In this keynote, Sebastiano Toffaletti explains why cybersecurity and technological sovereignty have become deeply interconnected in the current geopolitical environment, and why Europe is increasingly reconsidering its dependence on non-European digital infrastructures and supply chains. Toffaletti will also provide a broader perspective on how geopolitical tensions, supply chain concentration and technological dependencies are reshaping cybersecurity strategies, public procurement and industrial policy decisions across Europe. 

What you’ll gain 

• Recognize the risks of continuing with "business as usual" and how inaction could deepen Europe's structural dependence on non-European hyperscalers. 
• Identify the geopolitical, operational, and strategic vulnerabilities that excessive reliance on non-EU vendors creates for European companies and public administrations including lock-in effects and potential external control over critical digital infrastructure. 
• Discover actionable policy and industrial levers for building a successful European tech sovereignty strategy, including practical approaches to transform fragmentation into resilience through interoperability, federation, and strategic procurement.