Epical Presents

Epical Day 2025


A value-adding information supply chain is the foundation for a profitable and efficient enterprise. At Epical Day we'll go through step by step how you can start to trust your data and drive your business capabilities all the way to value.

April 3rd

Scandic Göteborg Central, Platinan

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Welcome to the most important event of the year

Epical Day with the theme "Trust Your Data – All the Way to Value"!

How can you create real business value from your data in a world that is becoming increasingly digital and ever more complex? Throughout a full day with a packed schedule, we bring leading experts, innovative solutions, and practical insights together to help you take control of your data journey. Whether you work with system integration, want to leverage the power of data intelligence, or ensure access and infrastructure for data – our collective expertise turns future opportunities into reality.

If you are a decision-maker, solution architect, requirement specifier, solution or service owner managing and refining data within your responsibilities, you are warmly welcome to our free inspiration event tailored for you as an audience.

Epical Day will take place on April 3rd at Scandic Central, Platinan, in Gothenburg. The event is free of charge.

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Scandic Göteborg Central, Platinan
Publik Integration day 2024

This year’s event will highlight various themes in different formats:

  • Inspirational lectures: Hear from the industry’s sharpest minds about how to transform your data into a strategic asset.
  • Demo- and Ask Me Anything Sessions: Explore practical tools and solutions for system integration, data analysis, and building trust in a digital world.
  • Networking with experts: Meet our specialists in System Integration, Data Intelligence, and Digital Trust and get tailored advice for your specific challenges.
  • Exhibition area: Discover innovative technology and updates in platforms and tools from the market’s leading players.

Trust your data –
all the way to value

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Agenda

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8:15-9:00
Arrival, registration, coffee & networking
Room: Lobby
Room: Lobby
9:00-9:15
Kick-off, introduction, welcome
Room: Main Stage
Room: Main Stage
9:15-10:00
Keynote 1 - AI driven integration in an Agentic IT Landscape (eng)
Speaker: Matthias Biehl

Company: IBM

Room: Main Stage
Speaker: Matthias Biehl

Company: IBM

Room: Main Stage
10:15-10:45
Networking break – coffee
Room: Lobby
Room: Lobby
10:45-11:30
Breakout session 1
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11:30-11:45
Networking break-coffee
Room: Lobby
Room: Lobby
11:45-12:30
Breakout session 2
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12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:15
Keynote 2 - Informationsförsörjning i en föränderlig omvärld (swe)
Speakers: Hans Werner

Company: Radar

Room: Main stage
” Är du IT-beslutsfattare och behöver få förståelse för hur omvärldsfaktorer påverkar rätt beslut för investeringar, arkitektur och informationsförsörjning? IT-landskapet förändras i rekordfart och rätt förståelse har aldrig varit viktigare. På Epical Day 2025 möter du ledande experter, fördjupar dig i de senaste säkerhetstrenderna och utbyter insikter med branschkollegor - missa inte Radars session där en utblick över den senaste tidens händelser destilleras ned till greppbara insikter som ger ledning inför en svårförutsägbar framtid.”
Speakers: Hans Werner

Company: Radar

Room: Main stage

” Är du IT-beslutsfattare och behöver få förståelse för hur omvärldsfaktorer påverkar rätt beslut för investeringar, arkitektur och informationsförsörjning? IT-landskapet förändras i rekordfart och rätt förståelse har aldrig varit viktigare. På Epical Day 2025 möter du ledande experter, fördjupar dig i de senaste säkerhetstrenderna och utbyter insikter med branschkollegor - missa inte Radars session där en utblick över den senaste tidens händelser destilleras ned till greppbara insikter som ger ledning inför en svårförutsägbar framtid.”
14:15-14:30
Networking break – coffee
Room: Lobby
Room: Lobby
14:30-15:15
Breakout session 3
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See the speakers and more information for
15:15-15:45
Afternoon coffee
Room: Lobby
Room: Lobby
15:45-16:30
Breakout session 4
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16:30-16:45
Networking break – coffee
Room: Lobby
Room: Lobby
16:45-17:30
Keynote 3 - Secure and enable your trusted data in a world of risks and regulations (swe)
Speakers: Sören Pettersson, Robert Salzwedell

