Utopia Association

Founder & CEO of CaptainUp, web, mobile and digital games pioneer, Founding member of GameIS, the Israeli Digital Games Industry Association.

Film maker, military horror “Freak Out” (2015), musical comedy “The Electrifiers” (2019)

Director of the Utopia Festival for Science Fiction and Future Story-telling. As the Promethean Consultancy, program curator, PMO, artistic consultant and producer, writer and speaker on topics of technology and society, science fiction and the future.

Owner and producer, Ascella Productions

Space and flight tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the drone delivery startup Flytrex, Previously, founder of the Google X-Prize contestant association SpaceIL (crashed a space probe on the Moon!)

CEO of Dice Marketing and the Rimon Studio, Founding member of the “Darkenu” Israeli social-political movement, game designer and author

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Krein is a chemistry teacher at the HEMDA Tel-Aviv Center for Science Education, where he is a management member and leads special projects. Krein hold a PhD in organic chemistry from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is a science communication specialist, founder and initiator of the science-culture program at HEMDA and previously the scientific editor of the Scientific American – Israel magazine.

Lavie is an Israeli author and playwright, game designer and entrepreneur. His play “Nephilim” (created with Yonatan Levi) premiered at The Israel Arts Festival in Jerusalem. “The Divine”, a graphic novel (created with illustrators Asaf and Tomer Hanuka) became a New York Times bestseller, was a Hugo Award Nominee and won the International Manga Award and.

Producer of Films, Games and other Media & Technological Projects. Miretzky accumulated years and years of experience in all aspects of the games industry. He was a founding member of GameIS – the Israeli Digital Games Industry Association and served as its first CEO.

Marat Parkhomovsky is a theater and film director, writer and entrepreneur, specializing in projects of preserving cultural memory.

Film Producer, Daroma Productions. Peleg is a graduate of Ben Gurion University and holds a MBA from the Open University. He is co-founder of Daroma Productions, a film production company specializing in features and documentaries. Peleg’s career started as a program curator, serving as the program director for the Sderot Cinematheque for seven years. Peleg also served as the film program producer for the Cinema South Festival and the International Women’s Film Festival and as lead producer for the Utopia Festival.

International Film & TV Industry Events, Creative Producer, Joint director of the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, professional director of the Israeli Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival & Market.

Dr. Shani (PhD, MHA, MBA) serves as VP of Medicine, Compliance and Regulation at the Neopharm Group and as adjunct lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, teaching Policy and Economics" in the School of Pharmacy and guiding graduate students.

Ticketing Director, Connex Jerusalem Light Rail LTD

Marlyn Vinig is a film critic and Jewish-Orthodox film researcher