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      Industry Dialogue: Cloud, Control and Capital - What Digital Sovereignty Means for European Financial Institutions

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      Experts discuss the technical, regulatory and operational challenges of building digitally sovereign financial infrastructure in Europe. Video thumbnail

       

      The geopolitical case for European digital sovereignty is clear. The practical reality is harder. Across cloud infrastructure, AI models, data residency and application layers, European financial institutions are making decisions today about what to keep within the EU and how to structure arrangements that satisfy DORA, the EU AI Act and GDPR simultaneously. This session brings together the architects of the Financial Tech stack to ask the honest questions: what sovereignty is technically achievable, what it genuinely costs, and where the gap between regulatory requirement and operational reality remains dangerously wide for financial services.



      Speakers:

      Dr. Alessandro Curioni, IBM Fellow, Vice President of Europe & Africa and Director of IBM Research - Zurich, IBM Research

      Oliver Beck, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Sovereign Cloud Technology & Delivery, SAP SE

      Sarah Levy, Head Swiss AI Platform of Swisscom

      Valérie Hoess, Executive Director AI & Data Policy, EMEA, JP Morgan Chase

       

      Host:

      Oliver Bussmann, Chief Executive Officer of Bussmann Advisory

       

       

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