Glenn Langvik Marketing Manager RISE

RISE – Glenn Langvik

2024-06-12
Who are you?
RISE is Sweden’s research institute and innovation partner. In international collaboration with businesses, academia and the public sector, we contribute to a competitive business community and a sustainable society. We drive and support all types of innovation processes, offering unique expertise and a wide range of test and demonstration environments for future-proof technologies, products and services. RISE is an independent research institute owned by the Swedish state.

Why are you exhibiting at SKYDD?
Together with leaders in the public sector, academia, business and civil society, RISE helps to build a strong total defense and good crisis preparedness. To support this work, we engage the full breadth and depth of the Institute’s expertise. The fact that our activities cover all areas of society gives us an opportunity to contribute to the development of total defense. And with our wide network of contacts and expertise, we can support effective development work in many areas. We have several areas of strength, such as critical infrastructure, logistics and transport, water supply, energy supply, food supply, production of essential goods and services, and not least protection and security.

One of the reasons we choose to exhibit at SKYDD is that we want more people working in the field to find out how to use the expertise and equipment we have. This involves testing physical access protection and manual attack, which is carried out on doors, windows, safes and various building products. But also to present new sub-areas such as ballistics and testing of bullet resistance and resistance of materials and products. Another area is personal protective equipment (primarily body armor and helmets) and resistance to ballistics and stabbing/cutting violence. We can perform testing against a variety of standards, but can also provide support on issues related to material selection, performance, fit, longevity and sustainability.

Why should you visit SKYDD?
There is so much happening in this area driven by external events and the threat landscape is changing faster than relevant standards. We see SKYDD as an important meeting place for us where we can both listen to needs, meet new customers and find new partnerships.