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Sydney
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AI ambitions are being built almost entirely on other people’s infrastructure, with sovereignty treated as an afterthought rather than a design principle.
For AI infrastructure, MLOps, risk and technology leaders.
Choosing a local availability zone answers a latency question, not a control question. Ownership of the hardware, the operator, and the legal entity behind them are separate matters, and they only become visible when something forces the issue.
That is the starting point for this series. Not a product session, and not a briefing. A table of senior people working through what sovereignty means concretely for their own workloads, and which of those requirements are real rather than assumed.
Six cities across APAC, between October and November 2026. Each table runs under the Chatham House Rule.
Nebius Q2 2026 financial results, 12 August 2026. The intake sheet flagged this as fast moving, so recheck before go live.
Each table works through the same three questions, shaped by what the room brings to them.
The first question is definitional and it rarely gets asked precisely: data residency, operator nationality, hardware ownership and legal jurisdiction are four different requirements and most policies conflate them.
// tension: residency is the easy part to satisfyThis session looks at the difference between reselling capacity and owning it: what changes in cost structure, in roadmap control, and in what can be committed to a regulator.
// differentiator: owned infrastructure rather than resold capacityThe table works through what teams have actually paid for sovereign infrastructure, in money and in capability, and whether the trade held up under scrutiny.
// context: full-stack AI cloud built outward from one jurisdictionEach city is its own table with its own room, confirmed independently. Registration of interest is open now, with dates and venues confirmed city by city.
Owning the full stack is what makes sovereignty a design principle rather than a claim.
Nebius Q2 2026 shareholder materials
Published Nebius material behind the questions on the table. Share your details once to unlock all three.
Tell us which city suits you and we will come back to confirm your spot.
Nebius is unusual among AI clouds in owning its infrastructure end to end rather than reselling capacity, including the land and power behind new sites. That vertical position is the basis of its sovereignty argument.
The company builds a full-stack platform for developers and enterprises, spanning data, model training and production deployment.
Innovatus Media is a Sydney based B2B events agency that runs invitation-only executive roundtable series across APAC, EMEA and North America.
We convene senior decision makers for closed door conversations on the problems they are actually working on, and produce every element of the series end to end, from the room and the table to the follow up.
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