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Centre for Cyber Defence and Information Security

CDIS Spring Conference 2026

The CDIS Spring Conference 2026 took place on May 21 at KTH (Lecture Hall F1 Alfvénsalen).
It was a fantastic day, with world-class keynotes, cutting-edge research, and real conversations about the future of cybersecurity in Sweden and beyond.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Musard Balliu, KTH; Pontus Johnson, KTH; David Olgart, Cybercampus

KEYNOTE: FORMALLY PROVED CYBERSECURITY WITH THE SEL4 MICROKERNEL

June Andronick, Proofcraft

 TEAM SWEDEN IN THE CYBER DOMAIN

Major General Mattias Hanson, Swedish Armed Forces

CDIS RESEARCH AND THE ROAD AHEAD

Mads Dam, Research coordinator at CDIS, KTH

CDIS RESEARCH: RELATIONAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED NETWORK INTRUSION RESPONSE

Jakob Nyberg, CDIS PhD student

CDIS ALUMNI:
LOG4SHELL FROM THE INSIDE

Annika Andreasson,
PostDoc at HHS

FROM FEW TO MANY WOMEN IN CYBERSECURITY

Agnes Ekman, Martina Dannberg, Linnea Palmqvist

ON THE ROAD TO ECSC 2028

Musard Balliu, KTH and Swedish National Hacking Team

KEYNOTE: FRONTIER AI FOR CYBERSECURITY BY MISTRAL AI

August Martens, Mistral

PANEL: DIGITAL SOVEREIGNITY

Moderator: David Olgart, Cybercampus Sweden
Panelists: June Andronick (Proofcraft), Christian Landgren (Berget), August Martens (Mistral), Magnus Persson (Evroc)

CLOSING REMARKS

Full 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