Conference, Networks

Information Security Day 2025

WHEN

28.5.2025

WHERE

Turku, Finland and on-line via streaming

Tervetuloa Tietoturvapäivään 2025

Welcome to Information Security Day 2025!

This year “Tietoturvapäivä”/ “Information Security Day” will be arranged in English and the event is dedicated to the European Commission funded project “EAGLE – Digital Skills Training”. The conference’s topic is Strengthening Cyber Resilience in SMEs”. Key Note speeches, presentations and panel discussions will provide dedicated to topics such as SMEs interests and knowledge and skills in cyber range.

Cyber Resilience Act requirements
NIS-2 (Network and Information Security) Directive updates and regulatory requirements and impacts
SMEs role in supply chains and in societal resilience; Upskilling and reskilling
Future R&D goals in cyber security.

Time: 28th of MAY 2025 at 10.00-16.00 EEST
Where: Turku, Finland in-person & on-line via streaming.
In Turku at venue: ”Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki”, address: Lemminkäisenkatu 12b, 20520 Turku, Finland.

N.B. also Ice-breaking event on 27^th of May at 6.00-8.00 p.m. in Turku University of Applied Sciences premises, Kisälli restaurant, Kupittaa Campus, EduCity,

Limited amount of seats, hence please register before 20^th of May 2025.

Join & welcome to engage with Finnish and international cyber security experts in Turku, Finland!

Information booklet Download

Speakers – biography

Conference speakers are high level national and EU/ international experts presenting views on various means to strengthen cyber resilience in SMEs e.g. via legislation, skills development and novel R&D openings. More biographies coming soon.

Bruno Baruque-Zanón

Bruno Baruque-Zanón holds an Associate Professor position in the Department of Digitalization at Universidad de Burgos (UBU), Spain, since 2018. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence specialization in 2009. He is an active member of Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada / Applied Computational Intelligence (GICAP) research group. He currently acts as coordinator both of the Inter-University Master of Business Intelligence and Big Data in Cybersecure Environments and the European Computer Science (ECS) Degree at UBU, both run in cooperation with several other national and international universities. He acts as overall Coordinator of the Digital Europe Programme funded “CovEring the trAining Gap in digital skills for European SMEs manpowEr” (EAGLE) Project.

Virpi Miettinen

Virpi Miettinen is a senior specialist at the National Coordination Centre for Cyber Security Research, Development and Innovation (NCC-FI). The Centre is located at the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom’s National Cyber Security Centre Finland. The NCC-FI helps Finnish organisations to participate in cross-border EU projects and obtain funding from EU funding programmes. National coordination centres form an EU-wide network supporting the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre ECCC. Virpi has worked several years for RDI and international cooperation. She has hands-on experience in applying EU funding for higher education sector as well as experience in supporting EU programme management and evaluation of proposals at the Executive Agency of Education, Culture and Audiovisual of the European Commission. She has MA in General History from the University of Turku, Finland.

Pia Satopää

Pia Satopää is a leading expert in information security and cybersecurity, with a career over 15 years. Her journey has taken her from serving as the Head of Information Security for the Finnish Defence Forces to her current role as a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at Turku University of Applied Sciences. Satopää is passionate about strategic information and cybersecurity planning, particularly in bridging the gap between high-level strategy and practical implementation. Her mission is to strengthen business-driven security cultures by increasing threat and risk awareness at all levels of an organization.

Karo Saharinen

Karo Saharinen is a distinguished professional with extensive experience in education and cybersecurity. Currently, Karo is the Head of Education at the Institute of Information Technology, Jamk University of Applied Sciences (Finland), overseeing 50 employees and nearly 2000 students across four master’s and four bachelor’s degrees. Karo’s leadership roles extend to membership in the Committee for Engineering Education at the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre and the Board of Directors at Jamk University of Applied Sciences. Previously, Karo coordinated the Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees in Cyber Security at Jamk for a decade and taught various cybersecurity and IT courses at both degree levels. Karo has also been involved in research and development projects like Cyber Trust, Cybersecurity Education and Collaboration Network in UAS Finland, Cyber Security 4 Europe, and Healthcare Cyber Range. Karo holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Jyväskylä. Karo’s doctoral thesis focused on cybersecurity education in higher education. In addition, Karo has completed a Professional Teacher Education qualification, a Master of Engineering in Information Technology, a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, and a Vocational Qualification in Electrical Engineering.

Julien Théron

Julien Théron is Political scientist, Dr. and taught at the universities of Budapest (BME), Beirut (USJ, USEK) and Paris (Nanterre, Versailles, Panthéon-Assas). Former Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS/NDUU), he also collaborated with the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). In policy, he worked for the French government (MFA, MoD, INSP), European Union’s projects (EU) and the United Nations (UN). Specialized in complex conflicts and international security, he conducted field research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Egypt, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Georgia, and Ukraine. He is a lecturer in War Studies at Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and a researcher in Hybrid Threats at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (DG JRC). He co-authored Poutine, la stratégie du désordre (Tallandier, 2021), Le Pacte des autocrates (Robert Laffont, 2023) and co-edited Russia’s War on Ukraine: The Implications for the Global Nuclear Order (Springer, 2023).

Paolo Venturoni

Paolo Venturoni is the Chief Executive Officer of the European Organization for Security (EOS), a Brussels-based association that represents the European security industry and research community. He started his career in the IT sector and then worked for several years to corporate development assignments in Europe, the United States and Latin America both for Leonardo and a major telecom company. Based in Brussels since 2002, he was the director of Leonardo’s Brussels office dealing with EU and NATO affairs, and from 2017 he leads the European Organisation for Security. He obtained an MBA from Columbia University in New York and graduated in Physics from the University of Rome.

