VERGE Comprehensive Security

**VERGE | Comprehensive Security: **
The Resilience Economy

From cyber threats and AI generated misinformation to critical infrastructure, sovereign AI, dual-use innovation, and geopolitical uncertainty:

resilience has become one of the defining challenges facing leaders today.

We're moving beyond efficiency to build organizations that can adapt, compete, and thrive in an uncertain world.

**AGENDA: **

• 13:30 → Doors open

• Arrive, grab a coffee and meet the people in the room.

• 14:00–14:10 → Opening & introduction

• Welcome to VERGE Comprehensive Security and the question behind the afternoon.

• 14:10–14:20 → AI in Disruptive Times

• Keynote by Hanna Linderståhl on how AI is changing the conditions for organisations, leaders and society.

• 14:20–14:30 → How to Proceed

• A 10-minute fireside with Hanna Linderståhl on how leaders can respond to disruption with clarity and intent.

• 14:30–15:05 → Resilience by Design: Who Gets to Shape the Systems We Depend On?

• A conversation with Elin Eriksson, Women in Tech, about resilience by design, inclusive leadership and who gets to shape the systems we depend on.

• 15:05–15:25 → BREAK

• Time to connect, continue the conversation and meet the community.

• 15:25–15:55 → Trust Infrastructure for the Resilience Economy

• Blockchain Sweden on digital identity, verifiable data and decentralised systems — and how to tell what is real.

• 15:55–16:20 → Build Fast. Build Safe.

• With Lovable, Kyndryl & Ethira.
  AI has made building almost effortless – anyone in your organisation can ship an app, connect an agent or onboard a new AI vendor. This panel brings together safety at three levels: inside the platform millions build on, inside the organisations that need to govern it, and from the CISO’s chair, where it all has to hold up when it matters.

• 16:20–16:45 → The Threat Within

• Carolina Angelis, Truesec, on the human side of uncertainty: insider risk, trust, warning signs and building resilience without creating fear.

• 16:45–17:00 → Closing

• Key takeaways and a transition from the stage programme to the afterwork.

• 17:00 - AFTERWORK! 🍸

• Stay for drinks, networking, and great conversations.

*ON STAGE *

→ Alejandra Arreola Ruiz, Lovable. 

**→ **Joakim Lundberg, Nordic Security & Resilience Leader at Kyndryl)

**→ **Lucas de Araujo, Co-founder & CTO at Ethira)

→ Hanna Linderstål, CEO and founder of Earhart Business Protection Agency

→ Carolina Angelis, senior advisor at Truesec

→ Philip Hilm, co-founder and CEO of Witnis

→ Patrik Slettman, True Original

→ Elin Eriksson, Co-founder Women In Tech

**→ **MORE TBA

For decades, the global enterprise playbook was simple: optimize for efficiency, eliminate friction, and rely on increasingly interconnected systems and supply chains.

We are entering the Resilience Economy, where security is no longer a function owned solely by IT teams, compliance departments, or governments. It has become a core business capability. It shapes competitiveness, investment decisions, technology adoption, supply chain strategy, and long-term growth.

From cyber threats and AI generated misinformation to critical infrastructure, sovereign AI, dual-use innovation, and geopolitical uncertainty, resilience has become one of the defining challenges facing leaders today.

VERGE brings together founders, investors, executives, policymakers, technologists, and innovators from across the Nordics to explore how organizations can build resilience while uncovering new opportunities for growth.

A place to understand the forces reshaping business, discover the technologies protecting our critical systems, and learn how the most resilient organizations are preparing for the next decade.

Join the conversation shaping the future of resilience across the Nordics.