Here we go #digitalsovereignty
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#digitalSovereignty
Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, France – we are being too slowed down by standards writing. But for some reason she wants to slow down the #AIA rather than recognising regulatory capture by the standards process (I warned about that in 2022: https://data-en-maatschappij.ai/en/publications/paper-belgian-and-flemish-policy-makers-guide-to-ai-regulation )#digitalsovereignty interestingly, the wifi is OK now, as long as you don't go to a new website. I think they must be really carefully checking any new site being accessed, e.g. my publications page...
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#digitalsovereignty interestingly, the wifi is OK now, as long as you don't go to a new website. I think they must be really carefully checking any new site being accessed, e.g. my publications page...
Next panel #digitalsovereignty is less depressing, some winners in quantum & robotics & VC see Europe's advantages & advances.
Startups, Investors and Government
Thomas Steffen, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK), Germany
Chloé Poisbeau, COO, Alice&Bob
Marc Wietfeld, CEO, ARX Robotics
Romy Schnelle, Managing Director, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
Thomas Courbe, Director General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France -
Next panel #digitalsovereignty is less depressing, some winners in quantum & robotics & VC see Europe's advantages & advances.
Startups, Investors and Government
Thomas Steffen, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK), Germany
Chloé Poisbeau, COO, Alice&Bob
Marc Wietfeld, CEO, ARX Robotics
Romy Schnelle, Managing Director, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)
Thomas Courbe, Director General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, FranceStill some standard lines – not enough "growth financing" after you've started up, not enough people who can work on the whole value chain. Everyone says the EU has so much money and savings, & we need to put more of it into getting companies to IPO. I worry there's to much focus on "exits," and not enough appreciation of a cozy, stable blanket of long-term webs of SMEs. Hyperscaling indicates utilities, needing heavy regulation, not ordinary market participants. #digitalSovereignty
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Still some standard lines – not enough "growth financing" after you've started up, not enough people who can work on the whole value chain. Everyone says the EU has so much money and savings, & we need to put more of it into getting companies to IPO. I worry there's to much focus on "exits," and not enough appreciation of a cozy, stable blanket of long-term webs of SMEs. Hyperscaling indicates utilities, needing heavy regulation, not ordinary market participants. #digitalSovereignty
Timotheus Höttges, CEO, Deutsche Telekom
we used to have global values chains now: tech nationalism
we had physical ownership, now we have digital access, who owns?we used to have proprietary systems, now everything is about openness and interoperability, setting the standards defines the access and quality; is this us?
old: digitalisation; new: superinteilligence he gives EU zero for this. "Ai is able to reason, ai is able to create, it's creating autonomous systems"
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Timotheus Höttges, CEO, Deutsche Telekom
we used to have global values chains now: tech nationalism
we had physical ownership, now we have digital access, who owns?we used to have proprietary systems, now everything is about openness and interoperability, setting the standards defines the access and quality; is this us?
old: digitalisation; new: superinteilligence he gives EU zero for this. "Ai is able to reason, ai is able to create, it's creating autonomous systems"
old: industry 4.o new: "physical ai"
"put your blinkers on and cross the river feeling the stones.
Cristina Caffarra, Expert in Digital Markets / Euro Stack Initiative
stack is only chips, we need to regain contol on this.
we did a complete wrong term when we thought regulation would give us an industry [no, we thought it would give us a large, solid, sustainable, secure market, and we were right. Last I knew she took a lot of money from Apple and Microsoft?] -
old: industry 4.o new: "physical ai"
"put your blinkers on and cross the river feeling the stones.
Cristina Caffarra, Expert in Digital Markets / Euro Stack Initiative
stack is only chips, we need to regain contol on this.
we did a complete wrong term when we thought regulation would give us an industry [no, we thought it would give us a large, solid, sustainable, secure market, and we were right. Last I knew she took a lot of money from Apple and Microsoft?]Surprisingly, Rolf Schumann, Co-CEO, Schwarz Digits
Octave Klaba, CEO, OVHcloud
are kind of boring after all that (which I only reported, didn't entirely agree with, but Höttges in particular was quite the speaker.) Caffara though does pound on the idea of government procurement at a minimum being localised, says that's fair since the whole world does it (?) and calls BS on people saying that there is in fact adequate products out there she says they still need to be built. #digitalsovereignty -
Surprisingly, Rolf Schumann, Co-CEO, Schwarz Digits
Octave Klaba, CEO, OVHcloud
are kind of boring after all that (which I only reported, didn't entirely agree with, but Höttges in particular was quite the speaker.) Caffara though does pound on the idea of government procurement at a minimum being localised, says that's fair since the whole world does it (?) and calls BS on people saying that there is in fact adequate products out there she says they still need to be built. #digitalsovereigntyFinal #digitalsovereignty panel before lunch: Europe: The Continent of AI Opportunities
Vanessa Cann, AI Leader, Entrepreneur, Business Angel
Christian Klein, CEO, SAP
Arthur Mensch, Founder and CEO, Mistral
Robin Rombach, CEO and Co-Founder, Black Forest Labs
Christel Heydemann, CEO, Orange Grouplots of idioms being thrown around.
