302: sovereign cloud and drinks found

Come and celebrate European sovereignty with us!

Sovereignty is the talk of the town, Europe needs their own datacenters because it is critical for organizations' business continuity. How is your token price and independence linked to Your cloud service provider ? Come and join the panel between Jo Caudron, prof. dr. Erik Mannens and Stein Van Stichel on 'Will EU sovereignty bring business continuity to Belgian organisations?'. Let there be real sovereignty and drinks. 

• When: Wednesday 21 October, 18:00 to 21:00
• Where: Bar Bassie, Wintercircus, Ghent
• What: Afterparty, right after Tectonic 2026. Drinks and fingerfood on us.

• Programme: 

  • 18h00: Start afterparty

  • 18h30: 'Will EU sovereignty bring business continuity to Belgian organisations?'

    A dynamic panel between: 

    • Jo Caudron - Belgian tech and transformation strategist who focuses on Europe’s digital sovereignty and independence from Big Tech.
    • Prof. Dr. Erik Mannens - Professor at Ghent University and University of Antwerp and a leading expert in Sustainable & Ethical AI.
    • Stein Van Stichel - Current CIO of Upgrade Estate, former CIO of Tomorrowland and Belgian digital infrastructure expert.
      + brand reveal of euown*
  • 19h00: Party time - drinks, good food & networking 
• Goodiebag: one month of free compute
  We want to stress-test our platform with people who will actually push it. You get one month of free GPU compute on euown. In return, you give us a 30-minute interview: what works, what breaks, what's missing. No sugar-coating, please!

See you there!

The euown.ai team