Company: OpenText

Room: Main Stage
Speakers: Sören Pettersson, Robert Salzwedell

Company: OpenText

Room: Main Stage
17:30-17:45
Closing remarks & invitation to afterwork
17:45-23
Afterwork, buffet, networking

Breakout Sessions

Select the times and themes that interest you

English
Swedish

10:45 | Market Overview and Trends | Main Hall/Container

Vad händer efter Biztalk : Säkra dina framtida integrationer

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Yahya Ajwad
Language:
Swedish

Migration från BizTalk är inte bara en teknisk förändring – det är en möjlighet att modernisera, förbättra och framtidssäkra dina integrationer. Men vad driver migreringen, vilka utmaningar finns, vilka nyckel skillnader finns mellan BizTalk och Azure samt hur säkerställer vi en smidig övergång med fokus på kvalitet och förbättring?

Yahya Ajwad

Technical cloud solutions architect with expertise in cloud systems, Microsoft Azure, and system integration

10:45 | Integration | Room A1

Epical Integration Platform Services

Company: Epical
Speakers:
Stefan Rhönnstad, Christian Wibeck, Joakim Tenlen
Language:
Swedish

Framtiden stavas integration platform as a service, on demand. Vi lanserar Epical Integration Platform as a Service tillsammans med Shibuya och IBM. Kom och lyssna till hur du flexibelt, kostnadseffektivt och enkelt kan få ta del av världens marknadsledande integrationsplattform utan inlåsningseffekter.

Stefan Rhönnstad

Accomplished senior sales professional with over 15 years of experience within high value enterprise IT-solution markets, targeting both IT-divisions, line of business, and C-level management with success in delivering sustainable revenue and profit gains in competitive markets.



Christian Wibeck

As a dynamic leader at Shibuya, I've been dedicated to establishing and fortifying business offerings that resonatewith our clients. My focus extends to fostering key relationships with customers, IT scaleups and ISVs, all whiledriving plans, investments, and executions that pave the way for fresh opportunities within our ecosystem.



Joakim Tenlen

An internationally seasoned customer focused, business oriented and technical professional with over 20 years’ experience (of which 10 years based in United States) in complex product management, direct and channel business development, sales, technical sales consulting, teaching, and people management within diverse fields of the IT and telecommunications software industry.

10:45 | Technology | Room A2

GraphQL federering

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Mats Andersson
Language:
Swedish

GraphQL federering är mycket användbart för att styra och skala en graph över flera team. Denna session går igenom varför federering är viktigt i en modern distribuerad arkitektur som gör API utveckling mer effektiv. Vi täcker hur federering fungerar, arbetssätt, verktyg och exempel

Mats Andersson

Sr Integration Architect

10:45 | MS & Azure | Room B1

Snabbhet vs. kvalitet: Så påverkar processer din leveransförmåga

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Anton Björkman
Language:
Swedish

Ur en utvecklares perspektiv utforskar vi hur varje processlager – från kodgranskning till deployment approvals – påverkar time-to-market och balansen mellan kontroll, kvalitet och hastighet.

Anton Björkman

An integration developer with experience working with Azure and DigitalOcean. My technical expertise includes C# .Net, JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL, with proficiency in both relational and document databases.

10:45 | Testimonials & Customer experiences | Room B2

Integration Operations

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Tom Lehane
Language:
English

The world is increasingly connected, and organisations depend on seamless integration between systems, applications, and data flows. We see the ongoing shift from traditional IT ops to modern integration-centric operations, and more cloud and hybrid cloud for each passing day. (Integration) Operations in an Integrated World gives you an inside take on how to balance cost efficiency with reliability and security to provide an information supply chain platform you can trust.

