Saab AB - Stakeholder Intelligence Report

Section 0

Account Snapshot & ICP 2.0

Saab AB is the Swedish defence group behind the Gripen fighter and the A26 submarine. Saab is listed in Stockholm, and Investor AB, the Wallenberg holding company, controls 40 per cent of the votes. Group sales reached SEK 79.1 billion in 2025 against a backlog of SEK 274.5 billion. The listed parent, Saab AB itself, employs 13,092 of the group's 26,507 full-time staff and houses Group IT, Group Digitalisation and Common Tech, where FP would sell. Saab also owns Combitech, one of Sweden's largest technology consultancies, which sold SEK 4,977 million in 2025, about a third of it to Saab. Any outside supplier therefore competes with Saab's own consulting arm for the work Saab chooses to buy.

Employees

26,507
2025 average full-time equivalents; 29,093 at year-end; 21,467 on LinkedIn

Revenue

SEK 79,146m
group sales 2025; Saab AB legal entity SEK 42,966m

Industry

Defence and security
aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors, underwater

Olof Palmes gata 17, Stockholm
registered office Linköping

Saab company page

Ownership

Listed, Nasdaq Stockholm
Investor AB 30.2% of capital, 40.0% of votes

ICP 2.0 Position

Tier none - no ICP 2.0 rating · Source: ICP 2.0 scorecard, 12 October 2026 version, and both Nordic CIO scorecards, full read 16 October 2026.

Score

not scored

Segment

not scored

ICP signals

not scored

Trigger

not scored

Pool

not scored

Flags

none set

Saab carries no ICP 2.0 rating in DACH or in the Nordics, so no tier was assigned. The verdict comes from what Saab does with its own IT. Saab staffs its IT transformation with its own hires in Sweden.

Entity map

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Section 1

Strategic Hypothesis

Saab set four focus areas at its Capital Markets Day in May 2025 and calls its digital transformation software-driven, data-centric and built on AI. Saab is rebuilding Group IT around its own hires, and the four heads who will decide what it buys from outside are still being recruited in October 2026. Applications for all four close on 23 October, and no posting names a start date. About twenty platform and data roles are open beside them, every one of them in Sweden. On 1 October Saab moved IT operations under its Chief Digital Officer, six months after Niklas Granevik became Group CIO. Saab staff researched devops 37 times in ninety days, three times any other topic, and Saab's postings ask for Kubernetes, the container platform, and infrastructure as code, so the reading and the hiring agree. Databricks drew eleven readings and appears in no Saab posting. The eleven dora readings most likely mean the DORA metrics, four standard measures of software-delivery speed and stability, because they arrived beside devops, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code (inferred). Saab builds that capacity as employees: the one outside company running part of the estate is Cleura, a Swedish cloud provider, which has operated Saab's private cloud since 2023. Until 2026 Saab put no IT leader on a public stage, and the first appearances are booked for November and December. No offering is claimed while those four seats are empty, and after Swedish notice periods of three to six months the new heads are unlikely to start before early 2027 (inferred).

Intent

Saab staff researched devops 37 times in ninety days, three times any other term; dora and Databricks drew 11 each and Kubernetes 9. The devops reading agrees with the hiring, and dora most likely means the DORA delivery metrics (inferred). Databricks appears in no Saab posting.

Hiring

Four Group IT heads reporting to the Group CIO are being recruited, with applications for all four closing on 23 October 2026, plus about twenty platform and data roles, all in Sweden and none abroad. A FinOps engineer, OpenStack architects and a Kubernetes platform engineer are among them.

Strategic

Capital Markets Day 2025 set four focus areas and about 18 per cent organic growth a year to 2027. IT operations moved under the Chief Digital Officer on 1 October 2026. The Orka submarine order of June 2026 brings maintenance work to Polish industry, with no IT element named.

Technology

Cleura has operated Saab's private cloud since 2023, the one outside operator on record. Group IT names cloud, AI and modernisation as its agenda, and Common Tech runs the Kubernetes platform in house.

