CDIS Spring Conference 2026

This year's spring conference took place on the KTH campus in Stockholm.

This is a conference for a broad audience of enthusiasts in cybersecurity, with around 300 attendees from academia, government agencies, and industry.

The program was 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.