Itai Green
Itai Green is one of Israel’s leading voices on Open Innovation and Corporate Innovation and is recognized internationally as an expert, a professional, and an excellent speaker.
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What Itai Green's clients say
"The experience of having Itai Green speaking to our team at Inbetta was extraordinary! Great insights on innovation, discussing attitudes, innovative ecosystems, opportunities with engaging with startups, open innovation. Our team was delighted! In an ever more dynamic and competitive world market, this was a truly great encounter! Thanks Itai it was great having you!"
"Itai, We, NEST – Tourism Innovation center Portugal, the National Tourism Authority of Portugal for innovation, would like to thank you for your assistance and guidance. We have been working with you for some five years now, and you have been a great asset to us duringthis period. Throughout the period you have been consulting us, guiding our innovation endeavors and assisted us in building a local TravelTech ecosystem. You have also served as a keynote speaker in several of our conferences, summits, and events, including events in which high-ranking public officials have participated. You have always been and continue to be a fantastic consultant, an excellent speaker, and a great partner to work with. We took forward to many more years of working together, innovating, and improving our ecosystem."
"Mr. Green, The Alexander Innovation Zone S.A. would like to formally thank you for speaking at our recent event titled "Open huiovation: the benefits of corporations to collaborate with startups". You recently spoke at our event, which was collaboration between our organization, Elevate Greece, and the Greek Exporters ' Association. Your speech focused on the importance of innovating and how to do it right, and the decision-makers who participated in the event found it insightful, enriching, and helpful. We hope to see you in Greece soon and highly recommend others to work with you and leverage your experience and expertise to innovate, transform, and grow. Thank you very much. I wish you continued success in all your future endeavors."
"Mr Green, It was a great pleasure to host you via connection in the recent 19th Annual Cyprus Summit entitled "Cyprus's new roadmap and strategy for sustainable balance", which took place on November 7th & 8th 2023 at Hilton Nicosia. Distinguished speakers from Europe and Greece joined us once again for a highly informative, meaningful and insightful debate on all the crucial issues this year's event addressed. Thank you for joining this topÂclass collection of speakers. Your intervention was met with great interest by our distinguished audience and contributed significantly to the stimulating discussion. Apart from the 540 attendees in person, more than 16.000 viewers from 30 countries joined the livestreaming. Attached please find the viewers' statistics of the event. Sincerely hoping to have the honour and pleasure of having you with us once again in one of our future Economist events."
"Itai, on behalf of the entire AmCham team, I want to express my gratitude for your participation and exceptional contribution as a keynote speaker at our recent event. Having you as the lead speaker at our yearly CEO Forum, attended this year by over 1,000 CEOs from the largest companies in Brazil across different industries, was of the utmost pleasure. Your expertise and insightful perspectives on open innovation were exactly what our audience needed to hear. In just 50 minutes, you managed to masterfully navigate through the complexities of this topic, while addressing the challenges as well as the opportunities in today's ever-changing business landscape and our rapidly changing world. I was impressed by how you captured the attention of this large and diverse group of people, and unsurprisingly, the audience was very responsive to your presentation – laughed out loud, participated in questions and responses despite the large hall, and did not fidget or look at their phones."
"I am pleased to inform you that the feedback we received from our attendees in the days following the event was overwhelmingly positive. The audience was genuinely captivated by the eloquence, energy, and clarity with which you conveyed your ideas. I am confident that your presentation would be equally well-received by any audience, in different countries and sectors. Of the topic of Open innovation, I was impressed by how relevant it is, and especially now I believe that open innovation is now more important than ever, as the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of artificial intelligence have made it more critical than ever for businesses to be open to new ideas and partnerships. Your experience and talent as a speaker, combined with your knowledge of this subject, would make you an asset to any corporate event or conference. I highly recommend you to anyone seeking an engaging and informative speaker on this important topic. Once again, thank you for sharing your insights and assisting us in making this CEO Forum an outstanding success."
"Thank you, Itai, for being with us a couple weeks ago. I received good feedback from the team in terms of quality of the lecture, engagement, level of motivation and reflections that were brought. For sure it will help to open some conversations to redefine our path."
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Itai Green's 2025 biography
Meet Itai Green
Mr. Itai Green is the Founder and CEO of Innovate Israel and a dominant leader in Israel’s corporate open innovation. He is a renowned speaker and is recognized internationally as a leading authority on innovation, particularly on Corporate Open innovation.
Mr. Green’s expertise is in leading innovation processes and connecting global corporations and governments with entrepreneurial ecosystem members, allowing them to transform themselves successfully to better fit our changing world, maintain their positions as market leaders, or take the lead and place themselves ahead of the curve.
Mr. Green is also a renowned speaker and has spoken so far at many significant events, including as a local and international keynote speaker. Some prior speaking engagements included several events by The Economist, the United Nations World Tourism Organization, the American Chamber of Commerce, and more.
Mr. Green consults organizations in various fields, including IT, Consumer Products, Pharma, Finance, Travel, E-commerce, Retail, Banking, Insurance, Energy, Construction Tech, IoT, and the Public Sector.
Beyond innovation, Mr. Green’s other areas of expertise include fintech, insurtech, traveltech, generative AI, ecosystems, and other disruptive technologies and related fields.
Some of his key achievements so far include the foundation of Innovate Israel in 2017, speaking at The Economist – Digital Metamorphosis in 2018, at The Economist’s Taking Cybersphere to the Next Level and the UNWTO Tourism Startup Competition in 2019, The Economist’s Travel and Tourism Leadership Summit and Finnovate in 2020, The Economist – Eastmed Summit in 2021, the Economist’s Western Balkans Summit on 2022, and AmCham Brazil’s 2023 CEO Forum.
Itai Green's 2025 talks & topics
Innovate Now or Die Later
The lecture is intended to expose managers, owners, and various corporate leaders to the importance of collaboration with startups and other external entities, such as members of the academia, as well as other corporations, to enable organizations to keep up with technological changes.
Even before the pandemic, the majority of industries have been changing. COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst and greatly accelerated digital transformation across industries. Internal innovation departments simply do not have the tools, nor the ability to survive in this changing world without the assistance of external actors, and most important among them are startups.
The lecture presents the challenges of integrating innovation in large organizations and offers various helpful tips for tackling these challenges to integrate and implement innovation successfully.
Post-COVID & Early-AI-Revolution Workshops
The COVID-19 epidemic has had a tremendous effect on our lives and resulted in significant changes in the very way that individuals and organizations work and prepare for the next crisis. Suddenly, without warning, it seems that the entire business world shifted to Zoom and its competitors in a day since they offered a concrete solution to the challenges raised by the crisis.
COVID-19 and the AI Revolution require organizations to update their ways of thinking and quickly integrate innovation. This lecture offers your organization the tools needed in order to adjust to a changing reality, and better prepare yourself for future crises through the use of the most advanced technologies.
Generative AI
In this lecture, Mr. Green provides companies and individuals with valuable insight into the field of generative artificial intelligence, goes into detail regarding the potential of this technology for different industries, and offers practical practice of innovative tools.
This technology is changing the world and is significant for businesses and organizations in every sector, as well as for each employee. The lecture places special emphasis on experimenting with relevant artificial intelligence tools and leads to the removal of barriers preventing the use of this advanced technology.