French CIGREF brought a first delegation in Israel, with Shushane & Co and SIA Partners

Testimony of Henri D'Agrain, CIGREF Executive Director:

"In November 2018, the CIGREF, an association that brings together large French companies and public administrations around the digital matters, organized a study trip to Israel for a delegation of twenty three people, on the dual theme of digital innovation and cybersecurity. We entrusted the on-site organization of this study trip to Shushane & Co. The relevance of the choice and the level of companies and personalities we met, the interest of the sites visited, the quality of the highlights provided throughout the trip, the quality of logistics, were the main factors for the success of this study trip. All members of the delegation, corporate decision-makers and parliamentarians, join me in thanking Nelly Soussan and her team, who spared no efforts in guaranteeing the quality of our expedition to Israel."

Shushane & Co was the Israeli partner to CIGREF and SIA Partners to organise from A to Z the first Learning Expedition of the CIGREF in Israel. The full official report to be found on the CIGREF website.

Shushane and Co built the program based on the CIGREF members requirements, that was including 2 mains dimensions:

- Technological one, around 3 main themes: Cyber Security, AI and Smart Mobility,

- Eco-systemic one, to discover the different types of players of the Israeli innovation ecosystem and how they interact in synergy

The program included VIP access to the "HLS & Cyber" event, as well as first hand meetings with :

- A global technological company R&D center, on the future of the 5G

- Disruptive AI based startups in Cyber Security and Data Privacy

- The Cyber SOC of a global Smart Mobility company

- A prominent IT & Cyber VC

- The CyberSpark of Beer Sheva

- The Israeli national CERT

- Ben Gurion University "T Labs" R&D center

- A national israeli critical infrastructure company CISO

- The French Embassy

- The Israeli Cyber Directorate

- 2 Knesset parliament members

- Verint R&D center, on Cyber Intelligence