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15 Oct 2026
Stockholm, Sweden
Welcome to CISOXSweden, the premier event exclusively designed for accomplished CISOs across Sweden. Step into the forefront of strategic cybersecurity leadership as we navigate the evolving landscape and unlock unparalleled opportunities for enterprise resilience and success. Join us at CISOXSweden, where visionary CISOs converge to engage in transformative discussions, gain strategic insights, and address the pressing challenges shaping the future of enterprise security.

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In 2026, organisations faced mounting pressure to accelerate AI adoption, strengthen resilience, modernise operations, and deliver measurable business outcomes. While many initiatives drove progress, others exposed gaps in governance, execution, technology strategy, and organisational readiness. Across industries, leaders discovered that some of their biggest challenges were not technical, but rooted in decision-making, prioritisation, and the ability to adapt in an increasingly complex environment. This opening panel brings together CIOs and CISOs to reflect on the assumptions and strategies that failed to deliver as expected in 2026. Through honest discussion, panellists will share lessons learned from navigating disruption, managing risk, and leading transformation at scale, while exploring how these experiences are reshaping priorities and leadership approaches heading into 2027.
Key Discussion Points:
• What decisions or strategies failed to deliver the expected outcomes in 2026, and why
• How are tech and security leaders adjusting priorities, governance, and operating models based on the lessons learned
• What leadership lessons from 2026 are influencing the technology, security, and business decision-making in 2027
This presentation explores the pivotal strategies and methodologies for navigating the intricate landscape of application modernization and legacy system migration. Discover how organizations can seamlessly transition from outdated systems to agile, scalable architectures, ensuring enhanced performance, efficiency, and future-proofing in the digital ecosystem.
As organisations accelerate cloud adoption and embed AI across the enterprise, technology leaders are being challenged to rethink how they balance innovation with control. Digital sovereignty is no longer just about where data resides, it now influences cloud strategy, cyber resilience, regulatory compliance, and long-term business risk. This interactive forum will explore what digital sovereignty looks like in practice, examining how leaders are reducing dependency, strengthening resilience, and making strategic technology decisions in an increasingly interconnected world. Through a combination of panel discussion and audience participation, delegates will share practical experiences, challenges, and lessons learned as they navigate the evolving landscape of cloud, AI, and cyber risk.
Key Discussion Points:
• How are organisations balancing the agility of cloud, AI and data with the need for greater control, resilience, and digital sovereignty
• How should leaders rethink risk as technology ecosystems become more interconnected and dependent on third-party platforms
• What practical steps are organisations taking to reduce technology dependency while continuing to innovate and deliver business value
Enhancing Incident Response and Recovery Plans
Vendor Management: A Route To Build a Holistic Third-Party Management Program
Communicating the Attack Surface to the Board
In this interactive session, our event partners will take the lead in initiating and facilitating conversations centered on challenges and solutions within the industry. Attendees can expect dynamic discussions where diverse perspectives are shared, fostering collaborative problem-solving and the exploration of innovative solutions to common industry hurdles.
AI agents are quietly becoming the enterprise’s next workforce — able to read data, make decisions, use tools, trigger workflows, and act on behalf of humans.
That changes the CISO’s job fundamentally.
Security can no longer focus only on authenticating users and protecting systems; it must govern autonomous digital workers with identities, owners, permissions, guardrails, monitoring, and retirement plans. This presentation explores why traditional security models break when software begins to decide and act, why boards will soon ask how many agents exist and what they can do, and why human-in-the-loop approval may become the new segregation of duties. The future of security is more than access control — it is agent governance.
The process of aligning IT strategy with business goals and objectives is vital, due to the synergistic relationship between technology initiatives and organizational success. Through insightful analysis and practical strategies, attendees will gain invaluable insights into maximizing the strategic impact of IT investments to drive sustained business growth and competitive advantage.
In a world of AI, cybersecurity threats, cloud transformation and constant business demands, most organizations do not suffer from a lack of ideas. They suffer from a lack of decision-making capacity. Governance has traditionally been viewed as a control mechanism designed to reduce risk and prevent poor choices. Yet in today’s environment, effective governance serves a different purpose: enabling organizations to make faster, clearer and more consistent decisions. Drawing on experiences from large-scale transformation initiatives, this session explores how governance can become a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic burden. Through practical examples of demand prioritization, investment decisions and operating model design, attendees will see how clear decision frameworks help organizations reduce complexity, improve focus and accelerate execution. Because the organizations that transform fastest are not those with the fewest controls. They are the ones that make the best decisions consistently.
