Startup School: GenAI Media is your opportunity to build the next generation of

Startup School: GenAI Media will leave you with the tools to:

Generate expressive audio. Go beyond robotic voices and discover how to create emotionally rich, human-like speech using Google's advanced Emotional Text-to-Speech models. You'll learn the end-to-end workflow for high-quality audio generation and explore multilingual capabilities.

Master multi-modal AI agents. Learn how Gemini's unique ability to understand text, images, and audio empowers you to create truly intelligent applications. You'll build your first Gemini app, craft advanced prompts, and even teach your AI to grade itself for quality assurance at scale.

Build production-ready applications. Understand how to deploy your AI solutions using Cloud Run, process and handle audio data streams, and integrate custom audio players into your frontend.

Collaborate & innovate. Explore agentic workflows where AI models collaborate to produce complete content from a single prompt. From transcribing voice input to generating unique character images with Imagen 4.0 and creating full audio-visual scenes, you'll learn to bring your creative visions to life.

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Hosted By

Shahar Matorin, Israel Country Manager

Country Manager Startup Grind Israel, Partner at Sky Growth Partners - Father, business culture catalyst, Startup ecosystem builder & connector

Experienced Entrepreneur. Shahar has over 20 years of Global startup ecosystem experience. Shahar is the person responsible for putting Israel on the Global Startup Grind map. Today Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting more than 3,500,000 entrepreneurs in over 600 chapters. SG nurture startup ecosystems in 125+ countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google and Microsoft for Startups.

Skilled in strategy, management, investor relations. Globally connected professional with a can-do attitude.

Now, in this new era of the tech sector, Shahar is teaming up with an experienced partner to launch Sky Growth Partners, a company dedicated to building, growing, and scaling startups. With his wealth of knowledge and experience, Shahar is well-positioned to help Sky Growth Partners succeed in its mission.

Lirone Glikman, Co Director

Lirone Glikman is a global business development expert, an international keynote speaker, and a business relationship strategist. She is the CEO and Founder of ‘The Human Factor by Lirone Glikman’ - a global business development boutique firm. She supports tech companies' growth and expansion into the international markets.
Lirone works with startups, corporations, universities and governments in 4 continents, among them Google, Microsoft, Cornell University, eBay, Australian and Taiwanese governments and more.
Lirone is also an honorary adviser at an external United Nations committee dedicated to the UN's sustainable development goals.

Shir Papo, Co-Director, Operation

Gavriel Ariel, Co-Director, Business Development

With hands-on experience in startup ecosystems, venture building, and global business networks, I help entrepreneurs turn ideas into scalable businesses and investors find ventures worth backing.

Leading Business Development for StartUp Grind Tel Aviv - Responsible for driving strategic partnerships, curating high-value connections between founders, investors, and industry leaders, and designing growth-oriented programs for entrepreneurs.
I lead the Tel Aviv chapter’s business development efforts, overseeing collaborations, sponsorships, and ecosystem engagement, while ensuring founders get access to the right opportunities, networks, and resources to scale.

Always open to meaningful collaborations, strategic partnerships, and high-impact opportunities.

Nir Hazut, Co-Director, Value Creation

I come from the world of investments, with over a decade of experience working with entrepreneurs, investors, and venture capital funds. I founded Nexus Investors Club to help startups raise capital – not just through pitch decks, but by crafting a powerful story, taking the right approach, and understanding the psychology of the investor. I combine deep business insight with human intuition, and I hold a clear belief: money flows to those who project value, vision, and credibility.

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Global Partner

Snowflake (https://www.snowflake.com)
Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud - a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake's platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 600 cities and 125+ countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. For more information visit StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind.

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