If you are interested in having me talk at your conference or company event, I’d be happy to hear from you. See a list of previous events with some video recordings below.
My message is simple: Security must align with people.
Having facilitated with more than 100 interactive preparedness exercises with audiences of all sizes, across borders, this has become a speciality of mine. Learn more about this in the video-recorded talk about 5000 exercise participants!
I offer talks and interactive experiences for all kinds of audiences, taking perspectives from:
- How people experience security in their daily lives and at work.
- How technology can support people to do the right things.
- How companies must be empathic about people and IT to be secure.
- How people can save the day when technology fails.
I can also do workshops and courses for groups on request, including exercise facilitation.
Selected events:
- 24 June 2025:
FIRST Conference 2025, Copenhagen (DK)
“Incident Preparedness Takeaways from 5000 Exercise Participants” [Video] - 10 June 2025:
Pointsharp Experttalks, webinar
“From Cyber Resilience to Societal Resilience” [Video] - 6 March 2025:
mnemonic Experience Sharing Forum, Utrecht (NL)
Incident response exercise: Operational Technology - 10 December 2024:
European DIGITAL SME Summit, Brussels (BE)
“Fostering Digital Resilience in the Era of Economic Security” - 8 October 2024:
Hele Danmark øver kick-off, Copenhagen (DK)
“Denmark’s future in cybersecurity” (panel moderator) - 24 June 2024:
IEEE Requirements Engineering, Reykjavik (IS)
“Security Requirement Engineering for Socio-Technical Systems” - 13 May 2024:
mnemonic C2Summit, Oslo (NO)
Incident response exercise: Advanced Persistent Threat (with Mona Østvang) - 6 May 2024:
Innovasjonstalen, Oslo (NO)
“We need to talk about Europe” [Video] - 29 February 2024:
Computerworld CIO Forum, Oslo (NO)
Incident response exercise: Privacy breach - 22 February 2024:
EU Cybersecurity Competence Center (ECCC) Info Day, Bucharest (RO)
“From relevance to impact with SP4EU in DIGITAL Europe” [Slides] - 2 February 2024:
UTmessan, Reykjavik (IS)
“How do we prepare for the unexpected?” [Video] - 7 December 2022:
IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), webinar
“Artificial intelligence: How to play in the sandbox” [Video] - 17 November 2022:
DeepSec 2022, Vienna (AT)
“The need for a human touch in cyber security” [Video] - 15 September 2022:
44CON, London (UK)
“The need for a human touch in cyber security” [Video] - 16 August 2022:
The 9th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering
“The need for a human touch in security and privacy engineering” (KEYNOTE) - 23 May 2022:
CPDP 2022, Brussels (BE)
“A Sand Storm or Just a Breeze? What’s the Fuss About Sandboxes?” (panel) - 24 November 2020:
PasswordsCon (online)
“Feeling the Difference Between Human Failure and Secure Behavior” [Video] - 23 May 2019:
BSides, Oslo (NO)
“Appsec Requirements With OWASP ASVS” [Video] - 21 May 2019:
PreParanoia
“Experiences With Simulated Phishing” [Video] - 3 September 2019:
mnemonic Security Breakfast
“The Missing Link In Email Security” [Video]
Other events:
- 16 November 2023:
DeepSec 2023, Vienna (AT)
“Let’s Prepare for the Unexpected!” - 9 October 2023:
Microsoft Security User Group, Oslo (NO)
“The Human Element in the Cyber Security Equation” - 28 August 2023:
Sikkerhetsfestivalen 2023 (with Liv Dingsør / Digital Norway)
“Hele Norge øver!” - 23 June 2023:
ISACA Norway Chapter, Oslo (NO)
“Let’s prepare for the unexpected” - 18 January 2023:
NeXTdigital
“Sikkerhet og folk: Fra “zero” til “hero” (fra null til gull)” - 29 November 2022:
IKT Agder
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 26 October 2022:
NoA Ignite
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 20 October 2022:
Statistisk Sentralbyrå
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 3 September 2019:
IAPP Virtual Panel
