SPHERE2YOU Helsinki 2026

In 2026, we’re taking SPHERE on the road. The Helsinki event kicks off a world tour spanning Germany, Japan, and France – each event bringing WithSecure’s latest thinking, product launches, and partner community to your part of the world.

Helsinki is where it all starts. As the global kick-off for the SPHERE2YOU world tour, it’s also the most complete version of the event: 24hrs launches, keynotes, panels, hands-on demos, expo with latest and greatest, W/ Star Awards and much more. Whether you’re a strategic reseller, distributor, or MSP – this is built for you.

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Event details

29/04/2026

Clarion Hotel Helsinki, Finland

24 hours. No fillers.

Everything on the agenda is designed to be useful the same day you hear it.

Pre-day — Tuesday, April 28

Partner Advisory Board (by invite only). The event kicks off with opening the expo and continues with celebrating W/ Star Awards. 

Main day — Wednesday, April 29

Main day program:

1) Opening 

Antti Koskela, President & CEO, WithSecure

2) Before the breach, after the alert – a hands-on Elements demo

AI is making attacks faster, so reactive security is no longer enoughPreventing pre-zero-day exposures is now the real differentiator. WithSecure Elements XDR + Exposure Management gives MSPs a stronger value proposition: selling prevention instead of incident cleanup. The “same attack, one company breached, one protected” demo is a powerful customer-facing proof point that makes the proactive security story easy to pitch and monetize.

Hannu Simonen, Senior Product Manager, Exposure Management and Jarno Niemelä, Principal Researcher from WithSecure

3) Keynote: Dr Jessica Barker

As AI gets smarter, security gets more human: rethinking risk, trust and partnerships

4) The AI you can’t see. The AI you can see.

AI adoption is creating new invisible attack surfaces; customers need security tools that make AI usage visible, governable, and manageable  not blocked. WithSecure as enabling this with both current capabilities (AI browsing protection, AI usage controls, agent visibility) and a forward-looking roadmap around Aria, AI inventory, posture management, and intent drift detection. AI security is an emerging growth conversation where MSPs can help customers safely scale AI adoption while opening new advisory and managed service revenue streams.

Paolo Palumbo, Vice President, Strategic Threat Intelligence & Research and Klas Kindström, Vice President, Data and AI from WithSecure

5) The New Era of Agentic AI in MDR

AI has industrialized cyberattacks, making traditional MDR too slow unless defenders also use AI at scale – turning agentic AI into a necessity. The opportunity is especially strong for MSPs: our AI-driven MDR is a scalable way to handle growing alert volumes, reduce analyst workload, and deliver faster investigations without proportional staffing increases. Grow margins while solving a rapidly worsening customer pain point.

Teemu Myllykangas, Director, Services, WithSecure

6) Plug in. Launch fast. Grow. WithSecure MSP Co-growth engine

New MSP bundles, integrations, and co-growth support make it easier for partners to package cybersecurity into scalable, recurring revenue services without adding headcount. Elements Proactive and Elements Protect transform security from fragmented point solutions into a bundled end-to-end offering that increases wallet share while simplifying delivery through prebuilt PSA/RMM integrations. Sell cybersecurity as a profitable managed service layer that both reduces customer risk and drives predictable margin growth.

Kasper Pöyry, Head of Telco MSP, WithSecure

7) Panel: Building a security-first MSP

This panel brings together system integrators and MSPs at different stages of their transformation to explore why adding managed security services has become essential to compete and survive. The discussion centers on the business case: why security is the lever that lets you move from commodity IT services to sticky, defensible relationships with higher margins and customer loyalty. We would also discuss why adding a specialized security vendor creates operational efficiency, reduces mean-time-to-response and gives you a premium service that customers can’t easily replicate or shop around.

Panelists: David Treibergfrom (Pax8), Mats Palm (Advania), Emilie Davyfrom (HaloPSA), Rune Marius Rokke (Fence)

8) Panel: Defending the future: Security for critical infrastructure across cyber, space, air and ground

As critical infrastructure becomes more interconnected and technologically advanced, the threat landscape expands across multiple domains: cyber networks, space-based assets, aerial systems and physical facilities on the ground. This panel will explore how governments, industry leaders, and security experts can adopt a unified, multi-domain defense strategy to protect essential services and businesses in an era of hybrid and asymmetric threats.

Panelists will discuss emerging risks, cross-domain vulnerabilities, resilience frameworks, public–private collaboration, and the role of advanced technologies such as AI and autonomous systems.

Panelists: Mikko Hyppönen, CRO, Sensofusion, Christine Bejerasco, CISO, WithSecure.

Six booths. Real conversations.

No slides – just our people and yours.

AI-driven MDR From human-paced to machine speed. SOC services without building your own SOC.
Proactive Security How to turn endpoint protection into end-to-end security – and why it changes your margin story.
MSP Playbook Fast-track onboarding from first sale to recurring managed security revenue.
Elements for MSPs Integrations, reporting, and bundles – everything in one multi-tenant platform.
Incident Response IR readiness, investigation, and how to deliver IR services in a co-security motion.
Partner Enablement Partner Portal, LMS, co-marketing tools, and go-to-market training.

 

Event details

29/04/2026

Clarion Hotel Helsinki, Finland