AI Agents for Cybersecurity – A Threat or an Opportunity?
This workshop brings together industry, research, and innovation stakeholders to explore how Agentic AI can reshape cybersecurity. The event focuses on identifying practical use cases, project ideas, and collaboration opportunities that address real security challenges while supporting new business and RDI initiatives.
Registration
When: November 24, 2026, at 10:15-15.45 (Finnish time)
Location: Team Finland House, Porkkalankatu 1, Helsinki
Room: Sora
Further information
Head of Defense and Digital Resilience Program
Kirsi Kokko
kirsi.kokko (at) businessfinland.fi
Reijo Savola
Project Manager
reijo.m.savola (at) jyu.fi
Registration & practicalities
Venni Metsäranta
Program Coordinator
venni.metsaranta (at) businessfinland.fi
This workshop brings together industry, research, and innovation stakeholders to explore how Agentic AI can reshape cybersecurity. The event focuses on identifying practical use cases, project ideas, and collaboration opportunities that address real security challenges while supporting new business and RDI initiatives.
This workshops goal is to explores how Agentic AI can transform cybersecurity through more autonomous, adaptive, and intelligent security capabilities. As cyber threats grow in sophistication and scale, and AI increasingly becomes both a defensive asset and an adversarial tool.
Bringing together end-user organizations, cybersecurity providers, researchers, and innovation stakeholders, the event will identify the most impactful use cases, challenges, and opportunities for AI-driven cybersecurity solutions.
A key objective is to convert insights into action by generating and refining new project ideas that address real industry and societal needs while creating business growth opportunities. Through collaboration between industry and research communities, participants will identify opportunities for future Business Finland, Horizon Europe, and other RDI initiatives.
Call for Project Ideas
What cybersecurity challenge should Agentic AI solve next?
We invite companies, end-user organizations, and research partners to submit project ideas that address real cybersecurity needs through Agentic AI. We are particularly interested in ideas driven by concrete industry challenges, market opportunities, and user requirements, with potential for scalable business impact.
Selected ideas will be presented as 4-minute pitches during the workshop and discussed with end-users, cybersecurity experts and researchers. The goal is to identify promising collaboration opportunities and develop new projects for Business Finland, Horizon Europe, and other RDI funding instruments.
Submit your project idea using the apply to pitch registration form.
Please briefly describe:
- The cybersecurity challenge or business opportunity
- How Agentic AI could address it
- Expected benefits and impact
- Potential partners or competencies needed
Join us in shaping the next generation of AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions and creating new innovation and business opportunities.
Preliminary agenda
- 10:15 Registration opens and coffee is available
- 10:45 Welcome — Business Finland and FICEC
- 10:50 Keynote: End-user company perspective — tbc
- 11:10 Keynote: Cybersecurity company perspective — tbc
- 11:30 Lunch
- 12:15 Project idea session: 4-minute pitches — facilitated by FICEC
- 13:15 Project instruments presentation: Business Finland Co-innovation and Horizon Europe
- 13:55 Coffee and networking
- 14:10 Project idea next steps: workshop based on new project ideas — facilitated by FICEC
- 15:10 Keynote: AI in defense applications — tbc
- 15:30 Conclusions
- 15:45 End of event
