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Name: Next IT Security - Nordics March 2027
Start: 2027-03-11T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2027-03-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Stockholm

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The Nordics Edition of Next IT Security

C-suite only, by invitation or approved application. Here's what you need to know before you apply for access.

Nordics Edition · Stockholm

11 March 2027

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At a Glance

Date11 March 2027
Time08:00 – 18:00Registration from 08:00
LocationBernsNäckströmsgatan 8111 47 Stockholm, Sweden
EligibilityC-suite cybersecurity professionals
ProcessBy invitation, or by approved application
PriceComplimentary, for invited or approved delegates

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Speakers

Featuring Global Security Experts

Keynotes, panels and roundtable leads from across Nordic cybersecurity.

Kristian Arvidsson

CAIO

Litium

Jan Olsson

Kriminalkommisarie / Police Superintendent

Swedish National Police SC3

Sharon Larsson

CISO

Svenska Spel

Håkan Kvarnström

CISO

Sinch

Ahmad Hawasli

Business Information Security Officer (BISO)

Nordea Bank

Agenda

Four chapters, one day

11 March 2027 · Berns, Stockholm

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the Next IT Security – Stockholm Edition 2027, an exclusive gathering bringing together 150 CISOs, Heads of Security and senior cybersecurity decision-makers from across the Nordics and Europe.

Theme: Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Speed, Identity, Resilience and Trust in a New Cyber Era

Cybersecurity is entering a new phase. Automation and AI have compressed attacker timelines to a fraction of what human-led detect, decide and respond processes were built for. Employees and customers are no longer the majority of identities in most enterprises: applications, workloads and increasingly autonomous AI agents are, and as they pick up access to critical systems, the old assumptions behind identity governance stop holding. The Cyber Resilience Act is moving from reporting to product security by design, while organisations remain dependent on global cloud providers, software vendors and infrastructure partners at a time when geopolitical tension is testing how much of that can still be assumed to hold.

The speed at which security decisions must be made is changing, and so is who, or what, makes them.

This edition focuses on one central question:

How do we stay in control, and keep trust, when machines act faster than we can decide?

Through closed-door discussions, peer exchange and real-world insights, we explore how security leaders can redraw decision rights for machine-speed defence, put product security into practice, secure machine and AI agent identities and rebuild trust across a fragmented technology ecosystem.

Key Focus Areas

01
When Attacks Outrun Decisions
Who Decides When Machines Move Faster Than Humans?
Automation and AI have compressed attacker timelines to a fraction of what human-led processes were built for. When that cycle can no longer keep pace with the threat, something in the operating model has to give. Which security decisions can safely be handed to machines, and which must remain under human control? Who is accountable when automated detection or containment gets it wrong? This focus area examines how security leaders are redrawing escalation paths, staffing models and decision rights now that speed itself has become the primary constraint, and how much trust automation has really earned.
02
The CRA in Practice
Six Months In, What Has the Regulation Actually Demanded?
The Cyber Resilience Act has moved from policy discussion to engineering reality. Early reporting requirements are now live, and the gap between the regulation on paper and what it asks of engineering, security, product and compliance teams has become clear. Who owns product cybersecurity? Where are secure-by-design processes proving hardest to build? What must change before the next compliance milestone? This focus area examines what has worked, what has not, and whether, for Nordic technology and industrial firms, the CRA can become a competitive differentiator rather than a cost of doing business.
03
Identity as the New Control Plane
Who Is Accountable for an AI Agent’s Actions?
Traditional IAM was built around people, and non-human identities can now outnumber the human workforce several times over. Service accounts, workloads and AI agents have quietly become their own access layer, one most IAM systems were never designed to govern. How should AI agents be governed? How do you prevent privilege from spreading across autonomous systems? This focus area explores what visibility and control actually look like once machines outnumber people in the directory, and what is changing in how machine and AI agent access gets provisioned, scoped and revoked.
04
Trust in a Fragmented World
Can You Keep Depending on Suppliers You Can No Longer Take for Granted?
Nordic organisations run on a dense web of global cloud providers, software vendors and infrastructure partners, and geopolitical tension is putting new pressure on how much of that can still be assumed to hold. The annual vendor questionnaire was never built for concentrated dependency and shifting alliances. The harder question is whether an organisation can keep relying on a critical supplier at all, and what happens when the answer changes. This focus area explores how CISOs are mapping their real dependencies, not just their contractual ones, and how resilience can be built against failures that originate outside the organisation’s control.

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