Opher Etzion serves as Professor of IS, and head of the Technological Empowerment Institute (under construction) in YVC. During the years 1997-2014 he served in various roles in IBM, most recently IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and chief scientist of event processing in IBM Haifa Research Lab,previously he lead architect of event processing technology in IBM Websphere, and a Senior Manager in IBM Research division, managed a department that has performed one of the pioneering projects that shaped the area of event processing. He has also been the chair of EPTS (Event Processing Technical Society). In parallel he serves as an adjunct professor at the Technion Israel Institu