Stakeholder Cross-Reference

Adelsberg has held IT operations since 1 October and Granevik still leads Group IT, so the salesperson connects with Adelsberg first and treats Granevik as the person who will staff whatever Adelsberg decides. Granevik's new team is still being hired, so the first contact is a question about sourcing with nothing offered. Cleura already operates the private cloud and Common Tech runs the Kubernetes platform, so the salesperson does not pitch infrastructure capacity. Anders Arpteg alone has a published view from this year. He is the one to engage in substance before November.

Observed Intent & Behaviour

Saab staff researched devops 37 times in ninety days, and no consultancy in the reading reaches three mentions. Saab's [Kubernetes platform posting](https://www.saab.com/career/job-opportunities/devops-engineer

Core of this report

Section 2

Stakeholders

Stakeholder Map

#	Name	Title	Geo	Score	SPM offer	Confidence	Prior relationship
P1	Mikael Adelsberg	Chief Digital Officer and Head of Group Digitalisation; IT operations from 1 October 2026	Sweden	10 / 12	none claimed	HIGH hold	none
P2	Niklas Granevik	Group CIO, Head of Group IT	Sweden	10 / 12	none claimed	MODERATE verify	none
P3	Johan Sporre Lennberg	Deputy CIO and Head of the CIO Office (from mid-November 2026)	Sweden	9 / 12	none claimed	MODERATE verify	none
P4	Anders Arpteg	VP AI & Data, Common Tech	Sweden	7 / 12	none claimed	HIGH hold	none
P5	Anders Malmqvist	Head of Infrastructure Operations & Platforms	Sweden	7 / 12	none claimed	LOW verify	none

P1 - holds IT operations since 1 Oct

Mikael Adelsberg - Chief Digital Officer and Head of Group Digitalisation; IT operations from 1 October 2026

Sweden

Open profile ▾

Contact

no LinkedIn profile on file · no address on file · Confidence: HIGH · Readiness: hold · Prior: none

Role & remit

Adelsberg has led Group Digitalisation, the group function Saab created for him in April 2024, and he sits on Group Management. Saab announced on 10 September that he takes on responsibility for Saab's IT operations from 1 October 2026. He came from Traton, the truck group, where he ran group R&D for electronics, software and autonomous driving, after leading connected and autonomous vehicles at Scania. A vehicle-software executive now runs a defence group's IT.

Priorities

Adelsberg is two weeks into running IT operations beside digitalisation, while Group IT recruits new heads for operations and support and for enterprise platforms. Applications for both close on 23 October, and neither posting names a start date. Saab set up Group Digitalisation as a new group function in 2024, so joining it with IT operations is the second change to how Saab organises digital work in two years. Which of those heads report to him, and through whom, is inferred from the release and the postings, so the reporting line is the first thing to confirm. In his Tech Royale podcast episode he says defence is now about software, AI, cybersecurity and digital leadership, and he draws on what the car industry learned when software took over its products.

Pain points

Adelsberg now answers for running an estate whose transformation Group IT started, from the ERP and product-data systems to a private cloud that Cleura operates. The four Group IT heads who will run that estate are unlikely to be in post before early 2027 (inferred). Adelsberg sets the operating model while those seats are empty.

Why this stakeholder

I picked this stakeholder because Saab's release of 10 September 2026 put IT operations under him from 1 October, so the digital agenda and the running of IT now meet on one desk.

Likely interested in

No offering is claimed. Saab builds and runs its enterprise IT with its own Group IT and Common Tech teams, and the one outside operator on record is Cleura. A Group IT announcement that names a partner for operations or support would open a conversation with Adelsberg.

Hook

Read the Group Management announcement of 10 September 2026. Saab's own release names him as the executive taking over IT operations, so the widened remit is the opening. Also: listen to his Tech Royale podcast episode, 2026, hosted by HiQ, a Swedish IT consultancy, in which he argues that defence is now built on software, AI and digital leadership.

Channel

none found. No LinkedIn profile turns up under his name and no address is on file, so the note waits until a salesperson finds his profile.

