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MAIN CONFERENCE DAY, WEDNESDAY OCT 24, 2018
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This is the detailed agenda of the main conference day.
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For the overall program highlights - please follow this link
08:00 - 09:00
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
09:00 - 09:20
OPENING REMARKS
RAHMYN KRESS
Chief Digital Officer, Henkel
09:20 - 09:40
STATE OF THE BOTS
AMIT BEN
CTO, Bold 360 by LogMeIn
09:40 - 10:00
BRINGING BOTS TO BILLIONS
CHRIS POPPLE
Product Owner, Applied Science
Loyds Banking Group
10:00 - 10:20
RISE OF THE HUMAN BOT SYMBIOTE
MICHAEL FERTIK
Founder & Managing Partner, Heroic Ventures
10:20 - 10:40
INVESTING IN BOTS
AKEMI TSUNAGAWA
Founder & CEO, Bespoke Ink
10:00 - 10:20
RISE OF THE HUMAN BOT SYMBIOTE
JAN MORGENTHAL
Chief Product Owner, Deutsche Telekom AG
10:20 - 10:40
INVESTING IN BOTS
MIKE GOZZO
Co-Founder & CEO, Smooch
COFFEE & NETWORKING
10:40-11:00
09:00-09:20 | OPENING REMARKS
Yehuda Messinger, MC
Managing Partners, M&S Investments
09:20-09:40 | OPENING KEYNOTE
09:40-10:10 | INVESTORS PANEL
Almost Everything Sucks … So Far.
Why Investing in Chatbots is About to Get Awesome!
Michael Fertik
Founder & Managing Partner, Heroic Ventures
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10:10-10:25 | KEYNOTE
Creating Emotional Connections Using Voice Interactions
Speaker to be announced
An executive from a Leading Brand
10:25-10:40 | KEYNOTE
10:40-10:45 | SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Yehuda Messinger, MC
Managing Partners, M&S Investments
CENTER STAGE
COFFEE & NETWORKING
10:45-11:00
11:30-13:00 | GOOGLE ASSISTANT WORKSHOP
Ido Green
Developer Advocate at Google
CENTER STAGE
11:00-11:15 | KEYNOTE
Rise of the Human-Bot Symbiote
Amit Ben
Nanorep CTO, LogMeIn
11:15-11:30 | KEYNOTE
11:30-12:00 | PANEL
Chatbot Disrupt: A 360 Degree View of How Brands Are Coping with the Bot Revolution
Oded Lavie
Head of Innovation, McCann Tel-Aviv Digital
Gabi Guedj
Business Unit Director, Ness A.T
Nitzan Feraro
Marketing Director, Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv
Bozena Rezab
CEO & Co-Founder, GAMEE
Noam Fine
General Manager, Iam+ Israel
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12:10-12:15 | TRANSITION BREAK
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12:15-12:30 | KEYNOTE
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Nathan Bajrach
Founder & CEO, Virtual Spirits
12:30-12:45 | KEYNOTE
The Story Behind Smartest Banking Bot in Italy!
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Alessandro Vitale
CEO & Founder, Conversate
Matteo Baido
Head of IT Innovation, Ubi Banca
12:45-13:00 | KEYNOTE
PRODUCT & UX STAGE
11:00-11:05 | OPENING REMARKS
Niran Amir
Customer Success Manager, WalkMe
11:05-11:20| KEYNOTE
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Gali Konky
VP of Product, LivePerson
11:20-11:35 | KEYNOTE
The Story Behind The North Face Bot
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Guy Cohen
Cloud & Cognitive Specialist, IBM
11:35-12:10 | PANEL
From Gimmick to Strategic: What Is Missing for Bots to Become Mainstream?
