Leverage Israel
The flagship of Israeli tech, in San Francisco for one day.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · The Hibernia, 1 Jones St, San Francisco, CA 94102 · SF Tech Week
Presented by Onyx Security · Co-hosted with a16z speedrun
1,200 founders, investors and operators · Register
Agenda
- 9:00 AM - Doors, registration and breakfast
- 9:45 AM - Opening remarks - Nir Naamani (Co-founder & CEO, Leverage)
- 10:00 AM - From zero to IPO, expanding globally and growing in the US - Shuly Galili (Founding Partner, UpWest) - Eran Ashkenazi (CBO, SentinelOne) - Ari Haber (Moderator, Partner, Fenwick)
- 10:30 AM - Who owns the data layer - Tamar Bercovici (VP of Engineering, Box) - Reah Miyara (Sr. Director & Head of Models, Google) - Anthony Goldbloom (Founder, Kaggle · CEO, Sumble) - Yaron Singer (Moderator, CEO, Stealth)
- 11:00 AM - The Case for Open Source Models - Dr. Yair Adato (CEO, Bria) - Ron Efroni (Co-founder & CEO, Flox) - Dr. Roy Nissim (AI Inference Lead, Red Hat) - Eyal Niv (Moderator, Managing Partner, Pitango)
- 11:30 AM - How to Ensure Israel Is Not Losing the AI Race - Reah Miyara (Sr. Director & Head of Models, Google) - Hagay Lupesko (SVP, AI Inference, Cerebras Systems) - Itai Zadok (Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA) - Col. (Res) Ryan Gity (Moderator, Secretary & Member, Israel's National Committee for AI Strategy)
- 12:00 PM - Deep Tech & Defense - Col. (Res) Ryan Gity (Secretary & Member, Israel's National Committee for AI Strategy) - Sam Feldman (Corporate Affairs & Special Projects, Palantir) - Lee Jacobs (Moderator, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Long Journey Ventures) - Special guest
- 12:30 PM - Lunch and the partner expo
- 1:30 PM - Ops & GTM in the U.S. Market - Ron Miasnik (VP of Business Development, Cognition) - Gili Guri-Mill (VP Product Marketing, Deel) - Sophie Rose (Moderator, Founding GTM, OpenAI)
- 2:00 PM - Cybersecurity in the AGI-era - Gil Elbaz (Co-founder & Chief AI Officer, Onyx Security) - Evyatar Ben Asher (Member of the Technical Staff, Anthropic) - Shir Chorev (Moderator, Co-founder & CTO, Leverage)
- 2:30 PM - Future of Physical AI - Elana Lian (Partner, Dell Technologies Capital) - Hagay Lupesko (SVP, AI Inference, Cerebras Systems) - Sam Nagar (Founder & CEO, Terragrit) - Avidan Ross (Moderator, Managing Partner, Root Ventures)
- 3:00 PM - Building the Next $100B AI Infra Companies - Josh Sirota (Founder & CEO, Eragon) - Ron Kimchi (CTO & Co-founder, Eon) - Lior Alexander (Moderator, CEO, AlphaSignal)
- 3:25 PM - Agents Restructure The Financial Stack - Nick Shalek (General Partner, Ribbit Capital) - Michael Morgenstern (Moderator, Head of Startups, Airwallex)
- 3:55 PM - Crossing the Chasm: What It Takes for Israeli Founders to Win in the U.S. - Shuly Galili (Founding Partner, UpWest) - Uri Knorovich (Co-founder & CEO, Nimble) - Zach Potter (Moderator, Program Lead, VCs & Startups, monday.com)
- 4:15 PM - Closing remarks - Nir Naamani (Co-founder & CEO, Leverage)
- 4:30 PM - Closing reception
Speakers
- Gil Elbaz - Co-founder & Chief AI Officer, Onyx Security
- Evyatar Ben Asher - Member of the Technical Staff, Anthropic
- Tamar Bercovici - VP of Engineering, Box
- Reah Miyara - Sr. Director & Head of Models, Google
- Anthony Goldbloom - Founder, Kaggle · CEO, Sumble
- Yaron Singer - CEO, Stealth
- Josh Sirota - Founder & CEO, Eragon
- Elana Lian - Partner, Dell Technologies Capital
- Dr. Yair Adato - CEO, Bria
- Hagay Lupesko - SVP, AI Inference, Cerebras Systems
- Dr. Roy Nissim - AI Inference Lead, Red Hat
- Michael Morgenstern - Head of Startups, Airwallex
- Shir Chorev - Co-founder & CTO, Leverage
- Eyal Niv - Managing Partner, Pitango
- Col. (Res) Ryan Gity - Secretary & Member, Israel's National Committee for AI Strategy
- Nick Shalek - General Partner, Ribbit Capital
- Shuly Galili - Founding Partner, UpWest
- Sam Feldman - Corporate Affairs & Special Projects, Palantir
- Itai Zadok - Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA
- Ron Efroni - Co-founder & CEO, Flox
- Ari Haber - Partner, Fenwick
- Lee Jacobs - Co-founder & Managing Partner, Long Journey Ventures
- Sophie Rose - Founding GTM, OpenAI
- Avidan Ross - Managing Partner, Root Ventures
- Sam Nagar - Founder & CEO, Terragrit
- Ron Kimchi - CTO & Co-founder, Eon
- Lior Alexander - CEO, AlphaSignal
- Eran Ashkenazi - CBO, SentinelOne
- Gili Guri-Mill - VP Product Marketing, Deel
- Ron Miasnik - VP of Business Development, Cognition
- Zach Potter - Program Lead, VCs & Startups, monday.com
- Uri Knorovich - Co-founder & CEO, Nimble
- Almog Hillel - AI R&D, Decart
Partners
- Founding Partner: Onyx Security
- Gold Partner: Eragon
- Silver Partner: Fenwick, Dell Technologies Capital, monday.com, Red Hat, Pitango, UpWest
- Logo Partner: Deel, Bria, Manifest Law