The Digital Sovereignty Questions Every Enterprise Should Be Asking with Jason Willeford

<p>James Governor sits down with Jason Willeford, Global Lead for Secure Global Support at Red Hat, to dig into digital sovereignty and why it's become such a big deal for European enterprises. Jason explains Red Hat's Confirmed Sovereign Support, launched last year, which keeps EU customer data and the engineers handling it inside the EU. They cover what sovereignty actually means, why banks and telcos now care about it as much as public sector agencies do, and how AI complicates the picture when you don't know where a model was trained or what data it consumed on the way there. The conversation also touches on IBM's Sovereign Core, Project Lightwell, and RHEL for SAP.</p><p></p><p>This RedMonk conversation is sponsored by Red Hat.</p><p></p><p>Show notes: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://redmonk.com/videos/jason-willeford/" target="_blank">https://redmonk.com/videos/<b>jason-willeford</b>/</a></p><p></p><p>Chapters</p><p>00:00 Introduction to Digital Sovereignty</p><p>02:26 Understanding Sovereignty: Definitions and Spectrum</p><p>05:31 The Complexity of Sovereignty in Europe</p><p>08:21 Data Sovereignty and Support Models</p><p>11:28 AI Sovereignty and Its Implications</p><p>14:15 Operational Sovereignty and Customer Engagement</p><p>17:20 The Role of Red Hat in Sovereignty</p><p>20:40 Sovereign Core and Global Expansion</p><p>23:36 Mindset Shift Towards Sovereignty</p><p>26:22 Engaging Developers and Enterprises on Sovereignty</p><p>29:36 The Future of Sovereignty and Open Source</p>