Prof. Amir Tomer, Conference General Chair

Amir is the head of the software engineering department at Kinneret College on the sea of Galilee. Previously he held various managerial and technical positions in Software and Systems Engineering at RAFAEL – Advanced Defense Systems., for over 25 years. For the last 24 years he has been a senior lecturer at the Computer Science Faculty and the Systems Engineering Master's program at the Technion, Haifa, and to industrial workshops. Amir was the first person in Israel to be awarded INCOSE's CSEP certification. Dr. Ram Oron, INCOSE_IL President and the Third Day Chair

Mr. Garry Roedler, INCOSE President

Garry is a Senior Fellow and the Engineering Outreach Program Manager for Lockheed Martin. His systems engineering (SE) experience spans the full life cycle and includes technical leadership roles in both programs and business functions. He is the President of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Submit Your Abstracts and Registration

Prof. Edward. Crawley, Keynote speaker

Edward is the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. From 2011 to 2016 he served as the Founding President of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, a new university focused on science and innovation. Prior to that he served as the Director of the Bernard M. Gordon – MIT Engineering Leadership Program, an effort to significantly strengthen the quality of engineering leadership education for competitiveness and innovation. From 2003 to 2006 he served as the Executive Director of the Cambridge – MIT Institute, a joint venture with Cambridge University, funded by the British government and industry, with a mission to understand and generalize how universities act as engines of innovation and economic growth. For the previous seven years, he served as the Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.

Matthew Hause Tutorial Lecturer

Matthew Hause is an Engineering Fellow at PTC, is a member of the OMG SysML specification team, and the co-chair of the UPDM group. He has been developing real-time systems for over 35 years. He started out working in the Power Systems Industry, and has been involved in Process Control, Communications, SCADA, Distributed Control, military systems and many other areas of real-time systems.

Dr. Avigdor Zonnenshain, Gordon Center for SE, Technion, Tutorials Day Chair

Avigdor is currently a Senior Research Fellow at The Gordon Center for Systems Engineering at the TECHNION ,Israel Institute of Technology. Formerly, he held several senior positions at RAFAEL in Quality & Reliability Management & Engineering, in Project Management & Systems Engineering. Dr. Zonnenshain is a former President of the Israeli Society for Systems Engineering - INCOSE_ IL and now he is an active member in the management of the organization. Dr. Zonnenshain is a Fellow of INCOSE. Prof. Edward. Crawley, Keynote speaker

Dr. Ram Oron, INCOSE_IL President and the Third Day Chair

Ram Oron received his Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of lasers. In early days of his career he served as a system engineer at IAI. Later, he was one of the founders and CTO of KiloLambda, a start-up company in the field of optics. In the last 11 years, Ram is with Orbotech, leading system engineering and physics activities in the development of several multi-disciplinary systems. Ram is active in the system engineering community, and since 2017 he servers as the president of the Israeli Chapter of INCOSE.