Executive Summit

As organisations accelerate analytics and AI adoption, reliable data and automated workflows become the foundation for agility and risk control. Forward-thinking leaders are moving beyond reactive monitoring to achieve end-to-end visibility across the data lifecycle, embedding governance-driven accountability and intelligent automation with built-in guardrails to scale secure, decision-ready data operations.

Join this session to:

• Explore strategies to build trusted, enterprise-scale data workflows
• Discuss how to achieve proactive, end-to-end visibility across modern data ecosystems
• Identify actionable ways to embed automation into your workflows

As AI adoption advances, Nordic security and technology leaders are challenged to ensure that these innovations enhance security without introducing new risks. In a landscape shaped by strict data privacy standards and a culture of digital innovation, CIOs and CISOs must ask: How can we assess the real-world impact of AI on our cybersecurity strategy?

Join this session to discuss:

• Setting clear goals and aligning AI initiatives with risk reduction and compliance
• Methods for monitoring and minimizing data exposure incidents related to GenAI
• Improving supply chain visibility to identify hidden AI in third-party and internal tools for compliance and security

As AI‑driven systems and cloud platforms become inexorable from day-to-day operations, digital sovereignty is now a core strategic concern. Leaders are debating whether it's even possible to ensure complete control over data while maintaining flexibility and efficiency. However, with a new challenge comes new ideas, and with thoughtful investment, and a tolerance for short‑term complexity, Digital Leaders can unlock new ways forward.

Join Antonio Martiradonna, CISO, Orkla, who will discuss his strategy to regain sovereignty over data and processes. Attendees will learn how to:

• Apply a forward-looking approach to digital sovereignty in a multi-country operating company landscape
• Evaluate if applications can run across environments with greater independence, supporting “lift and shift” options and resilience against disruption
• Strive to minimise single vendor dependencies and strengthen negotiation positions through strategic technology choices

As organisations grow more dependent on digital systems, IT Leaders face rising expectations on reliability, business value creation, and protection against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. In an era increasingly defined by complexity, legacy restraints and geopolitical turbulence, CIOs and technology leaders play a critical role as knowledge leaders, managing not only enterprise risk, but need to act in the broader interest of society.

Join Jens Zerbst, CIO, Vattenfall, to learn:

• How the role of a technology leader has changed from operational steward to enterprise‑wide strategic leader
• How to manage the societal responsibilities technology leaders now shoulder as digital infrastructure becomes critical to national stability
• Three strategic bets to prioritise over the next decade to stay ahead of risk, complexity, and technological disruption

 Interest from the Board in IT and cybersecurity is at an all time high. So why is it still such a challenge to demonstrate that investment is being well spent? Or to even access it? Traditional expectations around ROI and KPIs of digital initiatives are holding you, and your organisation, back. 

Join this interactive workshop to:

• Understand what boards are looking for

• Collaborate with peers to draft a new metric to attain, or demonstrate the value of, cybersecurity or digital investment

• Learn from your peers’ experience of trial and error