Open Sovereign Cloud Day arrives at a moment when digital sovereignty has moved from an abstract policy conversation to an urgent, practical engineering priority—especially across Europe. As cloud native continues to underpin modern infrastructure, the community needs clearer definitions, shared language, and actionable patterns for reducing dependency risk through open source and cloud native software. This co-located event is designed to make sovereignty concrete, explain what it means in practice, and show how teams can apply it with real-world examples and best practices.
Who will get the most out of attending this event?
Open Sovereign Cloud Day is most valuable for platform teams and infrastructure operators who are directly responsible for managing risk, dependencies, and long-lived technology choices. These teams often sit closest to the decisions that shape sovereignty outcomes—where cloud strategy, operational resilience, security posture, and vendor reliance intersect.
That said, the topic spans the full cloud native audience. Application developers, SREs, security practitioners, and architects will benefit from understanding how sovereignty concerns influence the stacks they build on and the systems they operate. The event is designed to help attendees translate a complex, sometimes vague concept into practical decisions they can apply within their own organizations.
What is new and different this year?
This event offers a distinct perspective compared to most cloud native gatherings. Rather than beginning with the stack and exploring what can be built with it, Open Sovereign Cloud Day begins with an outcome—digital sovereignty—and works backward to examine how cloud native software can strengthen it.
The program is intentionally focused on clarity and action. It aims to define digital sovereignty in practical terms, explain its key dimensions, and then ground those ideas in real examples of sovereignty in practice. The goal is not just awareness, but enabling attendees to leave with a clearer understanding of what they can do next—and how.
What will the day look like?
Open Sovereign Cloud Day takes place on the Monday afternoon of KubeCon week. The event opens with talks that outline the various dimensions of digital sovereignty and why it matters in today’s cloud native landscape.
After a break, the agenda shifts toward more technical depth, with concrete examples, practical sovereignty-in-practice use cases, and forward-looking presentations that explore where this space is heading. The day concludes with a panel discussion bringing together key actors in Europe’s cloud sovereignty efforts, offering attendees a chance to hear perspectives, compare approaches, and connect the broader ecosystem context to day-to-day engineering realities.
Should I do any homework first?
No prior knowledge or preparation is required. The event is structured to be accessible for attendees who are new to the topic, while still offering depth through practical examples and technical discussions.
If you want to get more value from the conversations, it can help to reflect on where your own organization feels dependency risk most acutely—whether that’s cloud services, identity and access, platform components, or operational tooling—and come prepared with questions tied to your real-world constraints.
Find your community!
Open Sovereign Cloud Day strengthens the cloud native community by creating a shared space to build clarity around a key issue shaping infrastructure decisions in Europe right now. By bringing together practitioners and leaders working on sovereignty challenges, the event helps align understanding, surface practical patterns, and make the topic more actionable for teams building and operating cloud native platforms.
Security is the closest-aligned cloud native theme for this event: lack of sovereignty can create systemic risk, and without strong security practices, sovereignty is only an illusion. The community benefits when these discussions happen in the open, grounded in practical examples, and connected to cloud native software that teams can adopt, operate, and improve together.
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