Johanna Alkberg is Vice President Enterprise Processes & Digital at Seco Tools, part of the Sandvik Group. With over 14 years within Sandvik, she has led enterprise architecture, digital transformation, ERP strategy implementation, AI enablement, cybersecurity and process excellence across a global manufacturing organisation. In 2026, Johanna led Seco through a demanding agenda, accelerating AI adoption, modernising core platforms, and re-evaluating long-standing assumptions on ERP and operating models, while navigating the realities of prioritisation, delivery pressure and organisational readiness. She brings an honest, reflective perspective on what worked, what didn’t, and what it takes to lead transformation at scale. 

Recognised among Sweden’s Top 10 Future Female Leaders 2026, Johanna is known for a visionary yet grounded leadership style, strategic, inclusive, and focused on empowering teams to deliver tangible business value through technology. 

Chief Technology Director with 30 years of experience in electronics manufacturing and global product development, bridging engineering, operations, and business strategy. His background spans system architecture, Industry 4.0 platforms, and international standards development. Today, he focuses on cyber security, and AI adoption, guiding Mycronic to balance innovation speed with cost and risk.  Known for connecting people across disciplines, he turns technical questions into shared understanding and actionable decisions. 

Lilian Monti Souza is a Strategy & Transformation Manager in the CIO Office at Electrolux Group, where she leads strategic initiatives focused on technology transformation, operating model evolution, governance, and business value realization. 

With an international career spanning technology, business transformation and organizational change, Lilian works at the intersection of strategy and execution, helping large-scale organizations turn ambition into measurable outcomes. Her experience includes portfolio and investment governance, operating model redesign, demand management, and transformation programs that simplify technology landscapes, strengthen decision-making, and enable sustainable growth. 

Passionate about making complex challenges practical and actionable, Lilian brings a business-focused perspective on how technology leaders can accelerate transformation through better governance, clearer priorities and stronger organizational alignment. 

Camilla Straubel is the Chief Architect at Apoteket AB since 2021. She is responsible for both the Enterprise Architecture and the Integration team. With 30 years of experience her focus has mainly been regarding architecture with extra focus on system integrations. Over the years she has worked at e g AB Volvo as both architect and technical project manager, and at H&M as responsible architect for integration and in the EA function.

She likes being part of transformations and at the same time making sure the legacy is taken care off. In order to improve her architecture skills she is a co-writer of several architecture books that discussed important topics as communicating architecture and evaluating architecture. It is not only about technical stuff, she like to take influences from other areas outside IT to improve her architecture skills.

Therez Björnsson is Digital Director Northern Europe at Heidelberg Materials, leading digital transformation across a complex, asset-heavy industrial environment. With more than 15 years of experience spanning industry, energy, and hyperscale cloud — including roles as Group CIO, CIO, and AWS Cluster Manager — she brings a strong operator’s perspective to enterprise technology. 

Today, her focus is on navigating what it actually takes to scale AI in practice — balancing ambition with constrained budgets, group governance with local execution, and enabling innovation without compromising security, control, or cost discipline. 

I am a Chief Architect with a primary focus on strategically enabling the right business outcomes through technology. I am passionate about partnering with executive leadership to translate business strategy into practical, scalable architecture that drives innovation, resilience, and long-term value.

What motivates me most is being a trusted, proactive advisor to senior leadership—helping guide organisations through change, align technology with business priorities, and make informed decisions that deliver meaningful results.

Anders Björklund, CISSP, is CISO at Martin & Servera Gruppen, a major Swedish food service distribution company owned by the Axel Johnson family and operating as critical infrastructure under NIS2. With 25 years in IT and cybersecurity — spanning the military, banking & finance, private equity-backed firms, public companies, and now a family-owned enterprise — Anders has both witnessed and driven the industry’s rapid evolution. His career spans roles as IT Manager, Information Security Officer in fintech, and Head of Group IT & CISO, with a consistent focus on building secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that meet today’s business needs while anticipating tomorrow’s. He’s known for translating complex technical challenges into clear, actionable insight — for technical teams all the way to the boardrooms.

Kimmy Nordqvist is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Vend, one of the leading marketplace companies in the Nordics, connecting millions of buyers and sellers through trusted digital platforms. She leads the company’s global information security strategy across governance, risk, compliance, product security, AI security, and cyber resilience. Kimmy is passionate about making cybersecurity a business enabler by helping organizations balance innovation, resilience, and regulatory compliance in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

I am a strategic and business-oriented Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with extensive experience across cybersecurity, information security, enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience within the financial services, fintech, and technology sectors.

Throughout my career, I have focused on developing enterprise security strategies, building high-performing security organisations, and aligning security with business objectives to enable growth, innovation, and digital transformation while maintaining strong governance, resilience, and stakeholder trust.

My expertise spans cybersecurity, information security, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), operational resilience, third-party risk management, security operations, cloud security, digital transformation, regulatory compliance, AI governance, incident response, business continuity, and executive leadership. I am passionate about helping organisations strengthen their security posture while delivering measurable business value through a pragmatic, risk-based approach.

Sofia Staaf Frederiksen is the CISO at Apoteket AB and responsible for the company’s strategic and operational work in Information- and cybersecurity. She has extensive experience in information security, risk management, and governance in complex organisations, with a background from organisations including the Swedish Armed Forces, Sveriges Riksbank, and Ericsson. In her role, she works closely with both executive management and the business to strengthen Apoteket’s resilience against digital threats. 

John Wibrand is a forward-thinking leader in IoT, digitalization, and AI, with a particular focus on sustainable business models for real estate and PropTech. As the HVAC Digital Director at Swegon Group, John drives the development and operation of digital services for connected HVAC products. His mission is to ensure these systems are not only safe and user-friendly but also empower users to unlock the full potential of the data they generate.   

