Sovereignty by Design is a new four-part Xebia webinar series on digital sovereignty for organizations that rely on cloud, data and AI for critical work. The series goes layer by layer, from the cloud foundation to the data platform and the AI systems built on top. The aim is to help you decide what your organization really needs to control and what it can safely leave to others. Most organizations will keep their hyperscaler, and that’s usually the right call. Sovereignty is about being able to move, not about moving.
Episode 1 starts with where you stand. Data residency tells you where your data sits. Sovereignty asks who decides what happens to it. An organization can be fully compliant on residency and still be unable to leave its provider. In this session, Daniel van Dijk, Giovanni Lanzani and Laurens Knoll explain how to tell the difference. You’ll also get questions to take back to your own organization.
During the session, you will learn how to
🔥 Tell data residency apart from real control over your data, infrastructure and AI
🔥 Use the four pillars of the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework that an organization can act on: operational, data & AI, technology, and security & compliance
🔥 Spot the pillars organizations most often underestimate
🔥 See why a disaster recovery plan is not an exit plan
🔥 Decide where taking back control is worth the effort, and where to start
Who should watch: CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, and Heads of Data, AI and Platform
Meet the Speakers:
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Giovanni Lanzani, Managing Director. Data & AI
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Laurens Knoll, Cloud Consultant
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Daniel van Dijk, Sales Lead, Xebia (host)
Before or after the webinar
Where does your organization stand?
Take the Digital Sovereignty Self-Assessment and get a maturity score from 0 to 5 across the same four pillars, plus a personal report with practical next steps.
👉 Take the self-assessment
Want to go deeper on Sovereign AI?
Our whitepaper explains how regulated enterprises can move AI from pilot to production without losing control over data, models and infrastructure.
👉 Download the whitepaper