Primary speakers:
Ryan Brown, Worldwide Field Chief Technology Officer, HPE
Paul Swain, Solution Specialist, Hybrid Cloud, Compugen
Description:
Data residency addresses geography, but sovereignty addresses power and control.
In today’s global digital environment, keeping data within national borders is no longer sufficient to ensure compliance or protection, as laws such as the U.S. CLOUD Act can assert jurisdiction based on service provider ownership rather than data location.
For universities and public institutions, this creates real risks around regulatory compliance, research integrity, and intellectual property—especially as data is captured, stored, processed, and analyzed across multiple platforms and legal regimes. True data and AI sovereignty therefore becomes a governance requirement, not just an infrastructure choice, ensuring that sensitive data, models, and outcomes remain fully under institutional and national legal authority. This is the foundation on which Sovereign AI platforms are built—delivering AI innovation without compromising jurisdictional control.