Tom Lehane

Ad-tech to online gaming, automotive to retail. For over 20 years, I have been helping companies of all sizes establish leading digital products and solutions in their industries.

10:45 | Digital Trust | Room C1

Communicating Cyber Risk: Strategies for Policy and Decision Makers

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Bjarke Alling
Language:
English

Explore effective strategies for presenting cyber risk to policy, decision makers, and executive leaders. A how-to in providing insights into translating complex cybersecurity threats into actionable intelligence for non-technical stakeholders.

Bjarke Alling

Principal Advisor at Digital Trust with Epical Group, prior co-chair and member for the National Danish Cybersecurity Council, prior consultant with the Danish Cybersecurity label D-mærket/D-seal, prior chair of the IT security committee and member of the board with the Danish IT Business Association and prior chairman and founder of Liga ApS

10:45 | Data & Analytics | Room C2

Masterdata i världsklass

Company: Renova
Speakers:
Linda Doll, Fredrik Holtz
Language:
Swedish

Renova började sin resa med att ändra processerna och beteendet istället för att börja med det tekniska. Hör deras berättelse och vägen dit.

Linda Doll

Master Data responsible



Fredrik Holtz

Chef IT Strategi

11:45 | Market Overview and Trends | Main Hall/Container

Bridging cloud and ground (on-prem) with seamless integration solutions

Company: Axway
Speaker:
Rogier van Boxtel
Language:
English

Software vendors end of life their solutions to be able to push their next generation platforms. That is an excellent moment to start looking at possible alternatives. Axway offers a full-hybrid, low-code integration platform that can cover your internal & external (B2B) integration use cases. The platform can be delivered to you as SaaS, but you can run it yourself in the cloud of your choice or in your own datacenter as well. During this presentation the Axway full hybrid integration platform will be presented and after that the use case of the end of life of Microsoft Biztalk will be presented. Why did customers move to the cloud only Azure based alternative Microsoft offers today and why did customers move to the full hybrid Axway integration platform?

Rogier van Boxtel

Rogier van Boxtel is a highly experienced Director of Solutions Architecture & Technology at Axway, overseeing the DACH, Benelux, and Nordics regions. With deep technical expertise and a strategic vision, Rogier is a trusted advisor in guiding organizations through complex integration challenges and digital transformation journeys.

With a strong background in enterprise architecture, cloud integration, business-to-business integration and electronic data interchange (EDI), Rogier brings a wealth of knowledge to the table, helping businesses optimize their IT ecosystems and achieve scalable, secure, and agile solutions.

11:45 | Integration | Room A1

Azure Business Observability with Nodinite

Company: Nodinite
Speaker:
Michael Olsson
Language:
Swedish

Co-hosted with Epical, this session will cover Epical’s real life case studies pairing Nodinite with Azure. Our founder and CEO, Michael Olsson, talks about Observability and how Nodinite works. Unlock the secrets of Nodinite + get a glimpse into our roadmap covering Nodinite BPM and more.

Michael Olsson

CEO, Nodinite

11:45 | Technology | Room A2

Integrera som ett ACE - En översikt och demo av IBMs Integrationsverktyg

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Jenny Lenhammar
Language:
Swedish

Upptäck hur IBM App Connect Enterprise förenklar integration genom kraftfulla verktyg för att koppla samman system, hantera API:er och transformera data. Få en överblick av dessa verktyg och lär dig hur du snabbt kan komma igång att bygga dina egna integrationsflöden.

Jenny Lenhammar

Integration Developer

11:45 | MS & Azure | Room B1

Den moderna integratören

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Björn Hackberg
Language:
Swedish

Vad finns det för erfarenheter och lärdomar från hur krav, arbetssätt och verktyg har förändrats för den moderna integratören, i förhållande till hur vi planerar och resurssätter projekt, integrationscenter (ICCs) och C4E's

Björn Hackberg

IT-solution architect and agile software developer. Senior experience in procurement and project management.

