Lector at Utopia Festival. A regular contributor to City Mouse and the Srita film blog since 2010.
Judge and lector at Utopia. Film critic for City Mouse since 2006, editor and writer at the Srita film blog since 2010.
Award-winning producer, graduate of Ben Gurion University and holds an MBA from the Open University. Co-founder of Daroma Productions.
Graduate of the Camera Obscura School of Arts. An award-winning director who has participated in 50 international festivals. In 2012, Fredman wrote and directed a short scן-fi thriller, titles “Nazelet”.
Screenwriter, director and producer. Holds a BA in Arts and Psychology and is a photography and film graduate from Camera Obscura.
Arab-Israeli author, literary critic and publisher. His successful debut novel “To Jaffa”, was published in 2010.
Author and publisher. Has written papers, essays, plays and short stories, published in ontologies in Israel and abroad.
Online Video expert and advisor. Founder and CEO of Haste Media, a boutique digital entertainment and media advisory firm. Founder and CEO of WatchMedia Network.
(עברית) יוצר סרטים וצלם זוכה פרסים המבוסס בתל אביב וברלין. חובב מדע בדיוני.
Animator and Concept artist, graduate of Bezalel. First prize winner at the Festival in 2013, with his animated short, Snakes and Ladders.
Directors and screenwriters. Being a third generation of directors, started working in the film industry at a young age. Their works include Phobidilia, Asphur and the upcoming JeruZalem.
Chairman of the New Fund for Cinema and Television. Holds an MBA and a law degree from Tel Aviv University.
Screenwriter and film critic, owner of the popular film blog “Cinemascope”. Lecturer at the Film and Television at Tel Aviv University and Sam Spiegel Film School.
Chairman of the Israeli Film Critics Association. Journalist, film critic and lecturer.
Director and screenwriter, graduate of the Film department of Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College.
Comedy writer, director, and co-creator of the Israeli radio comedy “Final TZ”. Evyatar is a graduate of Sapir College Film School, majoring in Television.
A PhD student Tel Aviv University’s Geography and environmental studies. Owner of the urban blog “Another Tel-Avivic Blog”, a laureate of the Pratt prize for independent media and former high-tech employee.
Producer and owner of Black Ship Film Productions, a production company specializing in feature films, documentaries and drama series.
The filmmaker behind “Antarctica” (2008) and “Another World” (2014), which received high acclaim at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Producer and production manager at Filmax International. His latest film, The Returned, will be screened at the festival.
Director and screenwriter, graduate of the Hamidrasha faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College.
Author, winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Stage designer, painter, sculptor and patent inventor.
Award-winning writer, director and presenter. Creator of a number of short films and the documentary “Trust Me”. Writer, producer and director of the horror/romance feature “Orpheus Rising”, currently in production.
Founder of Epic Pictures Production Company and former Director at Renegade Pictures and Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival. Berenson has produced more than twenty films to date.
Founder of Aura Films, a script development company for independent filmmakers. Marine also organizes conferences and trainings for transmedia projects and co-founded the Liège Web Fest, 1st transmedia festival in Belgium.
Producer, screenwriter and the Deputy Director of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. Writes and produces genre films and is the author of four books about Asian film and horror.
IEEE Fellow, Mathematician and Doctor of Robotics. Founder of Gepetto research team for Motion studies and artificial motion for humanoid robots.
Artist, writer, director and programmer. Founder of the internationally-acting art and theory group, Monochrom. Contributor to the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Playboy, New Scientist and more.
Cyber specialist and writer, the author of the acclaimed novel “Babel Minute Zero”. TED speaker, keynote speaker at Tel Aviv University’s cyber-warfare conference and a contributor to Haaret’z newspaper.
Mathematician and physicist, graduate of the Singularity University. An acclaimed science fiction author and the founded of Helix Nanotechnologies, a company developing programmable DNA.
The filmmaker behind TEDTalks and one of the most influential digital filmmakers. Wishnow’s most recent project is a secret sci-fi film made in China: The Sand Storm, starring Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei, will be screened at Utopia as part of its’ world tour.
