Asaf Kochan

Former Commander

IDF Unit 8200

Asaf Kochan served as the Commander of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite military technology unit, from April 2017 to February 2021. While leading the unit, he focused on creating and integrating applied, cutting-edge capabilities in two major fields: cyber domain and  data-driven analytics powered by AI, machine learning, and advanced computation. During his tenure he actively engaged in planning, coordinating, and implementing national policy in cyberspace. He is a leading practitioner in state-level cybersecurity and holds a wide perspective on global cyber threats. He earned an LLB from The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, and an MS in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Asaf Kochan

Former Commander

IDF Unit 8200

Asaf Kochan served as the Commander of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite military technology unit, from April 2017 to February 2021. While leading the unit, he focused on creating and integrating applied, cutting-edge capabilities in two major fields: cyber domain and  data-driven analytics powered by AI, machine learning, and advanced computation. During his tenure he actively...

Staffan Truvé

CTO

Recorded Future

Staffan Truvé is cofounder and CTO of Recorded Future. Previously, he was CEO of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Interactive Institute. He has co-founded more than a dozen high-tech startups. He holds a PhD in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology and an MBA from Göteborg University. He was  a Fulbright Scholar...

Elad Lavi

CTO

Cybersixgill

Elad Lavi has more than 20 years of experience in various technological and management positions in software companies in the areas of BI, data visualization, social networks, and security. Prior to working at Sixgill, he served as VP R&D at a social network analysis start-up, where he led all technological aspects of the company and...

Natan Bandler

CEO

Metis Augmented Intelligence

Natan Bandler is a cyber-security entrepreneur, software engineer, business development leader and communication protocols expert. He is one of the few people in the industry with extensive experience in both “offensive and defensive cyber,” and relevant business experience who has decided to focus on unique, cutting edge cyber-protection after realizing how easy it was to...

Gil Irizarry

VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING

Basis Technology

Gil Irizarry leads Basis Technology’s engineering team, which is responsible for text analytics including existing products and new technology initiatives. He has nearly 30 years of experience in developing software and leading engineering teams for many companies, including Curl (now part of Sumitomo Corporation), GTECH (now part of IGT PLC), and Constant Contact. He holds...

Philip Blair

Senior Research Engineer

Basis Technology

Philip Blair is a Senior Research Engineer on Basis Technology’s R&D team. He investigates practical applications of deep learning technologies for use in text analytics. He also leads Basis Technology’s machine learning infrastructure team, which focuses  on deploying cutting-edge algorithms into the field. He has published research in the semantic evaluation of text embeddings and...

Kfir Bar

CHIEF SCIENTIST

BASIS TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Kfir Bar is the Chief Scientist of Basis Technology’s text analytics team. He has spent many years working in a wide range of natural language processing disciplines, including statistical machine translation, machine learning, ontologies, and language generation.

Catherine Havasi

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Basis Technology

Dr. Catherine Havasi is a technology strategist, artificial intelligence researcher, and entrepreneur. In her role at Basis Technology, she sets the direction for the flagship text analytics product, Rosette, both strategically and technically. In the late 1990s, she co-founded the Common Sense Computing Initiative (ConceptNet), the first crowdsourced  project for artificial intelligence and the largest...

Chris Biow

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL PUBLIC SECTOR & CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER

Basis Technology

Chris Biow leads the Global Public Sector team at Basis Technology, working with government customers to meet their text analytics and digital forensics mission needs. He also oversees sales to commercial customers, with an emphasis on financial services, e-discovery, and enterprise software vendors. He holds a BS in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy and...

Fiona Hasanaj

Senior Software Engineer

Basis Technology

Fiona is a Senior Software Engineer on Basis Technology’s Names team. She works on the Rosette Name Indexer and Rosette Name Translator products which provide fuzzy name matching, name searching and name translation linguistic capabilities. She has co-authored and published research on neural-enhanced phonetic name matching.