Connection note

Hi Mikael, congratulations on adding Saab's IT operations to Group Digitalisation on 1 October. I work with teams that run IT and digital under one roof. Happy to connect?

171 characters. The first touch.

Message (EN)

Hi Mikael, congratulations again on bringing Saab's IT operations into Group Digitalisation on 1 October. The new heads for operations and enterprise platforms are still being hired. The next few months decide which work your own teams keep and which a partner runs. Future Processing takes over one clearly scoped part of an estate, and the core team keeps everything it owns. Is that sourcing question on your desk this autumn, or is it Group IT's call?

77 words. Send once a salesperson finds his LinkedIn profile; no address is on file.

P2 - the four new heads report to him

Niklas Granevik - Group CIO, Head of Group IT

Sweden

Open profile ▾

Contact

LinkedIn · niklas.granevik@saabgroup.com (unverified) · Confidence: MODERATE · Readiness: verify · Prior: none

Role & remit

Granevik became Group CIO and head of Group IT in April 2026, after serving as deputy CIO and head of the CIO Office and earlier as CIO of the Dynamics business area in Karlskoga. Saab's open postings for a Head of IT Operations & Support and a Head of Core Enterprise Platforms & Applications both report directly to the Group CIO.

Priorities

Granevik is building his own leadership team: four Group IT head roles are open, and applications for all four close on 23 October 2026. Those postings describe a transformation agenda of cloud, AI and modernisation, and Saab has published no programme name for it. The other two seats, a Head of Modern Infrastructure with FinOps in the remit and a Head of IT Security & Compliance Operations, complete a leadership team in which every head is new.

Pain points

Six months into the role, Granevik saw IT operations move to the Chief Digital Officer on 1 October, while the heads who would run operations and enterprise platforms under him are still being hired. Whether Granevik now reports to Adelsberg is inferred from the release and is stated nowhere. The operations posting gives the new head "staffing, tools, and vendor services", so the person who manages suppliers will sit one level below him. The one Group IT unit that says in public it works with external suppliers is application management in Karlskoga and Karlstad, where Granevik was CIO of the Dynamics business area (inferred link).

Why this stakeholder

I picked this stakeholder because both open head roles report to him, and the Core Enterprise Platforms posting puts data, AI, core business applications and platform modernisation in that one team.

Likely interested in

No offering is claimed. Group IT is staffing its transformation with permanent hires, and the IT Operations & Support posting lists vendor services as something to manage without naming a vendor.

Hook

None confirmed. His own LinkedIn post of May 2026 announces the Group CIO role, and its wording has to be read on LinkedIn before anyone quotes it.

Channel

LinkedIn. He is a cold contact in Sweden and the address is unverified, so LinkedIn is the deliverable route.

Check before sending

Confirm these before the message goes out:
• Open his May 2026 LinkedIn post on taking the Group CIO role and confirm its wording before anyone quotes it.
• Since 1 October, does the Group CIO report to Mikael Adelsberg, or does IT operations run beside Group IT?
• Which of the four open head roles stay with him, and who decides on vendor services for IT operations?

Connection note

Hi Niklas, congratulations on taking over Group IT at Saab this spring. I work with IT leaders keeping a modernisation agenda moving while their teams grow. Happy to connect?

174 characters. The first touch.

Message (EN)

Hi Niklas, congratulations on taking over Group IT at Saab in April. Your team is recruiting four heads at once, for operations, infrastructure, security and enterprise platforms, while the modernisation agenda keeps running. Future Processing adds a delivery team for named workstreams, so planned work does not have to wait until every seat is filled. Is extra delivery capacity during the hiring period something you are weighing this winter, or will Group IT staff it alone?

76 words. The opening rests on his new role, not on his May post, so it can go now; do not quote the post until someone has read it.

P3 - will run the portfolio office

Johan Sporre Lennberg - Deputy CIO and Head of the CIO Office (from mid-November 2026)

Sweden

Open profile ▾

Contact

LinkedIn · no address on file · Confidence: MODERATE · Readiness: verify · Prior: none

Role & remit

Sporre Lennberg joins Saab in mid-November 2026 as deputy CIO and head of the CIO Office, which he says covers enterprise architecture, the portfolio management office and governance. He leaves Ericsson after nearly ten years; his last role there was vice president for cloud services.

