Markus at the DIHK Datenforum: Digital sovereignty from a practitioner’s perspective

Our Managing Director Markus joined the roundtable at “Deutschland kann – digitale Souveränität”, the fourth Datenforum der Deutschen Wirtschaft, hosted by the DIHK at the Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Berlin.

The roundtable on the framework conditions for digital sovereignty opened with Members of the Bundestag from SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and CDU, who gave the political perspective. After that came the business “Praxischeck der Unternehmer”: Markus discussed with Sven Thomsen, CIO of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, and Lars Neumann, SVP T Cloud at Deutsche Telekom, what companies need to stay in control of their data, infrastructure and AI systems.

Markus spoke from the perspective of an ML company that builds custom AI solutions for industry and the public sector. Sovereignty in AI does not mean doing everything alone. It means being able to choose between models, providers and deployment options, and being able to switch when requirements change. In our projects this often means open-weight models, on-premise or European cloud deployments, and solutions that our clients can own and operate themselves.

We thank the DIHK and Ines Rerbal for the invitation and the excellent organization, and all participants for an open and constructive exchange.

Photos: DIHK / Nils Hasenau