Dr. Shai Melcer, head of the National Bioconvergence Program, is a scientist, entrepreneur and educator, leading the National Bioconvergence Program at the Israel Innovation Authority. With over 15 years of experience and entrepreneurship in the biomedical ecosystem, Shai Melcer has worked with various entities such as the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical Center, IBM, Jerusalem Development Authority (Bio-Jerusalem). He has also worked with hundreds of biomedical companies in Israel and around the world in the fields of pharma-biotech, medical devices and digital health, many of them in the bioconvergence sector.