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SPHERE2YOU Helsinki 2026 Agenda
The main day on April 29, 2026 is packed with WithSecure’s new products, live attack-style demos and MSP-focused go-to-market innovations you can take straight to your customers. You’ll hear inspiring talks from cyber and beyond – and engaging panel discussions. Between sessions there’s time to talk roadmap, margins and growth with our teams and other partners.
You’ll also find the latest and greatest from us in the Expo and Training Area. Welcome to meet our product teams & experts!
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
28 Apr 2026
Registration from 16:30. Expo opens at 17:00.
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
28 Apr 2026
18:00–23:00
W/ Star Awards ceremony, dinner and evening entertainment
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
08:30
Registration opens
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
09:30–9:45
Opening
Antti Koskela, President & CEO, WithSecure
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
09:45–9:55
Intro chat
Nina Laaksonen, Chief Product Officer, WithSecure & Host
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
09:55–10:20
Before the breach, after the alert – a hands-on demo of Elements’ new proactive power
AI is making attacks faster, so reactive security is no longer enough. Preventing pre-zero-day exposures is now the real differentiator. WithSecure Elements XDR + Exposure Management gives MSPs a stronger value proposition: selling prevention instead of incident cleanup. The “same attack, one company breached, one protected” demo is a powerful customer-facing proof point that makes the proactive security story easy to pitch and monetize.
Hannu Simonen, Senior Product Manager, Exposure Management and Jarno Niemelä, Principal Researcher from WithSecure
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
10:20–11:05
Coffee break and networking
Visit the Expo booths and listen the Training Sessions
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:05–11:35
Keynote: As AI gets smarter, security gets more human: rethinking risk, trust and partnerships
Dr Jessica Barker
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:35–11:40
Intro chat
Christine Bejerasco, CISO, WithSecure & Host
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:40–11:55
The AI you can’t see. The AI you can see.
AI adoption is creating new invisible attack surfaces; customers need security tools that make AI usage visible, governable, and manageable – not blocked. WithSecure as enabling this with both current capabilities (AI browsing protection, AI usage controls, agent visibility) and a forward-looking roadmap around Aria, AI inventory, posture management, and intent drift detection. AI security is an emerging growth conversation where MSPs can help customers safely scale AI adoption while opening new advisory and managed service revenue streams.
Paolo Palumbo, Vice President, Strategic Threat Intelligence & Research and Klas Kindström, Vice President, Data and AI from WithSecure
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:55–12:20
The New Era of Agentic AI in MDR
AI has industrialized cyberattacks, making traditional MDR too slow unless defenders also use AI at scale – turning agentic AI into a necessity. The opportunity is especially strong for MSPs: our AI-driven MDR is a scalable way to handle growing alert volumes, reduce analyst workload, and deliver faster investigations without proportional staffing increases. Grow margins while solving a rapidly worsening customer pain point.
Teemu Myllykangas, Director, Services, WithSecure
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
12:20–13:20
Lunch break and networking
Visit the Expo booths and listen the Training Sessions
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
13:20–13:25
Intro chat
Pilvi Tunturi, Chief Customer Officer, WithSecure & Host
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
13:25–13:50
Plug in. Launch fast. Grow. The WithSecure MSP co-growth engine.
New MSP bundles, integrations, and co-growth support make it easier for partners to package cybersecurity into scalable, recurring revenue services without adding headcount. Elements Proactive and Elements Protect transform security from fragmented point solutions into a bundled end-to-end offering that increases wallet share while simplifying delivery through prebuilt PSA/RMM integrations. Sell cybersecurity as a profitable managed service layer that both reduces customer risk and drives predictable margin growth.
Kasper Pöyry, Head of Telco MSP, WithSecure
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
13:50–14:25
Building a security-first MSP: How to differentiate, scale and own your margin
This panel brings together system integrators and MSPs at different stages of their transformation to explore why adding managed security services has become essential to compete and survive. The discussion centers on the business case: why security is the lever that lets you move from commodity IT services to sticky, defensible relationships with higher margins and customer loyalty. We would also discuss why adding a specialized security vendor creates operational efficiency, reduces mean-time-to-response and gives you a premium service that customers can't easily replicate or shop around.
