Nordic CIO Executive Summit

Today’s IT leaders face lofty expectations from their organisations. They are expected to deal with sophisticated AI-enabled attack techniques, manage high levels of ambiguity, align with corporate objectives and the list goes on. Building a strategy that reduces complexity and enables productivity across the organisation is critical to ensure employees can safely carry out their work. The browser now plays a pivotal role in this strategy, yet many organisations still have poor browser security, which can leave organisations exposed the emerging threats. Join this session to discuss:

• The impact that browser security can have when protecting the organisation against emerging threats
• Strategies to effectively secure modern work styles across increasingly distributed workforces
• Partnering with business partners to right size your browser security strategy for your workforce

With technology becoming ever more ingrained into the DNA of organisations, CIOs and IT Leaders must take a larger role in talent management and culture change. However, crafting partnerships with business units, such as HR, alongside an already demanding technology-focussed role, can be tough. Join Petra Alund, CHRO at SEB as she shares her unique journey, and lessons learned along the way , of making the transition from CIO to a CHRO function. Specifically, Petra will share:

• Petra’s journey and learning curve by transitioning out of a CIO role, into an HR leadership role
• Lessons learned on building trust between HR and IT, and the benefits of a one team mindset
• Improving culture, leadership, process optimisation and talent acquisition, all with a strong foundation of data and AI

Ever been amazed at how fast a new building can shoot up these days? With customers expecting faster delivery schedules and a need to optimise costs, businesses look to IT and technology to meet these demands. By leveraging AI, KONE has found tailored solutions to business challenges. Join Ashish Agarwal, Group CIO at Kone, as he shares his strategy, vision and lessons learned on how to harness emerging technologies to unlock human potential and secure a digital future for the organisation.

Specifically, Ashish will share how to:

• Collaborate across the business to identify and govern AI use cases, pilot and scale projects
• Create a culture of hyper automation by evangelising AI use through an ‘AI Lighthouse’
• Partner with business units to enable secure digital business

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. The ongoing trend of using smart technology to automate production, industrial and business practices offer significant opportunities for CIOs. Join Jørn Berg, Group CIO, Mowi as he shares his journey, insights and lessons learned whilst developing the Mowi 4.0 strategy, with the aim of digitalising and automating value chains from roe to plate. Specifically, Jørn will share:

• Setting the right expectations, vision and strategy with senior leaders, and sustaining ongoing business change
• Driving a new way of thinking across the business, from a data-driven culture to business ownership of IT strategy
• Challenges, lessons learned, and the business use cases the strategy has delivered

Cyberattackers are increasingly leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) to execute more advanced and sophisticated attacks, amplifying the scale and impact of the threat. As a result, the perception among many organisations is that the scales are tipping in favour of the attackers. To change this perception, CIOs must adopt a proactive AI-driven defence strategy. To meet this moment, how can CIOs cut down on complexities within AI-driven platforms and gain visibility and control across security systems to better protect the enterprise? Join this session to discuss:

• The strategies CIOs are deploying to combat the evolving threat landscape
• Defending in the AI era through mixing conventional and new approaches
• Leveraging AI to empower your defence teams and scale up security across the organisation

In a landscape where threats are constantly evolving, CISOs must tackle the increasing complexities of data exposures, SaaS ecosystems and identity management. How should CISOs take a proactive approach to threat detection and posture management that keeps the business safes whilst ensuring key stakeholders to be aware of the evolving risks? Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Understanding your SaaS attack surface and effective risk mitigation strategies
• Combining posture management with threat detection to better prioritise alerts and mitigate data exposure
• Articulating the evolving risks to keep pace with the fast-moving threat landscape

Cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, making conventional TPRM approaches like questionnaires inadequate. AI/ML and threat intelligence have the potential to transform TPRM, as well as extending into 4th, 5th parties and beyond. Leveraging key insights can help CISOs stay ahead of evolving risks and enhance security programs, even with limited resources.

Join this session to discuss:

• Practical strategies for leveraging threat intelligence in TPRM
• Critical alignment of people and process elements with advanced technologies
• Acting on useful insights and data to manage supply chain risk

As the regulatory landscape evolves, particularly with the introduction of the NIS2 Directive and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), organisations face increasing pressure to prioritize the cybersecurity of both their services and products. Regulatory bodies are tightening compliance requirements to protect critical infrastructure and digitally enabled products from growing threats. CISOs must re-evaluate their programs to align with these heightened regulatory expectations, ensuring they are prepared for both compliance and a rapid response when new threats emerge.

Join this boardroom session to share your views and discuss strategies on how to:

• Prepare your compliance framework to incorporate changing reporting requirements
• Adopt a Secure by Design mindset to strengthen your risk assessment process
• Streamline resources to create flexibility when acting on a threat and remain compliant

To create a meaningful and better world, we must be willing to challenge our present ways and assumptions. Imagining vastly different futures helps. Every year, Gartner Futures Lab chooses a list of most controversial predictions. Things that at first make you raise your eyebrows, but also make you think "There might be something to it ..." Join this entertaining, energetic and 100% interactive keynote to address current challenges and conventional thinking with unconventional ideas

• Think differently about how technologies, like AI, will impact organisations
• Imagine the impact of space on your current business
• Foresee how the next computing platform is going to be the human body