A one-day Microsoft community conference at House of People in Stockholm on 13 October 2026, the first Swedish edition of the Experts Live series: five tracks, about 35 sessions, a single 2,000 SEK ticket and a sponsor-funded programme run by the non-profit Sweden IT Events.
Experts Live Sweden 2026 is a one-day Microsoft community conference held in Stockholm on 13 October 2026. It covers Azure and cloud infrastructure, security and compliance, Microsoft Copilot and AI, workplace and endpoint management, and Microsoft 365 collaboration, in five parallel tracks. The organiser describes it as the first Swedish edition of Experts Live, a volunteer-driven community series that started in the Netherlands in 2009 (organiser's account). It is independent of Microsoft: the organiser is the non-profit Sweden IT Events, although Microsoft staff are among the listed speakers.
13 October 2026, a single day. The agenda opens with registration at 07:30 and ends with a 30-minute closing session starting at 16:45; the event page's structured data gives 18:00 as the end time. House of People (Folkets hus), Barnhusgatan 12, 111 23 Stockholm, Sweden, in central Stockholm. Times are Europe/Stockholm (CEST). The date, venue and organiser all match the official site, the event's Sessionize call-for-speakers page and the Zoho Backstage event record, all checked on 10 October 2026.
Sweden IT Events organises Experts Live Sweden 2026. The official site describes it as the non-profit organisation behind the event, built on volunteers, with five stated pillars: knowledge sharing, community, inclusion, networking and sustainability. The "team behind the scenes" listed on the site are T-Bone Granheden (MVP, Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Intune), Andreas Stenhall (MVP, Windows and Surface), Viktor Hedberg (MVP, Identity and Access, Enterprise and Platform Security) and Abraham Anteskog (Solution Architect). Experts Live Sweden is one national event under the Experts Live brand, which the Experts Live organisation describes as a community movement active in more than 20 countries.
The official site counter shows 250+ attendees and the event page structured data lists a maximum physical capacity of 990 (organiser figures, not audited; the counter does not say whether it counts registrations or tickets paid). The organiser says the audience is IT specialists and strategic decision makers: architects, technical experts, team leads and managers who want to understand the next steps in cloud, AI, security and productivity. The Sessionize call lists target audiences as IT professionals and technical specialists, cloud and solution architects, IT managers and team leads, CTOs, CIOs and business leaders, and end-users and power users of Microsoft technologies. Attendance by country or seniority is not published.
This is the first Experts Live Sweden. The official site calls the 13 October 2026 event the first in Sweden and presents it as a modern continuation of the TechDays spirit, a Microsoft community gathering the organiser says has been missing in Sweden for far too long (organiser's account). There are no earlier Swedish editions to compare against, so no year-on-year change can be stated. New in 2026 for anyone who knows the series abroad: the Swedish programme is set up around five tracks (Collaboration, Cloud & Infrastructure, Workplace & Endpoint, Copilot & AI, Security & Compliance) and a student volunteer scheme. The Sessionize call said about 75% of speakers would come from the Nordic countries.
The 13 October 2026 agenda has one keynote, 30 breakout sessions of 50 minutes across five tracks, and four 30-minute sponsor-slot sessions over lunch. Times are CEST.
Two entries are placeholders on the published agenda (a "Sponsor session" at 12:50 and "To be announced 2" at 13:30). The programme reflects the agenda on the official site as read on 10 October 2026.
Four formats appear on the agenda: one keynote of 50 minutes, 50-minute breakout sessions in five parallel tracks, 30-minute sponsor-slot sessions (the Sessionize call mentions 30-minute keynotes and 50-minute breakouts including Q&A), and a closing session with the announcement of winners. Rooms are the Auditorium, Room A, Room B, Room D and Room COLIGO (named for Gold sponsor Coligo AB). Sponsor packages list 30-minute exhibitor breakouts, a confirmed non-marketing technical session for some tiers, and a raffle run by the sponsor with the winner revealed at the closing session. The organiser also advertises interactive sessions, open discussions and meetups in the event app.
Four side activities are documented. A speaker dinner is held the evening before the event, which per the Sessionize call is 12 October 2026; it is for speakers and, per the sponsor benefits, some sponsor seats. An expo with sponsor booths and an exhibitor list runs in the venue on 13 October 2026. A student volunteer programme gives active IT students a complimentary pass in exchange for half a day of help with registration, room hosting or attendee support, in return for attending the other half. A closing-session raffle announces winners. No separate workshop, hackathon or after-party is published.
One ticket is on sale: the Eventpass at 2,000 SEK excluding VAT, available until sales end on 13 October 2026 (the event day). It is listed under "Venue Only" and described as a simple ticket to the conference. The event page's structured data shows the ticket on sale since 6 March 2026. No early-bird, group, student or remote price is published. Speakers attend free per the Sessionize call, and student volunteers receive a complimentary pass. A refund policy is not published (see the refund entry).
The call for speakers is closed: it opened on 24 February 2026 and closed on 30 April 2026 at 23:59 CEST, via Sessionize. Submissions are no longer possible, and the agenda is published. The call asked for original sessions with live demos, in 50-minute breakout or 30-minute keynote formats, with about 75% of speakers from the Nordic countries. Speakers get a free event ticket and one hotel night for the evening before, but travel is not covered. For a future edition, no date for a next call is published. Speakers are also drawn from sponsors who hold a technical session slot.
