When a nation sends its cyber leadership to one of the world’s most consequential cybersecurity gatherings, it is rarely about visibility alone. It reflects strategic intent, institutional confidence, and long-term positioning. India’s delegation to CyberTech Tel Aviv 2026 demonstrates exactly that.
With Hon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu serving as the Key Inaugural Speaker and Hon President Isaac Herzog also addressing the conference, CyberTech has evolved into a geopolitical platform where cybersecurity, national resilience, policy direction, and international collaboration converge.
For India, this engagement signals a deliberate step forward as a credible global cyber partner with policy maturity, operational capability, and ecosystem depth.
The Indian Delegation: Leadership Across Policy, Enforcement, Trade, Enterprise, and Ecosystem
The strength of India’s presence at CyberTech Tel Aviv 2026 lies in the strategic depth and diversity of its delegation, spanning national policy leadership, cybercrime enforcement, bilateral trade facilitation, enterprise innovation, capital market security, and global ecosystem engagement.
Leading the delegation is Lt Gen M.U. Nair, Former National Cyber Security Coordinator, a central architect of India’s inter-agency cyber coordination framework and national cyber resilience strategy. His leadership reflects institutional continuity, policy maturity, and long-term strategic alignment at the national level.
Joining him is Prof. Triveni Singh, Ex-IPS, Chief Mentor, Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF), widely recognized as the Cyber Cop of Asia. His pioneering work in cybercrime investigation, digital forensics, and technology-driven policing has shaped modern cyber law enforcement in India. His impact and operational journey have also been featured in a globally distributed Netflix series, reinforcing his international recognition and influence.
Representing bilateral economic collaboration is Wrushabh Ghodmare, Trade Officer, Economic and Trade Mission of Israel in Mumbai, India, facilitating structured engagement between Indian and Israeli innovation ecosystems, investment channels, technology partnerships, and government-to-business collaboration frameworks.
Adding entrepreneurial and product leadership is Aditya P.S., CEO, TerraEagle Cyber Security, who has been actively building indigenous cybersecurity platforms focused on enterprise protection, industrial security, and scalable security architectures for emerging markets. His work bridges product engineering, commercial deployment, and regional market adaptation, positioning Indian cybersecurity innovation for global competitiveness and operational credibility.
Contributing national thought leadership and enterprise security strategy is Smith Gonsalves, Director and CISO, CyberSmithSECURE, widely regarded as one of India’s youngest cyber evangelists and information security professionals. His work spans cyber defense strategy, enterprise resilience architecture, governance maturity, workforce development, and ecosystem enablement across enterprises, government stakeholders, and educational institutions. Gonsalves represents the next generation of India’s cyber leadership that combines technical depth with strategic policy awareness and national capacity building.
Representing critical financial market security is Ramesh Guram, CISO, Bombay Stock Exchange, overseeing cybersecurity governance and resilience across one of India’s most systemically important financial infrastructures.
Supporting global coordination and ecosystem alignment is Tanya Malhotra, Director Global Initiatives, CyberTech, enabling structured collaboration between international delegations, government agencies, startups, and enterprise stakeholders.
Also part of the delegation is Rajesh R, contributing operational perspective and industry engagement support to the broader collaboration framework.
Together, this delegation reflects India’s transition from a service-driven cyber economy into a strategically aligned cyber nation anchored in policy leadership, enforcement maturity, product innovation, enterprise resilience, and international partnership.
Why CyberTech Tel Aviv Holds Strategic Weight
CyberTech Tel Aviv represents Israel’s premier cybersecurity convergence platform bringing together government leadership, defense intelligence, venture capital, startups, academia, and enterprise security operators.
Israel’s cyber leadership stems from sustained national investment in elite intelligence units that continuously translate operational expertise into commercial innovation, talent pipelines, and global cybersecurity companies. This engineered ecosystem has produced a high concentration of deep-technology startups and category-defining security platforms.
India’s engagement with this ecosystem is not observational. It is structured collaboration designed to accelerate mutual capability development.
Strategic Objectives of the Indian Delegation
- Enabling Israeli Market Integration into India – India’s expanding digital economy driven by fintech growth, public digital infrastructure, cloud adoption, and regulatory modernization presents significant cybersecurity demand. The delegation seeks to support Israeli firms in regulatory navigation, enterprise partnerships, and localized market strategies.
- Unlocking Cross-Border Investment Alignment – CyberTech provides a direct interface for investors and founders to align Israeli innovation velocity with Indian market scale and deployment capability.
- Co-Innovation and Talent Collaboration – Joint research programs, startup exchanges, cyber laboratories, and accelerator partnerships form the foundation of long-term ecosystem integration.
India Focus Session on Republic Day
A dedicated India-focused session will take place on January 26, coinciding with India’s Republic Day.
Time: 14:00 to 15:00
Theme: Opportunities in India
The session will explore India’s cybersecurity demand environment, regulatory drivers, public-private partnership models, and investment frameworks, with policy insight anchored by Lt Gen M.U. Nair.
Panel Representation and Ecosystem Perspective
As part of the conference program, Smith Gonsalves will participate in the panel CREATING INNOVATIVE ECOSYSTEM: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, addressing how nations institutionalize cyber capability through governance frameworks, enterprise maturity models, workforce development, and platform-scale innovation.
India’s digital public infrastructure platforms demonstrate how trust architecture, inclusion, and security can coexist at national scale, complementing Israel’s defense-led deep-technology innovation model.
India and Israel Strategic Alignment
The delegation reflects the growing strength of India Israel bilateral partnership, extending across defense, agriculture, water management, innovation, and cybersecurity.
The presence of both Hon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hon President Isaac Herzog reinforces Israel’s strategic commitment to cybersecurity as a pillar of national resilience and economic leadership.
India’s approach mirrors this philosophy through institutional capacity building, regulatory maturity, and ecosystem governance.
Beyond the Conference
CyberTech Tel Aviv will run from January 26 to 28, 2026, addressing emerging challenges across AI security, ransomware resilience, data protection, and national cyber strategy.
The true impact will emerge from partnerships formed beyond the event, shaping long-term collaboration across investment, research, policy alignment, and enterprise deployment.
India is no longer observing global cyber leadership.
India is helping shape it.
Special acknowledgment to Israel Trade Commission India for enabling cross-border engagement and strengthening bilateral cybersecurity collaboration.
