An MC who holds the stage, the schedule and the room — with mentalism transition bits written specifically for your conference. Nobody reaches for their phone, and no speaker walks into a cold room.
Opening the conference · Transition bits between talks · Speaker introductions · Stage & schedule management — in native English and Hebrew
5.0 on Google · TEDx speaker · Native English · GISEC Dubai · Google · Microsoft
Among the companies and conferences I've stood in front of:
From international tech conferences to customer, employee and leadership summits in Israel.
A regular MC makes sure the conference flows. An MC who is also a seasoned performer makes sure your audience never stops enjoying it — and that you get peace of mind. Three things you'll see at your conference:
Instead of sinking into their screens, people laugh, enjoy themselves and experience real magic between speakers. The short transition bits deliver a surprising, comic restart that wakes the room up — so it arrives fresh, focused and curious for the next talk. And everyone hurries back from the break, so they don't miss the next bit.
You get to enjoy your own event, while I hold the room. A small technical delay? The next speaker's deck won't load? I'm there to improvise, entertain and keep everyone engaged.
No speaker gets thrown to a tired, cold hall. Every presenter is met with a wave of applause — from an audience that's smiling, focused, and at peak energy.
A conference is an enormous investment. Months of production, dozens of speakers, hundreds of participants who cleared an entire day — and the only thing tying it all into one coherent event is whoever holds the stage. A professional conference MC is the difference between a sequence of presentations and a day with a beginning, a middle and an end — the kind people remember.
A conference host is far more than "the person who reads out the speakers' names." They open the conference and set the tone for the day, invite each speaker to the stage with a precise, pre-written introduction, protect the schedule even when reality tries to break it, bridge delays and technical failures without the audience feeling a thing, and close the day by tying the key messages together. When it works, the conference feels like it's running itself. That's exactly the sign that someone is working hard to make it look that way.
Anyone who has produced a conference knows the feeling: by the third talk of the morning, the room starts shifting in its seats. After lunch, half the audience is on their phones and the other half is fighting to concentrate. No speaker, however brilliant, can carry an entire day of content alone. That's what transition bits are for: short moments between talks that reset the room and bring everyone back to the present.
And this is where an MC who is also a mentalist has the edge. A transition bit here isn't a joke or a video — it's three to five minutes of mind reading and influence, with someone from the audience, on stage, live. There's no faster way to bring an entire hall back to full attention than watching someone guess the thought of the person sitting next to you.
Nothing I do comes off the shelf. Every effect and every transition bit is written for the conference itself: the CEO's message is woven into a mind-reading piece, the product being launched becomes the punchline of a mental experiment, and the topic of the next panel suddenly emerges from a sealed envelope that was shown that morning. The result feels organic — as if the conference and the hosting were written as a single unit, not a show bolted onto an event.
More and more conferences are international in practice: investors and customers from overseas, relocated employees, guest speakers, global teams joining by video. And this is where most conferences get stuck — an MC with "good English" is not the same as an MC whose native language is English. Humor, improvising with a live room, reading the moment — these only work in a language you actually live in.
With me, the hosting can be entirely in English, entirely in Hebrew, or bilingual: a Hebrew opening, an English panel for the overseas speakers, and live switching between the two based on who's in the room — so no participant ever feels the conference isn't speaking to them. The mentalism transition bits are written to land in both languages too.
Before every conference I sit down with the organizers and the production team. Together we go through the run-of-show, the speaker list and each speaker's background, the messages that have to land, and the sensitivities worth knowing about. That meeting produces a full hosting script: the opening, personal introductions for every speaker, the transition bits, and ready-made bridges for every scenario — including the ones we hope won't happen.
Over a decade on stage: from Tel Aviv boardrooms to the arena stage of the international GISEC cyber conference in Dubai, by way of a TEDx talk and conferences for Google, Microsoft, Intel and Israel's largest banks — in front of Israeli, international and mixed audiences alike.
Bottom line: conference hosting isn't a nice-to-have — it's the infrastructure holding up the entire day. And when the host is also a mentalist, the audience doesn't just stay in the room. It waits to see what happens next.
