areas of Vehicle Telematics, Location Based Services, Telecommunication, M2M Wireless, and Voice Processing.
Ram Levi, Yuval Ne'eman Workshop
It's not a traffic jam - It's a Cyberattacks
He is a Cybersecurity Expert, Founder and CEO at Konfidas Ltd. - cybersecurity strategy Solutions Company, and a public speaker. Also, he is a Cybersecurity advisor to the National Research and Development Council, Ministry of Science and Technology and Space and a senior researcher at the Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security at Tel Aviv University. In the past, he served as Secretary of the Prime Minister's National Cyber Initiative Task Force and was a co-author of the President of Israel's committee on the Israeli National Space Policy. Also, he is a Co-founder and former ceo of Excyber Ltd. - a strategic cybersecurity company. He holds a degree in Computer Science.
Arik Abutbul, Israel Roads
Traffic Control Systems
Head of traffic management and control at Netivei Israel. Responsible for the management of interurban traffic including national control center. Former director of software projects in the cellular industry. Col. reserves - the IDF.
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Isreal Feldman, ITS
Preparing organizations for Cyber threats
Founder and President of IFEL Advanced Systems Ltd. The company performs System Analysis, O.R and Development Services and Systems development. Founder, CEO and President of Estimotion Inc. A technological innovative start-up which had developed new concepts and methods to provide real time, high quality and low cost traffic information. An Excellence-Initiative-Sign - by the State of Israel regarding the development of mainheadquarters war-game in the IDF.
Software architect at Autotalks, charged with defining the software platform that supports Autotalks' car-to-car communication and security chipset. Alex has contributed to international standardization of car-to-car communication security protocols under the IEEE 1609 and ETSI EN 302 standards series.Previously Alex worked as a software engineer in Microsoft's Forefront security products division and in the IDF Intelligence Corps.
Eran Tromer, TAU
Integrity in car-computing
A faculty member at Tel Aviv University's School of Computer Science. His research area is cryptography and information security, focusing on risks posed by physical information leakage anduntrusted platforms such as cloud computing. Dr. Tromer received hisPh.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and subsequently pursued hisresearch at MIT and at Microsoft Research. At Tel Aviv University, Dr.Tromer is heading the Lab for Experimental Information Security and iscodirector of the Check Point Institute for Information Security.
Ziv Levi, Arilou
Communication and Security in Vehicles
Founder of Arilou Technologies focusing on cyber security in the vehicular domain. Ziv is a cyber security specialist with years of hands-on experience in the field, which includes security oriented research of complex systems, development of innovative security products' prototypes and research of advanced cyber security mechanisms. Moreover, Ziv was responsible to the integration of such mechanisms into existing and under development projects.
Joseph Prashker, Technion
Transportation Engineer.Former Chief Scientist of the Transportation Ministry. Former head of the Transportation research Institue- Technion. Research Interests: Decision making processes and discrete choice models Route choice characteristics in transportation networks Solution methods of traffic assignment in transportation networks
Experts Panel
Partner inTulchinsky Stern Marciano Cohen Levitski & Co.’s commercial and corporate department with specific expertise representing venture capital and private equity funds. Daniel also represents clients in the technology industry at all stages of development, from establishment, through early stage investment up until merger or acquisition.Prior to joining the firm, Daniel was a partner in the commercial and corporate department of Herzog, Fox & Neeman and subsequently a partner in Israel Seed Partners, a Jerusalem-based venture capital fund with close to $300m under management.
Experts Panel
Daniel Chinn, Adv.
Meir Arnon, Chairman EcoMotion
He founded Focus Capital Group (FCG) - a leading Investments Boutiques, in 1988 and currently serves as its Chairman and CEO. Since its establishment and under his leadership, FCG has initiated and concluded various transactions. Prior to founding FCG, Arnon served as Co- Founder and Chairman of New Dimension Software that was later sold to BMC Software. Arnon is an active member of the YPO-WPO organization, Co- Fonder of the Israeli Chapter and a champion in many events and Chapters worldwide. He is a board member of The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, active member of the BOD of EUROBAT and he is Co-Founder and Chairman of EcoMotion – A global interdisciplinary community engaged in Smart Transportation. He holds a B.Sc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD, and he is an HBS alumni.
Alex Reicher, Autotalks
Experts Panel
Opening Remarks
Assaf Harel, Check Point
Experts Panel
Business Development Manager at Check Point and the company representative at to the Check Point Institute for Information Security in Tel Aviv University (CPIIS). Assaf holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Technion, andan MBA from Haifa University. He has more than 15 years of experience leading the development of communications and security products..
