Your infrastructure team just inherited a compliance and AI-governance problem
NIS2, the EU AI Act, DORA and cloud sovereignty requirements are landing on infrastructure and security teams at the same time. This isn't a "nice to have" trip. It's where the people who'll actually implement these requirements go to compare notes with peers who are further along.
or 2% of global turnover: the NIS2 penalty for essential entities that get this wrong. Management can face personal liability.
Source: NIS2 Directive
Talent preparedness for AI governance among Nordic organisations, vs. 55% who feel technically prepared.
Source: Deloitte, State of AI in the Nordics 2026
Share of enterprises expected to run agentic AI in IT operations, up from under 5% in 2025.
Source: Gartner, Predicts 2026
A practitioner-led technical conference
Now in its 14th year, NIC still runs on one rule: less slides, more demos. Sessions are led by people who've built and broken these systems, not vendors reading a deck.
How NIC compares: NIC is the only conference of its kind in Norway, and the wider Nordics: a practitioner-led technical event spanning automation, security, cloud and AI governance in a single room. In substance, it belongs alongside events like Microsoft Ignite in the US. The difference is what it costs to get there: no transatlantic flight, no week out of office, a fraction of the budget for the same access to what's changing in the field and the same caliber of network.
Automation
Where AI is actually changing infrastructure work, not the vendor-demo version.
Identity & Security
A threat landscape that's structurally different, and what's working in production.
Cloud Infrastructure
Build vs. buy, sovereignty, and cost visibility.
Leadership & AI Governance
Setting policy for tools that evolve faster than any policy cycle.
A full-day, gamified incident-response simulation from Truesec: a real breach timeline, not a slide deck.
Led by Jan Egil Ring and the Microsoft team. A hands-on introduction to designing for digital sovereignty across Azure, Azure Local, and Azure Arc.
"I gave the keynote at the second NIC, in 2013, and the room felt like home: pragmatic, deeply technical, and allergic to marketing. These were my people, my tribe."
Jeffrey Snover, Creator of PowerShell, former Chief Architect of Windows Server & Azure Stack, now AI governance fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. NIC 2026 keynote speaker.
The return, in outcomes rather than sessions attended
Reduced compliance exposure
Direct exposure to how peers are operationalising NIS2, the AI Act and DORA, not just the regulation text.
An informed build-vs-buy call
Real architecture trade-offs, not sales positioning.
A network of peers solving the same problems
Hundreds of IT professionals and decision-makers working through the same issues.
A tested incident-response muscle
A live-fire breach simulation that comes straight back into your own runbooks.
A governance framework for AI agents
Answers to who owns an AI agent's decisions, before it becomes an incident report.
A concrete report-back
Specific takeaways tied to sessions chosen in advance, not "it was a good conference."
What people who run the programme say about it
Viktor Hedberg
Senior Security Architect, MVP
Ingrid Finnøy
Solution Architect, Sopra Steria, Program Advisory Committee
Cost & logistics: everything you need to decide
Now in its 14th year, NIC runs on one rule: less slides, more demos. Sessions are led by people who've built and broken these systems, not vendors reading a deck.
Dates
Oct 13–15, 2026
Masterclasses
Oct 13
Main conference
Oct 14–15
Ticket price
From NOK 11.500
VAT
excl. 25%
Refunds
None, decide once
Travel to venue
Adjacent to Oslo Central Station
Laptop
Bring your own (masterclasses)
Full agenda
For context: the ticket cost is a fraction of a single NIS2 non-compliance fine (up to €10M or 2% of turnover) and cheaper than most single-day external training for a team of one.
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