Nordic CIO Executive Summit

Governing body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. Please join us at Fotografiska Museum in the heart of Stockholm, where attendees will enjoy an evening of dynamic discussion, fantastic wine and gourmet dishes. 

This is your opportunity to pre-book private face-to-face meetings with executive peers attending the Summit, using a private online portal running up to and during the event. Gain real, practical insights into what other companies and industries are doing, to take back to your boardroom.

Please note: This is for CIO and CISO attendees only. 

Most CIOs, CSOs and CISOs feel comfortable managing the minor security incidents with standardised processes, but what about major incidents that shake the very foundations of your organization like the NotPETYA attack? Such crises can be career changing. 

Join this workshop to:

• Learn the basic building blocks of effective cybersecurity crisis response
• Share challenges and best practices in managing major security events
• Benchmark against your peers and identify lessons learned

Digital Transformation is like a wave... you can't stop it, but you can learn how to surf*. It brings new business models and routes to market to accelerate growth. The impact underlying technology will have on the IT organisation and the people is not well anticipated. Digital Transformation requires a cultural change.

In this interactive session you will learn how to:

• Surf the digital transformation wave
• Promote change management and re-educate your staff
• Defeat the resilience to change within your organisation

*Frederik Janssen – Siemens

The Internet of Things arrived with a lot of hype about its potential to change the way businesses operate, but what have been the results? Now that there are some successful adoptions of IoT, what lies ahead for your organisation? The real challenge may no longer be technology-focused. 

In this session you’ll discuss what innovations leaders are embracing:

• Real customer use cases where IIOT is applied successfully 
• The role AI already plays in IIOT
• What the future might look like

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Organisations embracing digital transformation are disrupting industries by surpassing competitors through innovation, winning new customers and stealing market share. Too often security is an afterthought and CISOs and CIOs are frequently disregarded as detractors from business goals.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Security as a differentiator 
• Insights on how security can positively enable digital transformation

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

The importance of achieving speed as a player in today’s digital landscape shouldn’t be a surprise to any executive. Sweden’s 2018 CIO of the Year Klas Ljungkvist believes that to survive long term, technology leaders must focus on architecture and ways of working. What does agility mean to a business? The ability to make data-driven and fact-driven decisions and adapt quickly to external circumstances is critical to building a sustainable career.

In this keynote, learn how to:

• Identify technical heritage that is holding your organisation back
• Transform outdated architecture with independently produced microservices
• Generate team accountability for specific processes, results and KPIs 

Digitalisation. A buzzword that's continuously misused, yet it’s crystal clear that digital transformation and its governance is a company-wide responsibility. As a CIO your job is to enable this digital agenda while connecting technology with business value.

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• Establish budget for new digital initiatives
• Foster a culture of innovation and a start-up-friendly mindset
• Capture the value of IT investments with metrics and KPIs

As a CISO or CIO and highly privileged user, you have the power to create, enhance and destroy - and so does anyone who can impersonate you, use your tools, or otherwise abuse your powers. How can a CISO’s and CIOs productivity and experience be optimised while protecting all the resources they’ve been entrusted with?

This session will explore:

• Design considerations for a privileged workspace
• How to dynamically manage contextual trust 
• Tools and techniques focused on optimising security, productivity and costs 

Developing the right information governance strategy and approach is key to assess and manage risk and adhere with new data protection laws and regulation. In this boardroom, uncover answers to your pressing questions, including:

• What controls should be in place to protect the company’s information assets adequately?
• What policies do you have in place, and how should you enforce and measure those policies?
• How to interpret the implications of regulatory requirements?

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Ninety percent of all cyberattacks start with an email targeting your end-users. Discuss with your peers how to reduce phishing attacks and malware infections by changing risky behavior within your organisation.

In this boardroom, we’ll explore:

• Who is being targeted, and who is falling victim
• What attackers are sending, and which lures are working
• When threats arrive, and when people are most likely to click

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

While it is no longer a new concept that technology drives the business, the rate of change in this space is accelerating, and the expectation of being a business leader will remain top of mind for CIOs.

This workshop will discuss:

• How IT contributes to digital transformation
• Strategies to develop strong business cases for technology-driven initiatives
• What you need to measure to show the value of your investments

The most advanced organisations are not only aware of their data, they’re layering in predictive technologies that put them ahead of their competition, as such tools help them optimise their future actions and decisions.

In this boardroom, you will discuss:

• The evolving, transformative realm of predictive analytics
• How to lay the strategic foundations of a predictive outlook
• How to communicate and implement actionable outcomes

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

The strategies for keeping attackers at bay are endless but it’s crystal clear that all CISOs are striving towards one goal; reducing attacker mobility and improving cyber agility.

This boardroom will discuss:

• Ongoing detection and responses to attackers
• Effective tools and techniques in place to protect your organisation
• What it means to the business to perpetually detect attackers in your network

Executive boardrooms are intimate and interactive sessions designed to foster dynamic dialogue around a specific, strategic topic. These private, closed-door discussions encourage attendee participation and are limited to 15 attendees (seating priority is given to C-level executives). To reserve your seat, please contact your event Program Manager.

Having the right people working in your business is a huge factor in the success of major initiatives, the culture of your organisation, and the execution of business goals. It’s no secret there is a technology and security talent shortage globally, yet how do CIOs and CISOs begin to attract, retain and develop the best of breed in talent in a way that solves, rather than perpetuates, the crisis? Karoli Hindriks, CEO of Jobbatical, has an answer: you need to break down borders.

Hindriks will explore:

• The growing global labor shortage and talent mobility trends
• How to rethink talent strategies and their relation to the current global political landscape
• What diversifying thought — or failing to do so — means for your organisation