We’ve been invited to attend the second day of the Cybersäkerhetskonferensen, a government-organized event that can be seen as Sweden’s modest counterpart to the ONE Conference in the Netherlands. It’s a two-day national conference on cybersecurity, organized by Swedish public authorities (such as the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency and the Swedish Military Signals Intelligence Agency). It brings together national public and private sector leaders.

The first day is highly Sweden-focused and inward-looking; however, the second day is open to our delegation, and the organizers are keen to welcome us. This is not a commercial trade show, but a content-rich, high-level environment where decision-makers, policy leaders, and strategic tech players from Sweden’s cyber ecosystem come together.

Program themes:

• The new IT landscape
• Cybersecurity capacity, innovation and collaboration in Europe
• Cybercrime and digital forensics
• The national cybersecurity workforce shortage
• Civil-military cooperation and total defense
• The Swedish Cybersecurity Reserve
   

Thematic tracks include:

• Innovation: funding, research, and commercialization
• Technology: in-depth technical sessions
   

All sessions are in Swedish, with live English interpretation available.

The second day of the program will include visits to key innovation and cybersecurity hubs in and around Stockholm. These visits are tailored to the profiles and interests of the participating companies, with a focus on providing insight into Sweden’s ecosystem, building relevant connections, and exploring opportunities for future collaboration.

Potential site visits include:

• Cybernode – Sweden’s national cybersecurity cluster, supported by the Swedish government. Cybernode brings together companies, public institutions, research centers, and regional innovation hubs working on cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, and resilience. Comparable in function to Security Delta (HSD) in the Netherlands, the cluster acts as a national platform for knowledge sharing and public-private collaboration. During the mission, we may arrange an introduction to the cluster and a selection of its active members.
• Kista Science City – Sweden’s leading innovation district for ICT and advanced technology. Located in the greater Stockholm area, Kista is home to over 1,000 tech companies, 20,000 professionals from more than 115 nationalities, and two top universities: KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. The area hosts global players such as Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Fujitsu, and Oracle, alongside a strong base of scale-ups, R&D labs, testbeds, and public-private initiatives.
  Areas of expertise in Kista include: AI, computer science, 5G and telecom, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, space technology, energy systems, semiconductors, defense, and nanotechnology.

The final day of the program centers around a bilateral seminar hosted by the Netherlands Embassy in Stockholm, focusing on cybersecurity in healthcare and the development of secure health data infrastructures,  particularly in the context of the upcoming European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.

The seminar brings together key stakeholders from both countries for a content-driven exchange on digital trust, cross-border data sharing, and public-private collaboration in securing sensitive health data.

Confirmed contributors include:

• Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Netherlands)
• eHälsomyndigheten (Sweden’s national agency responsible for enabling and coordinating digital infrastructure for health data exchange)
• Private-sector representatives such as Philips, Sectra, Elekta, Northwave, and others

The session is designed to encourage both knowledge sharing and bilateral networking in the intersection of cybersecurity, healthtech, and digital policy. In addition to presentations and panel discussions, the seminar is structured to allow ample time for informal networking and bilateral conversations, both during breaks and in the margins of the program.

The day concludes with a networking reception at the Dutch Ambassador’s residence, attended by a broader group from Sweden’s cybersecurity and innovation ecosystem, a trusted network the Embassy has built up over many years.