European organisations are re-evaluating how much control they have over their data infrastructure. Regulatory frameworks like GDPR, NIS2, and DORA are tightening requirements, and strategic dependency on US hyperscalers is becoming a board-level concern in regulated industries.
In this session, Paweł Piwosz breaks down what data sovereignty means in practice and why it matters now. Niels Claeys walks through the architecture of a portable, cloud-agnostic data platform and deploys it live on UpCloud, showing what it takes to run a production-grade platform on European infrastructure with open-source tools and zero hyperscaler lock-in.
What we’ll cover:
- Why data sovereignty is becoming a strategic necessity for European organisations
- How to design data platforms that are portable by default, using open-source components
- A live deployment demo on UpCloud, with architecture walkthrough
- Real-world trade-offs: operational overhead, team skills, and long-term maintainability
Who this is for:
Cloud architects, DevOps engineers, data and platform engineers, and IT leaders evaluating infrastructure dependencies or exploring sovereign cloud deployment.
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Niels Claeys
Lead Data Engineer & Partner | Dataminded
Niels is a data engineer with over 10 years of experience in data, specializing in building scalable data platforms on AWS, Azure and EU clouds and focusing on the inner workings of distributed systems.
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Pawel Piwosz
Developer Advocate | UpCloud
Pawel is an engineer and speaker, the author of the CI/CD design framework (cicd.run), co-author of CI/CD Design Patterns, and host of the “DevOps In Agile Way” and “OhMyCloud!”.