“The Americans have taken my IT hostage”

How to break free from dependence on American cloud and AI providers, covering European alternatives, GDPR compliance and what digital sovereignty means for businesses and regions.

This panel brings together the contrasting viewpoints of cloud providers, the public sector and the open source community to map out concrete alternatives to dependence on the US tech giants.

Sovereignty
Cloud
GDPR
Infrastructure

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Quentin Adam

CEO & Co-founder · Clever Cloud

A developer turned entrepreneur, Quentin Adam co-founded Clever Cloud in 2010 to automate application deployment and operations. He has since championed open European digital infrastructure that organizations can control.

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Startup Contest judge

Constance Nebbula

Vice President for Digital and AI · Région Pays de la Loire

Vice President of the Région Pays de la Loire in charge of digital affairs and artificial intelligence, Constance Nebbula champions an approach to public-sector transformation grounded in real-world use, data and measurable impact.

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Tech entrepreneur · VLC · Scaleway · Kyber

President of VideoLAN, a leading figure behind VLC and founder of Kyber, Jean-Baptiste Kempf brings more than twenty years of experience in open source, multimedia systems and technology leadership.

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“The Americans have taken my IT hostage”

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