Keynote Speakers

Michal Rosen-Zvi

AI and Quantum Computing for Therapeutic Research

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Hadas Grossman Ella

From Using AI to Being AI-First: Designing Systems, Not Feature

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Panel

Talks

Moran Mizrahi

Cooking Up Creativity: Enhancing LLM Creativity through Structured Recombination

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Hila Paz Herszfang

Learning Under Satellite Hardware Constraints: Compression in Hyperspectral Space

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Lighting Talks

Rotem Pinchover

Escaping the LLM Hammer: Why Your Generative Brain Needs a Classical ML Nervous System

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Osnat Haj Yahia

The Reward is All You Need (to Get Wrong): A Practitioner’s Framework for Stress-Testing Reward Functions in RL Fine-Tuning

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Shiran Aziz

From Broadcast to Social: AI for Automatic Video Cropping

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Ilanit Sobol

Bridging Online Behavior and Clinical Insight: A Longitudinal LLM-based Study of Suicidality on YouT

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Shani Friedman (Goldfarb)

From Prediction to Reasoning: Large Language Models for Interpretable Plant Time-Series Analysis

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Sheli Kohan

Vector: Adaptive Agentic Distillation for Production AI Safety

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Moran Beladev

Speed Without Sacrifice: Fine-Tuning Language Models with Medusa and Knowledge Distillation

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Sharon Fogel

When LLMs Aren’t Enough: Lessons from Building a Reliable Medical NLP System

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Posters

Shahar Shporer

When Time Breaks

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Gal Naftal

Economic Evaluation of Data-Driven DSS, A Case Study in Agriculture

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Yan Ren

Build the Data Infrastructure for Wild Animal Protection in Israel

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Ayelet Goldstein

From Data to Diagnosis: Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Improve Vision Care

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Miriam Horovicz

AgentSHAP: Explaining Tool Usage in LLM Agents

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Ravit Cohen-Segev

SCAR: A Multi-Engine Supply Chain Anomaly Radar Driven by Agentic RAG and Real-Time Automation

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Veronika Bogina

Can Movement Rhythms Predict Glucose Rates? Beyond Step Counts in Diabetes Care

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Roundtables

Alice Fridberg & Hagit Grushka-Cohen

Seven Agent Army: Mastering the Management Tax of AI

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Ortal Ashkenazi & Mor Hananovich

Breaking the Bot: How Real Users Manipulate, Exploit, and Misuse Chatbots

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Nitzan Gado

Can Perspective Change How We Understand the LLM Revolution in Data Science?

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Laura Gaspar

Visual Foundation Models: Challenges, Applications and Expectations

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Liat Antwarg Friedman & Maya Dagan & Maya Makov

From Prediction to Prioritization: Building ML Systems That Hold Up in Clinical Practice

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Reut Beker

Ever Wondered How AI Looks from the Other Side?

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Shir Hilel

Eliminating Hallucinations in LLM-Driven Applications

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Maya Malamud

Signal over Noise: Decoding the Modern Data Science Career Path

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Noa Barbiro

Agentic Memory & Context Engineering: Rethinking Personalization for AI

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Agenda

08:45 AM

Reception

09:30 AM

Opening remarks by WiDS TLV ambassadors

09:45 AM

Dr. Mor Geva , Tel Aviv University: “MRI for Large Language Models: Mechanistic Interpretability from Neurons to Attention Heads”

10:15 AM

Panel: “Pioneering Progress: a strategic look at the GenAI revolution and the new role of data scientists“ Shani Gershtein, Melingo | Mirit Elyada Bar, Intuit | Dr. Asi Messica, Lightricks Moderated by Nitzan Gado, Intuit

10:45 AM

Poster pitches

10:55 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Lightning talks session

11:15 AM

Lunch & poster session

02:30 PM

Roundtable session & poster session

01:30 PM

Roundtable closing

02:30 PM

Shunit Agmon, Technion: “Bridging the Gender Gap in Clinical AI: Temporal Adaptation with TeDi-BERT”

03:00 PM

Shaked Naor Hoffmann, Apartment List: “Building Generative AI Agents for Production: Turning Ideas into Real-World Applications”

03:00 PM

Closing remarks

03:30 PM

The end

08:45 AM

Reception

09:30 AM

Opening remarks by WiDS TLV ambassadors

09:45 AM

Dr. Mor Geva , Tel Aviv University: “MRI for Large Language Models: Mechanistic Interpretability from Neurons to Attention Heads”

10:15 AM

10:45 AM

Poster pitches

10:55 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Lightning talks session

11:15 AM

Lunch & poster session

02:30 PM

Roundtable session & poster session

01:30 PM

Roundtable closing

02:30 PM

Shunit Agmon, Technion: “Bridging the Gender Gap in Clinical AI: Temporal Adaptation with TeDi-BERT”

03:00 PM

Shaked Naor Hoffmann, Apartment List: “Building Generative AI Agents for Production: Turning Ideas into Real-World Applications”

03:00 PM

Closing remarks

03:30 PM

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Agenda

08:45

Reception & gathering

09:30

Opening remarks by WiDS TLV ambassadors

09:45

Keynote session: Prof. Michal Rosen Zvi

10:15

Keynote session: Hadas Grossmon Ella

10:45

Poster pitches

10:55

Break

11:10

Lightning talks session

12:45

Lunch & poster session

13:30

Roundtable session & poster session

14:20

Roundtable closing

14:30

Talk by Hila Paz

14:50

Talk by Dr. Moran Mizrahi

15:15

Closing remarks

15:30

End

08:45 AM

Reception

09:30 AM

Opening remarks by WiDS TLV ambassadors

09:45 AM

Dr. Mor Geva , Tel Aviv University: “MRI for Large Language Models: Mechanistic Interpretability from Neurons to Attention Heads”

10:15 AM

10:45 AM

Poster pitches

10:55 AM

Break

11:15 AM

Lightning talks session

11:15 AM

Lunch & poster session

02:30 PM

Roundtable session & poster session

01:30 PM

Roundtable closing

02:30 PM

Shunit Agmon, Technion: “Bridging the Gender Gap in Clinical AI: Temporal Adaptation with TeDi-BERT”

03:00 PM

Shaked Naor Hoffmann, Apartment List: “Building Generative AI Agents for Production: Turning Ideas into Real-World Applications”

03:00 PM

Closing remarks

03:30 PM

The end