From the first conversation to the final round of applause — four steps, zero surprises (except the ones on stage):
A session with the organizers and production: run-of-show, speakers, messages, audience and sensitivities. I leave with everything I need.
A full hosting script — the opening, speaker introductions, and mentalism transition bits written specifically around your conference's content.
I arrive early for rehearsals and sound checks, then run the stage from the opening to the closing: speaker intros, timing, and bridging every hiccup.
A conference that flows, an audience that stays in the room, speakers who get a warm reception — and participants still talking about it a week later.
The combination conference producers love: hosting throughout the day + a full mentalism show to close.
Guests from abroad at your conference? The hosting switches to English — natively.
A Hebrew opening, an English panel, questions from the floor in both languages — I move between them live, and no participant is left out. That's how it works on international stages too, like the GISEC arena in Dubai.
From real conferences — no filters, no actors.
Fascinating, funny, surprising and full of magic. The audience was riveted from start to finish, the atmosphere was light and fun, and we left with a big smile and an unforgettable experience. Ben, you are a top-tier mentalist! Professional, surprising, funny and captivating — you seriously upgraded our team day.
Orly Moses · Team day
Ben was, without a doubt, the highlight of the event — he mingled among the guests, created a pleasant, easy-going atmosphere, and then gave a wonderful performance that left even the last of the cynics open-mouthed. Ben "read the room" precisely — he knew how to adapt to the kids, the teenagers and the adults at the event.
Esti Vider Schejter · Bar mitzvah
If screams of WOW could be put in writing — that's what we'd write here! We booked Ben for a small bat mitzvah and he simply made the evening! Not only did he stun the guests throughout the event and in the show itself, he also stayed afterwards to do more tricks with the kids and even teach them a little. Thank you so much, Ben!!
Hadas Yishay · Bat mitzvah
I've been doing this for over a decade: standing in front of people from all over the world, showing them that their thoughts are a little less private than they thought.
I've been doing magic since I was 12, but I actually started out as a test-prep teacher. In front of classrooms I learned to hold a room, manage time and make complicated things simple — which, as it turns out, is exactly what hosting a conference demands. In parallel I developed my craft as a professional mentalist, and a few years in I went full-time, performing and hosting in Israel and around the world.
The stage has taken me to the biggest companies in Israel and worldwide — to the UK, to Dubai, to a billionaire's private event in India and to international tech conferences, including the arena stage of the GISEC cyber conference in Dubai — in English (my native language) and Hebrew.
At TEDx I took the stage to talk about influence and hypnotic-style effects — and the talk sent me on another tour around the world: this time not just to perform, but to talk about how I do what I do.
My talk on the TEDx stage
Everything, end to end: opening the conference and setting the tone, introducing each speaker to the stage with a personal intro, mentalism transition bits between talks, running the stage and the schedule throughout the day, and a closing that ties the key messages together. A full mentalism show can also be built into the conference.
Yes — English is my native language, and I host in it both in Israel and abroad, including on international stages such as the GISEC cyber conference in Dubai. Bilingual hosting is also an option: some parts in English, some in Hebrew, switching live according to the audience and the speakers — ideal for conferences with overseas guests, investors or employees.
Before every conference we hold a preparation meeting with the organizers: we go over the schedule, the speakers, the key messages and the audience. That meeting becomes a full hosting script, and every transition bit and piece of magic is written specifically around your content — so it all feels organic, as if the conference and the hosting were written together.
A show is 45–60 continuous minutes of mentalism. Conference hosting runs across the entire day: the opening, short transition bits between talks, introducing speakers and running the stage. Many conferences combine both — hosting throughout the day and a full show to close.
I take full responsibility for the stage: coordinated with production, tracking the run-of-show in real time, and bridging delays and technical hiccups without the audience feeling a thing. A speaker who runs long, a break that shifts at the last minute — the conference gets back on track smoothly.
Customer conferences, employee and leadership summits, seminars, product launches and professional conferences — from 50 participants to a hall of over 1,000. The hosting is built differently for every scale and every audience.
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