The Digital Sovereignty Crossword 📝

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Across
  1. 2. CTO Bram Somers argued that reducing complexity means this traditional hosting model is now both simpler and cheaper than hyperscaler solutions.
  2. 6. The state-owned bank represented by CTO Bram Somers, which built its own stack from the hardware up to reduce complexity.
  3. 7. 80% of the software and cloud spending leaving Europe’s economy flows to these large-scale providers.
  4. 9. Generative AI has become the number-one vector for corporate data
  5. 10. SUSE announced the Sovereign Partner ________ at SUSECON 2026, an invite-only network of certified partners.
Down
  1. 1. Uncoordinated action regarding sovereign standards risks producing EU-level ________ rather than solving the problem.
  2. 3. Andreas Prins, SUSE’s Global Head of Sovereign Solutions documented that sovereign risk is not ________.
  3. 4. The summit's sharpest consensus was that private enterprise must shift this purchasing process to achieve true sovereignty.
  4. 5. This mechanism, representing the attack surface of digital dependency, is already active at the data and infrastructure layers.
  5. 8. Gatien Gheza argued that the ability to exit and this specific feature are the real measures of sovereignty, not geographic location