Winning Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Race: Why Local Tech Champions Matter

​Europe is not lacking innovation - it is lacking scale.

​Despite strong research, talent, and early-stage startups, the continent continues to struggle to build globally competitive technology companies. This webinar explores a key shift in perspective:

​Digital sovereignty will not be achieved through regulation alone. It will be built by growing strong European companies.

​We will focus on three core ideas:
— The real bottleneck is not innovation, but the ecosystem required to scale it
— Sovereignty is built through companies, not policies
— The biggest risk is slow decision-making and lack of urgency

​If Europe wants to remain competitive and preserve its model of a rule-of-law-based digital society, it must actively grow its own AI champions — and do so with speed.

​Part of Alpine Tech Forum

​This webinar is an introductory session to Alpine Tech Forum Zurich (June 22), where these conversations will continue in a curated, in-person setting.