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Invitation-based event
August 4
18:00–21:00 
Tel Aviv, Acro Tower

AI Performance Engineering Graduation Ceremony

Celebrating Israel's first cohort of AI Performance Engineers. An evening of project showcases, industry networking, and a diploma ceremony.
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Hear from thought leaders
Browse real projects: personal work and business use cases
Meet the people behind the work
Graduates, industry partners, and government representatives in one room
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The first cohort of AI Performance Engineers in Israel, graduating together

Agenda

Nebius is hosting the graduation ceremony of its first AI Performance Engineering cohort in Israel. Around 200 specialists trained entirely free of charge as part of Nebius contribution to Israeli AI ecosystem. The event brings together graduates, industry partners and government representatives on the campus of Tel Aviv, Acro Tower, Yitshak Sadeh 8, 25th floor, Nebius office.
1h
18:00 - 19:00

‍Mingling & program fellows' projects expo

25 min
19:00 - 19:25

‍Welcome remarks from Nebius leadership

Victor Shafran, General Manager, Agentic Search at Nebius
"The Engineers AI Still Needs"
Prof. Elena Bunina, Head of Science and Education at Nebius, Math Professor at Bar-Ilan University
"Education in the AI Era"
15 min
19:25 - 19:40

Program retrospective

15 min
19:40 - 19:55

Governmental Keynote

Nebius GR Address: Tal Lipka, Adv.
Head of Regulatory, Policy & Government Affairs, Nebius
Etay Levanon, Senior Director, Head of Technological Talent Department, Israel Innovation Authority
"Building Israel's AI Talent Edge: National Strategy in Action"
15 min
19:55 - 20:10

Lightning talks

Roy Granit, Director, Head of Computational Discovery at Compugen
“Scaling Computational Discovery in Biotech with AI Agents”
20 min
20:10 - 20:30

Diploma ceremony

Speakers & special guests

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Itai Levanon
Senior Director, Head of Technological Talent Department Startup Division at Israel Innovation Authority
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Prof. Elena Bunina
Head of Science and Education at Nebius, Math Professor at Bar-Ilan University 
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Victor Shafran
General Manager, Agentic Search
Roy Granit
Ph.D. Senior Director, Head of Computational Discovery at Compugen
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Tal Lipka
Head of Regulatory, Policy & Government Affairs, Nebius
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Who this event is for

AI Performance Engineering graduates
Nebius Academy alumni
Industry partners and employers
Government representatives
Anyone interested in Israel's AI talent ecosystem
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AI Performance Engineering Program

Nebius Academy's AI Performance Engineering program trained 200 engineers in Israel over 14 weeks, entirely free of charge. Participants were taught by practitioners from Nebius, AI21 Labs, Deepchecks, WSC Sports, Microsoft and NVIDIA. This ceremony marks the first graduation of the program.
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Join us for an evening celebrating our  first AI Performance Engineering cohort.
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