Social Entrepreneur, Chairman of SpaceIL ,Partner at Innodo Ventures.
COO, group facilitator and educator. Arnon holds a BA in Psychology and Education from Tel Aviv University, where he works as an MBA program hackathon facilitator and mentor.
Interaction designer and Cognitive Researcher, director of the Design & Technology program at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design.
Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and the UCLA department of neurosurgery. Professor at the American Film Institute (AFI), where he teaches an annual screenwriting class on science in films.
Assistant Professor of American Studies in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Haifa. Her professional interests include: 20-21st Century American literature & culture; science fiction & gender; Israeli SF; post-9/11 aesthetics; posthumanism; and music in a digital culture.
Sustainability designer, Founder of TERRA bio Design Company and of S-SENSE-DESIGN. A sustainability design lecturer at the social-environmental design study program at the Faculty of Design at HIT. TEDfellow.
Head of Hebrew literature department at “Kinneret Zmora- Bitan Dvir” publishing house and publishes a bi-weekly column on the history of popular culture in Haaretz. Served as Literary critic for “Yedioth Ahronoth” and Hosted a literary TV show.
(עברית) ממובילי הפעילות הספקנית-מדעית בישראל, מנהל בלוג התחקירים הפופולרי “חשיבה חדה” ומרצה בתחום. בעל תואר בפיזיקה ובמדעי המחשב ואיש הייטק.
Writer, editor and social entrepreneur at the Reut Institute. An educator with a focus in the fields of communications and Jewish studies.
Publisher and editor-in-chief at Yaniv Publishing House, specializing in Science Fiction novels. An entrepreneur at heart, forever in love with robots and time-machines.
Entrepreneur, game designer, educator and researcher of conscience. Head of the Game Design and Development program at Mentor College.
Curator and video game designer. Graduate of the Humanities and Arts program at Tel Aviv University.
Poet and programmer, amateur photographer, cyber-vagabond. Author of the book “Lorem Ipsum” and co-founder of the online poetry magazine “Anonymous Fish”.
Dr. and researcher of technology and culture at the multidisciplinary program in the Humanities at Tel Aviv University.
Graphic novel writer and critic. Author of the book “Curing the Postmodern Blues”. Member of the Israeli Film podcast “Second Row in the Middle”.
Israeli theater artist. Storyteller, playwright, director, designer and puppeteer. Creator of original plays, teacher of theater, design and storytelling.
Retired judge, chairman of the Parole Board of the IPS, chairman of the Sustainable Global Leadership Academy (SGLA) and the Mentors Training School.
A multidisciplinary artist and educator, Graduate of the BFA program at Bezaleal Academy of Art & Design and MA in interdisciplinary arts at Tel Aviv University.
Studies in the Masters and PhD program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University and has a Bachelor of Industrial Design. A 3D Technologies expert at Easy3D.
Multidisciplinary artist, MA student at the Cohen Institute at Tel Aviv University, art lecturer.
An Israeli programmer, poet and new media artist. Designs automatic poetry generators and interactive text applications.
A poet, journalist and editor of “Let Us From Now On” contemporary Hebrew poetry and Futuristic magazine.
MA student of history at Tel Aviv University. Interested in the interplay between culture, ideas and society.
Media personality, actor, presenter, television and film screenwriter and director, Israeli film critic. Graduate of the Television and Film program at Tel Aviv University.
Curator and manager of art and culture events. Graduate of the Film and Television program at Tel Aviv University.
PhD student at Bar Ilan University in the field of neuroscience. Founder and manager of the Magic of Science Company.
Dr. and physicist. An entrepreneur interested in the integration of future knowledge, technology, economy, society and spirit.
Cyber Security Strategist, lecturer and adviser. Head of the IT Audit department at Bank Hapoalim Group.
Holds a double major in Law and English, and currently working as a legal intern.
Short: Multimedia artist and “thinker”. Works in performance, photography and sculpture. Graduate of the BFA program at Bezaleal Academy of Art & Design.
