Tech Events in Espoo

Welcome to our September Meetup hosted by the Aalto University!

We are taking registrations to the event on Meetabit: https://www.meetabit.com/events/september-edition-secrets-in-the-cluster-and-other-topics

Schedule:
17:00 Doors open
17:00 - 17:30 Networking
17:30 - 18:00 Host & organizers - Welcome and practicalities
18:00 - 18:30 There are Secrets in the Cluster: A field investigation into eight years of secrets management - Andrei Maltsev @ AlphaSense
18:30 - 19:00 Break. networking with food and drinks
19:00 - 19:30 Kubernetes resource operations - Joseph Shriner @ Polar Squad
Most IaC tools introduce a second runtime, proprietary DSLs, and brittle state files. But if you run Kubernetes, you already have a declarative control plane for your infrastructure.
This session shows how to manage cloud and baremetal platforms using standard CNCF tools: Flux CD, Cluster API (CAPI), cloud operators, and SOPS. We walk through a GitOps monorepo pattern that provisions clusters and cloud resources with zero HCL and zero state files directly from your laptop.
19:30 - 20:00 MetaPod: Remotely attesting large Kubernetes applications - Lachlan Gunn @ Aalto university, ELASTIC Project
A microservice application deployed using confidential computing runs each instance of a service in a hardware-protected virtual machine, that can prove its state to remote parties using attestation. However, remote attestation can only prove the state of individual virtual machines, and not the application as a whole when it is spread across many physical hosts. We have developed MetaPod, a system that combines the remote attestation evidence from the component pods of a Kubernetes application to ensure the correctness not only of the individual pods in an application, but that they have been correctly orchestrated as an entire MetaPod application.
20:00 - 20:30 Networking

NOTE: The event will be live-streamed on the Cloud Native Nordics YouTube.
NOTE: Signing up for the event gets you a seat at the onsite event.
NOTE: Pictures might be taken during the event and be published to this meetup page. Also there will be a livestream during the event which picks up audio from the space. If you do not want to be included in any pictures, please let the organizers know.

This event will be held in English.

Come and visit Aalto University!
You’ll have the chance to visit the School of Electrical Engineering’s CubeSat satellite laboratory and hear talks on cybersecurity research and awareness hosted by the Cyber Citizen initiative.
Food and refreshments will be provided.

We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Agenda

16:30–17:00 Welcome, refreshments and networking
17:00–17:30 Lab visit 1 + introduction to Aalto and Cyber Citizen
17:30–18:00 Lab visit 2 + introduction to Aalto and Cyber Citizen
18:00–19:30 Presentations
19:30–19:45 Goodbye

We have a no-show policy
If you are not able to participate and do not cancel, you will not be allowed to participate in upcoming events for the next six months.
If you need to cancel your participation, please update your RSVP status in Meetup to "Not going" by the 23rd of September 2026, at the latest.

Photos and social media
Please note that pictures from the event will be shared in our social media channels. You can opt-out from being photographed at the event.

How to enroll?
The venue requires prior registration. Click "Attend" in Meetup.
Please note that Women4Cyber Finland's events are primarily for women, but we welcome everyone. As the spots for the event are limited, we prioritize women participants.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at events[at]women4cyberfinland.com

Event Venue: Aalto University

Hands-on Splunk workshop for beginners to explore data, build searches, create dashboards and discover practical use cases.

Splunk4Rookies: Hands-on Splunk Workshop

Ready to dive into the world of Splunk? Join us for Splunk4Rookies, an in-person workshop where you'll get hands-on experience with Splunk's core features. Participants will work in a guided lab environment to add and analyse data, run searches, create a simple Splunk app, and build an interactive dashboard.

The session is designed for beginners with little or no previous Splunk experience and introduces practical use cases across IT operations, security, DevOps, observability, log management and business analytics. It is a small, practical workshop rather than a general training course, with a focus on helping participants understand where Splunk could bring value in their own organisation.

Who is this workshop for?

