Programme 2026

Tuesday 15 September
12:00Registration opens
(manned wardrobe on Tuesday and Thursday)
12:30Lunch
13:30Welcome Address
Shahid Raza, Conference Chair, Research Director, Cybercampus Sweden; Professor, University of Glasgow; Cybersecurity Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden;
David Olgart, Director of Cybercampus Sweden;
Fredrik Blix, Associate Professor, Stockholm University
14:00Towards a Cross-Plane Methodology for Cyber-Physical Security
Dongyan Xu, Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS, Purdue University’s cybersecurity research center
15:00Break
15:30Research Results from Cybercampus Projects

Sweden’s Cybersecurity at a Crossroads
Annika Andreasson, Stockholm School of Economics

Data Sharing with Privacy in the Age of AI
Alejandro Russo, Dpella

LLM-Powered Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis in Open Source Software
Syafiq Al Atiiq, VyPr AI

Readiness to Reach CyberHygiene (ReaTCH) – an Exploration of the Perceptions of Primaryschool Teachers
Joakim Kävrestad, Jönköping University
16:30Introducing Focus Projects
Katarina Boustedt, PhD, Research Coordinator at Cybercampus Sweden (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden);
Shahid Raza, Conference Chair, Research Director at Cybercampus Sweden; Professor, University of Glasgow; Cybersecurity Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
17:00Poster Pitches
Felix Knutas, Research Project Manager at Cybercampus Sweden
17:30Posters and Mingle
18:00Standing Dinner

Wednesday 16 September
08:30Coffee
09:00Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of Cybercrime
Alice Hutchings, University of Cambridge
10:00Stronger Together: Building Cyber Defence Takes an Ecosystem
Robert Limmergård, Secretary General, Swedish Security & Defence Industry Association (SOFF)
10:30Break / Poster Exhibition
11:00Signal vs. Noise in Government Cyber Security: How Asymmetrical Attention Shapes National Defense Policy
Lisa Gustafsson
Director of Foreign Intelligence and Cyber at the Swedish Ministry of Defence
11:30Panel Discussion: Cyber-Resilient Sweden: Securing Our Digital Future
John Billow, Head of the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) in Sweden;
Paul Halle Zahl Pedersen, SVP of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden;
Lisa Gustafsson, Director of Foreign Intelligence and Cyber at the Swedish Ministry of Defence;
Anders Vestergren, Head of Ericsson Research

Moderator: Katarina Boustedt, Cybercampus/RISE
12:00Lunch / Poster exhibition
13:00Cybercampuses – Shared Experiences and Future Directions
Shahid Raza, Cybercampus Sweden;
Roland Meier, CYD Campus;
Michael Kreutzer, ATHENE;
Arnaud de Vibraye, Campus Cyber

Moderator: Simone Fischer-Hübner, Cybercampus/ Karlstad University, Chalmers University of Technology
14:00Funding Opportunities
Marika Edoff, The Swedish Research Council 
Veronica Fransson, National Defence Radio Establishment,the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC);
Lena Strålsjö, The Knowledge Foundation;
Johan Lindberg, Vinnova

Moderator: Katarina Boustedt, Cybercampus/RISE
15:00Posters, coffee, and vote for best poster
15:30Beyond Quantum Safe “Building Systems that Can Survive the Next Cryptographic Transition”
Graeme Hickey, Chief Technology Officer, PQShield
16:00Best Poster Announcement

Thursday 17 September
08:30Coffee
09:00Preparing for the Agentic Attacker: Red Teaming in the Age of Autonomous AI
Ognjen Vuković, Technical Program Manager, Google
09:30The Dark Side of Innovation – When AI is Used by the Attackers
Martin Bosshardt, chief executive officer, Anapaya
10:00Best Poster Presentation
Introduced by Felix Knutas, Cybercampus Sweden
10:30Memory Safety Hardening Challenge: From Programming Language to Hardware Design
Thomas Nyman, Expert in Trusted Hardware & Software,Ericsson
11:00Break
11:30Securing Connected Construction Equipment: Cybersecurity for the Next Generation of Construction Equipment
Said Seddiki, CISO, Volvo Construction Equipment
12:00Role of Research within Product Development and Practical Experiences from EDF- and Vinnova-Funded Projects
Nils Undén, CTO, Clavister
12:30Closing Session
Conference Committee
13:00Lunch