The sponsors page offers four categories, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Breakfast, with a benefits matrix, and a "Become a sponsor" button. Benefits listed include an expo booth (premium positioning for the higher tiers), a virtual booth in the event app with lead capture by QR code, logo placement on badges, signage and slides, speaker-dinner seats, priority keynote seating, and for some tiers a 30-minute exhibitor breakout or a technical session. Sponsor prices are not publicly disclosed on the official site, and the contact route is the organiser's contact link at the foot of the site.
Twelve sponsors are listed on the official site, all in the published roster as of 10 October 2026.
The agenda shows sponsor-linked sessions from NetNordic and Nerdio, a Gold-sponsor room named for Coligo, and staff from several sponsors among the listed speakers.
The sponsors are IT services providers and partners (Coligo, NetNordic, Axians, Sciber, Cornerstone, Robopack), software and tooling vendors (Nerdio, ManageEngine, Admin By Request, OneDeploy) and distributors (ALSO, Arrow). Among the 46 listed speakers, the largest employer groups are Coligo with six, Onevinn with four, and Microsoft, NetNordic and Advania with three, three and two respectively; Ericsson, Apento and Xenit have two each. Most remaining speakers are independent consultants or from Nordic Microsoft partner firms. No attendee company breakdown is published.
Not publicly disclosed. The official site has no press page or accreditation form; the only contact route is the "Contact Organizer" link in the footer, which was not tested. Searches for a press kit or media contact found none.
None found in the sourced material. Searches on 10 October 2026 for independent articles on Experts Live Sweden 2026 returned only the event's own site, its Sessionize call-for-speakers page and event-directory listings such as dev.events. No media partners are listed on the site.
There is no press coverage to grade. All public descriptions come from the organiser's own channels and from directory pages that repeat them, which makes every figure an organiser claim. Treat the 250+ attendee counter, the 990 capacity and the "35+ sessions, 41+ speakers" counters as self-declared.
Skip it if your work is outside the Microsoft stack: every track, from Azure to Intune and Purview, is Microsoft-specific. Skip it if you need more than one day of depth, since the programme is a single day with 50-minute sessions. Skip it if you cannot travel to Stockholm and need a remote option, because only an on-site Eventpass is published. Speakers who missed the closed 30 April 2026 call have no route for 2026.
It is an autumn, one-day, Microsoft-only community conference in Stockholm on 13 October 2026, for a Nordic IT-professional audience, with Copilot and AI as one of five tracks rather than the whole programme. It belongs to the Developer AI sector in this index because of its Copilot and AI track and its Azure content, but most sessions are administration, security and endpoint topics. Other events in the sector were not compared for this entry.
No. Experts Live Sweden 2026 is described as the first Swedish edition and no other Swedish city is announced. The Experts Live brand runs national events elsewhere, listed on the official site: the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, India, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Australia, Greece and the United States. Whether Experts Live Sweden will recur annually is not stated.
Swedish and English. The Sessionize call says sessions may be delivered in either language at the speaker's preference, and speakers were asked to be comfortable switching to English. On the agenda, four session titles are in Swedish (the Collaboration slots at 10:45 and 11:50, the Azure cost session at 12:50, and the Purview and Defender session at 13:30) and the rest are in English. The official site is available in Swedish and English.
Not publicly disclosed. The only ticket on sale is the on-site Eventpass. The venue advertises recording and live-streaming support as a facility, and the event page's structured data declares a mixed attendance mode, but no live stream, remote pass or replay is announced on the official site. Speakers were asked to upload slides in advance so attendees can preview sessions.
Not publicly disclosed. The only terms document on the official site is a code of conduct, which says people who break it may be expelled without a refund. No general refund, transfer or cancellation terms were found for the 2,000 SEK Eventpass.
Not publicly disclosed in specific terms. The organiser states that events are designed with safety, accessibility and sustainability in mind and welcome everyone regardless of disability. No step-free access, hearing loop, quiet room or assistance contact is described on the site, and the venue page does not list any.
The venue is House of People (Folkets hus), Barnhusgatan 12, 111 23 Stockholm, in central Stockholm (coordinates 59.3363, 18.0569). The venue page links a directions map. It recommends three hotels within walking distance: Clarion Hotel Sign (1.1 km), Scandic Go on Upplandsgatan 4 (1 km), and Scandic Grand Central, plus Scandic Wallin. Public transport routes and airport connections are not published by the organiser.
It matters because it fills a gap the organiser says exists: a Microsoft community gathering in Sweden, positioned as a continuation of the TechDays spirit and run independently of Microsoft by a non-profit. A single 2,000 SEK ticket for a day of 30 breakouts and about 40 speakers, with the speakers selected through an open call that closed on 30 April 2026, is a low-cost way to hear Nordic MVPs and engineers on identity, endpoint and Copilot security. That reading rests on the organiser's own claims, since no earlier edition exists to test it.
The programme is partly sponsor-funded: twelve sponsors are listed, Coligo has both a named room and six of the 46 listed speakers, and two agenda slots on the day are sponsor sessions, one of them still untitled. The Sessionize call promised a programme chosen on content, and the keynote and most breakouts are by independent MVPs, but a reader weighing the sessions should check which speakers work for which sponsor. Every headline number, the 250+ attendees, the 990 capacity and the 35+ sessions and 41+ speakers, is a self-declared organiser figure with no audit published.
Official site: https://else26.expertslive.se/ (Swedish and English, hosted on Zoho Backstage). The call for speakers is archived at https://sessionize.com/experts-live-sweden-2026 and the series is described at expertslive.org. Registration is under the Tickets page of the official site.