David Ishee is a biohacker and dog breeder working on projects to improve access to genetic engineering technology. Starting with no degree or laboratory David had to be self-taught genetic engineering and build his own genetic engineering lab. With a lab built from home made and used genetics equipment he’s been able to bootstrap genetically modified organisms at a fraction of the typical costs. His projects range from developing more accessible methods of gene editing dogs that allow breeders to remove genetic disease, all the way to developing DIY methods of gene therapy for humans.

His work is focused around the idea that these powerful new technologies can only reach their potential if they’re accessible to a broad DIY community and the rapid innovation it can drive. This work led to media coverage all over the world with the biggest coverage of some of his work being on the BBC, MIT technology review, New Scientist, Showtime and a 4 part documentary on Netflix called “Unnatural Selection”. 

Yoni is the head of cyber defense center at Bank Hapoalim - Israel’s leading financial institution. The cyber defense center is a fusion center consists of security operations, anti-fraud team and DLP desk. After significate military service at IDF’s intelligence corps 8200-unit, Yoni had moved to the private sector. Before joining bank Hapoalim Yoni served as cyber intelligence officer in
the police cybercrime unit 433. With over 10 years of experience Yoni possess broad background in fraud prevention, cybercrime investigations, cyber intelligence (humint and sigint) and cyber operations. Yoni holds B.A in business management and economy.

Ofer Maor is Co-Founder & CTO of Mitiga.io, where he innovating Incident readiness & response technologies for cloud environments. He has over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and entrepreneurship, and was previously the founder of Seeker (acquired by Synopsys), where he invented IAST, a next-generation application security testing technology, currently used by some
of the largest organizations in the world. Prior to that he was the founder of Hacktics (acquired by EY), and a founding employee at Imperva. He is also active in the cybersecurity community, and has served as a Global Board Member for OWASP.

Omri has been leading sales and business activities globally in different companies focusing on utilities and different industry verticals.
Prior to joining Grove, Omri was leading APAC activities in Claroty (part of Team8 group) and was co-founder and Vice President of business development at ICS2 - a cyber security startup focusing on protecting power, oil, gas, and petrochemicals plants.
Omri has over a decade of experience as global sales and business executive in technology driven companies such as Dune Networks and Broadcom where he led innovative technology projects in power generation, communication and wireless technologies.
Omri was promoted to Investment Partner after a tenure as Grove’s Investment Principal and is now leveraging his engineering background and managerial experience to create value to Grove’s portfolio companies with their global business activities.

CISO in 5 leading companies. Experienced Chief Information Security Officer with a demonstrated history of working in financial & health care industry.
Skilled in Vulnerability Assessment, Information Security Management, Security, Penetration Testing, and Data Security.
Building an information security department from scratch (processes, procedures and technology)
Responsible for security roadmap and long-term planning. Able to innovate.
Lead security factor to higher management (CEO and board of directors).

Assaf Marco is leading product strategy team at Sompo cyber security. Which includes pre-sales, marketing and technical services development.
Prior to his current position Assaf had served in the Israel Embassy in Japan as a senior commercial officer promoting and developing the Japanese market for the Israeli security industry and took key part in strengthening the partnership between Israel and Japan in the homeland security and cyber security fields.
For example, exposing Israeli companies for business opportunities in Japan and locating the relevant Japanese partners and working with Japanese government to seek collaborations initiatives, which resulted in the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Israel Ministry of Economy and Industry and Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
One of Assaf’s tasks is to promote the Israel industry to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games.
Assaf served for the Israeli Military for 20 years in various commanding positions. 
 

Jonathan Langer, CEO and co-founder of Medigate, has spent the last year and a half protecting medical devices and clinical networks in top hospitals and health systems across the United States. After witnessing the WannaCry attack on healthcare, Jonathan, along with his two co-founders, used their expertise to use to solve medical device security challenges. Jonathan gained his cybersecurity expertise in the Israeli Defense Intelligence Corps, where we worked his way up to branch leader and commanded a team of technical analysts focused on the research of cyber related domains, earning the prestigious Israel Defense Award. Jonathan holds a LL.B from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

Europe is known as the originator of the world’s toughest data-protection laws, and few have done more than Max Schrems to give those laws real teeth. A lawyer and Facebook user who launched a crusade against the company’s privacy practices as a student some nine years ago, Schrems’s legal challenges have resulted in the destruction of two major U.S.-EU data-transfer agreements—Safe Harbor (in 2015) and Privacy Shield (in July of this year)—while also bolstering the power of Europe’s data-protection watchdogs to tackle any company’s behavior, as long as that company operates on European soil. The latest developments in that long-running saga could see Facebook ordered to stop transferring Europeans’ data to the U.S., unless that country reforms its surveillance practices and finally adopts federal privacy legislation. Schrems now heads up an organization called NOYB (None Of Your Business) that makes formal data-protection complaints, drawn up by experts, on behalf of regular people.

Yaara Shriki is an experienced security researcher at Check Point Security Technologies. She is an IDF technological unit graduate with experience in penetration testing, vulnerability research and forensics. Outside of work, Yaara volunteers to promote women and girls in tech.

Ben-Ari is an expert at building communities and networks - both online and offline. His technical background enables him to provide visibility into companies' seemingly blind spots and build large systems to empower users through insight-sharing. Ben-Ari is a recognized Google Developers Expert, co-founder of "Big Things" - one of the largest big data communities - and of the local Google Developer Group Cloud. He is a renowned international speaker, presenting big data solutions and distributed and scalable systems to both technical and management teams.

Keith currently serves as an Managing Director, Advisory-Cybersecurity for EY where he is responsible for shaping cybersecurity investigations, threat intelligence, and threat resiliency.   Prior to joining EY, Keith was a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for over twenty years. 

While assigned to the FBI’s Cyber Division, Keith successfully worked with Private Industry Subject Matter Experts to develop proactive intelligence sharing and targeting to disrupt and dismantle the most egregious Cyber-criminal enterprises. During his career, Keith led some of the most significant FBI Cyber investigations to include; the 2016 Presidential Election hacks; the first ever indictment of five members of the People's Liberation Army for hacking and stealing U.S. commercial secrets; and the dismantlement of major botnet and malware organizations.  Keith also worked undercover penetrating cyber underground groups which was chronicled in the books "Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground“ and “DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia.”  Recently, Keith’s time working undercover was featured in an episode of Mashable’s Kernel Panic series.  

Keith has received the U.S. Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service, the RSA Award for Excellence in Public Policy, and twice received the FBI Director's Award for Excellence in Outstanding Cyber Investigation.