“Artificial Intelligence: How to play in the sandbox” [Video] - 31 August 2022:
Sikkerhetsfestivalen 2022 (with Mari Bjerck / NTNU)
“Personas for sikkerhetsbudskap som treffer” - 30 August 2022:
Sikkerhetsfestivalen 2022 (with Eirik Gulbrandsen / Datatilsynet)
“(Got a) license to profile: Sikkerhetstiltak og berettiget interesse på arbeidsplassen” - 15 June 2022:
KS Sikker kommune 2.0
“Lille speil på veggen der – hvem har sikkerhetsansvar her?” - 3 May 2022:
Stolt IT
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 30 March 2022:
Abakus linjeforening, NTNU
“Hacking man kan leve av – på godt og ondt” - 23 February 2022:
Moelven Industrier
Corporate event (internal), Hamar - 8 February 2022:
PwC personvernseminar
“Erfaringer fra første runde i Datatilsynets sandkasse for ansvarlig AI” - 18 November 2021:
PreParanoia 2021
“AI, privacy and data protection in the workplace” - 11 November 2021:
Bane NOR
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 29 October 2021:
Statkraft
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 21 October 2021:
KLP
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 29 September 2021:
Medlemsmøte ISF, DnD, ISACA, CSA Norway
“Kunstig intelligens og personvern på arbeidsplassen” - 9 September 2021:
Trondheim Machine Learning Meetup
“Machine Learning in Cyber Security” - 13 January 2020:
MIDSEC Norway
“Samfunnssikkerhet og cybersikkerhet” - 4 December 2019:
Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetsforum (ISF) julemøte
“Kan vi digitalisere oss unna menneskelig sårbarhet?” - 5 November 2019:
NTNU
Guest lecture in cybersecurity and teamwork - 1 October 2019:
Storebrand
Corporate event (internal) - 30 September 2019:
BaneNOR
Corporate event (internal) - 13 September 2019:
NeXTdigital
“Kan vi digitalisere oss unna menneskelig sårbarhet?” - 27 August 2019:
Sikkerhetsfestivalen
“Overtalelsens kunst – på godt og ondt” - 7 May 2019:
Sikkerhet og sårbarhet
“Sikkerhetskrav med OWASP ASVS” [Video] (in Norwegian) - 24 April 2019:
NTNU
Guest lecture in digital entrepreneurship - 19 March:
Bouvet One
Corporate event (internal) - 11 February 2019:
NTNU
Guest lectures in ethical hacking and privacy by design - 5 February 2019:
NTNU
Guest lecture in user centered software development - 28 November 2018:
Webstep
Corporate event (internal) - 5 November and 12 November 2018:
BI (Norwegian Business School)
Lectures in cyber security - 22 October 2018:
Huawei
Corporate event (internal) - 18 October 2018:
Sikkerhetssymposiet
“Gamification i sikkerhetsarbeidet” [Video] (in Norwegian) - 14 October 2018:
Direktoratet for eHelse
Corporate event (internal) - 28 September 2018:
NTNU
“Sikkerhet og folk – Fra teori til sikker praksis” [Video] - 27-29 August 2018:
ISF Høstkonferansen
“Hvordan lage et menneskelig sikkerhetsbudsjett” [Video] (in Norwegian) - 29 May 2018:
PreParanoia
“Brukerne er ikke fienden” - 8-9 May 2018:
Sikkerhet & sårbarhet
“Eksempler på innebygd personvern” - 27 April 2018:
Prokom
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 18 April 2018:
NTNU
Guest lecture in user-centered software development - 5 April 2018:
MIDSEC Cluster
“E-post – kan vi sikre noe som er grunnleggende usikkert?” - 27 February 2018:
NTNU
Guest lectures in ethical hacking and privacy by design - 30 November – 1 December 2017:
Normkonferansen
“Sikkerhet og folk – fra policy til praksis” - 17 November 2017:
Datatilsynet
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 8 November 2017:
ISACA/ISF/DND felles medlemsmøte
“Sikkerhet og folk – fra policy til praksis” - 19 October 2017:
VisBook Workshop 2017
“10 tips til bedre digital sikkerhet” - 17 October 2017:
Difi
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 4 October 2017:
Storebrand
Corporate event (internal), Oslo - 28 September 2017:
NRSKonf – Den nasjonale risiko og sårbarhetskonferansen
“Folk gjør feil – men kan også redde dagen” - 28-30 August 2017:
ISF Høstkonferansen
“Folk i frontlinjen”