Sagie Davidovich

An Entrepreneur, technological visionary and semantic web Enthusiast. An active contributor to the world-wide Scala community, striving to bridge the gap between human & machine reasoning and interaction. An active angel investor, and enjoys mentoring and helping the local start-up community. For the past 10 years he's been busy solving exciting challenges, and in the spare time creating new ones. Passionate about computational knowledge representation, acquisition, storage, reasoning and processing. In the last 7 years Sagie has been serving in executive yet hands-on technological positions in web-scale NLP, data mining and IR related companies. Prior to joining newBrandAnalytics as GM of nBA-IL and SVP of R&D, Sagie served as VP R&D of Semantinet for 2 years, co-founded Delver, a social search engine (acquired by sears), where he served as the CTO. Prior to founding Delver, he was the architect of a large scale award winning expert system project for the defense industry. Occasionally sharing my vision and thoughts about the technological singularity on his blog: http://www.singularityworld.com Happily married to Kira Radinsky, CTO @ Sales-predict (check out her fascinating Ph.D thesis on new event prediction here: www.technion.ac.il/~kirar/).