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Welcome to the HelSec January meetup!

This event is powered by Tietoturvatoimisto Monti.

We are excited to invite you to join us for a community evening filled with great talks, engaging discussions, and good company on Friday, January 16th. We are thrilled to have three fantastic speakers lined up for the event: Henry Haverinen, Tuomas Kaijanen, and Sami Laiho!

You can claim your ticket via HelSec's own ticketing system at: https://events.helsec.fi/helsec/3hqdu/

The ticket claims open on 5.1 at 13:00.

If your plans change, please remember to cancel your ticket so that someone on the wait list can grab your spot.

Schedule (approximate)
17:30 - Doors open
18:00 - Word by HelSec
18:10 - Henry Haverinen - Building EU CRA-Compliant Products: Lessons Learned and the Case for Security-as-Code
19:00 - Q&A, networking
19:15 - Tuomas Kaijanen - Banks' Blocklist
20:00 - Q&A, networking
20:30 - Sami Laiho - Your job is not to stop the enemy - but to slow it down
22:00 - Event ends

Speaker bio:
🔷 Henry Haverinen is a cybersecurity entrepreneur. He helps product development teams integrate cybersecurity in their ways of working and products. He is a co-founder of Cyberismo, a company developing an open security-as-code solution for managing cybersecurity in all types of software projects. Henry holds a Doctor of Technology degree from Tampere University of Technology.
🔷 Tuomas Kaijanen 25+ years in the field, technical cybersecurity expert with experience in practical cybersecurity challenges both in the financial sector and outsourcing operations.
🔷 Sami Laiho is one of the world's leading professionals in the Windows OS and Security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security since 1995. Sami's session was evaluated as the best session in TechEd North America, Europe and Australia in 2014, and Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (Keynote for NIC). At Ignite 2018 Sami's sessions were ranked as #1 and #2 out of 1708 sessions!! This was the first time in the history of the conference that anyone has been able to do this! Sami is also an author at PluralSight and the conference chair for the TechMentor and "Cyber Security and Ransomware Live!" conferences.

Streaming
Meetup will be streamed on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/helsec