Programme

The programme is subject to changes and announcements to come

Wednesday 10 September

09:00Welcome Address
David Olgart, Director, Cybercampus Sweden, KTH
Martin Nilsson Jacobi, President and CEO,
Chalmers University of Technology
Andreas Aurelius, Director cyber security research, Research Institutes of Sweden
09:20Cybercampus Mission-Oriented Research
Shahid Raza, Conference Chair, Research Director, Cybercampus Sweden
Professor, University of Glasgow
Cybersecurity Researcher, Research Institutes of Sweden
09:30Taking Responsibility for Someone Else’s Code Studying the Privacy Behaviors of Mobile Apps at Scale
Serge Egelman, Research Director, University of California, Berkeley
10:30Break / Poster exhibition
11:00Demystifying Modern Scams
Breaking the Stigma and Building Resilience
Leyla Bilge, Global Head of Scam Research, Gen Digital
12:00Lunch / Poster exhibition
13:00The Art of Being Offensive
Herbert Bos, Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
14:00Flash Session Rising Stars
14:30Flash Poster Pitches
15:00Break / Poster exhibition
15:30Private Communications in the Age of Agentic AI​
Udbhav Tiwari, Vice President for Strategy and Global Affairs, Signal
16:30 – 17:30Panel Discussion: The Cost and Benefit of Government Access to Backdoors
Udbhav Tiwari, Vice President Strategy and Global Affairs, Signal
Elena Pagnin, Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Arman Borghem, Regulatory and Compliance Advisor, Cleura
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Professor, Karlstad University, Director of Post-Graduate Education, Cybercampus Sweden
18:30Conference Dinner
Best poster prize awarded

Thursday 11 September

09:00The European Commission Priorities for Cybersecurity
Despina Spanou, Principal Adviser for Cybersecurity Coordination, European Commission
09:15WASP – building research excellence in AI, Autonomous Systems and Software
Amy Loutfi, Program Director, WASP, Professor, Örebro University and Linköping University
09:30Government Support for Cybersecurity
Senja Nordström, Advisor EU calls for proposals in cybersecurity research and innovation, NCC-SE
Anton Hasselgren, Program Manager, Vinnova
10:00Discussion on Cybersecurity Research and Funding
Martin Nilsson Jacobi, President and CEO, Chalmers University of Technology
Åke Ingerman, vice-chancellor, Örebro University
Senja Nordström, Advisor EU calls for proposals in cybersecurity research and innovation, NCC-SE
Anton Hasselgren, Program Manager, Vinnova
Amy Loutfi, Program Director, WASP, Professor, Örebro University and Linköping University
Moderator: Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University
10:30Break / Poster exhibition
11:00Memory-safety at Scale: Fifteen Years of the CHERI Project
Steven J. Murdoch, Professor of Security Engineering, University College London
12:00Lunch / Poster exhibition
13:00Research to Startup
Mathias Ekstedt, Professor of Industrial Information and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Startup Lessons-Learned from foreseeti
Alejandro Russo, Professor, Chalmers Institute of Technology – From Whiteboard to Whitepaper to Product: Launching a Cybersecurity Startup from Academic Roots
Christian Gehrmann, Professor of Computer Security, Lund University – Bifrost Security – a journey from basic research to a full product offering
14:15PhD Student Poster Prize Speaker
Winner announced at conference dinner
14:30Break / Poster exhibition
15:00 – 16:00Industry Talks
John Preuß Mattsson, Ericsson Research – Migrating Telecom to Quantum-Resistant Cryptography on a Global Scale
Fredrik Strömberg, Amagicom group – A transparent HSM using transparency technology
16:00End of Conference