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John Simons presentation

masterclass

Digital sovereignty & resilience

Building an organization that stays in control in an uncertain world.

What can you expect?

Morning

Context & urgency

Geopolitics, regulation & dependency

What DORA, the EU AI Act and global tensions mean for your organization

What digital sovereignty really means

Beyond the buzzword: a working definition

The risks of hyperscaler dependency

What you give up when someone else controls your stack

Case studies from critical sectors

Where sovereignty became a strategic imperative

afternoon

Strategy & implementation

Dependency analysis framework

Mapping what you rely on and what relies on you

Balancing autonomy & innovation

How to stay sovereign without falling behind

Resilience by design

Architecture and governance that holds under pressure

Interactive exercise

Run your own sovereignty scan

The results

Risk insights

Insight into your strategic and geopolitical risks

A framework for

A framework to assess digital dependencies

Digital autonomy

Concrete steps towards digital autonomy

Gerard Wijers
Gerard Wijers

Co-founder | Sectorlead Finance & Insurance