Pure Leadership Series - Data Sovereignty: Building Your Geopolitical Firewall Before You Need One
- By CDOTrends editors
- January 20, 2026
Pure Leadership Series
Data Sovereignty: Building Your Geopolitical Firewall Before You Need One
15 January 2025 | Online
Service disruption is no longer an “if” but an inevitability. Every enterprise is now rethinking where its data lives because one geopolitical move could shut down operations overnight. You are invited to this panel discussion that goes beyond checking compliance boxes to discuss building real operational independence. A Pure Leadership Series Webinar, it covers choosing providers who can't be switched off by foreign governments, securing your supply chains, and designing IT architectures that keep running when the world doesn't. We'll cover:
- Insights on moving beyond basic automation toward truly intelligent, self-optimizing systems
- Building for tomorrow's regulations today: How to position your data infrastructure now for AI mandates and critical infrastructure rules that haven't landed yet
- The hybrid playbook: How to assess which data workloads stay sovereign and which go global—based on actual risk, not fear, and the technology to enable it
- Provider due diligence that matters: How to vet ownership structures, operational control, and legal exposure to foreign interference
Moderator: Winston Thomas, Editor-in-Chief, CDOTrends
Panelists:
Karthik Vuyyala, Executive Director, Global Funds & Fiduciary Product, Standard Chartered Bank
Matthew Oostveen, Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan, Pure Storage
