From Data Location to Digital Confidence: Privacy, Control and Resilience for Europe

Digital sovereignty is moving from political ambition to operational reality. As organizations look beyond where data is located, attention is increasingly turning to broader questions of control, choice and resilience.

This keynote explores how privacy and digital sovereignty are becoming increasingly interconnected, drawing on Microsoft’s European Digital Commitments and the EU Data Boundary. It considers how Europe can strengthen meaningful control and digital resilience while preserving innovation and interoperability — and why a risk-based approach to sovereignty, focused on demonstrable control rather than isolation, is ultimately about building trust.