- The decisions to keep systems—and why they seemed right at the time
- Where legacy quietly blocked speed, integration, and product development
- The real cost of waiting too long to rebuild
CTO Nordic
Program
Wednesday 9.12.
We open our doors! Register in and enjoy a light breakfast
Opening remarks by our moderator
Nina Rahkola
Documentarist, Journalist
KEYNOTE
BUILDING SYSTEMS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO CHANGE
Kristo Vaher
CTO, GovStack, Former Government CTO of Estonia, GovTech Expert
KEYNOTE
THE SYSTEMS WE DIDN’T REPLACE AND THE COST OF IT
BREAK
FROM AI EXPERIMENTS TO REAL PRODUCTS
- What changes when AI moves from feature to core product capability
- Where AI systems fail in production—and why
BUILDING UNDER CONSTRAINTS - REGULATION, DATA AND SOVEREIGNTY
Sanna Malinen
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director, Technology Industries of Finland
- When cloud strategy becomes a sovereignty decision
- Owning your data vs depending on your vendors
- Designing architecture under regulatory constraints
KEYNOTE
LESSONS FROM BUILDING UNDER PRESSURE
Ulf Larsson
Group Security CTO, SEB (SE)
The reality of leading technology today
- What turned out to matter, and what didn’t
- Where we underestimated complexity and paid for it
- What we would do differently if we started today
- What will matter next—and what is not worth your time
END REMARKS BY OUR MODERATOR
Nina Rahkola
Documentarist, Journalist