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Final #digitalsovereignty panel before lunch: Europe: The Continent of AI Opportunities
Vanessa Cann, AI Leader, Entrepreneur, Business Angel
Christian Klein, CEO, SAP
Arthur Mensch, Founder and CEO, Mistral
Robin Rombach, CEO and Co-Founder, Black Forest Labs
Christel Heydemann, CEO, Orange Grouplots of idioms being thrown around.
I'm kind of agreeing with someone (Vanessa Cann?): the race isn't over it's barely begun. Well, unless you look at the #climateCrisis; it's possible large-scale tech innovation will end within 30 years or so & AI started in the 1950s. But for sure outcomes are unpredictable in periods of enormous inequality & yet enormous digital accessibility like now. Anything could come up anywhere in the world, which is why the US harms itself when fighting its EU siblings in democracy. #digitalsovereignty
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I'm kind of agreeing with someone (Vanessa Cann?): the race isn't over it's barely begun. Well, unless you look at the #climateCrisis; it's possible large-scale tech innovation will end within 30 years or so & AI started in the 1950s. But for sure outcomes are unpredictable in periods of enormous inequality & yet enormous digital accessibility like now. Anything could come up anywhere in the world, which is why the US harms itself when fighting its EU siblings in democracy. #digitalsovereignty
We're back to hear more bashing on the regulation that's helping us not demolish our own security like the US is and UK has. This time from Ralf Wintergerst, President, Bitkom in the context of
The EUDI Wallet: A Key Enabler in Building a Digital Europe Rooted in Sovereignty, Trust and #Interoperability
(everyone is talking about interoperability today but no one can pronounce it
I shouldn't joke my German and French are also terrible.) #digitalsovereignty #digitalGovernance #AIEthics -
We're back to hear more bashing on the regulation that's helping us not demolish our own security like the US is and UK has. This time from Ralf Wintergerst, President, Bitkom in the context of
The EUDI Wallet: A Key Enabler in Building a Digital Europe Rooted in Sovereignty, Trust and #Interoperability
(everyone is talking about interoperability today but no one can pronounce it
I shouldn't joke my German and French are also terrible.) #digitalsovereignty #digitalGovernance #AIEthicsMore speakers:
Roberto Viola, Director-General, DG Networks, Content and Technology, EC
Kristina Yasuda, Product Owner, SPRIND
Anne-Gaëlle Baudouin, Executive Director, ANTS
Agnès Diallo, CEO, IN Groupe
Oliver Lauer, CDO, Deutscher Sparkassen- und GiroverbandAm I the only one who doesn't like having my phone near readers? Is this really all cybersecure in all circumstances? I feel a lot safer waving cards and circulating cash #digitalsovereignty #cybersecurity #digitalWallet #personalSecurity
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More speakers:
Roberto Viola, Director-General, DG Networks, Content and Technology, EC
Kristina Yasuda, Product Owner, SPRIND
Anne-Gaëlle Baudouin, Executive Director, ANTS
Agnès Diallo, CEO, IN Groupe
Oliver Lauer, CDO, Deutscher Sparkassen- und GiroverbandAm I the only one who doesn't like having my phone near readers? Is this really all cybersecure in all circumstances? I feel a lot safer waving cards and circulating cash #digitalsovereignty #cybersecurity #digitalWallet #personalSecurity
How does letting children have wallets on their phones link up with those trying to prevent children and therefore everyone from having #cybersecurity?
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How does letting children have wallets on their phones link up with those trying to prevent children and therefore everyone from having #cybersecurity?
Glad to have someone talking about the fact that not every one has or wants or can afford a smart phone! Agnès Diallo talks about digital inclusion (which gets dropped again without further address.) One problem with our excellent money laundering rules was that 20% of the world couldn't meet the requirements and were excluded from banking, and thus made natural allies with kleptocrats, Musk & Thiel. #digitalsovereignty #socialCohesion #inequality
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Glad to have someone talking about the fact that not every one has or wants or can afford a smart phone! Agnès Diallo talks about digital inclusion (which gets dropped again without further address.) One problem with our excellent money laundering rules was that 20% of the world couldn't meet the requirements and were excluded from banking, and thus made natural allies with kleptocrats, Musk & Thiel. #digitalsovereignty #socialCohesion #inequality
Slightly delayed #digitalSovereignty keynote: Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs, Denmark
"European strength has never come from building walls" #Berlin
I love Denmark, but not that both of their diplomats to the US big tech got hired by Microsoft after they finished their terms.
