As artificial intelligence moves to large-scale deployment, Europe faces a defining moment: how to build the sovereign cloud, compute and data infrastructure needed to support innovation, resilience, and technological leadership. This edition of Bitkom Bento explored the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, as well as the broader policy choices shaping Europe’s digital infrastructure agenda. Together with leading policymakers and industry experts, we discussed how Europe can create the conditions for scalable AI development, and what is needed to turn ambition into capability.
The discussion featured the following speakers:
Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA
Michael Schultz, Head of Division for the Computing Infrastructure and Applications, Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
Pia Kraus, Senior Government Affairs Manager, SAP
Manuel Goyet, Head of Unit Cloud & Software, DG CNECT, European Commission
