Overview
Sovereign AI: Where Does Your Business Draw the Line?
Most organizations running AI on cloud infrastructure have never formally asked the question that determines their regulatory exposure, vendor risk, and competitive position: how sovereign does your AI actually need to be? Getting it wrong in either direction is costly. This 60-minute session gives you a practical framework to find the right answer for your organization, and a live case study from AI Mills founder Ries Deijkers to show what acting on it looks like.
What You'll Learn
In 60 minutes, you will leave with a clear framework for defining your organization's AI sovereignty requirements, and a concrete plan for acting on them.
- Understand the sovereignty spectrum - from simple data ownership to full national infrastructure sovereignty, and where your business should sit
- Learn from AI Mills: a live case study of a company building sovereign AI infrastructure from the ground up in the Netherlands, navigating every vendor decision along the way
- Discover the real risks of running AI on hyperscaler infrastructure - regulatory, geopolitical, and financial - and how to assess your current exposure
- Walk away with a CEO action plan: four concrete steps you can take this week to get clarity on your organization's sovereignty position
- Understand how both EU and North American organizations are approaching sovereignty - for different but equally valid reasons
Who Should Attend
CEOs and Managing Directors
At companies using AI in production or planning to deploy AI at scale. This session will help you frame the sovereignty question at the right level - strategic, not just technical.
CTOs and CISOs at Regulated Enterprises
Responsible for AI infrastructure decisions in financial services, healthcare, insurance, or government. This webinar gives you the framing and benchmarks to drive the right conversation internally.
Founders of AI Factory and AI Startups
Building AI products for regulated industries. The AI Mills case study shows how to architect and operate a credible sovereign AI stack from day one - and how to use it as a competitive differentiator.
Technology Leaders Exploring Alternatives to Hyperscaler-Dependent AI Infrastructure
If you are evaluating on-premises, private cloud, or sovereign deployment options, this session provides a real-world reference architecture and the decision framework to move forward with confidence.
About the Case Study: AI Mills
AI Mills is building sovereign AI infrastructure in the Netherlands - a Level 4 sovereignty deployment that avoids not just major cloud providers, but any vendor with foreign jurisdictional exposure. Founder Ries Deijkers will share their journey: the regulatory requirements that drove the decision, the complexity of navigating a sovereign vendor landscape, and the role Arc Compute played in helping them build a stack that met their exacting requirements.
You don't need to go as far as AI Mills. But their story will help you define exactly how far you do need to go.
