Sovereign AI and Sovereign Cloud in Media

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Sovereign AI and Sovereign Cloud in Media

12 Sept 2026
E102
IBC Owner & Partners Programme

As media organisations lean further into AI and cloud infrastructure, questions of control, dependency, and resilience are moving to the centre of the technology agenda. This panel explores what sovereignty really means for broadcasting: the trade-offs between global hyperscaler capabilities and emerging European alternatives, the rise of sovereign AI models and edge/local LLMs for newsrooms and production, and what a realistic path to greater digital autonomy looks like without sacrificing innovation or cost efficiency.

Owner session run by SMPTE

Speakers
Adrian Sommer, Data and AI solution Strategist - Schwarz Digits/Stackit Data & AI
Hans Hoffman, Deputy Director at EBU Technology & Innovation Department - Media Technology Strategies - EBU
Jeff Kember, Broadcast Industry Developer Relations - NVIDIA
Jörg Nowak, CRO - Blockbrain
Tobias Walter, Professor for Process Science - Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences
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