As nations and organizations deal with a new geopolitical and trade landscape – one marked with more nationalism, less globalization – they’re also grappling with control of the digital economy. How do we ensure sovereignty over our country/organization’s data while participating in the upside of the data economy? 

On the back of a successful inaugural event in Singapore in November last year, the Sovereign Cloud Summit was back again in 2023 as the thought leadership event, designed to further the conversation on what Sovereignty means for cloud infrastructure, and open discussions regarding strategies and challenges of data classification and data management across borders. This year we explored geopolitical, regulatory, trade, security, compliance and governance issues and trends around data sovereignty and sovereign cloud infrastructure:

1) The geopolitical context for data processing - A view of the geopolitical alignments and how they shape laws and regulations on data
2) Privacy, Sovereignty and localization - A view on policymaking and how it can get derailed.
3) Digital Transformation, Trade & Data - Digitization, IoT, and the benefits of clear and transparent legal frameworks on cross border data transfer
4) AI and the data sovereignty challenge  - How organizations and governments perceive the sovereignty challenge with AI in the mix – the impact on privacy, Intellectual Property
5) Critical Sectors for Sovereignty - Critical information infrastructures and the heightened need for ensuring their uptime and protecting their data.

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