Conveners
Digital Sovereignty: 3B
- Ibrahim Jeries (GÉANT)
Description
This session explores how cloud sovereignty, open ecosystems, and NREN internal developer platforms transform regulatory and infrastructure constraints into strategic advantage-reducing complexity, enabling interoperability, and building resilient, sovereign by design digital foundations for research, education, and innovation.
Across the research and education community, organizations face a dilemma where adopting cloud and containers has made service delivery more complex rather than simpler. RNP is addressing this complexity by building an Internal Developer Platform that offers well designed self service paths for common services. The platform is organized around four pillars: Speed, Safety, Efficiency, and...
Global hyperscale outages in 2025, such as the AWS outage and the global Cloudflare outage, exposed the fragility of centralized cloud dependencies. For institutions in the Global South, these failures compound local constraints such as power instability, high latency, and legal requirements of the Data Protection and Privacy laws, turning cloud adoption into a sovereignty issue. This session...
Over 20 European tech organizations, led by OpenNebula Systems, launched Virt8ra.eu in early 2025, an open source initiative focused on building Europe's first sovereign virtualization stack. Part of the €3B IPCEI-CIS project, this collaboration created a European technological ecosystem around vendor-neutral cloud-edge continuum management and virtualization. Virt8ra enables interoperability...