Delve into strategies for bolstering cybersecurity defences amidst the ever-evolving landscape of complex cyber threats. Through an exploration of advanced technologies and proactive methodologies, attendees will gain insights into fortifying their systems against emerging cyber risks.
Modern organizational perimeters have dissolved, rendering traditional network defenses obsolete. In this hyper-decentralized ecosystem, identity has emerged as the definitive control plane for security. Enterprise environments must now manage and protect a vast, highly diverse directory of entities that extends far beyond the traditional human workforce. Explore the critical challenges of securing this modern landscape, analyzing the convergence of human identities, non-human identities (such as software machines and service accounts), autonomous AI agents, and the emerging threat of Shadow AI, unmanaged artificial intelligence tools deployed without IT oversight. By evaluating the vulnerabilities specific to each entity class, we outline a unified, identity-centric security architecture. This leverages automated discovery, continuous adaptive authentication, and zero-trust orchestration to establish comprehensive visibility, mitigate privilege escalation, and dynamically enforce governance across all interconnected human and algorithmic assets.
NIS2 in Practice: Lessons Learned and What’s Next
As NIS2 moves from regulation to reality, this roundtable will explore how organisations are responding in practice. Delegates will share lessons learned, implementation challenges, and approaches to strengthening governance, accountability, third-party risk, and cyber resilience beyond compliance.
Changing Behaviour at Scale: Why Technology Isn’t the Hard Part
Successful transformation depends on people as much as technology. This roundtable will explore how leaders are driving behavioural change, overcoming resistance, and building cultures that embrace new ways of working to maximise the value of AI, digital transformation, and enterprise technology investments.
From AI Pilots to Enterprise Reality: What Actually Scaled in 2026?
As AI moves beyond experimentation, organisations are identifying what delivers real business value at scale. This roundtable will explore the lessons learned from successful AI deployments, the barriers that prevented pilots from progressing, and the practical strategies leaders are using to scale AI securely, responsibly, and effectively across the enterprise.
In this final discussion break out, fellow Enterprise Leaders guide discussions on their favourite topic, fostering an environment of open exchange, exploration of diverse perspectives and experiences. Attendees can anticipate engaging conversations driven by shared interests, offering valuable insights and opportunities for collaborative learning and networking.
This presentation offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricacies surrounding human behaviour in risk management, dissecting the crucial elements that shape decision-making processes within organizations. By unveiling these four key components, the presentation provides actionable insights to fortify strategies and mitigate risks effectively in an ever-evolving human-centric landscape.
As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, AI adoption, and platform modernisation, leaders are increasingly facing a fundamental tension: how to deliver at speed without losing control. While business demand continues to push for faster innovation cycles, tech leaders are under growing pressure to maintain resilience, manage risk, and ensure operational stability across increasingly complex environments. This closing panel brings together senior technology and security leaders to explore how organisations are navigating this ongoing trade-off in practice. Panellists will share real-world perspectives on where they are deliberately accelerating, where they are introducing control, and how these decisions are shaping enterprise performance and risk going into 2027.
Key Discussion Points:
• What risks organizations are willing to accept to accelerate AI adoption, and what risks they face if they fail to act.
• How leaders are managing real-time tensions between innovation demand, operational resilience, and security constraints.
• What “acceptable balance” looks like in practice as enterprises continue scaling technology under pressure.
This presentation explores the evolution of AI security in cloud computing, highlighting past vulnerabilities and lessons learned to pave the way for future advancements and rewards in safeguarding cloud-based AI systems. By analysing past mistakes and leveraging emerging technologies, this session aims to equip attendees with strategies to enhance the security posture of AI deployments in the cloud, ensuring resilience and trust in digital ecosystems.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
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Attendance is reserved for C-Suite executives and Senior Executives within Cybersecurity, including Chief Information Security Officers, and other senior security decision-makers from a wide array of industries. Joined by our select sponsor partners, enriching networking opportunities and offering cutting-edge solutions.
Thanks to our sponsors, your access is entirely complimentary, providing you with full-day access to all presentations, exclusive networking sessions, personalised one-to-one meetings, delectable catering, and an open bar for added networking.
These 25-minute meetings provide invaluable opportunities to discover new solutions and expand your network with leading innovative providers that can help solve your current or future complex challenges.
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