We hereby want to invite you to the 26th seminar of our Swedish IT Security Research Network for Ph.D. students (SWITS 2026). Previous SWITS seminars have been arranged by Karlstad University, Stockholm University/KTH, BTH, Linköping University, Chalmers University of Technology, Skövde University, Örebro University, Lund University, Uppsala University and Mälardalens Högskolan, the Norwegian Coins network (in Oslo), KTH/CySep and Cybercampus Sweden. In the recent years, the annual SWITS seminars had around 100 participating PhD students, researchers and supervisors from Swedish Universities/University Colleges and other Swedish research organisations.
This year, we are glad to announce that SWITS 2026 will be held for the first time in the beautiful city of Jönköping. Again, we hope to have many PhD students attending in person, many presentations, poster pitches, an engaged audience, good food, and time to communicate and network.
Aims of the SWITS network and seminars are:
– To enhance cooperation between research labs and PhD students
– To offer the PhD students the possibility to present their research work, to get feedback and inspirations
– To discuss future activities and projects
– To identify courseware usable on national level and make these available to participating departments
– To identify existing PhD courses at Swedish Universities/ University Colleges and make them available for all students within the network
– To participate in the organization of compact IT security courses or summer schools for PhD students at international level and open them for all students of the network
– To share outside/expert lecturers
(see also: https://sola.kau.se/swits/).
PhD students will, as in previous years, have the opportunity to present their research to an auditorium of other PhD candidates and research advisors. Moreover, after very positive experiences with the poster session, PhD students and other researchers could alternatively also present a poster together with a short poster pitch in front of the whole audience. All PhD students that want to participate are requested to submit a short abstract of a presentation or poster about their current research.
The abstract should be in English, in PDF format including title and the author name(s) and should be submitted by 25th May 2026 by emailing it to Simone Fischer-Hübner (simofihu@kau.se).
Ordinary presentations will be in English and will be 10-20 minutes long (depending on the number of presentations),plus time for questions. Poster pitches will be 2-3 minutes long.
Moreover, research groups will again be invited to give an overview of their research work in the Introductory Session on Tuesday morning.
Besides, we plan to include invited presentations or demos by researchers at Jönköping University and present the status, planned activities and course plan for the Cybercampus Graduate School (https://www.cybercampus.se/en/research/cybercampus-graduate) and how SWITS participants can actively participate and cooperate.
The draft SWITS 2026 seminar program is as follows:
Tuesday, 9th June 2026:
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10:30 Arrival, Coffee for early arrivals
11:00 Welcome, Introduction, research group presentations,
PhD student presentations/discussion
12:30 Lunch
13:30 PhD student presentations/discussion
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Parallel workshops or PhD student presentations/discussion
17:00 Cybercampus Sweden, PhD education & SWITS
18:00 Social event & Dinner
Wednesday, 10th June 2026:
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9:00 Welcome, PhD student presentations/discussion
10:00 Poster pitches, Poster presentations or demos by PhD students & Cybersecurity projects
(Coffee and snacks are served in between)
11:30 Lunch
12:30 PhD student presentations
14:00 Invited talks / Demos: Jönköping University
14:30 Summing up, next steps
15:00 Coffee, and end of SWITS 2026
TRAVEL INFORMATION
The SWITS 2026 seminar location is at Jönköping University. The location is easily reachable from the city center:
- By Train: Arrive directly at the city centre. This is the most convenient option for people coming from the east or south.
- By Bus: Arrive directly at the city centre. This is usually the most convenient option for those travelling from Gothenburg
- By Plane: If you happen to join us from far away, flying to Landvetter airport and taking a direct bus is an option.
(More information about the meeting rooms/locations at Jönköping University will follow).
REGISTRATION: PARTICIPATION AND HOTEL
SWITS 2026 is co-organised and co-funded by Cybercampus Sweden. Thanks to this support by Cybercampus Sweden, participation will again be free this year.
We arrange for hotel rooms at Savoy Hotel and Elite Hotel. Please indicate in the registration for what nights you need a room.
For the night from Tuesday to Wednesday is free (funded by Cybercampus), for the night from Monday to Tuesday the price is 1025 SEK incl. moms. The amount has to be paid at the hotel.
Please note that hotel rooms can only be handled by us if you register by May 5th. Please indicate how many nights you want a hotel room for. We will try to coordinate so that delegates from the same university are placed in the same hotel.
DEADLINES
– By 5th May 2026: Please register to SWITS 2026 via https://esmaker.net/nx2/s.aspx?id=9e1432e0cfaa
– As mentioned above, all PhD students are invited to submit a short (up to one-page) abstract of their presentation in PDF by 25th May 2026 by emailing it to Simone Fischer-Hübner (simofihu@kau.se).
– The website with the draft seminar program, abstracts of presentations will be set up by the 2nd June 2026.
We are looking forward very much to seeing you at the seminar and to further cooperation!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Simone Fischer-Hübner (SWITS coordinator) & and the local SWITS 2026 hosts Joakim Kävrestad, Agnieszka Kitkowska and Erik Bergström.