Pulumi

European regulations and rising cloud bills have CTOs asking a question that was unthinkable five years ago: do we need an exit plan from our cloud provider?

This panel treats cloud sovereignty as an architecture decision — including the cases where the answer is to stay put. We get into how locked in you actually are, whether putting your data in your own country's region actually protects you, what leaving really costs once you count the parts that don't show up on an invoice, and what's worth doing even if you never move.

Waldemar Kindler — CEO & Co-Founder, Think Ahead Technologies (Stuttgart), who helps European companies navigate EU compliance including the Cyber Resilience Act.

Jim Dowling — Co-Founder & CEO of Hopsworks, the Stockholm-based AI lakehouse company. He moved it off AWS to OVHcloud and cut the bill 62%.

Sarbjeet Johal — cloud economist and theCUBE analyst, a veteran of VMware and Oracle.

Hosted by Adam Gordon Bell of Pulumi. 60 minutes, with live audience Q&A in the chat. The session is recorded and published afterwards.

Beyond the Hyperscalers: Building Sovereign Infrastructure