Israel’s ‘cyber road show’ in Botswana

TALI FEINBERG

Dubbed a “cyber roadshow”, Israeli companies Verint, Checkmarx, Cybereason, CYBONET, Radware, and Rafael went to the country with two main goals: to engage with Botswana government officials with whom they could initiate business relationships, and to engage with the market leaders of several business markets,” said Elliott Black, the trade office’s representative for cyber security.

The first day was taken up with meetings with government offices, including the Botswana defence force, transport ministry, police service, and financial authorities.

The second day was devoted to a “B2B cyber engagement” event. It was packed with representatives from Botswana’s leading ICT companies, tech distributors and integrators, the country’s banks, financial service providers, and many more. “Several people and companies had to be turned away because of the fantastic response to the invitations,” said Black.

Hundreds of meeting took place between the cyber security companies and attendees. Black gave a presentation on the ways in which Israel is a cyber nation and leader in cyber security, addressing how and why Israel excels in this field in terms of business, influence, leadership, innovation, and dialogue.

The presentations also focused on the way Israel nurtures its human capital to find, train, and nurture leaders, innovators, and disruptors in this field. It resulted in many new relationships being formed between Israel’s trade and industry ministry and public and private offices in Botswana.