Under 30 Summit EMEA

The Forbes Under 30 Summit welcomes attendees at a fitting location–at the beach, on the water, as the sun sets over the Mediterranean. From our own private pavilion, we’ve brought the best tastes of Israel to you—the most legendary versions of falafel, shawarma, hummus and other local favorites, from the chefs that usually prompt locals to line up for an hour. Beach entertainment will go on long into the night.

Building on last year’s successful entrepreneur-driven programming and lounge, Monday’s content will expand into a daylong celebration of innovation and startups.

Our specific mission today: using innovation to reimagine humanity.  While much of the world bickers over ideology and tactics, audacious thinkers are tackling some of the globe’s most pressing problems by pursuing ideas that seem to border on science fiction. We’ll hear from visionaries–entrepreneurs, artists, activists and inventors–shaping the future in powerful ways.  We have the tools and technologies to create a better world, if we can muster the comity and the will.

Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes

The “father of British venture capital” as well as the “father of social business,” Sir Ronald Cohen is the living epitome of profits with purpose. His vision offers a blueprint for all participants who want to change the world.
Sir Ronald Cohen, Co-Founder, Apax Partners; Chairman, Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust

Moderator: Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes

Where does inspiration come from, and what’s it take to make big ideas come to life?  Audacious young entrepreneurs provide a roadmap, in provocative, rapid-fire interviews with a start-up legend.
Zaki Djemal, Managing Partner, fresh.fund; Co-Founder, Jerusalem Double
Susan Graham, PhD, Co-Founder & CTO, BioCarbon Engineering
Steven Izen, Founder & CEO, Lokai

Moderator: Yossi Vardi, Internet Entrepreneur

Less than 300 meters from the peak of Everest, Nadav Ben Yehuda changed course to rescue a Turkish climber – saving the man’s life while risking his own – and giving up his dream to become the youngest Israeli ever to conquer the world’s highest peak.  His journey (as we’ll see through words and photographs) defines resilience–and humanity.
Nadav Ben Yehuda, Mountaineer, Photographer & Social Activist

Sean Rad’s Tinder dating app has completely reinvented how we meet, date and mate in the real world. It also has created a new app category and inspired more than a hundred competitors and imitators to flood the market it invented, making swipe-right a commonplace staple of online interaction. He shares how an innovator keeps out in front of the rivals that formed to cash in on Tinder’s own inventions, while remaining true to its core competency. Also up for discussion: the next wave of acquisitions…and of course, Tinder tips!
Sean Rad, Co-Founder & Chairman, Tinder

Moderator: Steve Bertoni, Senior Editor, Forbes Media

From startup to scaleup, what will drive the next wave of growth? An all-time investing legend and founders from the 30 under 30 share new funding models, new investment approaches, new priorities and where they’re looking to put money next.
Opening Remarks: Chemi Peres, Managing General Partner & Co-Founder, Pitango Venture Capital; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Peres Center for Peace & Innovation

Neku Atawodi-Edun, General Manager, Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST)
Sofia Hmich, Founder, Future Positive Capital
Obinwanne Okeke, Chairman & CEO, Invictus
Chemi Peres, Managing General Partner & Co-Founder, Pitango Venture Capital; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Peres Center for Peace & Innovation

How one company is revolutionizing how students find and book their dorms and digs.
Miguel Santo Amaro, Co-Founder & COO, Uniplaces

Two founders who’ve taken their startups to billion-dollar companies on how to get to the entrepreneurial promised land.
Introduction: Teddy Sagi, Founder, PlayTech, Market Tech & SafeCharge
Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder & CEO, Wix.com
Jon Oringer, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Shutterstock

Moderator: Steve Bertoni, Senior Editor, Forbes Media

Two founders who’ve taken their startups to billion-dollar companies on how to get to the entrepreneurial promised land.
Introduction: Teddy Sagi, Founder, PlayTech, Market Tech & SafeCharge
Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder & CEO, Wix.com
Jon Oringer, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Shutterstock