With seven years at Swegon Group, John is a strong advocate for lean and agile principles, emphasizing the importance of the go-to Gemba approach—testing solutions in real-world environments as early as possible. He believes in putting real users at the center of the innovation process, allowing them to determine what works and what doesn’t, ensuring that solutions deliver genuine value.   

John’s expertise lies in redefining value propositions as businesses transition from physical products to software solutions, helping organizations navigate this shift effectively while maintaining a focus on sustainability and operational efficiency. Based in Sweden, John combines technical expertise with a passion for driving meaningful change in the built environment.

My career has always been spent in the interface between user, business and technology. Most of my time, I have worked for Scania CV (Swedish truck OEM), both within the space of truck development, but in the last year as a leader in data and analytics, focusing on how we can leverage data to make the best business decisions, with both company and customer in mind. Even though technology is the enabler, it’s always the people who makes things happen for real – and here is where find the greatest challenges but also the greatest rewards. 

Urmas has been the Head of Information Security at Epiroc since January 2021. He has a Computer Science background and has worked in the information and IT security field since 1997, both in consulting roles at High Performance Systems (co-founder) and DXC, and in Chief Information Security Officer roles at DeLaval and Clas Ohlson. 

Bernard has 16+ years experience in information security. He has been working as a cybersecurity consultant to CAC40 companies in Paris for nearly 10 years before taking internal roles as Head of Cybersecurity. From security awareness to data protection strategy or contingency plans, he has a good overview of security best practices. 

My journey has been one from the early days of the internet to today’s AI-powered enterprise landscape. Along the way, I have worked across creative agencies, production companies, and large Nordic enterprises, building bridges between business, creativity, and technology. Today, as Head of IT4IT & IAM and Chief Product Owner at PostNord, I lead digital transformation initiatives across IAM, ITSM, enterprise platforms, automation, and cloud services. I am passionate about simplifying complexity, making security an enabler rather than a barrier, and helping organizations realize the full potential of technology 

Hans Diederen is a seasoned cybersecurity expert and Principal Solution Engineer at Exabeam, where he leads security operations (SecOps) modernisation and threat detection strategy for enterprise organisations across the Benelux and Nordics regions. With nearly eight years at Exabeam, Hans specialises in Next-Gen SIEM, User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and emerging AI/LLM security.
An avid and frequent speaker at regional industry events across Northern Europe, Hans is passionate about sharing practical insights on behavioural intelligence, insider threat detection, and modernising the Security Operations Center (SOC). His decade-plus of security architecture experience includes key technical roles as an Enterprise Security Architect and Threat Detection Specialist at RSA Security, and as a sales engineer at Fox-IT and Avnet Technology Solutions. Hans holds a degree from the Fontys University of Applied Sciences.

Kanda Kumar is Director of AI at evoke plc, home to William Hill, 888, Mr Green and Winner.ro, where he leads the company’s AI strategy and transformation.

He built and scaled evoke’s AI Centre of Excellence, taking the business from isolated proofs of concept to a governed enterprise capability in under two years. More than 90 AI and intelligent automation solutions are now in production across customer operations, trading, commercial and personalisation, delivering measurable business impact in a fully regulated environment.

Central to this is his model for democratising AI: business teams build, while the CoE governs and scales — embedding an AI-first way of working across the organisation.

Kanda now leads evoke’s board-approved Agentic AI programme, with agents operating in production under a structured autonomy framework — reinventing processes and operating models around humans and AI agents delivering outcomes end-to-end.

Previously, Kanda spent 18 years at Ericsson scaling AI and intelligent automation globally — work published as case studies by Gartner, HFS and Accenture, producing nine AI and automation patents.

He is also Founder & Editor of AI Leaders Brief (aileadersbrief.com), an independent briefing on AI strategy, governance and market signals for enterprise leaders.

As Island’s EMEA CTO, I help organizations navigate the fast-growing Enterprise browser space, drawing on deep experience across security domains including Endpoint Security, EDR, DLP, Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, and more. I’ve run numerous C-level roundtables, keynoted for Island, and taken part in many industry Gartner-style events. As cybersecurity evolves and hybrid work becomes the norm, I’m passionate about championing a modern, platform-driven approach that helps businesses adapt with confidence.

Trusted advisor and professional sales architect of innovative IT solutions, with experience since the early 2000s launching new vendors and building product distribution.
Storyteller and architect for disruptive technologies, specialising in developing new territories from the ground up and growing them into large ecosystems.

Eva Puerta is Field CISO EMEA at Check Point Software Technologies. She is an experienced speaker and consultant and has taken on leadership roles throughout her career. She began her journey in threat intelligence services at Telefónica, where she worked for four years. Following that, she became a Project Manager at Banco Santander in the Cyber Threats Surveillance service. Eva then joined Caceis, where she worked as Deputy CISO before assuming the role of CISO for Spain and Latin America. Over the past four years, she has also been a professor in the Cybersecurity Management degree program at the University Francisco de Vitoria.

Daniel Qvint is an Enterprise Sales Engineer at Abnormal AI with over 15 years of experience in IT operations and data protection, focused on strengthening organizational resilience against modern cyber threats through AI-driven security.

Michael Kwaku is a Senior Sales Engineer at Ping Identity, where he helps organizations design secure, seamless digital identity experiences.

Michael brings deep expertise in customer identity and access management, identity orchestration, adaptive authentication, and identity threat protection.

He works closely with customers and partners to translate complex security and identity challenges into practical, business-focused solutions. Michael is also an experienced industry presenter, sharing insights on how organizations can use real-time risk signals and intelligent identity journeys to strengthen security while reducing friction for users.