She's proposing that we make the EU sovereign by eliminating its laws. You can move "decryption" of the law forward WITHOUT changing the law, but by education & services.
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Slightly delayed #digitalSovereignty keynote: Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs, Denmark
"European strength has never come from building walls" #Berlin
I love Denmark, but not that both of their diplomats to the US big tech got hired by Microsoft after they finished their terms.
She's proposing that we make the EU sovereign by eliminating its laws. You can move "decryption" of the law forward WITHOUT changing the law, but by education & services.
DK holds the EU presidency right now.
At lunch, we discussed how the proposed delay of enforcement of the #AIAct is a consequence of allowing the centralisation of enforcement in the EC. While an understandable response to the GDPR enforcement issues, but neither a smart nor the best one. Centralising power facilitates regulatory capture.
#digitalSovereignty for the EU should involve exploiting the resilient resource of our 27+ governments. We don't want veto players. We do want #enforcement
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DK holds the EU presidency right now.
At lunch, we discussed how the proposed delay of enforcement of the #AIAct is a consequence of allowing the centralisation of enforcement in the EC. While an understandable response to the GDPR enforcement issues, but neither a smart nor the best one. Centralising power facilitates regulatory capture.
#digitalSovereignty for the EU should involve exploiting the resilient resource of our 27+ governments. We don't want veto players. We do want #enforcement
This supposed half hour panel is very European somehow. #digitalSovereignty
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This supposed half hour panel is very European somehow. #digitalSovereignty
My seat mate, Anke Domscheit-Berg (former Linke MP) gets me to stop being snarky to listen to Thomas Jarzombek, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, Germany whom she says isn't as bad as some of the ones who went before, but TBH I didn't catch much new from him either.
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My seat mate, Anke Domscheit-Berg (former Linke MP) gets me to stop being snarky to listen to Thomas Jarzombek, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, Germany whom she says isn't as bad as some of the ones who went before, but TBH I didn't catch much new from him either.
The panel is The Power of Digital Commons: Building Europe’s Shared Digital Future
Art de Blaauw, CIO Dutch Central Government, Ministry of the Interior & Kingdom Relations, apparently was just elected the first president of a committee (edict?) on digital commons within the EU. He makes a nice speech but again no news…oh here's some news! Docs, open source govtech document editor built by DE FR & NL. Which I cannot find even searching with @kagihq 300K people are using it? #digitalSovereignty
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The panel is The Power of Digital Commons: Building Europe’s Shared Digital Future
Art de Blaauw, CIO Dutch Central Government, Ministry of the Interior & Kingdom Relations, apparently was just elected the first president of a committee (edict?) on digital commons within the EU. He makes a nice speech but again no news…oh here's some news! Docs, open source govtech document editor built by DE FR & NL. Which I cannot find even searching with @kagihq 300K people are using it? #digitalSovereignty
It's a little weird hearing an Austrian talking about since the beginning of humanity technology determined empires. He said EDIC started in Vienna only 8 weeks ago hmm I think this is DC-EDIC https://www.zendis.de/en/newsroom/press/dc-edic-gegruendet which is one of the special cases of EDICs https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/edic
Alexander Pröll, State Secretary for Digitalisation, Federal Chancellery, Austriastill failing to find it online...
#edic #digitalSovereignty -
It's a little weird hearing an Austrian talking about since the beginning of humanity technology determined empires. He said EDIC started in Vienna only 8 weeks ago hmm I think this is DC-EDIC https://www.zendis.de/en/newsroom/press/dc-edic-gegruendet which is one of the special cases of EDICs https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/edic
Alexander Pröll, State Secretary for Digitalisation, Federal Chancellery, Austriastill failing to find it online...
#edic #digitalSovereigntyI believe it was Adriana Groh, Managing Director, Sovereign Tech Agency
who just said
"this [independent, multi provider, open source software?] is the mission of the sovereign tech agency...infrastructure is power "
Corinne Cath, Digital Policy and Infrastructure Governance Expert @article19
The attacks on infrastructure are attacks on democracy disguised as glitches. These were timed to interfere with Danish elections.
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I believe it was Adriana Groh, Managing Director, Sovereign Tech Agency
who just said
"this [independent, multi provider, open source software?] is the mission of the sovereign tech agency...infrastructure is power "
Corinne Cath, Digital Policy and Infrastructure Governance Expert @article19
The attacks on infrastructure are attacks on democracy disguised as glitches. These were timed to interfere with Danish elections.
In general, Corinne Cath, was awesome (as always) Someone finally calling this warfare out, really talking about why this matters.
"We cannot be turned off by accident, or as is increasingly likely in 2025, by intent."
