Shay David
VP Business and Community Development, Kaltura Inc.

Dr. Shay David is a scholar and serial entrepreneur who specializes in collaborative and open-source information and communication systems. Shay is the co-founder of Kaltura, a pioneer in collaborative media, where he oversees technology and strategy. Kaltura has developed the world's first open source video solution stack, and is empowering the next generation of Wikipedia and sites like the UN's with collaborative rich media functionalities. Prior to Kaltura, Shay was a co-founder of Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile-GPS-navigation software, and MindEcho, a collaborative filtering software company. Shay was involved for many years in cutting edge software research, combining open source and proprietary software.
<br/>
He lead various product development cycles from concept to market and consulted on open systems to Fortune 500 companies like Toyota and Becton Dickson. Shay holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.A. from New York University. Shay wrote his PhD dissertation on 'The social construction of participatory information networks' at Cornell and he is also a fellow at The Information Society Project at the Yale Law School. Shay has published extensively in leading academic journals, and has presented his work all over the world. He lives in New York City with his wife Ofri, an artist who works on large-scale video art projects.