Data sovereignty as an urgent strategic issue 

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Digital transformation #mindcandy 30 September 2025

The topics are:

  • You are the upgrade
  • Infrastructure
  • Data sovereignty
  • Transformation vs IT
  • Software creation
  • IoT and AI
  • Small task specific LLMs

You are the upgrade

You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward (e-book, also available as a Bookbuzz session)

Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.

Why data must drive the future of infrastructure

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opinion/why-data-must-drive-the-future-of-infrastructure

Data-driven infrastructure is key to tackling climate risks, urban growth and system failures before they happen

In age of AI, time to own your data amid rising sovereignty concerns

https://www.business-standard.com/industry/news/in-age-of-ai-time-to-own-your-data-amid-rising-sovereignty-concerns-125092800771_1.html

Geopolitical tensions and a sense of control have made data sovereignty an urgent strategic issue for enterprises

Digital transformation is not an IT project

https://www.nzz.ch/themen-dossiers/kpmg/digital-transformation-is-not-an-it-project-ld.1904364

It takes more than just technological innovation for companies to keep up with the competition nowadays. What they need is a comprehensive change process across all business areas that factors in the organization.

Future of software creation lies not in lines of code, but in natural language

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/future-of-software-creation-lies-not-in-lines-of-code-but-in-natural-language

More tech abstraction.

IoT and AI Revolutionize Supply Chain Logistics for Sustainability

https://www.webpronews.com/iot-and-ai-revolutionize-supply-chain-logistics-for-sustainability/

The integration of IoT and AI is transforming supply chain logistics into efficient, sustainable systems, with companies like IPP using sensor-embedded pallets for real-time tracking and predictive analytics. 

What if we’ve been doing agentic AI all wrong? MIT offshoot Liquid AI offers new small, task-specific Liquid Nano models

https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-if-weve-been-doing-agentic-ai-all-wrong-mit-offshoot-liquid-ai-offers

Liquid AI, a startup pursuing alternatives to the popular “transformer”-based AI models that have come to define the generative AI era, is announcing not one, not two, but a whole family of six different types of AI models called Liquid Nanos 

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