Sovereign AI Summit | 16 - 17 November 2026, Brussels

Public and private organization in Europe have long had the perception that they had to accomodate a performance trade-off when opting for a sovereign technology option; as Europe has lagged in developping its own hyperscale cloud champion. This situation has come to an end. THALES is now operating the first European hyperscale cloud offer, based on Google Cloud Dedicated technology.

THALES' bold ambition to become the cloud European champion for sensitive workload brings wordl class technology under the absolute control of a European cloud service provider. This discusison will shed ligh on the creation of this project, the challlenges of its construction , the qualification sucees but the French ANSII , the fast adoption of closed to a hundred highly sentivie european orgnaizaton and the latest decision by THALES to build a second indpeendent provider in Germany and build a solution for the whole of Europe.

As organizations navigate complex regulatory landscapes, the need for robust, localized AI solutions has never been greater. Join our exclusive panel discussion: Sovereign AI in Action: Creating a Sovereign Ecosystem.

In this session, we will move the conversation beyond solutions "Made for Europe" to those "Made WITH Europe". Hear directly from strategic ISV and SI partners—including industry leaders like [Partner Names}—as they showcase powerful, real-world examples of Sovereign AI in action. Discover how this unique, partnership-led ecosystem enables regulated industries and public sector organizations to meet strict compliance requirements without sacrificing innovation or scale.

From protecting national borders and keeping aviation fleets in the air to delivering life-saving healthcare, critical infrastructure requires the most rigorous data sovereignty standards. Move beyond theory to examine how these high-stakes organizations are implementing sovereign cloud solutions to overcome their most complex operational and compliance challenges. In this session, we go behind the scenes to explore the architectural and governance decisions that enabled these industry pioneers to bridge the gap between strict regulatory mandates and the agility of the cloud. Join us to gain the practical, actionable blueprints needed to secure your organization’s infrastructure without compromising on speed or innovation.

As enterprise AI evolves from static prompt-response queries to autonomous multi-agent workflows, governance must shift from basic perimeter security to continuous runtime verification. Organizations require architectures that support high-reasoning intelligence while enforcing deterministic boundaries on autonomous agent actions.

This session explores how to configure the model and agent control layers under strict sovereign constraints. The discussion covers implementing a dual-track model strategy (balancing cloud-tethered frontier models like Gemini with fully localized open weights like Apache 2.0 Gemma) and managing the trade-offs between token economics and operational isolation. Attendees will examine how to extend infrastructure access controls to the agent runtime, enforce tool-calling sandboxes via policy gateways and safety firewalls (Model Armor), and maintain tamper-evident audit ledgers for compliance.

Strategic autonomy requires the flexibility to build, customize, and migrate AI workloads without long-term architectural lock-in. Open-source software and open-weight models provide the foundation for this independence, enabling European organizations to maintain full control over their technology stack.

This panel examines how open architectures strengthen Europe's sovereign AI strategy. Leaders from Google Cloud and Capgemini explore the role of open-weight models (like Gemma), containerized platforms (Kubernetes), and open ecosystem integrations (via Model Garden and Mistral). Attendees will discover how combining open standards with sovereign cloud infrastructure preserves flexibility, enhances transparency, and fosters regional competitiveness.

Meeting rigorous European regulatory mandates (such as DORA, SecNumCloud, and the EU AI Act) requires moving from retrospective audits to deterministic, automated compliance built directly into the AI request path. Concurrently, digital sovereignty demands survivability: the architectural capability to maintain mission-critical operations and retain threat visibility even during severe external network or geopolitical disruptions.

This session outlines the technical mechanisms that deliver verifiable security and operational continuity. Topics include high-assurance IAM, hardware-enforced isolation (Confidential AI with TEEs), and immutable logging across data, model, and agent requests. Presenters will also examine operational models for disconnected environments (such as air-gapped appliances and partner clouds engineered for extended standalone operation), proving that compliance and survivability can be achieved without sacrificing modern cloud capabilities.

A comprehensive European sovereign AI strategy requires solving two intertwined challenges: Economic Autonomy and Cultural Alignment.

- Economic Dilemma: Maximum isolation creates an unsustainable cost penalty that stifles public and private sector innovation, while pure public cloud adoption risks long-term lock-in challenges and the potential of capital flight out of the European tech ecosystem.

- Cultural Dilemma: Relying exclusively on generic, non-EU foundational models risks cultural homogenization, algorithmic bias, and critical failures in local legal, administrative, and clinical terminology, while potentially sending proprietary European intellectual property abroad.

This session presents a framework for "Dynamic alignment” - achieving digital sovereignty without economic compromise.

By combining partner-operated sovereign infrastructure (retaining economic value and operational control within the EU) with specialized local datasets, in-jurisdiction domain grounding, and open-weight architectures, European institutions can preserve domestic IP, enforce cultural fidelity across the official EU languages and local legal jurisdictions, and optimize total cost of ownership by matching workload sensitivity to the appropriate sovereign tier.

Healthcare and financial institutions face stringent regulatory boundaries regarding clinical data privacy, cross-border transfers, and operational risk. To capture the benefits of generative AI, leaders in these sectors require production environments that guarantee verifiable data residency, external key control, and complete auditability.

In this panel, enterprise technology leaders and software innovators share architectural blueprints and operational outcomes from live deployments on European sovereign platforms (including Google Cloud Data Boundary and partner-operated dedicated clouds like S3NS). Panelists will discuss how they satisfy DORA and healthcare privacy standards, manage cryptographic keys outside provider boundaries, and accelerate production timelines. Attendees will gain actionable insights into moving highly regulated AI workloads from pilot to production.

To achieve true digital autonomy, European institutions and regulated industries require sovereign cloud infrastructure that eliminates trade-offs between regulatory compliance and cutting-edge AI innovation. In this executive fireside chat, the leadership of S3NS and Thales Germany share operational blueprints and strategic insights from deploying Europe’s first partner-operated hyperscale sovereign clouds powered by Google Cloud Dedicated technology.

Explore how these platforms enforce complete operational, technical, and jurisdictional control—complying with SecNumCloud, BSI standards, DORA, and the EU AI Act—while delivering world-class AI capabilities. Following a moderated discussion on real-world adoption and cross-border resilience, the session will open for an interactive AMA, giving policymakers, EU Commission representatives, and industry leaders direct access to explore the future of sovereign European cloud ecosystems.