Nordic CISO Executive Summit

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

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

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

Getting total buy-in from leadership isn’t easy but, when done well, can accelerate and impact which initiatives to move progress, as well as increase success and adoption. If you can learn to communicate with your board by leveraging data to tell a compelling story, IT’s effectiveness will be recognised — inspiring trust and future buy-in across the enterprise. What are some of the frameworks CIOs can use to clearly articulate business value and proactively guide the business into which initiatives we should move forward with?

Join this session to discuss:

• Best practices for communicating with your board
• Using data to tell IT’s story, decide which investments to make and demonstrate value
• Building relationships with stakeholders

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.

With an increasing number of vulnerabilities being exploited, sophisticated attack strategies fueled by AI, the current geopolitical landscape and increased complexity due to regulations, the big question is how should leaders from businesses and organizations prepare for the next wave of attacks? Understanding and ingesting intelligence into actionable security maturity is hard. Join this interactive session to gain insight how Verizon worked with Electrolux and hear from Robert Mungenast (CISO) how they are working to resolve similar issues they were facing.

• Gain insight into the 2025 DBIR and how the findings and trends help assess your security maturity and align your security strategy and roadmap around cyber risks
• Implement robust cyber resilience practices that reinforce compliance standards like NIS 2 and DORA
• Drive collaborative accountability across the organisation through effective reporting and communication of cyber risks

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

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