AI is rapidly becoming more than a technology platform. It’s becoming a source of national power. From intelligence and cybersecurity to critical infrastructure, defense and strategic decision-making, the countries that master AI will gain a significant advantage.

Drawing on more than two decades at the Mossad, and the intersection of technology, intelligence and national strategy, Dr. Eyal Hulata explores how AI is reshaping global competition, and what it means for Israel and the technology ecosystem.

What will it take for Israel to lead in the age of AI, and how can its innovation ecosystem turn technological ambition into national impact?

This will outline Israel’s AI ambitions and the priorities shaping its next chapter: talent, computing infrastructure, and applications that address real-world challenges. We’ll explore how collaboration between government, startups, industry, and academia can accelerate adoption, strengthen national resilience, and create new opportunities for Israeli innovation on the global stage.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Erez Eskel heads the National AI Directorate at Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office. He leads the national effort to advance Israel’s AI strategy and strengthen its position as a global AI leader.

ElevenLabs started with voice, because that’s where the gap between AI and human communication was widest. Closing it meant mastering tone, emotion, rhythm, and the back-and-forth of real conversation, producing the first AI voice model to reach human-level expression across 70+ languages. Today that research powers conversational agents that resolve customer needs for banks, telcos, healthcare providers, and governments.

Founded in 2022 and already valued at $22 billion, ElevenLabs has become one of the fastest-growing companies in AI. Sasha Glatt, who leads growth across Southern Europe and Israel, shares how ElevenLabs brings research advances like Eleven v4 directly into conversational agents, and what enterprises need to move from patchwork bots to agents their customers trust.

As AI moves from the cloud into the physical world, the next breakthrough may depend not only on smarter models, but on the infrastructure beneath them. This keynote explores why compute, networks, photonics and global innovation ecosystems could become the foundation of the next era of AI.

NTT is one of the world’s largest technology and telecommunications groups, with more than 340,000 employees worldwide. Through NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel, the group connects Israeli startups with its global business units and enterprise customers. The lab opens doors to commercial partnerships, proof-of-concept projects, and potential investment opportunities, helping Israeli innovation reach international markets.