Ari Welling

Ari Welling is a journalist with over 35 years of experience in broadcasting. For the last 20 years, he has worked with the Finnish public service media company Yle, in Turku, Helsinki, and Tampere. In addition to regional television and radio, he is also a well-known personality in national television, news and sports programs. For eight consecutive years he has hosted the Declaration of Christmas Peace from Turku – one of the most viewed programs on Yle, which garners about two million viewers around the world. In addition to working in Finland, he has also worked in the U.S. for NBC and FOX television stations in Michigan. Ari holds a masters degree in Broadcast Journalism from University of Jyväskylä, and has also studied journalism at Indiana State University. He has passionately taught media to future journalists for over 30 years, and has completed the teacher’s pedagogical qualification at Häme University of Applied Sciences. Picture of Ari by Arash Matin.

Practical information

About Turku

City of Turku is located in Southwest Finland. If you wish to learn more on Turku, please see visitturku.fi website.

How to reach Turku? Arrival instructions

By air

It is quite convenient to arrive in Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. There are long distance bus connections and a train connection leaving approximately every hour from the airport to Turku. The traveling time between Helsinki-Vantaa airport and the Turku bus station is about two and a half hours. Please check the connections to Turku from “By bus” or “By train” guidance below.

There are several international flights arriving directly in Turku Airport. The airport is 8 kilometres from the city centre, which can be reached by taxi (approx. €25) or by local bus number 1 (c. 3€). If your arrival time to Turku Airport is after the last bus and there is no taxi to be found, you can order one by using the service phone which is located near the exit on the arrivals level of the terminal.

By bus

The national long distance bus service Matkahuolto departs from local bus stations all throughout Finland and also from Helsinki-Vantaa airport. The final stop in Turku for long distance buses is at the Turku Bus Station (linja-autoasema) which is located at the city centre.

There may be a change of bus in Espoo during the trip from Helsinki-Vantaa airport to Turku. The bus personnel will inform you about the change and your luggage will be transferred by the bus personnel.

Another possibility is to use the bus service Onnibus.

Both bus services have online offers on tickets. Usually you get the tickets cheaper if purchased in advance.

By train

The national train company VR departs from the local railway stations all throughout Finland. There are two railway stations in Turku:
(1) The Turku main railway station (rautatieasema) which is at the city centre at Ratapihankatu 37, Turku and

(2) Kupittaa railway station that locates about 1.5 km from the Turku city centre and next to the Turku University of Applied Sciences campus and the venue Visitor and Innovation Center Joki. Only the trains coming from the direction of Helsinki stop at Kupittaa, and Kupittaa is last stop before Turku main railway station stop.

Usually you get the tickets cheaper, if purchased in advance.

How to reach “Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki” -Venue?

Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki’s address is Lemminkäisenkatu 12b, Turku, Finland.

See the arrival instructions

The event is arranged jointly with European Commission funded project EAGLE – Digital Skills Training and it’s project partner Turku University of Applied Sciences.

The conference partners also with Women4CyberFinland.

AGENDA: Information Security Day 2025

Strengthening Cyber Resilience in SMEs – SMEs role in supply chains and in societal resilience?

TIME	TOPIC	SPEAKERS
9.30-10.00	Registration
10.00-10.15	Welcoming words	Turku University of Applied Sciences (Turku UAS)/ Leading Advisor Päivi Mattila
10.15-12.30	“Policy updates, regulatory requirements implementation in SMEs, Future RD goals in cyber security, SMEs role in supply chain”
10.15-10.35	Key Note: ”ENISA’s ECSF and AR-in a-box, and how this has helped organizations to meet NIS2 obligations”	The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)/ Cyber Security Officer Christina Skouloudi
10.35-10.55	Key note: topic (tbc)	Joint Research Centre (JRC)/ Researcher in Hybrid Threats, Julien Théron
10.55-11.15	Key Note “Cybersecurity and AI: the challenges ahead”	European Organization for Security/ CEO Paolo Venturoni
11.15-11.35	Key Note: “Future RDI goals in EU funding programmes for cyber security”	National Coordination Centre (NCC-FI) – National Cyber Security Centre Finland/Senior Specialist Virpi Miettinen
11.35-11.55	Key Note: “SMEs role in supply chains and building resilience of society”	National Emergency Supply Agency, Finland/ Director Jarna Hartikainen
11.55-12.30	Key-note speeches Q&A. Host: Ari Welling
12.30-13.15	Break & snacks
13.15-14.30	“Upskilling and reskilling SMEs competences in cyber security and cyber resilience”
13.15-13.35	Key note “SMEs competences in cyber security and cyber resilience”	Finnish Information Security Cluster (FISC)/ CEO Peter Sund
13.35-13.50	Presentation on “Developing Cyber Security Education and its Collaboration in Universities of Applied Sciences” Project https://jyvsectec.fi/2023/09/developing-cyber-security-education/	Jyväskylä University of (JAMK)/ Senior Lecturer in IT Karo Saharinen
13.50-14.05	Presentation “Digital Skills Training” (EAGLE) Project https://www.projecteagle.eu/	Turku UAS/ Senior Lecturer in ICT Master School Pia Satopää
14.05-14.30	Presentations Q&A Host: Ari Welling
14.30-14.45	Coffee break
14.45-15.45	Panel on ”Future cybersecurity skills and competences and services”
	Opening statements by panelists to the topic, followed by Q&A from host and audience	– Robocoast, European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH)/ tbc – University of Burgos in Spain/ EAGLE coordinator Bruno Baruque Zanón – Lithuanian Cyber Crime Center of Excellence for Training, Research & Education (L3CE)/ Evaldas Bruze – Women4Cyber/ Riku Juurikko
15.45-16.00	Closing words