Welcome to the HelSec October meetup!

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We’re excited to invite you to join us on Thursday, October 30th for a community evening filled with great talks, engaging discussions, and good company. We have three inspiring speakers from the industry: Svitlana Chaplinska & Juho Syrjänen and Antti Lehvonen.

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

Flashtalks!

As part of the program, we’ll also have flashtalks, so if you’re joining us in the October meetup and have a 5-10 minute flashtalk, please submit your idea to [email protected]!

Schedule

17:30 - Doors open
18:00 - Word by HelSec
18:10 - Antti Lehvonen - Same but different - bit about what common and what is not in IT and OT
19:00 - Q&A, networking
19:15 - Svitlana Chaplinska and Juho Syrjänen - Paving the Golden Path: Champions, Collaboration, and the Platform Behind It
20:00 - Q&A, networking
20:30 - Flash talks!
22:00 - Event ends

Speaker bio:

🔷 Svitlana Chaplinska - Svitlana is a security engineer working at Metacore. Her expertise spans across technical and information security management domains. In her work Svitlana strives to bring a positive change within the industry, making security a fun challenge to work on, rather than a constrain. Fueled by a passion for information security, she volunteers and participates in community-driven initiatives, such as HelSec, Women4Cyber Finland, Disobey. These efforts are geared towards creating an inclusive and empowering cybersecurity future.

🔷 Juho Syrjänen - An infrastructure and platform engineer with over 10 years of experience spanning datacenters, DevOps consulting, and platform development. He’s worked with Kubernetes since version 1.13 and has spent the past several years helping teams tame complex systems and build resilient platforms. Currently, Juho is part of the platform engineering team at Metacore Games, where he’s building an internal developer platform that supports mobile games played by millions. He’s passionate about solving real-world infrastructure challenges—especially those that don’t fit the “cloud-native” mold—and about creating systems that reduce operational burden without compromising developer experience.

🔷 Antti Lehvonen - Antti is a security professional who has collected a broad view of IT in general and a bit of OT from a security point of view. Nowadays, he work as a cybersecurity architect.

Streaming

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