Panelists: David Treibergfrom (Pax8), Mats Palm (Advania), Emilie Davyfrom (Halo), Rune Marius Rokke (Fence)
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
14:25–15:15
Coffee break and networking
Visit the Expo booths and listen the Training Sessions
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
15:15–15:50
Defending the future: Security for critical infrastructure across cyber, space, air and ground
As critical infrastructure becomes more interconnected and technologically advanced, the threat landscape expands across multiple domains: cyber networks, space-based assets, aerial systems and physical facilities on the ground. This panel will explore how governments, industry leaders, and security experts can adopt a unified, multi-domain defense strategy to protect essential services and businesses in an era of hybrid and asymmetric threats.
Panelists will discuss emerging risks, cross-domain vulnerabilities, resilience frameworks, public–private collaboration, and the role of advanced technologies such as AI and autonomous systems.
Panelists: Mikko Hyppönen, CRO, Sensofusion, Christine Bejerasco, CISO, WithSecure.
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
15:55–16:00
Closing words
Antti Koskela, CEO, WithSecure & Host
EXPO
Our Expo is where the real conversations happen. Six hands-on booths. No slides – just our people and yours.
Elements for MSPs: Lower cost to deliver – fewer people, more seats.
• Explore how seamless integrations across the MSP ecosystem can streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and maximize the value of your solution. Discover practical ways to boost productivity and deliver more efficient, scalable services to your customers.
Partner Success Hub: Win customers faster, retain them longer.
• Everything you need to ramp, learn, and grow: Partner Portal, Academy, GTM enablement, and co-marketing – all in one place.
MSP Playbook: Double your security revenue within 12 months.
• Learn how to grow your business with managed security services that deliver higher margins, predictable recurring revenue, and 24/7 MDR backed by European security experts.
AI-Driven MDR: 70% higher margins compared to running own SOC.
• Discover AI-driven threat analysis that automatically triages incidents and enriches alerts with actionable intelligence – reducing investigation time and accelerating your security response.
Digital Forensics & Incident Response: Minimize impact. Restore fast. Gain trust.
• Our Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) team delivers expert-led investigations and rapid incident response, helping organizations understand what happened, contain the threat, and recover with confidence.
Shift to Proactive Security: A clear growth and upsell path.
• Learn how the combined power of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Exposure Management (XM) protects against today's AI-accelerated threat landscape – including pre-zero-day vulnerabilities.
Training Area
Between the keynotes, our Training Area runs sessions on topics you can actually use. Practical. No fluff. Seats are limited.
WithSecure Cyber Range: Most detections start long before an alert fires.
This session pulls back the curtain on how WithSecure builds them – from capturing behavioral samples in controlled conditions to reverse-engineering real attack patterns.
Host: Jarno Niemelä, WithSecure
Sessions at 10:45 and 12:20
WithSecure DFIR and Readiness – What actually happens at 2am: Chasing Ghost
This session walks through what cloud investigation looks like under real pressure.
Host: Ari Lappalainen, WithSecure
Sessions at 12:50 and 14:50
Predictive ML model
This session shows how our predictive model spots that readiness in real life: usage patterns, configuration clues, and behavior signals that mirror proven EDR adopters.
Host: Iiro Estola, WithSecure
Sessions at 10:25 and 12:35
The New Endpoint Reality: Attackers Now Target the EDR Itself
This session looks at how resilience gets engineered in practice: tamper protection, behavioral detection, layered telemetry – so that when one control takes a hit, visibility and response hold.
Hosts: Artë Bajraktari & Amro Okasha, WithSecure
Sessions at 13:05 and 14:30
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
WithSecure’s Wood City office
28 Apr 2026
Optional program: Tours of the Museum of Malware Art, sauna experience or meeting executives.
WithSecure’s Wood City office
28 Apr 2026
15:00–17:00
Partner Advisory Board
(by invite only)
Thursday, April 30, 2026
WithSecure’s Wood City office
30 Apr 2026