Priorities

Sporre Lennberg's first quarter will go on setting up the portfolio office and the architecture function, which decide what IT work Saab does and in what order (inferred from the remit he named himself).

Pain points

Sporre Lennberg arrives six weeks after IT operations moved to the Chief Digital Officer, and the four new Group IT heads will most likely still be serving notice with their current employers (inferred). The portfolio he governs starts without settled owners in November. He brings a cloud-services background into an estate with two cloud models, a private cloud that Cleura operates and public-cloud teams on AWS and Azure, so cloud spend and ownership are likely early portfolio questions (inferred).

Why this stakeholder

I picked this stakeholder because his own September 2026 post puts the portfolio management office under him, and that office sets the order of Saab's IT work (inferred). He also arrives months before the new heads, so the portfolio office sets its first priorities without them.

Likely interested in

No offering is claimed. He has not started, and the portfolio he will govern has no published programme yet.

Hook

Read his post announcing the move, September 2026, in which he writes that he joins Saab as deputy CIO and head of the CIO Office in mid-November. The start has not happened, so any contact refers to the move and never to his plans.

Channel

LinkedIn. He is a cold contact in Sweden and no address is on file, so LinkedIn is the deliverable route.

Check before sending

Confirm these before the message goes out:
• Has he started at Saab? Check his profile after 16 November before any contact.
• Does the CIO Office report to Granevik, and does the portfolio office cover IT operations now under Adelsberg?
• Two LinkedIn addresses carry his name; confirm which one he uses before connecting.

Connection note

Hi Johan, congratulations on the move to Saab as Deputy CIO in November. I work with IT organisations on getting portfolio work delivered. Happy to connect?

156 characters. The first touch.

Message (EN)

Hi Johan, congratulations on joining Saab as Deputy CIO and head of the CIO Office in mid-November. You arrive while Group IT is hiring four new heads, so the portfolio office will decide early which work the teams do themselves. Future Processing fixes the scope of each portfolio item before any work starts, so the portfolio office keeps control of what gets done first. Would it be useful to compare notes once you have settled in at Saab?

78 words. Connection note now; the message only after he has started at Saab, so not before 16 November.

P4 - the one IT leader on record

Anders Arpteg - VP AI & Data, Common Tech

Sweden

Open profile ▾

Contact

LinkedIn · anders.arpteg@saabgroup.com (unverified) · Confidence: HIGH · Readiness: hold · Prior: none

Role & remit

Arpteg has led AI & Data since November 2025 inside Common Tech. In a Hyperight interview in February 2026 he described the job as scaling AI value in customer products, in business processes and for Saab's own people. Before Saab he worked at Peltarion, the Swedish AI platform company, Spotify and GlobalConnect. Saab put him in front of investors at the Redeye AI theme day on 18 March 2026, so AI is part of how Saab explains itself to shareholders.

Priorities

Arpteg is staffing his AI and data platform: Saab is hiring a Service Manager AI & Data and a Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer, and the platform role belongs to the Surveillance business area. AI & Data works inside Common Tech beside Product Tech, which builds shared AI, cloud, edge and CI/CD components for Saab's product teams. A platform that serves more than one business area is the likely reading (inferred from the postings).

Pain points

In the same interview Arpteg called the obstacle a prototype graveyard: AI pilots that never reach production because nobody planned for production from day one. He has to scale AI across products and internal processes at once, and Saab added a head of AI governance only in August 2026. His podcast moved the same way: episode 189 on 1 October covered AI-assisted battlefield intelligence, the direction Saab's products are taking.

Why this stakeholder

I picked this stakeholder because he named the prototype graveyard as the obstacle in February 2026 and co-hosts a weekly AI podcast, so a first conversation can start from words he has already said.

Likely interested in

No offering is claimed. Common Tech builds Saab's AI and data platforms with its own teams, so Arpteg's interest lies in how other companies move pilots into production, and an AI programme he chose to staff from outside would change that. His podcast and advisory seats are media roles and sell nothing, so no FP proposal competes with them.

