Microsoft Reactor

All Founders by Microsoft for Startups is Israel’s largest gathering of entrepreneurs, designed to inspire and educate. Now in its third year, this event highlights the pivotal role of founders, whether they are first-time founders, serial entrepreneurs, or technical founders. This year, the focus will be on AI, featuring two tracks: business and deep tech use cases of AI. Featuring industry leaders, the event celebrates our ecosystem's collective strength to empower one another and achieve greater success.
Despite each founder and startup's uniqueness, common challenges exist at different stages. From validating ideas and speeding up time to market, to securing funding and boosting sales, All Founders provides entrepreneurs with access to best practices and practical tools to help them grow their ventures and develop as founders.

AI Technical Track - Developers, SaaS IT, Cyber, Opensource
• 15:00 Network and Gathering

• 16:00 - Opening Session Raz Bachar (Managing Director) & Adir Ron (EMEA Team Lead - AI advisory) at Microsoft for Startups

• 16:15 - Israeli Innovation and Resilience, for a Better World - Izhar Shay (Former Minister of Science & Technology & Co-founder, Next October)

• 16:30 MLOps - Repeating DevOps History - Yoav Landman JFrog CTO & Co Founder

• 17:00 Generative AI Rocks! How to Safeguard Tomorrow's Innovations – [Elad Schulman Lasso CEO & Co Founder]
Organizations are rapidly adopting Generative AI (GenAI), with 79% leveraging these technologies, marking a shift driven by Large Language Models (LLMs). However, this brings security, risk, trust, and compliance concerns, with new threats like prompt injection and data leakage emerging. Lasso Security will highlight the top GenAI and LLM threats, why traditional security tools are insufficient, and best practices for securing your organization in this new era.
• 17:30 Break

• 17:45 Software ate the world. Is lunchtime over? [Or Hiltch, Chief Data and AI architect at JLL & Efrat Garber-Aran,Data Scientist At AI21 Labs]
In a debate format session, we examine the profound impact of software on industries, questioning if AI-generated code and AI developer tools signify the peak of this influence. Has the era of software-driven disruption concluded, or is it just evolving? Join us for a spirited discussion on the future of AI in software development and its implications for innovation and industry transformation.

• 18:15 Taming the LLM Beast: Overcoming Key Challenges in Large Language Model Production - [Amit Bleiweiss Senior Solution Architect at NVIDIA and Amit Svarzenberg, MfS AI Advisor]
Unlocking the transformative potential of large language models requires overcoming significant hurdles around data quality, customization, model robustness, scalability, and responsible deployment. This session will cover practical strategies and proven techniques to navigate these obstacles seamlessly

• 18:45 - How AI changes the daily lives of serial entrepreneurs: a fireside chat between founders and their investor
Michael Eisenberg (Equal Partner @Aleph) in a fireside chat with Roee Adler (CEO and Co-Founder @Hud) & May Walter (CTO & Co-Founder @Hud)

• 19:15 - Closing

• 19:30 - Open Bar, Happy Hour, SWAG and Networking