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Digital Sovereignty assessed: How independent can Europe truly become?

How digitally independent can Europe really be? Three experts discuss the opportunities, limits and paths towards technological sovereignty.

Topic

Cloud SecurityLegislation, standards, regulationsGovernance, Riskmanagement and ComplianceSIEM / Threat Analytics / SOCData security / DLP / Know-how protection

When & Where

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Thu, 10/29/2026 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

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Forum F, Booth 9-638

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Details

  • Format:

    it-sa insights

  • Language:

    German

Session description

Host - Sonna Barry
Speakers:
Clémence Caron, Google 
Bonnie-Jo Mayer, Rheingas

TBA Digital sovereignty is often discussed in terms of locations, providers or regulation. From a technological perspective, however, the crucial question goes deeper: Which parts of our digital infrastructure can we in Europe actually develop, operate, secure and, if necessary, replace ourselves?

**1. Where are Europe’s critical technological dependencies?**

Modern IT consists of long chains of technological dependencies: semiconductors and processor architectures, server and network technology, operating systems, virtualization, cloud platforms, identity systems, software libraries, development tools and, increasingly, AI models and the computing infrastructure they req ...

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