🗓️ Tuesday 22. September🕛 16:45 - 18:00📍 Scandic Hell, Stjørdal
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The challenge for Europe is not to launch ever more satellites, but to build smarter, more resilient systems. That means integrating AI, cybersecurity, and software capable of connecting multiple data sources and constellations. If one system fails or is compromised, you can switch. That is resilience, and that is sovereignty.
Space capabilities are becoming an increasingly important part of modern defence and security operations. This session explores how space-based data can support situational awareness, defence missions such as surveillance and intelligence gathering, and monitoring of strategic environments like the Arctic. It will also address challenges related to data fusion, interoperability, and secure information use.
This session will include short insights and a panel discussion with industry and public stakeholders, focusing on integration, future needs, and Nordic collaboration.
The conference is one of the Nordic region’s leading meeting places for stakeholders in defence, security, and total defence. It brings together decision-makers, the defence sector, academia, and industry to share insights, foster collaboration, and explore solutions that strengthen preparedness, innovation, and resilience across the Nordics. You can find more information about the conference and register here.
Sopra Steria will be well represented at the conference by our experts in defence and national security. Visit us at our booth and join us for an engaging panel discussion on the future of space technology.
The side event is part of Forsvarskonferansen 2026 and Conference pass is required.
Nicolas Frouvelle is director of Marketing and communication for Space Activities at Sopra Steria - CS Group in Toulouse (France).
He was previously in charge of the Flight Dynamics & Space Surveillance department, and one of his current activities is to promote the development of a multi-sources Space Surveillance federated platform (ASTREK). He is one of the creators of the “Smartspace” initiative that aims to federate space actors to merge legacy-space long-term experience and products with newspace innovation concepts and new operational constraints, both for civilian and military needs.
Having worked in the Norwegian IT community since the nineties, Stig Alstedt co-leads Sopra Steria's Secure Cloud programme, building sovereign classified cloud for defence and government across Europe. His guiding line is that sovereignty is not a product you buy, but a condition you earn through architecture, so the cloud he builds keeps no fixed address and moves faster than a court order can follow.
Odd-Harald Hagen is Vice President for Defense and Security market and sales/MajGen (ret.), responsible for the company’s national and international market and sales across the Space Norway portfolio of capabilities and services. This includes defining, developing, executing, and monitoring comprehensive strategies and business plans that integrate product development, sales processes with marketing campaigns to drive revenue and company growth.