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Eden Kupermintz

Program editor for events and festivals, editor and journalist

Program curator, speaker and music & culture journalist, programmer for Utopia, the Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, editor-in-chief of Heavy Blog is Heavy, web developer and scifi enthusiast.

Gili Ron

Architect, Digital Artist, Digital Utopia Magazine Editorial Board

Israeli architect based in Berlin. Ron practices computational design, design-research and writes about digital culture in architecture.

Boaz Lavie

Author, playwright and entrepreneur

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.

Romi Mikulinsky

Head of the Master of Design (MDes) program in Industrial Design, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Researcher of Digital Culture and Design-led Innovation

Mushon Zer-Aviv

Designer and Educator in Shenkar College, GA member of A Land For All

Israel

Designer and educator in Shenkar College, GA member of A Land For All

Lior Zalmanson

Tel Aviv University & Print Screen Festival

Researcher, digital artist, curator and writer. Senior Lecturer in the Technology Management Program at Tel Aviv University. Founder of the Print Screen Festival for Digital Arts.

Keren Omry

Utopia 2025 Jury, “Local Orbit” Shorts Competition | Researcher & Lecturer, University of Haifa

Israel

Science Fiction scholar in the English Department, University of Haifa.

Ido Hartogsohn

Artist, researcher and lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Journalist at Haaretz

Israel

Blogger, artist, faculty member at Bar Ilan University, journalist at Haaretz newspaper.

Eyal Feder-Levy

CEO & Co-Founder, Zencity

Israel

Urban Planner and Software Engineer. I love Cities, People, Technology and areas in which they converge.

Zoe Polanski

Musician

Israel

Zoe Polanski is a composer, sound artist, producer, and guitar player. Her music travels between the worlds of ambient, electronica, and post-rock.

Evyatar Halimi

Comedian

Israel

Comedian, Screenplay Writer, Actor, Video Editor, Standup Comic.

Doron Friedman

Prof. in the School of Communications and head of the Advanced Reality Lab, IDC Herzliya

Israel

Friedman is an Associate Prof. in the Sammy Ofer School of Communications and the head of the Advanced Reality Lab.

Regev Contes

Head of the Video Program, the Department of Visual Communication, Shenkar College

Israel

Director, screenwriter and social activist, Head of the video program in the department of visual communication at Shenkar College.

Oren Zuckerman

HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) researcher and designer, Director of miLAB, Reichman University’s Sammy Ofer School of Communications

Israel

HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) researcher and designer, Reichman University’s Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Head of HCI MA program, Director of miLAB.

Gali Golan

Utopia Association | SF Enthusiast, Researcher and Speaker

Israel

Amateur lecturer with academic pretensions on all things SF and Fantasy, for over 20 years.

Tzlil Avraham

Journalist, Kan - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

Israel

Journalist, Kan - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

Keren Elazari

Cyber analyst, researcher and speaker, K3r3n3.com

Israel

Friendly hacker, cyber security researcher and speaker. Founder of BSidesTLV and the Leading Cyber Ladies movement, avid sci fi reader.

Jeremy Fogel

Speaker, moderator, podcaster, researcher, philosopher, teacher. The Tel Aviv University, Alma, cultural and intellectual center for Hebrew culture

Israel / Belgium

Speaker, moderator, podcaster, researcher, philosopher, teacher. Fogel teaches at the Tel Aviv University's department of Jewish philosophy and numerous other institutes, alongside being academic director of Alma, cultural and intellectual center for Hebrew culture.