In June 2025, a senior technology executive told the French Senate that customer data stored in EU data centers could not be fully guaranteed against foreign government access. Shortly after, a new sovereign cloud region launched in Brandenburg governed by a German legal entity, operated by EU-resident staff, and physically separated from broader global infrastructure. The landscape has shifted. For IT leaders in German financial services, energy, healthcare, and defense, the traditional trade-off between global scale and strict European compliance looks very different today.
But different does not mean simple. Moving regulated workloads onto sovereign infrastructure raises complex questions: what capabilities are available now, what gaps remain, how costs compare to standard regions, and how existing architectures translate. With BSI registration deadlines approaching and DORA already in force, the window for decision-making is narrowing. This executive dinner will bring together a small group of peers from regulated German industries to candidly examine these challenges, share early experiences, and explore practical paths forward.
