OWASP Israel January 2026 Meetup hosted by Apiiro/Akamai
Date:
Location: Akamai Israel Ltd., Totseret ha-Arets St 8, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL
RSVPs: 234
🐝✡ OWASP IL ✡🐝 is excited to welcome you to our latest Meetup event! 🚀
Prepare to dive into the world of Application Security with an evening filled with engaging security topics, networking, and as always - community mingling, food and drinks.
This time around, we're delighted to have Apiiro and Akamai as the hosts for our gathering and we are looking forward to welcoming Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of Github, who will be joining our panel of technology leaders for a discussion on how the AI boom has affected application security teams.
We will also hear from OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI from one of the project leaders, Keren Katz,
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Agenda:
➡️ 17:30 - 18:15 - gathering and food - We will gather at Akamai for drinks, great treats, and mingling.
➡️ 18:15 - 18:30 - OWASP Israel Intro + Microphone tuning
➡️ 18:30 to 19:15 - Panel - The AppSec AI Revolution
Moderator: Josh Grossman - OWASP Israel co-leader
In this session, the panelists will discuss how they have seen AppSec teams respond to and take advantage of the AI boom that we have seen over the last year.
Panelists:
- Thomas Dohmke - former CEO of Github and Strategic Advisor to Apiiro
- Idan Plotnik - CEO at Apiiro
- Sean M. Lyons - Senior VP and GM for Akamai’s Application & Infrastructure Security group
- Moran Ashkenazi - CyberSecurity Venture Capitalist and 2x Chief Security Officer
➡️ 19:15 - 19:30 Break
➡️ 19:30 - 20:10 - OWASP top 10 for Agentic AI - risks, mitigations and what’s next
Keren Katz - Lead of OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI, Senior Group Manager of AI Security at Tenable
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This event is hosted by Apiiro and Akamai in collaboration with OWASP Israel.
Join us at the event physically as we will not include Zoom or remote participation this time.
Speaker
Thomas Dohmke
Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools developers love and accelerating innovations that are transforming the processes and procedures of computer programming. As Chief Executive Officer of GitHub and the self-described “chief nerd of the world's computer nerds," he has overseen the launch of GitHub Copilot, the world's first at-scale AI developer tool, and its successor, GitHub Copilot X.
Before his time at GitHub, Dohmke worked at Microsoft. He previously co-founded HockeyApp, where he led the company as CEO through its acquisition by Microsoft in 2014.
Dohmke holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.
Topics: Application Security, Cybersecurity, OWASP, Software Security, Web Security
Directions
Akamai Technologies - Level 17, ToHa Tower, Totseret ha-Arets 8, Tel Aviv-Yafo