Niran Amir
Customer Success Manager, WalkMe
Michael Bridges
Chief Content Officer, Stashimi/Bot1
Ron Sasson
CEO, Skyler360
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Kobi Stok
VP Product, WalkMe
Nitzan Almog Evron
Head Of Digital Marketing, Tech & CX, Coca Cola
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Netta Tzin
Product Manager, LeO​
12:10 - 12:15 | TRANSITION BREAK
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12:15-12:30 | KEYNOTE
How To Monetize Your Bot - How To Make Chatbots A Success
Piyush Chandra
Senior Director, Conversational AI, SAP
12:30 - 13:05 | PANEL
Strategies for Giving Your Bot a Human Touch
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Seetvun Amir
Product Ecosystem, Bots & Innovation Lead at LivePerson
Simon Morel
Partner & Creative Director, BotSupply
Max Unger
Partner, TheVentury
Lior Romanowsky
Founder & CEO, Spartans AI
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Lior Bachar
Nanorep Product Manager, LogMeIn
DEV & AI STAGE
11:00-11:05 | OPENING REMARKS
Alon Mei-Raz
Chief Data Officer, Ashford
11:05-11:20 | KEYNOTE
11:20-11:35 | KEYNOTE
The Story Behind the Staples Bot​
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Tal Neeman
Cloud Developer Advocate, IBM
11:35-12:10 | PANEL
How to Build Smarter Bot Using AI
Filip Maertens
CEO, Faction XYZ
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Uri Eliabayev
Founder, Machine & Deep Learning Israel
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Prateek Gupte
Director Of Engineering, Haptik
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Gregor Jarisch
Chatbot Lead, EdTech Foundry
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Nikola Mrksic
CEO, PolyAi
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Teddy Lazebnik
CTO & Co-Founder, VIAEAI
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12:10-12:15 | TRANSITION BREAK
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12:15-12:25 | KEYNOTE
12:25-12:40 | KEYNOTE
Multilingual, Multimedia, Multimodal Chatbot for Lenovo Global Services
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Stefan Schaffer
Researcher, DFKI GmbH
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Changjian Hu
Research Director, Lenovo Group
12:40-13:00 | KEYNOTE
Conversational AI - Developing Business Value for a Multi-National Audience
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James Allerton-Austin
Senior Director Cloud Platform Product Management, Oracle
LUNCH BREAK
13:00-13:45
14:30-15:30 | IBM ASSISTANT WORKSHOP
Anamita Guha
Product Manager at IBM
Avi Vizel
Developer Advocate at IBM
CENTER STAGE
13:45-14:20 | PANEL
Chatbots in Production: Real-Life Stories of Brands Deploying Bots
Philipp Wolf
Head of Business Development, Rasa
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Nathaniel Kohn
AI Tech Lead , Citi
Shai Wininger
Co-Founder & Chief Lemonade Officer, Lemonade
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Maxim Markert
Associate Director Digitization at UBS
Arjun Patel
Global Digital Product Manager at HSBC
14:20-14:35 | KEYNOTE
14:35-14:50 | KEYNOTE
14:50-15:25 | PANEL
The New Bots on the Block(chain)
Yaniv Feldman
CEO, Cointelligence
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Guy Benartzi
Co-founder, Bancor
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Jonathan Irom
Partner, GKH
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Moshe Hogeg
Founder & Co-CEO at Sirin Labs
PRODUCT & UX STAGE
13:45-14:20 | PANEL
Voice of the Bots
Oded Zilinsky
Product Strategist, ChatBot Strategy Lead, Micro Focus
Markus Linder
Founder & CEO, SMARTASSISTAN
Michal Raz
Global VP of Business Development, Vonage
Rachel Batish
CRO, Conversation.one
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Kristina Katkute
Digital Psychologist, Green Orange
14:20-14:35 | KEYNOTE
14:35-14:50 | KEYNOTE
14:50-15:05 | KEYNOTE
DEV & AI STAGE
GATHERING TO CENTER STAGE
15:25-15:30
CENTER STAGE
15:30-15:45 | KEYNOTE
Marketing Bot: A Success Story of a Leading Brand
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Asaf Nevo
CEO, Pico
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Matthew Gardner
Digital Strategy, St. Louis Blues
15:45-16:00 | STARTUP COPMPETITION FINALISTS
Batya Mor
Head of Startups, Chatbot Summit
Guy Dancig
Executive VP & Deputy CEO, Ness
Guy Gordon
Partner and Team Leader in the hi-tech international department, GKH
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Gil May-Tal
Head of Startup & Developer Ecosystem, IBM
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Michel Biton
Head of R&D, LivePerson
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Arjun Patel
Digital Product Head, HSBC
16:00-16:15 | KEYNOTE
16:15 -16:30 | CLOSING REMARKS & STARTUP COMPETITION ANNOUNCMENT
Yoav Barel
Founder & CEO, Chatbot Summit
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Batya Mor
Head of Startups, Chatbot Summit