Moderator: Steve Bertoni, Senior Editor, Forbes Media

Amar’e Stoudemire has made almost $200 million from basketball. But while he could play in any league in the world, he’s chosen to play for a team in Israel, where he’s also a fashion entrepreneur, an art consultant, a winemaker, a farmer, an author, and a promoter of interfaith cooperation in peace. Spend some time with the most creative man in the Middle East.
Amar’e Stoudemire, Basketball Superstar & Entrepreneur

Moderator: Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes

As nationalism spreads across the planet, entrepreneurs are at the front lines, working beyond traditional cultural, religious and gender boundaries to turn challenges into assets. 30 Under 30 honorees and entrepreneurs – from a bedouin pioneer in genetic testing to an African child prodigy revolutionizing STEM–share ideas and actionable plans to bridge divides and crack into the burgeoning new multicultural mainstream.
Yasmeen Abu-Fraiha, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Genesis
Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Chief Executive Officer & ‘Head Stemette’, Stemettes
Jill Xiaozhou Ju, Investment Director, Greystar
Cemil Cihan Özalevli, Co-Founder & CEO, TYT Energy; Project Leader YGA

Moderator: Caroline Howard, Executive Digital Editor, Forbes Media

Vulnerability researcher Netanel Rubin discovered a flaw on the most popular e-commerce platform in the world that could have left more than 200,000 online retailers open to cyber attacks.  He exposes these vulnerabilities in a live demo, sharing what we can learn from breaking technology as well as building it.
Netanel Rubin, Chief Executive Officer, Vaultra

A Palestinian rapper uses hip-hop to push for social change; an alternative pop singer crosses barriers with her style; the founder of an interfaith youth chorus promotes song and dialogue to empower future leaders in their communities.  A discussion on unleashing the power of music to unite disparate groups and resolve conflict.
Micah Hendler, Founder & Director, The YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus
Hatty Keane, Alternative Pop Singer
Sameh “SAZ” Zakout, Artist & Actor

Moderator: Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Senior Editor, Forbes

At 25, Lawrence Brand quit his job, built a cargo bicycle, and set out on a journey of over 3,100 miles (over 5,000km) from Romania to Kazakhstan. His design caught attention—his bikes have been exhibited in 2 national museums. Now the global cargo bike provider for Deliveroo, he makes a compelling case about why cargo bikes are the future.
Lawrence Brand, Founder, Porterlight Bicycles

Tyler Oakley started making YouTube videos in college; he now reaches over 8 million subscribers. And while his full time job is now creating content and it has proven to be a quite lucrative career, he measures himself through a different kind of impact. When life hands you a platform, you have three choices: ignore it, cash-in or try to change the world for the better.  The 27-year old shares how he’s channeled his influence beyond one of the largest digital platforms to make a difference.
Tyler Oakley, Digital Entrepreneur

Moderator: Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Senior Editor, Forbes

Ashley Graham has emerged as one of the most famous and successful models in the world, gracing the covers of magazines from Sports Illustrated to Vogue to Forbes. And she’s done it by breaking molds–and barriers. By actively promoting the concept of beauty at any size, she has become an international role model.
Ashley Graham, Model, Designer & Body Activist

Moderator: Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes

Tyler Oakley started making YouTube videos in college; he now reaches over 8 million subscribers. And while his full time job is now creating content and it has proven to be a quite lucrative career, he measures himself through a different kind of impact. When life hands you a platform, you have three choices: ignore it, cash-in or try to change the world for the better.  The 27-year old shares how he’s channeled his influence beyond one of the largest digital platforms to make a difference.
Tyler Oakley, Digital Entrepreneur

Moderator: Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Senior Editor, Forbes

Ashley Graham has emerged as one of the most famous and successful models in the world, gracing the covers of magazines from Sports Illustrated to Vogue to Forbes. And she’s done it by breaking molds–and barriers. By actively promoting the concept of beauty at any size, she has become an international role model.
Ashley Graham, Model, Designer & Body Activist

Moderator: Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes

*Hosted by REALITY and ROI Communities

Rothschild Boulevard will be transformed into an Open House, with Summit participants popping into the spaces and companies that most interest them, for tours and discussions.

