Anita Borg Birthday Celebration
MEET DR. KIRA RADINSKY
As the CTO and Co-Founder of SalesPredict, Dr. Kira Radinsky is building the next generation predictive marketing solutions that transform the way companies acquire and retain customers.
One of the up-and-coming voices in the data science community, she is pioneering the field of Web Dynamics and Temporal Information Retrieval.
Dr. Radinsky gained international recognition for her work at Microsoft Research, where she developed predictive algorithms that recognized the early warning signs of globally impactful events, including political riots and disease epidemics. In 2013, she was named to the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Young Innovators Under 35, and in 2015 as Forbes 30 under 30 rising stars in enterprise technology. She is a frequent presenter at global tech events, including TEDx and the World Wide Web Conference, and she publishes in the Harvard Business Review. Radinsky also serves as visiting professor at the Technion, Israel’s leading science and technology institute.
MEET SARIT VINO-ELAD
Sarit Vino-Elad is an actress known for appearing in “Haburganim.” She discovered her passion at the age of 14 at a summer arts camp, when she sang a song to her brother one day and noticed that he did not look at her anymore as a little girl, but rather as a grown woman. Sarit chose acting because she wanted to stimulate people’s emotions via art. She felt that people typically run away from emotions in order not to feel pain and not to be considered “weak.” She feels that the more people connect to their emotions the more they become better people, a sort of spiritual work. Sarit retired from acting because she felt more like an artisan than an artist. She feels that women traditionally put up barriers before they speak; all they hear is an inner critic. Sarit wants to empower women as public speakers and believes that social change can happen through the individual. One person can change one more person, and she in turn can change one more. The world will change for good when we maximize our individual good.
MEET ANAT KATZ-AROTCHAS
Anat Katz-Arotchas specializes in product innovation driven form a gender perspective and promotes gender thinking and gender balance in the tech industry. Bringing together years of expertise in digital product management and gender know-how, Anat is the founder of Standpoint, a member of the European Union's gender ste innovation team and a representative of Design-People, an award winning Scandinavian innovation and design consultancy. Anat is also a co-founder of XX+UX Israel, a women's forum dedicated to change gender balance in the field of UX and product.
MEET DR. BILHA MENDELSON
Dr. Bilha Mendelson is the CEO of Optitura, a consulting company, dealing with code, system and architecture optimization. Prior she was the manager of the Code Optimization and Quality Technologies department at IBM Haifa. Since joining IBM in 1990, she has been developing optimizations for the DSP compiler and for the other optimizing compilers. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds several patents primarily in the area of code optimization. Her areas of interest include code optimization algorithms, compiler technology, computer architecture, and performance improvement issues.
MEET NATALIE AIZENBERG
Natalie Aizenberg is a Software Engineer at Google working on personal auto-complete services. Before joining Google she was a senior Research Engineer at Yahoo! Labs and a senior Search Engineer at eBays' Shopping.com. She received her M.Sc. in CS from Nara Institute of Science and Technology and her B.Sc from Technion ITT. There are several publications and patents to her credit and she has been awarded the MONBUKAGAKUSHO scholarship. Natalie is a passionate supporter of women in tech, involved in Google's Mind The Gap project for encouraging women to become active creators of tomorrow's technology.
MEET MERAV ZIDON
Merav has a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from Ben Gurion University. She first joined Intel 14 years ago as a student developer in the IT department. Since then, she has served as a program manager and systems analyst at Big Data Analytics, a group that leads Intel's global Machine Learning solutions. Today, Merav is a manager at Intel’s Advanced Analytics department, responsible for Big Data and Machine Learning projects.
