Date: Wednesday 20th January 2027 Address: 4-6 Upper Crescent Belfast BT7 1NT
Sovereign AI: who controls the intelligence you depend on?
AI is quickly becoming part of the infrastructure of a modern business, which raises a hard question: who's really in control? This year showed this isn’t a hypothetical. Access to leading AI models was suspended, IP is being replicated and these decisions are being made outside the UK. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland faces the prospect of AI rules that diverge from the rest of the UK.
Sovereignty is about more than where your data sits. It runs through the models you use, the compute they run on, the suppliers behind them and the laws that govern them. Few organisations can control all of that. The real question is which dependencies you can live with, and what you’ll do when one fails.
Join Kainos, Danske Bank and Unosquare for an honest look at what sovereign AI means in practice, and how to balance capability, cost and control.
Drinks and networking to follow.
