Live Webinar
True Data Sovereignty
What it actually means, why most companies don't have it, and what to do about it.
Live on Zoom
08/10/26
45 mins
Two questions test whether you actually control your data.
Could you move your data platform?
Not the raw data, the transformations, the models, the business rules, the reports. Everything you've built on top of it, moved to a different platform, without rebuilding it.
Could you prove what happened to it?
Where it came from. Who had access. How it changed. What decisions it fed. On demand, the day someone asks, not weeks later.
Most organisations can't answer either question with confidence. That's not a compliance footnote. It's a business problem with real financial consequences, and the law is starting to catch up with it.
What you'll learn
Why data residency (where your data physically sits) isn't the same as data sovereignty, and why most vendor "sovereignty" pitches stop there
The three-part test for real sovereignty: residency, portability, and evidence
A four-stage maturity model (Foundational, Emerging, Maturing, Sovereign) to find out where your organisation actually stands
What the EU AI Act, EU Data Act, and DORA deadlines change about your data architecture, and why waiting gets more expensive
Five yes/no questions you can bring to your next vendor conversation
How Komatsu moved platforms in weeks, not quarters, and cut infrastructure costs by 49%, because their business logic was never locked into vendor-specific code
Who should attend:
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IT and data leaders evaluating platform or cloud commitments
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Teams in manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, or the public sector navigating GDPR, DORA, or the EU AI Act
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Anyone who has had to explain to an auditor where the data actually went
Speaker
Micah Horner
Product Marketing Manager, Timextender
Micah works on product marketing at Timextender, a metadata-driven data platform built for portability since 2006. This is a data talk, not a legal one. Expect a practitioner's view of what sovereignty requires architecturally, not a compliance lecture.
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About Timextender
Timextender helps organisations build AI-ready data foundations using metadata-driven automation. The Timextender Data Platform unifies Data Integration, Data Enrichment, Data Quality, and Orchestration in one platform, deployable across cloud, hybrid, or on-prem environments.


