Media invitation: Cyber Security Nordic event at Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre 7.-8.11.2023

Dear media representative,  

Cyber Security Nordic, a major international cybersecurity event, is back at Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre. Key note speakers at the event include Jaanika Merilo, Assistant to the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, and Max Schrems, a lawyer and activist gained international recognition for his groundbreaking campaigns against Facebook (Meta), exposing privacy violations, including violations of European privacy laws. 

The event will feature a diverse and wide range of keynote speakers and other interesting presentations on two stages. Topics include digitalisation and information security, cybercrime and law enforcement, cyberwar and cyberdefence along with geopolitics. The event will also feature more than 40 industry exhibitors. The programme of the international event is in English. 

Keynote speakers at the event include: 

• Angela Robinson, Mathematician, NIST 
  Topic: The NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project
• Hanna Virkkunen, MEP, Current EU cyber affairs expert  
  Topic: Current EU cyber affairs 
• Jaanika Merilo, Advisor to minister of digital Transformation of Ukraine 
  Topic: How technology helps Ukraine to fight a hybrid war?
• Colm Murphy, Senior Cyber Security Advisor, Global Cyber Security Transparency Centre, Huawei 
  Topic: Building Cyber Resilience: A Call to Action for Collective Responsibility
• Valentino De Sousa, Principal Director, Europe Cyber-Threat Intelligence Lead, Accenture Security 
  Topic: The Cyber Threat Landscape of the Nordics 
• Max Schrems, European Center for Digital Rights, NOYB 
  Topic: TBA
  
• Teemu Salmi, CEO, Nixu Corporation
  Topic: Business Resilience as a Strategic Priority
  
• Pelle Aardewerk, Head of Vertical Solutions, HP Wolf Security, EMEA 
  Topic: “Click Happens” – how to mitigate emerging endpoint security risks
  
• Fabio Viggiani, CTO & Alexander Andersson, Principal Forensic Consultant, Truesec
  Topic: Learning from 10 000 hours of enterprise forensics  
• Jon Clay VP, Threat Intelligence, Trend Micro 
  Topic: Stepping Ahead of Risk: Risk Insights from the Broadest Attack Surface View
  
  

In addition to the keynote speeches and the rest of the stage programme, the event will also feature two interesting panel discussions, on Tuesday 7.11. How Europe tackles cyber threats and Thursday 8.11. Quantum computing and cyber security. The event will also feature a pitch final of the Cyber Security Nordic competition on Tuesday 7.11. 

More information 

Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, Event Communications Anu-Eveliina Mattila, Tel. +358 50 555 6183, anu-eveliina.mattila@messukeskus.com 

See the full programme, the competition details, and the exhibitors on the event page www.cybersecuritynordic.com. 

Media accreditation 

Media representatives can accredit in advance in the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre Newsroom www.messukeskus.com/newsroom/ . Pick up your press pass at the event registration desk in the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre's Conference Centre (Address: Rautatieläisenkatu 3).  

When you arrive, please present a press card or proof that you are coming to the event in a professional role.

Parking is free of charge for accredited media representatives. When you arrive at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, please provide your car registration number at the media registration desk. 

Media bank 

Photos from previous events freely available from the Messukeskus Media Bank  https://mediabank.messukeskus.com/kuvat/ 

Cyber Security Nordic is organised by Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre in cooperation with the Finnish Information Security Cluster, (FISC). Strategic partners of the event are Accenture, HP, HSLSoftware, Huawei, Microsoft, Net Nordic, Nixu and Trend Micro.

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