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Conversations with Technion alumni living and working all around the world. A podcast by the Technion Alumni Association

  1. Mother Tongue | Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer

    11/13/2025

    Mother Tongue | Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer

    Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a psychoanalyst and a poet, based in Cambridge, UK. She is a medical doctor and holds a PhD in Gender Studies and psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London, and a co-editor of Sitegeist - A journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. This episode is a little different: we talk more than we usually do, about our inner lives, about consciousness and emotions… about gender and philosophy and poetry… with a guest who started out studying internal medicine, and then took turn after turn through psychiatry and psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy and more. In this conversation, we cover such far-ranging topics as: circumcision, menopause, and living abroad with Hebrew speaking kids. As a special treat - we even get a chance to hear some of Yael's poetry. Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni You can find Yael Pilowsky Bankirer's book of poetry (in Hebrew) - here. And her book about circumcision in Freud’s writing is available here.

    33 min
  2. From CEO to Restaurant Cook... and Back | Assaf Glazer

    10/15/2025

    From CEO to Restaurant Cook... and Back | Assaf Glazer

    Dr. Assaf Glazer is CEO at Vinst, an exciting Israeli foodtech startup that offers an AI-powered cooking app, to help users organize recipes, personalize meals, and elevate the home-cooking experience… as well as a platform where you can print your very own family cookbook. A serial entrepreneur in a variety of areas where he finds passion, Glazer previously founded Nanit, a company that, among other things, raised over $75M in capital, and very successfully develops smart baby monitors - integrating AI and sleep science to help overall wellbeing for babies.  In this episode, recorded in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Glazer talks about how Covid sent him on a journey that included culinary school and restaurant work; and how going through the Oct. 7th attack at a farming community in southern Israel, led him to put together a very meaningful project - that also sounds quite delicious! Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni

    46 min
  3. Blazing Trails in Japan | Or Marantz

    08/29/2025

    Blazing Trails in Japan | Or Marantz

    Or Marantz is a doctorate candidate at the Nagoya University, specializing in sustainable communities development in rural Japan. She also serves as ‘open innovation analyst’ at NGLI, which is an Israeli company that provides services of open innovation to Japanese clients. In this episode, she talks about the different things she learned from working with Italian and Japanese colleagues, the link between digital nomads and de-population, as well as what she saw on the Pacific Crest Trail... that made her seek out a career in renewable energy. Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni

    46 min
  4. Quality Control | Helen Buchumensky

    07/31/2025

    Quality Control | Helen Buchumensky

    Helen Buchumensky is Director of standards and compliance, and head of global functional safety, at ARM Semiconductors & Automotive Operations... and of course, a proud Technion alum! In this is episode, she talks about starting music festivals, writing for teenage magazines, and soviet professionalism... She also tells us all about the concept of Functional Safety, and how quality control in the billions and billions of microchips all around us, could really save lives. Finally, she talks about her social activism days, as a student... she's our first ever guest to describe the Technion as a party school :) Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni

    44 min
  5. Farm to Building | Lola Ben Alon

    07/07/2025

    Farm to Building | Lola Ben Alon

    Lola Ben Alon is Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation - where she directs both the Natural Materials Lab, and the Building Technology curriculum. Her work has been exhibited in some of the most prestigious museums and events in the field of architecture and design; she curates and serves on several highly regarded boards in the field, And of course – she’s a proud Technion alum! In this episode, she talks about rammed earth, straw and clay, ancient recipes for cutting-edge 3D printers; why “concrete is not the enemy”; and lessons she learned about building… from insects! Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni You're invited to contact Lola via the Natural Materials Lab Instagram page.

    36 min
  6. Machine Man | Dr. Jonathan Spitz

    06/05/2025

    Machine Man | Dr. Jonathan Spitz

    Dr. Jonathan Spitz is the founder and CEO of Gauss Machine Learning, a Germany-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to optimize manufacturing systems.   In this episode, we talk about his early LEGO robots, growing up in Argentina; how he helped Coca-Cola increase productivity by 10% (!) after just a couple of hours, using only a tablet; the meaning of "Small Data" and how it can lead to big results; and of course, as in any conversation regarding robotics – "Terminator 2: Judgement Day". Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni

    54 min
  7. Plenty of Problems in the Sea | Maria Chudnovsky

    05/07/2025

    Plenty of Problems in the Sea | Maria Chudnovsky

    Maria Chudnovsky is a leading mathematician working in the field of graph theory. She is a professor at the Department of Mathematics and The Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Faculty of Sciences at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow – the so called “Genius Grant”. And just recently, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for 2025.   In this episode, she talks about “what makes a problem hard”... and why she does much of her groundbreaking work on her couch. She also attempts to explain some pretty advanced graph theory in terms we can all understand… and as a bonus, for any true math nerds out there: she shares a riddle that took her weeks to solve, so pay close attention! Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni

    37 min
  8. Matbucha Bolognese | Alexey Tomsov

    04/09/2025

    Matbucha Bolognese | Alexey Tomsov

    Alexey Tomsov is food technology lead at Redefine Meat, and a proud Technion alum. He's our first guest from the exciting world of food-tech... If you don’t know about Redefine Meat, it’s an Israeli startup company that uses advanced technology, to develop and produce animal-free meat or “new meat” as they like to call it. Alexey was the company’s very first employee, and in a moment he’ll tell us about the innovations and advancements they’ve been making in his playground – that’s what he calls the food lab; we’ll hear a couple of recipes as well, and all about the burgers and steaks that are already changing the world. Host: Jonathan Gal of SHEMMA Visit our website & sign up for our newsletter here: https://alumni.technion.ac.il/ And find your community page here: https://linktr.ee/technionalumni

    40 min
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Conversations with Technion alumni living and working all around the world. A podcast by the Technion Alumni Association

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  • Creator
    Technion Alumni Association
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
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