Presented by Start-Up Nation Central/REALITY by Schusterman

Rothschild Boulevard will be transformed into an Open House, with Summit participants popping into the spaces and companies that most interest them, for tours and discussions.

*Presented by Start-Up Nation Central/REALITY by Schusterman

At lunchtime, we’ll take VIP busses to Jerusalem. After hotel check-in, the participants can take VIP guided tours of the Old City.

At night, the Jerusalem Shuk comes alive. More than 50 curated stalls will offer a special food or drink to participants, who can explore and indulge. Music will fill the alleyways, and a DJ will turn the market into the hottest dance club on the planet for a night.

For the final day of programming, participants will actively roll up their sleeves as we seek to leave the region and the world better than we found it. Please register for one of the following tracks, and get ready to change the world.

*Hosted by Pratt Philanthropies

From autonomous cars to biotech to edtech to clean energy, Israel boasts some of the most innovative startups in the world. The country’s largest venture capital firm, Jerusalem Venture Partners, brings the top entrepreneurs in each of these areas to its beautiful Jerusalem campus for a day to work with Under 30 participants to harness their cutting-edge technologies for the betterment of society. After an inspirational overview and lunch, we’ll showcase a new, breakthrough, startup-driven technology for each sector– groups will then work on ways to apply that technology to make a larger societal impact, with an eye on those less fortunate. We’ll present our breakthroughs on-stage later in the day at the Under 30 Summit at the Tower of David.

Palestinian entrepreneurs are creating a path towards prosperity and co-existence, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees will accelerate that. We’ll travel by bus to the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, which has been designed as a startup capital. There, we’ll hear from Palestinian entrepreneurs, showcase a few of the Summit’s more experienced founders, and then break into groups of common interests to establish relationships–whether mentorships or partnerships or possible investment–that can accelerate this force for good.

Khirbet El Rai is a newly discovered archaeological site, which dates back roughly 3,000 years to the Kingdom of Judah. It holds the keys to some of the biggest questions of civilization–specifically, the historical and geographical accuracy of the Biblical record. This location may provide insights and answers about the formation of the Kingdom of Judah. Over lunch, two renowned archeologists will lay out the opportunity that lies underneath us. We’ll then divide into groups and excavate–supervisors will immediately explain the relevancy of whatever we dig up.
*Note: You must wear closed shoes. If you come in sandals, you cannot participate.
*Recommended: water bottle, hat, sunscreen,  t-shirts/long pants

At night, the groups will convene together to briefly highlight their discussions and possible outcomes, followed by the celebratory Under 30 Music Festival, which rated as the most popular single event at last year’s Summit, featuring acts from across Israel and Europe.

After a day of changing the world, we come together to celebrate, with a special concert at the most historic “music venue” on Earth, the 3,000 year-old Tower of David. From an Israeli rock musician who’s emerging from the shadow of his heroic father–the late Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut–to a rising U.K. pop star to a Palestinian rapper and an interfaith chorus from Jerusalem, you’re in for an unforgettable evening, emceed by supermodel Ashley Graham.

The YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus
Tal Ramon, Israeli Rock Musician
Hatty Keane, Alternative Pop Singer
Sameh “SAZ” Zakout, Artist & Actor

Plus: Building Bridges Through Backgammon
Jerusalem Double brings together people through backgammon. Tonight, 16 local Jews and Arabs face-off against 16 fierce competitors from the 30 Under 30 list. Volunteer to make a difference while having fun. The winner will join us for the finale on stage.

The Summit will end with more inspiration–and reflection. We’ll proceed before dawn to Masada, the legendary desert fortress, for a quick hike along along the Roman pathways, all the way to the top. At Masada, we’ll watch the sun rise over the Dead Sea, as the King David Peace Drummers create an enormous drum circle–and a moment you’ll never forget. Participants will be given the opportunity to either return to Jerusalem or continue to the Dead Sea for breakfast and a well-earned couple of hours of spa and water recovery at the lowest spot on Earth.