The Hebrew University Fintech Center

Pictures from the Fintech Showcase event

We are glad to update you that the events of the inauguration of The Gershon Fintech Center, at the business school of the Hebrew University were successful and hosted hundreds of participants.

We’d like to thank our great conference speakers, partners and sponsor, fintech entrepreneurs and professsionals and the Hebrew university staff that were amazing!

The first exciting event we held was on December 3rd Israeli Fintech Showcase with promising successful startups and companies, presented by:

• Ori Faran                - CallVu's founder and CEO
• Barak Matzkevich   - Cortica's VP BD
• Solomon Alkhasov  - Spark Beyond's GM
• Tal Hanoci               - Conversys's founder and CEO
• Alon Shem-Tov       - Binah's VP International Sales
• Meir Friedlander     - Speech Morphing's EVP BD

The moderator and speaker was Dudu Mimran, CTO of Telecom Innovation Laboratories Israel and entrepreneur. Our Special guest speaker was Haim Pinto, the CTO of Hapoalim Bank who focused on financial institute’s perspectives.

Due to demand, we will also publish the insightful videos on our website. Please follow us.

Information about the presenting companies:

1. Binah.ai

With Binah.ai, you get the actionable insights and answers you need to critical operational challenges with the ability to integrate data science directly into your business processes quickly and cost-effectively, getting you up and running in days, not months.

Binah.ai’s addition of signal processing to augmented analytics simply makes your data better, resulting in actionable insights delivered at previously unavailable levels of accuracy.

http://www.binah.ai/

2. CallVu

With CallVU’s Omni-channel Digital Engagement platform, customers can benefit from a rich digital interactive experience with visual IVR , customer-service bots in any channel of choice and a collaborative virtual-branch experience when a human touch is needed.

https://callvu.com/

3. Cortica

Cortica has developed autonomous AI that simulates the natural processes of the mammal cortex. Its unsupervised approach to learning mimics the way the brain processes information: enabling machines to learn, collaborate and interact with the world without human input. The technology is backed by more than 200 patents and 10 years of cutting-edge research, and is revolutionizing visual intelligence for a smarter and safer world.

https://www.cortica.com/

4. SparkBeyond

SparkBeyond has built an automated research engine, capable of asking questions and discovering complex patterns in data. The technology is designed to leverage masses of data that exist on the web, intelligently augment your data and discover complex patterns. These patterns then become powerful tools for explaining, predicting and optimizing outcomes.

https://www.sparkbeyond.com/

5. Conversys

Conversys technology will help companies to offer excellent customer service and support, to improve satisfaction, increase loyalty and as a result to increase customers retention rate.

https://www.conversys.ai/

6. Speechmorphing

Speechmorphing is a personalized speech technology company on a mission to improve human-machine communications. Our products and services deliver natural and emotionally-intelligent voices that broaden the accessibility and speed the proliferation of synthesized speech for real world applications. Speechmorphing works closely with application, device and bot developers to innovate simple yet sophisticated and cost-effective voice solutions for global markets.

http://speechmorphing.com/

We are glad to report that the inauguration of The Gershon Fintech Center of the Hebrew University will include 3 major events in the first week of December.

The Gershon Fintech Center will hold an international conference entitled "Options - 45 Years after the Black-Scholes-Merton Model" on December 4-5 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The keynote speakers are the Nobel prize Laureates Prof. Myron Scholes and Prof. Robert Merton. The conference is open with pre-registration and approval only (registration).

On December 3rd at 15:00 we will hold an Israeli Fintech Showcase event which will include a meeting of financial sector experts and high-level executives from abroad with 8 unique start-ups in the field of Fintech. Please follow the link Fintech Showcase event for more details. This event is open for our community through this registration

The Inauguration Ceremony of the Gershon Fintech Center will take place in the evening of December 4th, in Mount Scopus with the participation of  Prof. Myron Sholes, Mr. Patrick Drahi, The President of the Hebrew University and senior figures in the Israeli financial system and technology companies and the conference speakers. Due to limited space this event is by invitation only. However, if you would very much like to attend please write to us and we will do our best efforts to accommodate.