You have spent years getting data sovereignty right: jurisdiction, residency, contractual control over where information rests. That work holds. It no longer covers the part of your estate that is growing fastest.

You can hold every byte inside the EU and still have almost no sovereignty over your AI. The weights belong to someone else. The version can shift beneath a system that passed its evaluations last quarter. Work that once required your own expertise now runs through a model you cannot inspect, reproduce, or easily leave, all at a price set by a third party.

Data sovereignty asks where your information sits. AI sovereignty asks the harder question: when the model changes, the commercial terms change, or a regulator asks why, can you still explain what your systems did, keep them running, and change your mind?

This lunchtime event brings together senior technology and data leaders to work that question through: what sovereignty requires once AI is running inside processes that carry real consequences, and where it is genuine leverage rather than a compliance tax.