Nordic CIO Executive Summit

Exclusive to Governing Body members and select guests, this dinner is a can’t-miss opportunity to connect with your peers prior to tomorrow’s Executive Summit. Please join your colleagues for an evening of good food, wine, and lively networking.

Digitalisation is at the centre of today’s struggle for sustainable competitive advantage. Technology, data and automation has been increasingly adopted by all major industry sectors over the last several years—and the energy industry is no exception. Having an efficient data strategy is key, but building and executing it is difficult. So how can companies successfully turn data into knowledge, and ultimately, knowledge into business?

Join this session to hear from the CIO and CDO of Danske Commodities on:

• How to stay ahead of the technological development in a tech-trading business
• How to approach and build an effective D&A strategy
• How to secure top-management buy-in, funding and involvement

Managing distributed risk is today’s defining cybersecurity challenge. Mitigation of zero-day vulnerabilities is critical as adversaries exploit supply chain entities. This session explores how to identify all third parties impacted by zero-day vulnerabilities and guide their mitigation efforts. Your vendor, supplier, and partner ecosystem is now your enterprise attack surface.

Join this session to learn:

• How to manage distributed risk associated with hundreds and even thousands of vendors, suppliers, and partners
• Approaches to identify, prioritise, and mitigate active threats and critical/zero-day vulnerabilities
• Strategies to reduce supply chain/external ecosystem risk associated with zero-day

As CIOs endeavour to drive value and better business outcomes, what lies ahead for digitalisation is at the forefront of their minds today. To ensure future digital success, whilst considering cost efficiency and visibility, CIOs are asking questions like “is multi-cloud possible without the fear of dispersion of assets?” Or “are my existing toolsets capable of what I will need in the future?” But ultimately, how can CIOs continue to transform their business whilst maintaining governance and overcoming cultural resistances?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Gaining visibility and control through automation to break siloes and centralise operations
• Ensuring capabilities and skills across the organisation are future ready
• Communicating business value and what long term investment can do

Demand for security roles is constantly increasing and organisations everywhere are facing the same issues time and again – from difficulties hiring and retaining staff to keeping up with security operational challenges. So how can CISOs make their SOCs run more effectively to enhance their security posture and ultimately evolve their security strategy around their workforce? 

Join this boardroom to hear more on:

• Improving data retention through automation and efficient processes
• Amplifying and correlating the right signals while filtering out the noise
• Dealing with complex supply chain attacks, insider threats and vulnerabilities

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Evanta’s Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Digital transformation is a powerful business enabler that is compelling business leaders to fundamentally change their technology ecosystems. However, such a transformation significantly impacts security, network traffic flows, applications, user experience, and cost, which is why it is top-of-mind in C-suites and the boardroom. Digital business transformation is no longer a question of if, but WHEN. This Keynote will outline how CIOs and CISOs can better engage the wider organisations, and what their focus should be when communicating the value of secure digital business. 

Specifically, you will hear about:

• Managing digital transformation in uncertain times
• Accelerating transformation with innovative security services, and communicating their value to the business
• How to scale and simplify security across the organisation, minimising risk and gaining agility

In the last few years, we have seen an abundance of nefarious events by offenders, both known and unknown, covering over tens of thousands of incidents and breaches. That same catalogue of activities also offers security leaders a first-hand view into current cybercrime trends, and a map towards developing a prosperous and mature security program. So how can IT leaders learn from past breaches to ensure a more secure future for their organisations?

Join this session to hear more on:

• Key findings of DBIR 2022 embellished with Verizon's own Incident Response experience
• Using data breach investigations to evolve your security strategy
• How to respond to security incidents and protect your organisation

IT leaders are faced with new and different stressful situations every day. Whether it’s from geopolitical threats to cybersecurity or leveraging what’s truly needed for the business to thrive with IT, CIOs and CISOs have the weight of their organisations on their shoulders. So, what needs to be addressed to alleviate this stress?

Join this session to discuss:

• How to ignite commitment from you, your teams and other business leaders to shape the future of the CISO role
• How to prevent burnout for yourself and your team
• Actionable takeaways on how to manage stress within the workplace

Navigating the talent pool in a post-pandemic work environment has CIOs seeking out solutions to engage their teams and build up new talent. With employee expectations at an all-time high, CIOs are finding that now is the time to get creative. 

Join this session to debate the following: 

• Keeping the right people and thinking beyond just retention
• Mentoring a multigenerational workforce and creating operational excellence
• Exploring employee potential and diversifying skill sets

Cyber-attacks are fast becoming a frequent part of everyday life for the CISO, and traditional tools and approaches are not enough to detect and respond to these attacks before causing irreparable damage. So, what can be done to ensure all bases are covered when evolving security strategies to prevent these increasingly sophisticated attacks?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Gaining better visibility of your environments
• Looking deeper into using a threat-led approach and ensuring you have the right foundation in place before considering additional security upgrades and implementations
• Upskilling and retraining talent to ensure value is gained from all investments

Addressing different issues within IT has always been at the forefront of the CIO role, but in 2022 security has become one of the top priorities. So how can CIOs and CISOs work together to drive a secure IT strategy that mitigates risk in the constantly expanding threat landscape?

Join this session as the CIO and CISO of Boliden dive deep into:

• Improving communication and understanding with management
• How to measure security effectively
• Addressing different risks and setting priorities

Finding the bridge between IT & OT is a struggle for CISOs everywhere, and mounting pressures to increase maturity are coming from all sides – responsibilities and goals around this are of peak importance. So how can CISOs effectively measure processes and landscapes to navigate what’s working in their security strategies, whilst also promoting knowledge of IT & OT in a digestible way?

Join this session to hear from Neste’s Tomi Pitkänen on:

• Using metrics to visualise the status of your cybersecurity and its performance
• Communicating with the board and providing a better understanding across the organisation
• What the key elements are for IT & OT co-existing, and what to track for business success

As new generations are introduced into the workplace, CIOs are facing different issues constantly; from adapting processes to advanced ways of working, a cultural shift is taking place in IT and organisations are having to evolve quickly. So how can CIOs train employees en masse around structure and data, whilst driving efficiency with digitalisation?

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Upskilling workers and staying ahead of the curve with functionalities
• Understanding the value of data, and moving and using data from analogue to digital
• How to be more efficient and get better customer satisfaction through cultural change

Establishing more control on activities, access and flow throughout organisations is a challenge for CISOs across all sectors – and many are putting Zero Trust at the forefront of their security strategy. Whilst this is a helpful solution, getting provisioning automated is a lot of work, as is keeping employees informed and on board with it; so how can CISOs keep it simple when communicating with workers across their organisations whilst addressing issues around implementation?  

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Driving a culture of understanding Zero Trust
• Looking into the role of ‘lead architect’ when establishing an IAM strategy
• Addressing the complexities of getting all systems aligned

The next level of automation is always around the corner, but implementing this isn’t always so simple. In this session, Mats Hultin will be talking about Ericsson’s journey with innovation, and how they’re already seeing the benefits of adopting new automation strategies into their organisation. Mats will also be covering:

• Digitalising bigger parts of the business
• Investing in different technologies and robots to improve efficiencies
• Ericssion’s use of 5G and transitioning to limitless connectivity within factories