Keynote Panel: The Sovereign Stack: Nations, Enterprises & the Demand for Verifiable AI - Panel

Keynote Panel: The Sovereign Stack: Nations, Enterprises & the Demand for Verifiable AI - Hugo Romero, AMD; Najwa Aaraj, TII; Mark Russinovich, Microsoft; Nelly Porter, Google; Mike Bursell, CCC The race to deploy AI agents has exposed a fundamental gap in what “sovereign AI” actually means. Localized hosting and domestic ownership are no longer enough for true sovereignty. As nations and enterprises deploy AI at scale across sensitive infrastructure and distributed systems, the question is no longer whether they want sovereign AI, but whether they can prove it. True sovereignty requires verifiable answers to four questions: what code ran, where it ran, who operated it, and what rules were enforced. This keynote panel convenes leaders across the full sovereign stack, including silicon, cloud, and frontier model labs, to examine why hardware-enforced verifiability has become the cornerstone of production-grade sovereign AI deployments. The conversation will explore how hyperscalers, frontier model labs, and sovereign platforms are shaping trusted AI infrastructure, and why Confidential AI is now the foundational layer for compliance, IP protection, governance, and verifiable sovereignty. Because without proof of sovereignty, you have nothing.