Technology no longer supports the business — it defines it.
As CTO, your responsibility is no longer limited to technology strategy. You are shaping the products, platforms, architectures and engineering capabilities that determine how your company competes, grows and creates value.
At CTO Nordic 2026, the focus is on building: building products powered by AI, building architectures that scale, building technology organizations that deliver, and making the difficult decisions about what to modernize, rebuild or leave behind.
Join leading experts across Nordics for a day of practical insights, honest lessons learned and strategic discussions on how technology leaders create lasting competitive advantage in an environment shaped by rapid innovation, regulation and constant change.
Because the companies that win tomorrow are built today.
DEFINING THE AGENDA
Technology as Business: Building What You Compete On
Technology is no longer supporting the business—it defines it. CTO owning business models.rnWhat are you building today that will still create advantage tomorrow?rnrnAI embedded in products.
Legacy Decisions: What to Keep, What to Rebuild
Every system has a cost—some just hide it better. Modernization pressure.rnWhat do you scale, what do you replace, and what are you holding onto too long?
Staying Ahead: Navigating What Matters Next
New technologies move fast—but not all of them matter. Filtering signal vs noise.rnrnHow do you stay informed, make the right bets, and focus where it counts?rnrnUnderstanding regulation + sovereignty.
2026 speakers will be released soon!
Nina Rahkola
Documentarist, Journalist
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Wednesday 9.12.
We open our doors! Register in and enjoy a light breakfast
Opening remarks by our moderator
Nina Rahkola Documentarist, Journalistadd_2 closeKEYNOTEWHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD A TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN BUSINESS IN 2027
- What changes when architecture decisions define business outcomes
- When technology becomes the product—not just the enabler
- Where CTO ownership begins—and where it still breaks down
- What separates companies that build from those that react
add_2 closeKEYNOTETHE SYSTEMS WE DIDN’T REPLACE AND THE COST OF IT
- 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
BREAK
add_2 closeFROM AI EXPERIMENTS TO REAL PRODUCTS
- What changes when AI moves from feature to core product capability
- Where AI systems fail in production—and why
add_2 closeKEYNOTEWHY REBUILDING THE CORE IS HARDER THAN IT LOOKS
- Why rebuilding takes longer than expected
- When small fixes no longer solve the underlying problem
- What makes rebuilding succeed—or stall
LUNCH
add_2 closeKEYNOTEBUILDING UNDER CONSTRAINTS – REGULATION, DATA AND SOVEREIGNTY
- When cloud strategy becomes a sovereignty decision
- Owning your data vs depending on your vendors
- Designing architecture under regulatory constraints
add_2 closeKEYNOTEWHY YOUR DATA ARCHITECTURE IS LIMITING WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
- Where fragmented data limits product capabilities, not just reporting
- Why real-time is harder and when it actually unlocks new products
- How your data architecture constrains what you can build with AI
BREAK
add_2 closeKEYNOTEWHY MODERN ARCHITECTURES STILL DON’T DELIVER SPEED
- Complexity vs speed in distributed systems
- Coordination overhead in microservices and platforms
- Where bottlenecks emerge in modern stacks
add_2 closeKEYNOTELESSONS FROM BUILDING UNDER PRESSURE
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
Moderator wrap up
Nina Rahkola Documentarist, Journalist
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