Space engineer and entrepreneur. Founder of SPACEIALIST Space Company with a vision to promote a prosperous civilian space industry in Israel.
Student of the Film and Television program at Tel Aviv University and a member of Amnesty. Amnesty International is a global volunteer organization, a-political and independent, working to prevent the violation of human rights around the world.
Game designer, advertiser and writer. Founder of Dice Marketing Company, lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Open University.
Research Associate at INSS and a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University. Manager of the Technological Forecasting and Policy Implications research program at INSS.
Leader of the multidisciplinary lab of bionics and bio-design at BIU. Founder of several companies in the fields of infectious diseases, computer vision, and nanotechnology, and his research is supported by grants from the European Research Council, Israeli Chief Scientist and other U.S. and European foundations.
Writer and Time-traveler, winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. Writer of three novels and seven collections of short stories that have been translated and published worldwide.
Designer, lecturer and media activist. Co-founder of Shual design studio, lecturer at Shenkar and a volunteer at the Public Knowledge Workshop.
Short: Dr., Senior lecturer. Specializes in spatial and temporal optics, nonlinear optical devices and laser modes.
Artists and founders of LARVA, an artistic collaboration exploring the gothic language and its’ spiritual and social contexts.
Writer, lecturer and researcher, specializes in digital culture and the information society. Director of the Print Screen Festival at Cinematheque Holon.
Freelance consultant for multidisciplinary problems and for virtual reality.
Content editor at Beit Ariela Cultural Center, lecturer and storyteller. Series editor connecting the culture of interdisciplinary literature, science, philosophy, history and cinema.
Space engineer and geophysicist. Chief systems engineer of SpaceIL, founder of the blog Critical Mass and host of the live Youtube show, The Spaceship.
Cyberlaw attorney and blogger. Legal counsel for Israel’s Open Source Society, Eshnav, people for Intelligent Internet Use and Israel’s Digital Right Movement.
Graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs with a specialization in video. Creator of the film “How to Create a Lonely Soul”.
Writer, entrepreneur, project manager and Science Fiction enthusiast. Eternal wanderer, obsessively curious adventurer. Photographer and amateur astronomer.
Short: Writer of technology, culture and history and strategic consultant. Founder of the blog “The Annals of Eilam”.
Head of the Judaism as Culture program at Sapir College. Author of “Jewish Mythology” (non-fiction), award-winning “Demons in Agripas Street”, and more.
Blogger, researcher and lecturer. Founder of the blog ‘Digital Dust’ and an expert in the digital, virtual and online aspects of current deaths in this modern era.
Artist, educator and media researcher. The Head of the Art & Media studies at the Midrasha art school. Co-founder of the ‘Information & Mind’ Think-tank.
Space Engineer. Co-founder of the Israeli Space Society and a committee member of the Israeli Nano-satellites association (INSA).
Student of video game design and development at Shenkar College. An avid strategy gamer who dreams of opening an indie game studio of his own.
Radio Broadcaster at 88FM, musician and lecturer. Author of the book “Small Stories, Big Records”.
Dr. and scientist, digital artist and poet. Holds a PhD in theoretical physics, and is a machine learning researcher in the field of cyber-security.
Senior researcher in the Unit for Technology and Society Foresight at Tel-Aviv University. Co-founder of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Entrepreneur, mobile and web designer, illustrator and animator, founder of 3dvas.com. Specializes in FinTech, crowdfunding and crypto-economy.
Former Hi-tech employee, current nursing student, always a science fiction enthusiast.
Dr. and physicist, Head of the quantum optics lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Screenwriter, technology journalist and a researcher of digital culture at Tel Aviv University.
Composer and sound designer for films and video games. Graduate of the Rimon School of Music with a major in Film Scoring and Arranging.
PhD student at Harvard University. In her PhD, Oz explores the relationship between formal law systems and law systems created as part of internet communities.
Editor In Chief of the TheUplink tech Magazine, a senior technology Journalist. Writer for prominent media outlets, such as Yedioth Aharonot and ZDNET.
Multidisciplinary creator and a culture and education entrepreneur, focusing on technology and social and communal issues.