11:45 | Testimonials & Customer experiences | Room B2

Mule; Open Source Integration 2025 – möjligheter och kundexempel

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Björn Wallin
Language:
Swedish

Lyssna till erfarenheter och exempel från open source integrationsvärlden med Mule i fokus. Vilka lärdomar och insikter är aktuella 2025 och framåt?

Björn Wallin

Lead Architect

11:45 | Digital Trust | Room C1

From Chaos to Compliance: Streamline Identity Governance (and Keep Your Sanity)!

Company: Epical
Speakers:
Mikko Majander, Muthukrishnan Kathirvel Murugan
Language:
English

Join us on a journey through the critical aspects of identity security. Explore how organizations transition from chaotic, fragmented identity management to structured, compliant security frameworks.

Mikko Majander

Senior IAM Architect @ Epical | Identity and Access Management



Muthukrishnan Kathirvel Murugan

Tech Lead, IAM

11:45 | Data & Analytics | Room C2

AI-erans Data platform

Company: Microsoft
Speaker:
Jessica Räihä, Håkan Forsberg
Language:
Swedish

AI eran ställer andra krav på hur du identifierar, når, och analyserar din data från de underliggande plattformarna och applikationerna i IT landskapet. Vi berättar mer om AI-erans Data platform och hur du kan ta nästa steg på er datadrivna resa.

Jessica Räihä

Sr GTM Manager



Håkan Forsberg

Partner Solution Architect

14:30 | Market Overview and Trends | Main Hall/Container

Datadrivna beslut och planering i verkligheten

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Tommy Östholm
Language:
Swedish

Tommy Östholm

Business Unit Manager - Strategic Asset Management

14:30 | Integration | Room A1

Shorter time to value with distributed development

Company: Gislen Software
Speaker:
Mikael Gislén
Language:
English

Mikael Gislén

CEO, Gislen Software

14:30 | Technology | Room A2

AI automation of the CI/CD pipeline

Company: IBM
Speaker:
Peter Irving
Language:
English

AI and Integration are the perfect complement. Integration is a critical factor for success delivering AI projects, and AI empowers Integration efforts, enabling users to achieve powerful and differentiating results. In this session we will dive further into this relationship and how you can use AI capabilities in IBM Integration to be more successful in delivering integration solutions for your business

Peter Irving

A highly experienced and high achieving sales professional, focused on client value and the development of thriving technology ecosystems

14:30 | MS & Azure | Room B1

Hybrid Cloud: Azure Capabilities on Your Own Infrastructure

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Yahya Ajwad
Language:
Swedish

Regelefterlevnad och datalokalitet är viktigare än någonsin, men hur kan du dra nytta av Azure samtidigt som du behåller kontrollen över din data och egen infrastruktur? Vi går igenom Azure Arc, Azure Local och hybrid deployment-modellen – vad de innebär, hur de skiljer sig och hur de kan hjälpa dig att köra integrationsflöden och hantera data lokalt.

Yahya Ajwad

Technical cloud solutions architect with expertise in cloud systems, Microsoft Azure, and system integration

14:30 | Testimonials & Customer experiences | Room B2

Vikten av IAM/IGA i det övergripande cybersäkerhetsarbetet

Company: AssaAbloy
Speaker:
Patrik Duckert
Language:
Swedish

Hur driver man ett långsiktigt och strategiskt Identity Security-program parallellt med att möta verksamhetens allt snabbare förändringsbehov? Kan du både springa maraton och sprint samtidigt?

Patrik Duckert

Group Identity and Access Governance Manager

14:30 | Digital Trust | Room C1

PAM - How to prevent administrators from threatening your IT/OT

Company: Epical & SSH
Speakers:
Jeffrey Lynch, Ville Jama
Language:
English

Explore how PAM solutions can protect and secure legacy and Cloud IT environments as well as OT environments from internal and external cybersecurity threats.

