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 control over your AI:

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

Thoughtworks Chief Data & AI Officer Shayan Mohanty shared practical insights and demonstrated how Thoughtworks’ Agent/works platform operationalizes AI sovereignty. We discussed how policy-based routing, strict data boundary enforcement, and end-to-end decision auditability keep autonomous workflows compliant, secure, and under your control.

This closed roundtable convened senior technology and data leaders to address what sovereignty requires once AI runs inside processes with real consequences, and how to make it a strategic leverage point rather than a compliance tax.

Senior technology and data leadership in Italian enterprises: Closed and peer-level by design; no recording, no slides, no vendor pitch. Positions were compared with people facing the same decisions, and a sharper understanding of individual exposure was gained.