Starting 8AM EET - Helsinki Time

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8:00

We open the doors - Welcome!

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9:00 

Opening Remarks by our Moderators

Peter Nyman & Jesse Kamras

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9:10 KEYNOTE

Fast, Focused, and Responsible​

Gary Foote, CIO – GM Performance Power Units | BCS Fellow | 5 × CIO 100 Honouree ​

​Gary brings a unique perspective on what it means to build a future-fit business — one that can perform under pressure, adapt with speed, align innovation with purpose, and stay secure in an increasingly complex digital landscape.​

• How motorsport teams from Formula 1 to Rally push the limits of data driven decision making and real time operations

• How high-pressure environments show what’s possible when data, automation, and human precision combine to deliver performance at speed

• How cybersecurity resilience underpins operations, performance, and competitive advantage in a digital first world

• Why sustainability and ESG are now core to high‑performance organizations

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9:50

Human-in-the-Loop – Powering Cyber Compliance with AI​

Ismo Paananen, CEO and co-founder, Cyberday

The labour-intensive nature of cyber compliance creates a compelling case for AI adoption.

• How NIS2, DORA and CRA together with ISO 27001 introduce a new level of compliance complexity

• The evolving role of AI in modern security teams when building and governing compliance​​​

• How to manage the inherent risks of AI use while still capturing its benefits

• Finding a fast track to measurable AI powered results without compromising quality or trust

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10:10

Networking Break​

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10:40 KEYNOTE

Inside The Blackmail Factory – How a Cybercrime Operation Functions​

Geoff White, Investigative Journalist & Cybercrime Expert​

• Author and investigative journalist Geoff White (The Lazarus Heist) has spent more than a decade investigating the inner workings of organised cybercrime gangs.
  In this gripping presentation he will take you inside the operations of one of the world’s most effective hacking groups, and explore the key lessons every organisation needs to learn to stay safe, and recover if the worst happens.

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11:15

Resilience in the Age of Modern Threats: Readiness Over Reaction​

Bharat Mistry, Field CTO, TrendAI

• Cyber risk is now business risk. This session examines how AI, cloud, and third‑party dependencies are reshaping the threat landscape and why organizations must shift from reactive security to measurable, business‑aligned cyber resilience using cyber risk quantification to enable confident decision‑making​

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11:35

Lunch Break & Networking

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12:35

Effort Is All They Need: Why LLM Guardrails Fail and How You Can Fix Them

Donato Capitella, Principal Security Consultant, Reversec    ​​​

This talk shares practical lessons learned from hands-on testing of real-world generative AI application use cases, focusing on how security failures emerge when LLMs are integrated into production systems.​

• The most common risks identified in LLM-enabled applications and the guardrails that are frequently missing

• What “good” looks like for LLM guardrails, and how those guardrails can be evaluated in practice

• How to leverage guardrails in production as detection and response signals to defend against persistent attackers

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12:55 

TBA

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13:15

Outpacing the Threat: 
-Leveraging the OODA Loop in today's AI driven world
Fred Streefland, Field CISO, EMEA, Check Point Software

This session provides an innovative and triggering perspective on the current challenges that cybersecurity professionals face in today's complex and AI driven world​

• Why a new approach is needed in today’s challenging AI world

• The OODA Loop as a framework on which a proactive cybersecurity approach can be successfully implemented

• Today’s AI challenges and how these challenges can be turned into opportunities for the business

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13:35

Networking Break​​

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14:05

The Psychological Impact of a Cyber Attack

Matti Eloholma, CEO, Telia Cygate Finland

• Cyber incidents place extreme pressure on analysts and CSOC teams — but ultimate accountability rests with the CISO and business leadership

• What happens when critical services fail, and business continuity is at risk?

• Leadership responsibility remains, even when cybersecurity operations are outsourced

• An experience-based view on crisis situations where the worst is unfolding

• How organizational resilience is tested during a cyber attack — and how it can be strengthened

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14:25

Real-World Ransomware Gang Behaviour and Cyber Resilience Trends

James Blake, CCISO EMBA GCIH CCSK CISSP CISM ITIL-F VP Global Cyber Resiliency Strategy & Consulting Services, Cohesity

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14:45 KEYNOTE

Agentic AI Making Million Dollar Decisions

Monica Verma, Hacker, CISO, Founder & CEO, Top 3 CISO in EMEA, Multiple Award-Winner Security Leader and Top-50 Women in Tech​

• AI is already making million-dollar decisions without human oversight. Are you ready for that reality?

• Agentic AI is reshaping business and security faster than we realize

• Trust, ethics, and governance are under growing threat as we lose control over the systems making critical choices

• The question isn’t whether to use agentic AI — it’s how to govern something we can’t fully control

• Cybercriminals are already harnessing AI. Is your organization resilient enough to keep up?

• Resilient businesses and societies won’t emerge by accident. What will it take to build them in an AI-driven world?

• Discover what the AI-powered future holds, from autonomous decision-making to the complex challenges of ethics and governance

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15:20

Closing Summary by our Moderators 

Jesse Kamras & Peter Nyman

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15:25-16:00 

Networking

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Please note that the program is subject to change.

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