“All women in Forbes ’50 most influencing women in Israel’ impact our lives in the present, some influence the future, and Maya Elhalal, one of the most interesting entrepreneurs in Israel, takes it even further – she wants us to think bout the future today, before it’s too late” – Forbes Israel, Aug 2015.
Maya Elhalal (מיה אלחלל) is the Founder of ESH – Future Formats, a curator and host of high-impact conferences focused on innovation in medicine, specifically in healthspan research and longevity technologies. She is the curator of the Applied Longevity Science Conference — a groundbreaking summit spotlighting real-world, science-based interventions to extend healthspan today.
Maya is the founder of the Biohacking Lab in Ramat HaSharon, where she and her team guide individuals through science-backed health journeys that integrate cutting-edge diagnostics with personalized protocols to improve biological age, metabolic resilience, and overall wellbeing.
Certified in both the Wim Hof Method and the HeartMath system for coherence training, Maya blends ancient practices with modern science to optimize stress response, emotional resilience, and performance. She is also a licensed EMF hazards evaluator (RF and ELF) by the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection and is active in public awareness campaigns addressing the health risks of chronic non-ionizing radiation exposure.
In 2015, Maya was featured in Forbes Israel’s list of 50 Influential Women, and in The Next Web’s global list of recommended women speakers in science and technology. In 2017, Globes Magazine named her one of Israel’s 70 Brilliant Young Women for her efforts in democratizing biotech innovation.
Maya speaks internationally about the acceleration of innovation in health and its implications for entrepreneurship, longevity, and quality of life. She is the co-academic director of the Future of Health executive education program at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), and formerly taught new-media entrepreneurship at the IDC Global MBA and the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (2006–2010).
She is the co-founder and past president of Entrepreneurs’ Organization Israel (EO – a global network of 12,000 entrepreneurs in over 50 countries), and the curator of MEDinIsrael 2017, as well as host and curator of the Sustainable Healthcare Startup Competition and Conference by Abbvie Israel (2015, 2017).
Maya was the first Israeli woman to attend Singularity University (EP2012, EP2016, Exponential Medicine 2017). She is a cum laude graduate in Computer Science from IDC Herzliya (1999–2002), and a graduate of the first Zell Entrepreneurship Program.
Earlier in her career, Maya co-founded several internet ventures and was a pioneer of the TEDx movement in Israel (2010). She organized and hosted four TEDx events in Tel Aviv and New York, TEDMED Live Jerusalem, the Latet Innovation Conference on Poverty and Hunger, the Israeli ALS Assistive Technologies Conference, the Behavioral Economics Summit for Startups, the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, FailCon Tel Aviv, and debated in favor of technology at Intelligence².
She is an advocate of progressive education, committed to nurturing future-ready skills, and raises her three children in the Montessori spirit, modeling a lifestyle grounded in vitality, curiosity, and purpose.
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