Hook

Read his Hyperight interview of 26 February 2026, in which he explains in his own words how AI gets past the prototype graveyard. Also: listen to AIAW Podcast episode 189, 1 October 2026, which he co-hosts; see the NDSML Summit advisory board, on which he sits for the Stockholm summit of 10-11 November.

Channel

LinkedIn. He is a cold contact in Sweden and the address is unverified, so LinkedIn is the deliverable route.

Connection note

Hi Anders, in your Hyperight interview you said few companies plan AI for production from day one. I work with teams taking AI pilots into production. Happy to connect?

168 characters. The first touch.

Message (EN)

Hi Anders, in your Hyperight interview in February you said few companies plan AI for production from day one. Saab is hiring for its AI and data platform right now, and its head of AI governance started in August. Future Processing builds AI features to production standard inside an existing platform, and the client's own team owns and runs the result afterwards. Is the step from pilot to production where the pressure is for your team this year?

78 words. Send after he accepts the connection note, before the NDSML Summit on 10 November.

P5 - runs the infrastructure devops lands on

Anders Malmqvist - Head of Infrastructure Operations & Platforms

Sweden

Open profile ▾

Contact

LinkedIn · anders.malmqvist@saabgroup.com (unverified) · Confidence: LOW · Readiness: verify · Prior: none

Role & remit

Malmqvist became head of infrastructure operations and platforms in September 2026, based in Gothenburg. From 2022 he managed a security operations centre at CGI, the IT services group, so he has run an outsourced service from the supplier's side (inferred from the role).

Priorities

Malmqvist's team runs the infrastructure that Group IT is modernising: Saab advertises for OpenStack architects for its private cloud and a Kubernetes platform engineer in Common Tech. Saab has not said whether his team or the new Head of Modern Infrastructure will own that platform. His title joins operations and platforms, and the private cloud beside it is the one part of the estate Saab already pays an outside firm to run.

Pain points

Malmqvist started in the month Saab began recruiting a Head of Modern Infrastructure whose remit covers cloud operations, platform engineering, FinOps and legacy infrastructure. His scope depends on a hire made above or beside him.

Why this stakeholder

I picked this stakeholder because Saab staff researched devops 37 times in ninety days, and the Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code work Saab advertises runs on the infrastructure he took over in September 2026 (inferred).

Likely interested in

No offering is claimed. Saab runs its infrastructure with its own teams, and Cleura operates the private cloud. A partner named for platform work after the new Head of Modern Infrastructure starts would open a conversation with Malmqvist.

Hook

None confirmed. The only post under his name is a 2022 job change, older than twelve months.

Channel

LinkedIn. He is a cold contact in Sweden and the address is unverified, so LinkedIn is the deliverable route.

Check before sending

Confirm these before the message goes out:
• Does infrastructure operations and platforms report to the new Head of Modern Infrastructure, or work beside it?
• Does his team run the OpenStack private cloud with Cleura, or the public-cloud landing zones on Azure and AWS?
• Who in Group IT owns the Kubernetes platform: Common Tech or infrastructure operations?
• Does his team, Product Tech or nobody track the DORA metrics, such as deployment frequency and lead time for changes?

Connection note

Hi Anders, congratulations on taking over infrastructure operations and platforms at Saab in September. I work with teams running Kubernetes and private-cloud estates. Happy to connect?

185 characters. The first touch.

Message (EN)

Hi Anders, congratulations on the infrastructure operations and platforms role in September. Saab is building out Kubernetes and the OpenStack private cloud while it recruits a Head of Modern Infrastructure. Until that seat is filled, daily operations and platform change fall to the same people. Future Processing runs DevOps and platform operations under an agreed service level, working beside the in-house teams that own the estate. Is keeping operations steady through the platform build-out a live topic for you and your team?

82 words. Confirm his title and team on his own profile before sending; his remit rests on the profile alone.

