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Shaping the new tomorrow
5.12.2023 | VIRTUAL EVENT
GOING LIVE 9AM (CET) 10AM (EET)
The role of the CIO has evolved beyond leading IT into being in the forefront of change, inspiring teams and business stakeholders, navigating transformative business models, sustainable practices and high performing cultures.
In today’s data-first world IT executives have the keys to provide the vision and the results needed to lift organizations to the next level. Strategic leadership becomes even more essential when adding the factors of economic uncertainty and geopolitical tension.
In times of disruption and growth, it is crucial to lead from the front. The CIO needs to encourage continuous exploration while striving for first-class performance from a generationally and geographically diverse staff.
What comes next? Welcome to understand and share best practices on how to accelerate digital business, adaptability and resilience in a future hybrid world interlacing metaverse, AI and hyperconnectivity.
Change the dynamic of your industry and explore game-changing business capabilities.
See you @ Nordic CIO!
The CIO and IT Executive gathering of the year

Modernizing at speed – increasing Operational Efficiencies & Productivity.
THEMES
2023
Establishing Solid resiliency, Business intimicy and Alignment.
Talent management and upskilling - Cross Functional Perspectives & Culture.
AN UNPARALELLED TV & EVENT HYBRID
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& Surveys
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1-2-1 & Group Networking
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& influence
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MODERATOR 2023

PETER NYMAN
JOURNALIST, TV-HOST
Peter Nyman is a well-known, charismatic and experienced TV-anchor and business event moderator. He is a journalist, news-anchor and media professional that coaches on three languages. Peter has run communication trainings for business directors- and experts for years, but speaks about communication skills also to bigger audiences.
SPEAKERS 2023

Torbjørn F. Folgerd
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER & SVP Enterprise digital | EQUINOR (NO)
Torbjørn is chief information officer and heads up the Enterprise digital group. Enterprise digital is responsible for Equinor’s core technology platform including managing information security centre, providing infrastructure services, developing enterprise applications, software development, data science as well as developing Equinor’s data platform. Before this, Torbjørn established and headed up Equinor’s digitalization efforts since 2017. He’s been with Equinor since 2008 in various leadership roles spanning supply chain management, operational analytics, and strategy. Before joining Equinor, Torbjørn worked as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting.
JÖRGEN HELLBERG
CIO | POSTNORD (SE)
Jörgen is an experienced change leader with both depth and width. Coming from executive roles in IS/IT and Program/Portfolio Management he has experience from a wide range of industries such as automotive, med-tech and e-tail/retail.
Specialties: Leadership, Change Management, Business and process development, Program and Portfolio Management, IS/IT, e-commerce and omni-channel sales, global ERP projects, long distance running, exploring ship wrecks at 40 meters below sea level and making the meanest ribs you ever tasted.


Dr. Christina Yan Zhang
TOP 100 WOMEN OF FUTURE & CEO AND FOUNDER | THE METAVERSE INSTITUTE (UK)
Christina is a pioneer in the metaverse and an award-winning business leader with 16 years of experience turning forward-thinking ideas into ultra-high growth businesses with global impact.
She has a PhD in Digital Twin & Metaverse, she is the UN ITU Vice Chair of Metaverse Working Group on Sustainability and Co-chair of CitiVerse Task Group. She is a Future of Work, Skills, Science Expert.
Christina is also the CEO of The Metaverse Institute, which is made up of a group of pioneers in the Metaverse, AI, digital twin, Smart Cities assisting organizations using related technology to improve the real world.
TED Schönbeck
HEAD OF CLOUD TECHNOLOGY & NORDIC CTO | GOOGLE (SE)
Ted is Head of Cloud Technology for Google Cloud in Sweden – he has +20 years experience of working in IT at among others IBM, Dell, VMware and Red Hat. He is a passionate open source, cloud, digital transformation and AI-evangelist and a frequent speaker at events.
He recently added also Nordic CTO responsabilities to his duties at Google. In this new role, he will focus on evangelizing and driving the adoption of AI and cloud computing across the Nordic market.


