🎧 Listen today across all your favorite podcast platforms → https://ibm.biz/~3CDw9kLJW As AI adoption accelerates and global regulations evolve, digital sovereignty has shifted from policy concept to board-level priority. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell sits down live at VivaTech with IBM’s Ana Paula Assis and AXA CIO Giovanni D’Aniello to explore how organizations can balance innovation, control, trust, and resilience in the age of AI. 00:00 – What Is Digital Sovereignty and Why Does It Matter? 00:40 – How Digital Sovereignty Became a Business Priority 01:44 – The Real Cost of Cloud Vendor Lock-In 04:19 – Most Companies Don't Know Their Digital Dependencies 05:40 – The Four Dimensions of Digital Sovereignty 07:39 – Data Privacy Laws and Regulatory Compliance Explained 09:15 – Digital Sovereignty as a Business Resilience Strategy 11:47 – How AI Is Complicating Data Sovereignty 13:10 – Agentic AI and the Future of Data Control 15:47 – Keeping Up With AI Innovation and Cyber Risk 17:02 – Why This AI Revolution Feels Unprecedented 19:39 – Balancing Cloud Innovation With Data Control 21:22 – How to Build Sovereignty Into Your Tech Architecture 26:36 – Why Trust and Transparency Matter in AI Partnerships 37:39 – Why Companies Are Taking Back Control of Their Tech Stack #ibm #aigovernance #aiadoption #digitalsovereignty

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