Section 3

Outreach Plan

Section 4

Event Timeline & Meeting Opportunities

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Technology

2026-03-18 conference

Redeye Theme: Artificial Intelligence 2026

Stockholm · onsite

Anders Arpteg – presenter

Redeye Theme: Artificial Intelligence 2026 · 2026-03-18 · Anders Arpteg named

2026-03-26 workshop

Industry-Academia AI Workshop at KTH (Digital Futures)

Stockholm · onsite

Edvards Scukins – speaker

Industry-Academia AI Workshop at KTH (Digital Futures) · 2026-03-26 · Edvards Scukins named

2026-11-10 to 2026-11-11 conference · meet 6/8

NDSML Summit 2026 (Nordic Data Science & Machine Learning Summit)

Stockholm · hybrid

Anders Arpteg – advisory board · Senadin Alisic – speaker

NDSML Summit 2026 (Nordic Data Science & Machine Learning Summit) · 2026-11-10 to 2026-11-11 · Anders Arpteg, Senadin Alisic named

2026-12-01 conference · meet 6/8

AI & Business Futures 2026

Stockholm (Sergel Hub) · hybrid

Robert Mungenast – speaker

AI & Business Futures 2026 · 2026-12-01 · Robert Mungenast named

Business

2026-01-11 to 2026-01-13 conference

Folk och Forsvar Rikskonferens 2026

Salen · onsite

Micael Johansson – speaker

Folk och Forsvar Rikskonferens 2026 · 2026-01-11 to 2026-01-13 · Micael Johansson named

2026-02-11 to 2026-02-12 conference

Techarena 2026

Stockholm · onsite

Marcus Wandt – fireside chat · Angelica Persson – keynote

Techarena 2026 · 2026-02-11 to 2026-02-12 · Marcus Wandt, Angelica Persson named

2026-10-23 webcast · meet 4/8

Saab Q3 Interim Report 2026 (webcast)

online · online

Micael Johansson – presenter · Anna Wijkander – presenter

Saab Q3 Interim Report 2026 (webcast) · 2026-10-23 · Micael Johansson, Anna Wijkander named

2026-11-04 investor conference · meet 3/8

Redeye Defence Industry 2026

Stockholm · onsite

Redeye Defence Industry 2026 · 2026-11-04 · company only, nobody named

2026-11-26 investor conference · meet 2/8

Danske Bank Copenhagen Winter Seminar

Copenhagen · onsite

Danske Bank Copenhagen Winter Seminar · 2026-11-26 · company only, nobody named

2026-12-01 investor conference · meet 2/8

Handelsbanken Nordic Security Summit 2026

Stockholm · onsite

Handelsbanken Nordic Security Summit 2026 · 2026-12-01 · company only, nobody named

2026-12-10 investor conference · meet 2/8

Pareto Tech Conference

Stockholm · onsite

Pareto Tech Conference · 2026-12-10 · company only, nobody named

2027-02-05 webcast · meet 5/8

Saab Full-year results 2026 (webcast)

online · online

Saab Full-year results 2026 (webcast) · 2027-02-05 · company only, nobody named

2027-04-07 shareholder meeting · meet 2/8

Saab Annual General Meeting 2027

Linkoping · onsite

Saab Annual General Meeting 2027 · 2027-04-07 · company only, nobody named

Sector

2025-11-17 to 2025-11-21 trade fair

Dubai Airshow 2025

Dubai · onsite

Dubai Airshow 2025 · 2025-11-17 to 2025-11-21 · company only, nobody named

2026-01-19 to 2026-01-22 trade fair

DIMDEX 2026

Doha · onsite

DIMDEX 2026 · 2026-01-19 to 2026-01-22 · company only, nobody named

2026-02-03 to 2026-02-08 trade fair

Singapore Airshow 2026

Singapore · onsite

Singapore Airshow 2026 · 2026-02-03 to 2026-02-08 · company only, nobody named

2026-05 trade fair

CANSEC 2026

Ottawa · onsite

CANSEC 2026 · 2026-05 · company only, nobody named

2026-06 trade fair

Eurosatory 2026

Paris · onsite

Eurosatory 2026 · 2026-06 · company only, nobody named

2026-07-20 to 2026-07-24 trade fair

Farnborough International Airshow 2026

Farnborough · onsite

Farnborough International Airshow 2026 · 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-24 · company only, nobody named