MARKKU PULKKINEN
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT | CODENTO (FI)
Markku's responsibilities cover multifaceted business development with leading customers and a special focus on Google Cloud partnership with a close relationship with Google.
Prior to Codento, Markku worked for 15 years at Microsoft both in Finland and Western Europe Area HQ and at Oracle for 15 years in Finland and in the US. At Microsoft, he managed the largest business segment and partner ecosystem in Finland, and in WE he was leading a market transformation and a business model change to public cloud for the key Nordic data center service providers
MARIA NIKKILÄ
CIO | City of Tampere (FI)
Maria is CIO of City of Tampere. In her role Maria wants to realise the benefits of using data to provide better services to residents of Tampere.
Before joining in Tampere, Maria worked as a head of Finnish government Digitalization unit of Ministry of Finance and a vice chairman of the board of Erillisverkot Oy, wholly state-owned special-purpose company providing critical leadership society services. With her wide experience about public digital services Maria has an idea what it takes to make digital transformation happen.

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PETER GRANLUND
Group CISO | IF GROUP (SE)
Peter has over 20 years of experience in a wide range of information security management positions in the finance and telecom industry. His main responsibilities include information risk governance and information security management, security education, and business support.
Before the CISO role, Peter worked as a cyber insurance risk specialist, assessing emerging cyber threats and developing methods to assess cyber insurance clients’ security posture.
Peter holds various cyber-related certifications in areas like information security management, systems auditing, IT risk management, IT governance, IT security, and ISO/IEC 27001.
SARA BJÖRK
Group CIO | Nobia (SE)
Sara Björk is the Group CIO of Nobia AB, Europe’s leading kitchen specialist. She has been driving transformation projects for 25 years, mainly within the Retail industry.
At Nobia, Sara has transformed the old scattered IT department into the modern and positive group function TED (Technology, Experience and Data). Prior to her role at Nobia, Sara was Head of IT for Design, Buying and Production at H&M Group. The unit successfully evolved from a traditional IT department to an agile and efficient technology frontrunner during an exciting three year period of transformation.
Sara’s passion is rapid results by bringing out collective intelligence of organizations through team-wide collaboration and innovation.


KIRILL FILATOV
CISO | S-RYHMÄ (FI)
Kirill is a seasoned IT and cybersecurity expert with over 10 years of experience in melding sophisticated defense strategies with core business objectives. He has a strong background in risk, information security and cyber security management, IT governance, leadership and project management. He is passionate about well managed information security, and bringing IT and business closer together.
CHRIS ROGERS
Senior Technology Evangelist | ZERTO (UK)
Chris is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Zerto with +11 years of experience as an IT Professional focusing on data center virtualization and Data Protection. Chris is passionate about helping organizations remain resilient and running amidst cybersecurity threats like ransomware. Chris has a technical background but has spent much time working with business leaders and translating identified ‘business requirements’ into resilient technical solutions, and ultimately strives to translate technical innovation to business value..


ANTTI LAATIKAINEN
Principal Consultant, PCI Services Lead | WithSecure (FI)
Seasoned cyber security professional with more than 20 years of experience on cyber, risk and management.
Antti helps client organisations to ramp up their secure working culture and build their compliance programs.
DEEP DIVE EXPERTS

Markku Pulkkinen
Senior Vice President | Codento | FI

Ted Schönbeck
Head of Cloud Technology & Nordic CTO | Google | SE

Markku Tuomala
CTO | Codento | FI

Toni Kaikkonen
Service Director | Codento | FI
WHO ATTENDS
CIOs
Chief information officers
CDOs
Chief data officers
CIOs
Chief innovation officers
CTOs
Chief technology officers
CISOs
Chief information security officers
SVPs, VPs and directors | Data and analytics leaders | Security and risk leaders | Application leaders | Infrastructure and operation leaders
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Choose the option that suits you the best from the options below. All tickets include access to:
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Are you participating with a bigger team?
You can get a group discount for team of 4 above. You can also ask a group offer for 3 people or larger than that from meeri.simolin@professio.fi – we are happy to help you.