Digiturva 2026 - digitaalisen turvallisuuden seminaari
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Presenters
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Christian Batist
Partnership Manager International, Hackshield Future Cyber Heroes
Christian Batist is an international business development leader with more than 20 years of experience in the games and digital media industries. He has held senior roles across publishing, monetisation, live-ops, and executive leadership, working with global companies such as Sulake, WildWorks, Kuuhubb, and Glu Mobile, and helping build strong teams and scalable growth strategies in multiple markets.
In addition to his work in gaming and digital growth, Christian champions cybersecurity education, including international partnerships for HackShield Future Cyber Heroes, a gamified cyber resilience program equipping young people with digital safety skills, and contributes to broader industry initiatives focused on cyber awareness and skills development.
HackShield Future Cyber Heroes is an award-winning cybersecurity education program that empowers children to become confident, resilient, and responsible digital citizens. Through an engaging gamified platform, young people learn how to recognize online risks such as hacking, phishing, cyberbullying, and digital manipulation, while developing the mindset and skills needed to stay safe in an increasingly connected world.
In this talk, Christian Batist will showcase the proven impact of HackShield across multiple countries and highlight how the program can support schools, municipalities, and national cyber resilience strategies. The session will explore why early cyber education is no longer optional, and how HackShield offers a scalable, practical solution to help build a safer digital future, and inspire the next generation of cyber heroes.
Jyrki Isokangas
University lecturer, University of Jyväskylä
Digital-Era Intelligence as an Enabler of Global Power - An Authoritarian State Approach.
Jyrki Isokangas is a university teacher and PhD student at the University of Jyväskylä. He is currently responsible for strategic intelligence and intelligence analysis education in the Security and Strategic Analysis Master’s Degree Programme at the Faculty of Information Technology.
He served for 30 years in the Finnish Defence Forces, primarily in various defence intelligence positions. His career includes e.g. an intelligence officer position in Finland’s first NATO operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996. He also served as an assistant defence attaché in the United States and Canada from 2006 to 2009. After retiring in 2018 as the Chief of Intelligence of the Finnish Army, he completed his M.Sc. degree in cybersecurity at the University of Jyväskylä. He is currently conducting his PhD research on Finnish intelligence culture.
His presentation at the Digital Security Seminar 2026 focuses on digital‑era strategic intelligence. The digitalization of society has fundamentally shaped not only our daily lives but also the practices of strategic intelligence. In his presentation, he examines digital‑era intelligence supporting an authoritarian state's global power ambitions.
Tomi Suomi
PhD student, University of Jyväskylä
Ownership in software development processes.
Preliminary program
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| Time | Presenter | Topic & Short summary |
| 10:50 | Presenter 1 | Opening words |
| FICEC's representative opens the seminar event. | ||
| 11:05 | Presenter 2 | My excellent topic |
| With this topic I present the challenges I've experienced and talk about what I've learned about the topic. | ||
| 11:45 | Presenter 3 | My excellent topic |
| With this topic I present the challenges I've experienced and talk about what I've learned about the topic. | ||
| ... | ... | ... |
| 16:10 | Presenter N | Closing words |
| FICEC's representative closes the event. |
10:50, 15min, Opening words
Christian Batist, Hackshield Future Cyber Heroes.
Jyrki Isokangas, Digital-Era Intelligence as an Enabler of Global Power - An Authoritarian State Approach.
Tomi Suomi, Ownership in software development processes.
N.N., Digital resilience in critical systems. (tbc)
N.N., AI/LLM (tbc)
16:10, 10min, Closing words
* There is room for 3 more presenters.
A wide variety of perspectives to digital resilience
“Building a digital resilience (i.e., capabilities to design, deploy and use information systems (IS) to adjust to changes caused by external shocks) may prepare individuals, organizations and other institutions for future disruptions caused by global crises.”, Kohn (2023)
Digiturva 2026 aims to provide a comprehensive combination of different perspectives on emerging threats in the field of information security and solutions that promote the digital resilience of individuals, businesses, and society. Particular areas of interest include the use of strategic intelligence in building situational awareness, utilization of new technologies such as satellite imaging and artificial intelligence methods and the challenges associated with them, improving the sustainability of software development processes, strengthening societal resilience by improving individual-level information security awareness, and implementing appropriate information security solutions in the implementation and operation of systems critical to society.
Utilizing new technologies in building a strategic situational picture
When building resilience, it is important that organizations have access to up-to-date and accurate information on relevant factors to their operating environment. The importance of strategic intelligence in building situational awareness cannot be overlooked. Recently the opportunities offered by new technologies, such as satellite imaging, have also taken the front stage in an entirely new way, as the new technical solutions enable non-governmental actors to utilize such information sources in their strategic and tactical intelligence gathering.
The benefits and challenges of using AI
With the ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence in various systems and services, there exists a risk that new and convenient AI solutions will be adopted for reasons of convenience, presumed efficiency, or perceived trendiness without taking into account the potential cybersecurity risks associated with them. However, all parties implementing and using AI solutions should be aware of the risks inherent in the use of data-driven algorithms.
Maintaining and developing information security awareness and societal resilience
In the past, we had the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. In the age of artificial intelligence this has become increasingly difficult. Especially since attackers have learned to use artificial intelligence to improve their own attack methods. Is there anything we can do about this? Could the solution lie in ownership, or could it be taught to us from a young age? There is much to be done, and the game is by no means lost yet.
Event visibility
We offer your company the opportunity to be seen in the seminar. For more information about the event visibility packages available and their prices, please visit this page.
For more information about the seminar's content and/or implementation, please contact
- Antti Kariluoto, antti.j.e.kariluoto@jyu.fi, project coordinator
- Markus Miettinen, markus.j.miettinen@jyu.fi, cybersecurity professor