2026-09-08 to 2026-09-11 trade fair

MSPO 2026 (XXXIV Miedzynarodowy Salon Przemyslu Obronnego)

Kielce · onsite

MSPO 2026 (XXXIV Miedzynarodowy Salon Przemyslu Obronnego) · 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-11 · company only, nobody named

2026-10-20 to 2026-10-22 trade fair · meet 2/8

National Defence Expo 2026 (Totalforsvarsmassan), with SKYDD 2026

Stockholm (Alvsjo) · onsite

National Defence Expo 2026 (Totalforsvarsmassan), with SKYDD 2026 · 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-22 · company only, nobody named

2026-11-03 to 2026-11-06 trade fair · likely repeat

Euronaval 2026

Paris (Nord Villepinte) · onsite

Euronaval 2026 · 2026-11-03 to 2026-11-06 · company only, nobody named

Talent

2026-11-16 career fair · meet 4/8

Student Fair at Nordic Security and Competitiveness Day 2026

Stockholm · onsite

Student Fair at Nordic Security and Competitiveness Day 2026 · 2026-11-16 · company only, nobody named

Next up · NDSML Summit 2026, Stockholm, 10-11 Nov - Anders Arpteg sits on the advisory board. Meet score 6 of 8; a paid ticket anyone can buy. Hover a marker for the summary, click it to keep the detail open. A larger marker with a ring means somebody from Saab is named on the programme.

Held Held, Saab person named Announced Announced, Saab person named Likely repeat, inferred

Also identified at these events

Robert Mungenast - CIO, Business Area Surveillance; the organiser bills him as CIO, Saab Group. Speaker at AI & Business Futures 2026, 1 Dec. LinkedIn profile
Senadin Alisic - Strategy Planning, Combitech. Speaker at NDSML Summit 2026, 10-11 Nov.
Edvards Scukins - AI Research Scientist, Saab Aeronautics. Speaker at the Industry-Academia AI Workshop at KTH, 26 Mar.
Angelica Persson - keynote speaker for Saab at Techarena 2026, 11-12 Feb.

Section 5 · Appendix

Company Evidence

Six blocks, about 400 words

Strategy, cloud, technology, finances, risks and initiatives

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Supporting material behind the hypothesis and the stakeholder profiles. Skim it before a call; the argument itself is in Sections 0-3, and the places to meet these people are in Section 4.

Strategy

Saab targets about 18 per cent organic growth a year to 2027. In Poland, Saab won the Orka order for three A26 submarines on 29 June 2026, worth about SEK 47 billion, and committed to build maintenance capability there with Polish industry. Saab Technologies Poland, the Warsaw subsidiary, is registered for market research, so it sells and does not deliver.

Cloud and infrastructure

Saab's private cloud runs on OpenStack, open-source software for private clouds with an in-house architecture team. Beside it Saab runs an Azure landing zone for core IT services, and a Cloud Enablement team across AWS and Azure is adding FinOps, the practice of managing cloud cost.

Technology and technical debt

Saab's enterprise systems include IFS for ERP and aircraft maintenance, Unit4, Workday and ServiceNow, plus three product lifecycle management suites: Teamcenter, Windchill and 3DEXPERIENCE. Saab is hiring a Teamcenter architect to make Teamcenter, ERP, design and manufacturing systems work together and to migrate their data.

Finances and growth

Operating income reached SEK 8,066 million in 2025. The average workforce rose from 23,375 to 26,507 full-time equivalents in one year, so Group IT serves about 3,100 more people than in 2024.

Risks

Saab's IT postings cite ISO 27000, NIST and CMMC, the US defence cybersecurity standard, and require security vetting. A supplier inside the estate should expect vetting for its people too (inferred). Saab is recruiting a Head of IT Security & Compliance Operations.

Initiatives

Combitech opened Saab Engineering India in Hyderabad in April 2025 with 150 product engineers.