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DefSec

Securing the Unpredictable

Product

DefSec

Time

13.5.2027

hybrid

Clarion Hotel Helsinki Airport, Vantaa

Product

DefSec

Time

13.5.2027

hybrid

Clarion Hotel Helsinki Airport, Vantaa

Program
Ilmoittaudu

Unpredictable times demand unbreakable security

As geopolitical tensions rise and technology reshapes the nature of conflict, the ability to protect nations, businesses, and citizens depends on foresight and collaboration.

DefSec & Strategic Technologies 2027 brings together leaders from defence, security, technology, and business to explore how we can strengthen resilience and preparedness in an unpredictable world. The event dives into the defining security challenges of our time — from hybrid and AI-driven threats to resilient infrastructure and total defense.

Defining the Future of Security – Together.

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    • Thursday 13.5.

      We open the doors – Welcome!

      Opening Remarks by Our Moderators
      OPENING KEYNOTE

      Security 2027: The World We Are Operating In

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      • How geopolitics, hybrid threats and technology are reshaping the security environment
      • Why economic security and infrastructure resilience have become national security issues
      • How strategic dependencies are changing the risk landscape
      • What leaders need to understand about the convergence of civilian and military security
      • The assumptions about stability and continuity that need to be reconsidered for 2028

      Decision Advantage: When AI Moves From Analysis to Action

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      • AI-enabled sensor fusion and situational awareness
      • From information superiority to decision advantage
      • AI at the edge and operating in degraded environments
      • Human-machine teaming and bounded autonomy
      • Where speed creates advantage — and where human judgement remains essential

      Networking Break
      KEYNOTE

      From Drones to Autonomous Mass: The Next Transformation of Warfare

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      • From individual platforms to distributed autonomous systems
      • Swarming, attritable systems and mass
      • Operating without dependable communications or GNSS
      • The economics of high-cost weapons versus low-cost autonomous systems
      • How autonomy changes force structure and operational thinking

      The Invisible Battlefield: Winning in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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      • Electronic warfare as a defining capability
      • Jamming, spoofing and contested communications
      • Cognitive EW and AI-supported spectrum operations
      • Operating when GNSS and communications cannot be trusted
      • Integrating cyber, EW and communications resilience

      Lunch & Networking
      KEYNOTE

      Why Does Technology Move Faster Than Defence Procurement?

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      • Why promising technologies remain stuck between prototype and procurement
      • What Ukraine and rapid operational experimentation have changed
      • Shortening the path from user need to deployed capability
      • How military users, startups and traditional primes can work differently
      • What procurement needs to look like when technology evolves in months, not decades

      Software-Defined Defence: When the Platform Is No Longer the Product

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      • Software-defined capabilities and continuous capability upgrades
      • Open architectures and interoperability
      • Connecting sensors, platforms and decision-making
      • Why data and APIs are becoming strategic defence assets
      • Moving from platform-centric procurement toward capability ecosystems

      Networking Break
      KEYNOTE

      Can Europe Produce at the Speed of Conflict?

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      • From peacetime optimisation to strategic production capacity
      • Scaling ammunition, drones, electronics and critical components
      • Defence supply chains and industrial dependencies
      • The role of commercial industry and dual-use manufacturing
      • What Europe must be able to produce itself
      CLOSING KEYNOTE

      2030: The Security Architecture We Need to Build Now

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      • What Europe must be able to protect, produce and operate independently
      • Building readiness across defence, industry and critical infrastructure
      • Which strategic dependencies need to be reduced
      • How technology, industrial capacity and public-private cooperation come together
      • The leadership decisions that cannot wait until the next crisis

      Closing Summary by Our Moderators

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