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CDIS Spring Conference 2026

We invite you to attend the CDIS Spring Conference 2026 on Thursday, May 21!

This year's spring conference takes place on the KTH campus in Stockholm. At the event, we showcase CDIS research and invite keynote speakers and panelists. This is a conference for a broad audience of enthusiasts in cybersecurity - around 300 attendees from academia, government agencies, and industry are expected to attend.

The program is a mix of technical (morning sessions) and broader talks (afternoon sessions) in cybersecurity. 

Venue

KTH Lecture Hall F1 Alfvénsalen, Lindstedtsvägen 22, Stockholm

Programme

9:00 Welcome and Introduction (Musard Balliu, KTH; Pontus Johnson, KTH; David Olgart, Cybercampus) 

9:15 Keynote: Formally proved cybersecurity with the seL4 microkernel (June Andronick, Proofcraft)  

10:00 Team Sweden in the cyber domain (Major General Mattias Hanson, Swedish Armed Forces)  

10:30 Break 

11:00 CDIS research and road ahead (Mads Dam, Research coordinator at CDIS, KTH) 

11:20 CDIS research: Relational reinforcement learning for automated network intrusion response (Jakob Nyberg, CDIS PhD student) 

11:40 CDIS Alumni: Log4Shell from the inside (Annika Andreasson, PostDoc at HHS) 

12:00 Lunch; CDIS posters and demos 

13:30 Defensibility (Ralf Alvarsson and Henrik Karlzén, FOI) 

13:50 From few to many women in cybersecurity (Agnes Ekman, Martina Dannberg, Linnea Palmqvist ) 

14:10 On the road to ECSC 2028 (Musard Balliu, KTH and Swedish National Hacking Team)  

14:30 Break

15:00 Keynote: Frontier AI for cybersecurity by Mistral AI (August Martens, Mistral)  

15:45 Panel: Digital Sovereignty (Moderator: David Olgart, Cybercampus Sweden). Panelists: June Andronick (Proofcraft), Christian Landgren (Berget), August Martens (Mistral), Magnus Persson (Evroc) 

16:30 Closing remarks 

16:40 Reception

Good to know

  • Registration is free, including lunch and refreshments.
  • Physical event; no online participation
  • The conference language is English. 

Registration

Registration deadline has passed. For questions, contact Musard Balliu musard@kth.se .

Watch the presentations from the 2025 conference.