Splunk4Rookies is particularly suitable for organisations that are:

• Considering or evaluating Splunk
• Looking to improve visibility across applications, infrastructure or cloud environments
• Exploring SIEM or security monitoring solutions
• Developing observability or log management capabilities
• Evaluating existing monitoring tools
• Looking for better ways to use operational or security data
• Already using Splunk in a limited capacity and exploring additional use cases

The session is especially relevant for IT leaders, security and SOC professionals, DevOps and SRE teams, cloud and infrastructure specialists, architects, IT operations professionals, and people involved in evaluating monitoring, SIEM, security, or observability platforms.

No previous Splunk experience is required.

Please note that this workshop is not intended as general public Splunk training or certification preparation. As places are limited, priority will be given to participants from organisations that are actively exploring Splunk or relevant business and technical use cases.

What will you learn?

During the workshop, you will:

• Understand the fundamentals of Splunk
• Learn how Splunk works with machine and operational data
• Add and analyse sample data
• Create a simple Splunk app
• Run searches and explore data
• Create tables and visualisations
• Build an interactive dashboard
• Explore real-world Splunk use cases

What do you need to bring?

Because this is a hands-on workshop, please bring:

• Your own laptop and charger
• A modern web browser with internet access
• A splunk.com account

Your laptop must be able to connect to the Splunk workshop environment through port 443.

You can test your connectivity beforehand here:
https://domain-test.splunk.show

If you do not already have a splunk.com account, please create one before arriving.

No other technical prerequisites are required.

Meet your host

Veli-Matti "Vellu" Väärälä has been working with Splunk for over ten years. He's a Senior Splunk Consultant at WeAre Solutions, an Elite Splunk Partner, and holds more Splunk certifications than he likes to count.

His day job is working directly with enterprise customers, designing environments, fixing ones that grew too fast, and helping organisations understand what their data is actually doing. The technical part, he'll tell you, is usually the easy part.
He's delivered Splunk training before. He knows where the confusing bits are. That's actually useful.

For the workshop, his job is simpler: to help you connect what you see in the lab with what you'd actually use it for in the real world.

Ask questions. That's what he's here for.

Event details

Tuesday, 29 September 2026
09:00–12:00

Arrow ECS Finland Oy
Stella Business Park
Lars Sonckin kaari 16
02600 Espoo

Classroom: Funk

Please arrive around 08:45–08:50 so you have time to find the classroom, grab some breakfast, and prepare your laptop before the workshop begins.

Breakfast, coffee, and refreshments will be available at the start of the event. Please let us know about any dietary restrictions or allergies when registering.

Places are limited

Splunk4Rookies is intentionally organised as a small, hands-on workshop so that participants have enough time to follow the exercises, ask questions and discuss their own use cases.

Submitting a registration does not automatically guarantee participation.

Registrations will be reviewed, and priority will be given to participants from organisations actively exploring Splunk or related use cases across IT operations, security, observability, DevOps or log management.

We will confirm participation separately after registration.

About WeAre Solutions Oy

WeAre Solutions is a Finnish consultancy specialising in Splunk and observability.

As a Splunk Elite Partner, we help organisations design, implement and develop Splunk and observability capabilities that improve visibility, resilience and performance across business-critical digital environments.

Our experts work with customers across Splunk consulting, observability, security, log management and managed services.

Welcome to the September Azure and Friends meetup, hosted by Microsoft at its Keilaniemi office on the Espoo waterfront.

Save the date and join us to spend some time with likeminded people and to listen interesting presentations about Azure.

Event will be held in English.

We have a no-show policy:
In accordance with our code-of-conduct, if you are not able to participate and do not cancel, you will not be allowed to participate in upcoming events for the next six months.

Waitlisting: If the event is full, please join the waitlist as seats usually free up closer to the event date. Organizers will also remind attendees to review their RSVP status couple days before event.

Photos, Live streaming and Social Media: Please notice that we reserve rights to takes photos of the event and speakers and publish them in our social media channels. Some events might be recorded or live streamed. If you wish not to be in photos or recordings, please contact one of the organizers at the event.

LinkedIn: Consider following Azure and Friends at LinkedIn

Event agenda:

16:45-17:20 - Doors open
17:20-17:30 - Azure and Friends Intro
17:30-17:40 - Welcome words by Microsoft

17:40-18:20 - Beyond No Return: Preparing Your Organization for Cyber War by Miska Kytö (Zure)

18:20-18:30 - Break

18:30-19:00 - TBA by TBA (TBA)

19:00-21.00 --> Networking