Jeffrey Lynch

Identity Access Management Consultant/Architect at Epical



Ville Jama

A skilled solution selling professional with years of experience in new market area development in Finland and Nordic area.
Proven track record in sales, revenue increasing and business administration. I am passionate about my customers and their success as well as solutions I am delivering for them.

14:30 | Data & Analytics | Room C2

Databricks : Successful Business Outcomes by Unification & Democratization of Data+AI

Company: Databricks
Speaker:
Jonas Golan
Language:
English

An overview of the Databricks solution and how it can drive your organisation towards excellence in data, analytics and AI

Jonas Golan

Experienced Tech & GTM leader with background of leading customer transformation success and building partner ecosystems for scalable growth.

15:45 | Market Overview and Trends | Main Hall/Container

Panel: Vår Datadrivna Framtid

Company: Epical
Speakers:
Thomas Andersson, Magnus Strömer, Samu Koskinen, Tommy Östholm
Language:
English

Teknikutvecklingen accelererar, precis som omvärldskrav, risker, och verksamhetsbehoven. Hur skall man ta sig an utmaningarna ur ett holistiskt perspektiv och hur kan vi på Epical bidra med våra erfarenheter från olika tillämpningar och faser där kunder i olika branscher och industrier kontinuerligt tar nästa steg på sina digitaliseringsresor mot att bli datadrivna och framtidssäkrade.

Thomas Andersson

Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of creating business value in the digital trust landscape. Skilled in Business Processes, Customer Relationship Management, Identity and Access Management/Governance, and Digitalization Strategy. A leadership mentality based on walking the walk, business value first and a nothing is impossible attitude.

Magnus Strömer

Sales and business driven executive leader. A dedicated business executive with a passion for people and a focus on success. Known for fostering team growth, aligning teams toward shared goals, and creating positive, people-centered organizations. Building a strong team and driving business success requires a mix of clear leadership, team alignment, and a culture of growth and innovation and work as a team.

Samu Koskinen

15+ years’ experience in international sales and sales leadership mainly in banking, finance and ICT sectors in Finland and Sweden. My interest and strengths are especially in achieving the planned results in IT products, SaaS, Data&Analytics and IT consultancy services sales, customer satisfaction and -loyalty.

Jon Skvagersson

Business Unit Manager - Strategic Asset Management

15:45 | Integration | Room A1

Vad är PEPPOL?

Company: Qvalia
Speaker:
Anders Wasén
Language:
Swedish

B2B meddelanden har en given plats i tekniklandskapet och med etablerade standarder som EDI händer det väl inget mer, eller? Kom och lyssna till hur PEPPOL gör det möjligt att automatisera stora delar av transaktionshanteringen samtidigt som verksamheten kan realtidsanalysera informationsflödet för företagets centrala processer.

Anders Wasén

As the CTO and main architect of Qvalia, Anders has been essential as team leader and expert in the development and design of the company's finance process automation platform. His 20+ years of experience in IT architecture and infrastructure, cloud, B2B, security and integration has made him, not only a tour de force of transaction technology knowledge, but also a highly skilled communicator. He has an outstanding ability to make the most complex issues easy to understand, for colleagues as well as customers.

15:45 | Technology | Room A2

Introduction to the IBM Hybrid iPaaS

Company: IBM
Speaker:
Tomas Svensson
Language:
Swedish

The IBM Hybrid iPaaS offers capabilities to address all your integration needs within a single platform, helping your business build unified and seamless integrations, apis and services to stay competitive. In this session we will give you an overview of the different capabilities of the Hybrid iPaaS including app and b2b integration, API-Management and Managed File Transfer.

Tomas Svensson

Principal Solution Architect

15:45 | MS & Azure | Room B1

An Azure solution, using only the cheapest tiers.

