Moshe Dunie is an Israeli-born American executive and investor in the Greater Seattle Area best known for his executive roles at Microsoft in 1988–99, culminating as Vice President of the Windows Division. Moshe Dunie is serving on the Board of Governors of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He served as the president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Seattle in 2006-2009 and served on the American Jewish Committee National Board. In his role, Dunie interacted with political and business leaders around the world promoting human rights. At Microsoft, Moshe Dunie was responsible for the releases of Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 partnering with Dave Cutler. Then, as Vice President of the Windows Operating System Division, Moshe Dunie lead the teams that delivered Windows 98, and took Windows 2000 to its final beta release. Moshe Dunie was in charge of over 3,000 full time division engineers and 1,500 contractors. He collaborated with partners such as Intel, PC OEMs, application developers and enterprise customers, initiating a Rapid Deployment Program and extensive beta testing. Microsoft Israel R&D centre and engineering groups in Europe and Asia reported to Dunie as international extension of the Windows division. Specialties: Technology startups, Management of large complex high technology projects, Consulting high tech companies about effective project management, people management, product quality and customer’s satisfaction, Leadership of Philanthropic organizations.

Vlad Mixich (MD, MSc) is a health policy expert with international experience across 8 countries in Europe and Asia, working for the World Bank, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank in the area of health systems strengthening.

With a degree in Medicine, Vlad Mixich holds a masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and he was a Fulbright Fellow at Emory University in Atlanta (US) and an Eisenhower Fellow for Innovation in Philadelphia (US).

Currently he is part of the WHO Collaborating Centre team at Utrecht University. He is a board member of the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work and of the Romanian Health Observatory.

Iurie Turcanu is the Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization within the Government of the Republic of Moldova. Previously, he held the position of Director of the Electronic Government Agency (EGA) and the Chief Digital Officer, Moldova’s e-Government Centre. As the chief digital officer at Moldova’s e-Government Centre, Iurie Turcanu has driven the implementation of an impressive national ICT strategy, including most notably an e-Transformation project which has steadily and successfully increased the impact of various public services. He also has driven the Open Data Initiative, as well as schemes like M-Cloud, recognized as the “Best Cloud Project in Central & Eastern Europe” in 2012. The main projects c​onducted under his leadership are the government electronic payment service MPay, the government data exchange and interoperability platform MConnect and the development of an infrastructure for electronic signatures, including the mobile signature.

Sebastian Ioan Burduja is a Romanian politician. He is the vice-president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the president of the PNL branch Sector 1 – Bucharest. In December 2020, he was elected deputy of the National Party in the 42nd constituency of Bucharest. on May 3, 2022 he became the Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitalization in Ciuca’s cabinet. League of Romanian Students Abroad (LSRS) and CAESAR Foundation (Center for Access to Expertise of Romanian Students and Graduates).

Dr. Irit Idan is Investment Advisor at SoftBank Investment Advisers and she also worked as the Executive Vice President for Research and Development at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Israel’s third-largest defense company.

Rafael is world-renowned for pioneering breakthrough defense systems, such as Iron Dome and Trophy. She received her Ph.D in astrophysics from the Faculty of Physics at Technion in 1994 and she serves on the board of directors of several companies both in Israel and abroad, and is a member of the Technion Council and International Board of Governors.

Dudi Klein is an Entrepreneur with over 20 years experience. Leadership positions in Business Development, Management, Fund Raising and Marketing. Major (res.) in the Intelligence Unit.

Former Head of Ventures and Innovation Division, Assuta Medical Centers.

During his service in the IDF, Dudi was awarded twice for excellence awards by the Head of the Military Intelligence Directorate
Roles held within private and public companies spanning Technology & Healthcare Sectors, analyzing Big Data, Computer Vision (an interdisciplinary field that deals with gaining high-level understanding from digital images or videos), Video Processing, Mobile Technologies and Telecom with BioGaming, Verint (VRNT), VideoCells, Cellcom (CEL).

In 2014, Dudi won 1st prize at the MEDICA Innovation Award for his company BioGaming.
Founder of and sits as, an Advisor to, and Board Member of Start-ups.
Mr. Klein holds a BSc in Computer Science and MBA from Bar-Ilan University.

Richard Passov has more than 25 years of leadership experience across technology and life science companies. He helped capitalize Sun Microsystems through its hyper–growth phase, leaving to join Intel where he became one of the first employees in Intel’s Venture Capital group. He helped steer Pfizer through $250 billion of acquisitions, strategic reviews of R&D productivity and led the divestiture of Zoetis and it’s successful IPO. He’s a co–founder of Iota Biosciences, board member of OffAssignment, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute, guest columnist at 3QuarksDaily, and is researching the anthropology of computation. He received a B.A. and M.B.A from the University of California, Los Angeles along with an M.S., Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.