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.

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

More speakers and details coming soon.

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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