A question of sovereignty - debating what it means to keep control in the AI age
Sovereignty has been on many business and technology leaders’ minds over the past couple of years, particularly in Europe. For example, it was the surprisingly frank subtext of the recent SUSECon summit in Prague. As one of my reports from the open-source vendor’s April event noted:
Digital sovereignty is critical, choice is under attack, and without choice, enterprises have no resilience in a world of shock and disruption. That’s the view of Frank Feldman, Chief Strategy Officer of open-source infrastructure provider SUSE.
So much so, that nearly every speech, presentation, roundtable, and interview ticked at least one of those topic boxes, including the CEO’s keynote.
But why was that rebellious tone surprising? Though speaker after speaker opted for diplomacy by referring to “the geopolitical situation”, I noted, it was code for one thing - Trump v2.0. The US Presidency has seen transatlantic alliances torn up, trade and energy instability spreading,...
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