title:: NEXTLV - Israel- A Future Superpower in Healthcare AI - Tel Aviv, July 5th, 2026
publisher:: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
people:: Razvan Ionasec, Liat Nadai Arad, Erez Askal, Ran Balicer, Hadas Bitran
organization:: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Clalit Health Services, Microsoft, Israel Artificial Intelligence Directorate
domain:: Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, Cloud Computing, Digital Health
Summary
NEXTLV 2026 — Ichilov’s Innovation Unboxing Summit and the global launch of I-NEXT — takes place on Sunday, 5 July 2026 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Tel Aviv Sourasky University Medical Center (Ichilov). I join the Main Arena panel “Israel: A Future Superpower in Healthcare AI” (10:04–10:39, English session) as EMEA Healthcare Lead at AWS, alongside leaders from Israel’s national AI directorate, Clalit Health Services, and Microsoft. The panel explores whether Israel’s deep digitization, HMO-integrated longitudinal data, and clinician-innovator density can position it as a global reference for safe, agentic clinical AI.
Event Details
- Event: NEXTLV 2026 — Ichilov’s Innovation Unboxing Summit & I-NEXT Global Launch
- Date: Sunday, 5 July 2026
- Location: Recanati Auditorium, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center – Ichilov)
- Host: Tel Aviv Sourasky University Medical Center – Ichilov
Panel: Israel — A Future Superpower in Healthcare AI
10:04–10:39, Main Arena (Recanati Auditorium)
- Moderator: Ms. Liat Nadai Arad — Chief Transformation Officer and Head of I-NEXT Data, Tel Aviv Sourasky University Medical Center – Ichilov
- Mr. Erez Askal — Head of Israel Artificial Intelligence Directorate
- Prof. Ran Balicer — Chief Innovation Officer & Deputy Director-General, Clalit Health Services; Founding Director, Clalit Research Institute
- Ms. Hadas Bitran — Partner GM Health AI, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences
- Dr. Razvan Ionasec — EMEA Healthcare Lead, AWS
Context
The panel sits within a broader summit program that opens with the I-NEXT Launch (Prof. David Zeltser) and Vision 2030 (Prof. Eli Sprecher, CEO of Ichilov), greetings from the Mayor of Tel Aviv–Yafo and the Director-General of the Ministry of Health, and international perspectives from Cedars-Sinai, NYU Langone Health, and Harvard Medical School (Isaac Kohane’s Human Values Project — Medical Pluralism for AI).
