Jan Amtoft’s perspective sets the foundation for the discussion by outlining how geopolitics is reshaping the CIO agenda and why digital sovereignty is becoming a core design principle rather than a regulatory afterthought.

He will highlight the structural shifts impacting global IT strategies - from emerging digital blocs to growing regulatory fragmentation - and the CIO’s evolving role between business, technology, and policy. Key elements in Jan’s presentation:

• IT is no longer apolitical: cloud, AI, and data are shaped by national laws and geopolitics
• The world is fragmenting into digital blocs, requiring interoperability over uniformity
• CIOs face key trade-offs between innovation and sovereignty, speed and control, cost, and resilience
• Digital sovereignty means operational autonomy, enabled through selective dependence, architecture, and vendor strategy

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