Kārlis Svilans
Kārlis Svilans joined the CERT.LV team in 2020. An Australia born Latvian, he is a senior expert at the incident response team and the cyber threat intelligence lead. He has extensive experience in analyzing cyber incidents of various scales, participating in threat hunting operations, and proactive work on the prevention of potential cyber incidents. Involved in international events – he has spoken at several conferences and represented CERT.LV at the NATO CCDCoE-organized “Crossed Swords 2022,” as well as at NATO’s largest cyber defense exercise “Locked Shields 2024,” among others.
Session
Geopolitical events are already shaping how operators buy, build, and run networks — including how much they can still rely on subsea cables between the Nordics and Central Europe. This panel looks at where that pressure hits Nordic and Baltic digital infrastructure hardest, how operators mitigate it, and what role Internet Exchanges play when the political map is moving. Moderated by Theo Voss, it brings together Kārlis Svilans (CERT.LV), Kamil Szczepański (Orange Polska), Aleksi Suhonen (TREX), Kaj Kjellgren (DE-CIX), and Fredrik Korsback (Meta). The conversation will stay practical: operational resilience, interconnection, and what the community should prepare for next.