4 Bay Area Innovators Selected for Prestigious Global Summit

Photos: Ilya Friedman (1), Daniel Heller (2), Mor Sidi (3), and Logan Ury (4) (Courtesy).

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco natives Ilya Friedman, Daniel Heller, Mor Sidi, and Logan Ury were selected to join over 150 of the Jewish world’s leading young innovators from 29 countries who will convene in Jerusalem, June 24-28, to connect with other change makers, gain new skills, and find renewed inspiration at the 2018 ROI Summit. The summit is the flagship program of ROI Community, an initiative of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

Friedman is the founder and CEO of LumLife, a health startup based in Scilicon Valley, as well as the founder of the San Francisco Russian Speaking Jewish Moishe House, a hub for young adults that is the only community of Russian-speaking Jews in northern California. To learn more about Friedman, click here.Heller is vice president of operations for Social Construct, a San Francisco-based construction technology startup that radically reduces construction costs to help the market provide high-quality urban apartments for the middle class. To learn more about Heller, click here. Sidi is head of operations at Zendrive, a mission-driven startup that strives to make roads safer using data and analytics. To learn more about Sidi, click here.Ury, the former co-head of Google’s behavioral economics lab, is applying her knowledge of consumer behavior and insights into psychology to romance, consulting with men and women to help improve their love lives. She previously hosted a series called “Talks at Google Modern Romance,” which had over a million YouTube views. To learn more about Ury, click here.

This year’s 2018 Summit participants bring a diverse set of interests and achievements, ranging from boosting political involvement; to promoting acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals in the Jewish community; to leveraging 'maker' technology to create solutions for people with disabilities; and much more. These innovators share a commitment to building a more vibrant, inviting and inclusive Jewish future for the benefit of the Jewish community and the broader world. For a full list of this year’s participants, please visit this page.

The 2018 participants hail from: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Inspired by Israel’s 70th anniversary and its accomplishments over seven decades, the summit will focus on the theme of independence and the interplay between dependence, independence and interdependence.

“The 70th anniversary of the state of Israel provides a theme and framework for the journey we hope our participants will undergo during the summit, both as individuals and as a community,” said No’a Gorlin, associate executive director of ROI Community. “By bringing greater awareness to, and understanding of, our relationships with others, we aim for these leaders to walk away with a heightened sense of intention, belonging and responsibility as they continue pursuing social change in the Jewish community and around the world.”

For more details on this year’s ROI Summit, visit this page.