Conference Chairpersons
Organizing Committee

Eyal Lavi
Manager
Water Industries Association of Israel
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Faculty member, Department of Water Industry Engineering
Plenary
Moderators
Agriculture: Digitalization vs Conservative approaches
Executive Director
Municipality: Smart Water Systems & Digitalization
Senior Advisor
Municipality: Water Treatment Technologies (Micro Pollutants and PFAS)
Chief Toxicologist Env Health
Desalination

Miriam Brusilovsky
Technical Director -Assets
IDE Technologies Ltd
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Agriculture: Smallholders Water Vision
Project Manager
Desalination: Innovation and Emerging Technologies
CTO & Deputy to CEO
Nature: AI / Big Data for Nature
VP of Policy & Head of Legal
Municipality: Innovative Approaches to Challenges at Water Utililities
Senior Director
Agriculture: Smallholders Water Vision
Project Manager
Desalination: Mekorot - Israel National Water Company
Director of Desalination and Special Projects Division
Desalination: Policy and Regulation

Eyal Schreiber
Chairman
Water Desalination Administration (WDA)
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Desalination: Desalination and Sustainability

Alejandro Sturniolo
Director
International Desalination and Reuse Association (IDRA)
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Municipality: Water Resource Management: Decentralized vs. Centralized Treatment

Arnon Yohanan
Head of Application Engineering
Aquestia
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AGRICULTURE

Dan Grotsky
Bioagriculture Entrepreneur
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Ori Ben-Herzel VP of Value Creation
VP of Value Creation
MIGAL Galilee Research Institute
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Irwin Boutboul
Founder
Google Startups for Sustainable Development
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Galit Cohen
Head of Climate and National Security
The Institute for National Security Studies | INSS
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Ilanit Kabessa Cohen
Managing Partner
URIKA Venture and Innovation Partners
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Moderator

Roni Levy
Project Manager
Pears Progam for Global Innovation
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Lior Naaman
CMO & CPO
SupPlant
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Daniel Pinhassi
Ex-Israeli Ambassador, Business Development, Africa
Green2000
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Ambassador Einat Shlein
Ambassador, Head of MASHAV, Deputy Director General
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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DESALINATION

Diego Berger
International Special Projects Coordinator
Mekorot
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Gabriel Blejman
European Director
Circular Carbon
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Miriam Brusilovsky
Technical Director -Assets
IDE Technologies Ltd
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Tomer Efrat
Director, Business Development & Product Management
IDE Technologies
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Dr. Boris Liberman
CTO and Vice President
IDE Technologies
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David Muhlgay
CEO
Omis Water Ltd.
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Moderator

Eyal Schreiber
Chairman
Water Desalination Administration (WDA)
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Moderator

Alejandro Sturniolo
Director
International Desalination and Reuse Association (IDRA)
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Alon Tavor
CEO
IDE Technologies Group
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Iddo Tsur
Co-Founder & COO
CarbonBlue
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Ron Weitzman
Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management JCE
Azrieli Academic College of Engineering
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Sivan Zamir
VP, Early-Stage Innovation & Corporate Venture
Xylem
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MUNICIPALITY
Speaker: Industrial Re-Use

Yotvat Bar El
Environmental Engineer
Intel
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Speaker: International Policy

Ambassador Gideon Bechar
Special Envoy on Climate Change and Sustainability
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Keynote Speaker

Prof. Benny Chefetz
Professor, ARO - Volcani Institute Professor
Vulcani, Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
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Speaker: National Policy

Liad Deri Hermon
Supervisor & Regulation Engineer
Israel Water Authority
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Lea Duxler
Business Development Manager
ASTERRA
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Keynote Speaker

Ezra Shai
Director
Mekorot
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Ohad Gal
VP R&D
Aquarius Spectrum (AQS)
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Ricardo (Caco) Gilead Baibich
CTO, Business Development Manager
Mekorot
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Asaf Karavani
Director of Forest Management and Monitoring Department
KKL
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Nivi Kessler
The Israel Water Authority
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Tal Levi
Product Manager & Application Engineer
BERMAD
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Ella Levy
Chief of Environmental Data Analytic Engineering
IOSight
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Keynote

Doron Mansdorf
Section Manager
Hagihon
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Keynote

Booky Oren
Chairman and CEO
Booky Oren Global Water Technologies
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Prof. Avi Ostfeld
Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
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Avner Ronen
Snr. Lecturer
Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben Gurion University
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Moderator

Arnon Yohanan
Head of Application Engineering
Aquestia
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NATURE

Eli Bar-On
Co-Founder & Executive Director
MENA 2050
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Galit Cohen
Head of Climate and National Security
The Institute for National Security Studies | INSS
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Shirley Shahar
Co-Founder
DANA Global
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