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SPHERE2YOU Helsinki 2026 Agenda
The main day on April 29 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, 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!
WithSecure’s Wood City office
28 Apr 2026
15:00
Partner Advisory Board
(by invite only)
WithSecure’s Wood City office
28 Apr 2026
15:15-17:00
Optional program: Tours of the Museum of Malware Art, sauna experience or meeting executives.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
28 Apr 2026
17:00
Registration and Expo opens
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
28 Apr 2026
18:00 ->
W/ Star Awards ceremony, dinner and evening entertainment
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
08:45
Registration opens
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
09:30 - 9:45
Opening keynote
Antti Koskela, CEO, WithSecure
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
09:45 - 9:50
Session intro chat
Nina Laaksonen, CTO, WithSecure & Host
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
09:50 - 10:15
Before the breach, after the alert – a hands-on demo of Elements’ new proactive power.
AI-powered attackers now move from exposure to exploit in under 24 hours. We're showing exactly how – and what stops them cold. Live demo. Real attack. Two very different outcomes.
Hannu Simonen, Senior Product Manager, Exposure Management and Jarno Niemelä, Principal Researcher
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
10:15 - 11:05
Coffee break and networking Expo
Visit the Expo booths and listen the training sessions
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:05 - 11:35
Keynote: Dr Jessica Barker
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:35 - 11:40
Session intro chat
Christine Bejerasco, CISO, WithSecure & Host
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:40 - 11:55
AI Security: The AI you can’t see.
Your customers are adopting AI fast. The security risks are following just as quickly – and most of them are invisible. What are the threats hiding inside AI adoption: from employees feeding sensitive data into unvetted tools, to autonomous agents running with far more access than they should. The attack didn't hack anything. It just sent a message.
Paolo Palumbo, Vice President, Strategic Threat Intelligence & Research and Klas Kindström, Vice President, Data and AI
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
11:55 - 12:20
The New Era of Agentic AI in MDR
AI didn't reinvent cybercrime. It industrialized it. What is the question defenders actually need to answer - when attacks scale like machines, can a human-driven SOC keep up? Spoiler: not for long. Unless the defense model changes too.
Teemu Myllykangas, Director, Services
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
Session intro chat
Pilvi Tunturi, CCO, WithSecure & Host
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
13:25 - 13:50
Plug in. Launch fast. Grow. The WithSecure MSP co-growth engine.
We’ll show you exactly how to make that happen. New bundles, deeper integrations, and a co-growth community built to help partners scale without burning out. Plug in. Launch fast. Grow.
Kasper Pöyry, Head of Telco MSP
Clarion Hotel Helsinki
29 Apr 2026
13:50 - 14:25
Building a security-first MSP: How to differentiate, scale and own your margin
How do you move from commodity IT services to relationships customers don't want to leave? MSPs and SIs at different stages of that journey share what actually works – and what doesn't.
Panelists: To be announced
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
Cyber. Space. Physical infrastructure. Modern threats don't respect boundaries. Industry leaders tackle what a unified defence strategy actually looks like when the attack surface spans every domain.
Panelist: 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
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.
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 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
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
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