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Nikolaos Delis
Language:
Swedish

They challenged me to create a stable Azure solution, using only the cheapest tiers.

"Joke's on them cause I would have done the same even without the restriction! This is the story of an Azure architecture that was designed to consume 100 requests per hour, then the requirements changed and we had to consume 1000 requests per minute, while the budget remained the same. In this session, I will show you the tricks I used to go around the various limitations of Azure's cheapest (yet production-eligible) tiers of Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory, Azure Service Bus and others. Spoiler: I used code here & there."

Nikolaos Delis

Senior Software and Cloud Engineer

15:45 | Testimonials & Customer experiences | Room B2

AI - Bildanalys och textanalys

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Berhan Karagöz
Language:
Swedish

Saknar din ugn reservdelar och hur kan AI hjälpa dig? Får du dessutom kundundersökningar och vill finna gemensamma nämnare? Få en inblick i praktiska och enkla PoC (Proof Of Concept) exempel på tillämpad AI där text och bild används för att tex snabb och enkelt identifiera trasiga komponenter, eller omvandla text till insiktsfulla grafer.

Berhan Karagöz

Over the past 15 years, I have worked as a professional developer, tackling various tasks and challenges, from small-scale one-person projects to large-scale corporate enterprises, either independently or as a member of a team of up to 20 individuals. Additionally, I have had the opportunity to work in different countries, gaining valuable insights into their work cultures and environments.

15:45 | Digital Trust | Room C1

Will your business go down permanently with an insecure Active Directory (AD)?

Company: Epical
Speaker:
Christoffer Andersson
Language:
English

Active Directory is over 25 years old yet the foundation of IT/OT, cyber security and privileged access at 85+% of organizations worldwide - can it be secured sustain today’s cyber threats and threat actors?

Christoffer Andersson

Principal Advisor at Epical

15:45 | Data & Analytics | Room C2

WSP sparar miljarder SEK baserat på dataanalys

Company: Flowscape
Speaker:
Peter Reigo
Language:
Swedish

Sedan 2022 har WSP arbetat hårt med att anpassa sin globala kontorsportfölj till det nya hybrida arbetssättet. Med hjälp av sensorer och dataanalys har de lyckats optimera storleken på kontoren och därmed halverat sina kontorskostnader. Med 73000 anställda blir detta miljarder i besparingar. Hör Peter Reigo, på svenska Flowscape, berätta hur sensorer kan användas för att mäta kontorsbeläggningen och hur denna data sedan används för att optimera ytorna och spara stora summor pengar och koldioxidutsläpp.

Peter Reigo

Peter Reigo har en bakgrund från både Scania och Ericsson. På Scania forskade han bl.a. inom sensorer i tuff miljö, vilket ledde fram till en teknologie licentiatexamen på KTH. Därefter arbetade han 13 år på Ericsson i olika roller inom utvecklingsorganisationen för radiobasstationer. År 2011 valde han att starta Flowscape med ambitionen att använda smarta sensorer och inomhuspositionering för att förbättra vardagen för kontorsarbetare och samtidigt optimera kontorsytorna. Första produkten togs fram tillsammans med Vasakronan och lanserades 2014. Idag har Flowscape flera hundra kunder i över 50 länder.

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Venue

Scandic Göteborg Central, Platinan

The venue for major conferences and events. Out on the lush terrace, Gothenburg opens up with a fantastic view of the river, harbor, and the iconic "Lipstick" building.

Accommodation

Guests and participants attending Epical Day are welcome to use the code PRO15SE for a 15% discount on hotel rooms at Scandic Göteborg Central, Platinan between April 2-4.

Booking instructions:

  1. Book Your Stay
  2. Room & Breakfast
  3. Select Dates
  4. Number of People
  5. Discount Code: PRO15SE

Directions

Mårten Krakowgatan 2,
Gothenburg