Thirty years between the wiring and the policy.
VEDAT is the Stockholm consultancy of Gerd Hagmeyer-Gaverus — the person who ran the cable that put SIPRI on the internet in 1994, and who has spent three decades since moving between systems, data, and the institutions that depend on both.
Three ways in, one working method
Clients tend to arrive through one door and stay for another. All three are grounded in the same habit: understand the system before touching it.
IT Consulting
Network and access-control installations, legacy infrastructure, and vendor and contract negotiation — hands-on, not just recommendations.
More →Coaching & Training
Guidance for boards, teams, and individuals navigating technical decisions they didn't sign up to become experts in.
More →Policy Analysis & International Relations
Research and analysis for institutions working on security, early warning, and international affairs.
More →A career measured in institutions, not job titles
Selected milestones — read the full record →
VEDAT founded
Established as an independent IT consultancy in Stockholm.
SIPRI goes online
Built SIPRI's internet infrastructure from scratch on donated Sun hardware, connected via SUNET through KTH.
EU FP7 security research
Expert to the VIRTUOSO and RECOBIA projects; contributor to the EUISS ESPAS report on Global Trends 2030.
IT consulting, close to the ground
Hands-on systems and access-control work for organisations and housing cooperatives across Stockholm.
Building the Internet at SIPRI
A first-person account of wiring a Cold War research institute into the early internet — Sun workstations, NCSA httpd, and a phone call to KTH that changed how SIPRI worked.
Read the full essay →Bring VEDAT into the conversation early.
Systems, contracts, and policy questions are cheaper to get right before decisions are made than to fix after.
