Executive Summit

Join your Governing Body Hosted Welcome Dinner at the beautiful Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel – there will be spectacular views given the central location, close to Stockholm Central Station. This evening is reserved for Governing Body members, C-Level executives & partners in your community, offering a relaxed environment to meet peers. Enjoy dinner and dynamic discussions, whilst setting the scene and building relationships ahead of the busy summit day.

AI is now a board-level priority - and a board-level risk. When exposure becomes unclear, organisations often resort to temporary measures such as blanket blocking, emergency funding motions, and ad hoc decision-making. Executives need a practical blueprint that defines decision rights, enables measured adoption, and demonstrates that AI risk is being actively managed rather than deferred. A Zero Trust approach across internet access, AI applications, SaaS, and private applications supports continuous AI Red Teaming and secure access plus runtime guardrails to translate governance into enforceable controls.

Join this session to discuss:

• Establishing decision rights and an operating blueprint that aligns business strategy, IT enablement, and risk governance
• Using continuous AI Red Teaming to inform prioritization, funding, and remediation with evidence rather than assumption
• Replacing stopgap blocking with measurable guardrails and reporting that executive sponsors and boards can evaluate with confidence

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

 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

AI adoption is necessary to remain competitive, release innovative products and services, better meet customer expectations, and drive growth. But how do CIOs make progress whilst building for the future, agentic and beyond?

Join this discussion to explore:

• Embedding generative AI in processes, to prepare for Agentic Implementation
• Lessons learned from AI initiatives that have not created the impact you expected
• Balancing data and AI governance with existing IT and security regulations

AI agents are now powerful, autonomous actors within enterprise networks—often holding more access and less oversight than human users. For CIOs and CISOs, this is a pivotal moment: identity is no longer a supporting role, but the centerpiece of security strategy. As machine-to-machine interactions accelerate, so does the risk of identity exposure and unchecked access across your environment.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Governance gaps for non-human identities and AI agents 
• The urgent need to unify visibility and controls across fragmented tools 
• How adaptive identity management can enable trust at the speed of innovation
  
  

 Organisations must reassess whether their current application mix truly supports future agility- as subscription pricing climbs and integration complexity grows, the need to move beyond legacy structures is high. The challenge is finding the right balance between building for differentiation and buying for reliability as portfolios evolve.

Join this boardroom to discuss:

• Reorienting application strategies to tackle legacy constraints and support business goals 
• Identifying where internal development creates strategic advantage 
• Evaluating long‑term adaptability, cost clarity, and resilience across build‑versus‑buy choice

More details to come.

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