Celebrating a Decade of Academic Leadership and more…
The Annual Zuckerman STEM Leadership Forum
Ten years ago, the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program began with a simple conviction: that the brightest scientific minds in Israel and North America belong in the same rooms, the same labs, and the same conversations. A decade on, that conviction has become a community — hundreds of scholars, dozens of new laboratories, and a network of partnerships spanning two countries and Israel’s leading research universities.
This October, we come together to mark the milestone. Join us as we welcome our newest cohort of scholars, honor the partnerships that made this decade possible, and look toward the next ten years.
Program
6:00 – 7:20 pm I Dinner Reception
7:20 – 9:00 pm
- Welcome Zuckerman Scholars
- Ten Years of Breakthrough Science
- Panel: AI & Discovery: Rethinking Research Today. Redefining Science Tomorrow
- New Gift Announcement
- Musical Performance
Dessert
Panel:
How is artificial intelligence changing the way science is done, and who should shape where it goes next? Three leading voices bring three perspectives to the conversation: the lab and the startup, industry, and society.
/ Prof. Nadav Cohen, Tel Aviv University; Chief Scientist, Imubit; Zuckerman alumnus. On what AI is changing inside research, and how research becomes a company.
/ Dr. Aya Soffer, Vice President, AI Technologies, and Director, IBM Research Israel. On how discoveries become products and scale.
/ Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Senior Fellow and Head, Democracy in the Digital Age Program, Israel Democracy Institute. On the questions of rules, trust, and democracy.