Azure Sweden and Microsoft cloud for sovereignty - Asbjörn Ejsing & Daniel Akenine

Datacenters, resiliency, and sovereignty. As the world becomes more dependent on digital services datacenters becomes a critical infrastructure that needs to work for society to work. Are we ready to handle these new types of threats? Learn more about the status for the Microsoft Cloud region, how do they look like in Sweden and how can we think about resiliency. What is digital sovereignty and what is Microsoft cloud for Sovereignty?
Asbjörn Ejsing have more than 27 years of ICT experience and is a seasoned sales and business development executive and have for at least the last decade been responsible for delivering critical IT services in public and private sector. For the last 3 years its been my mission to launch the new Microsoft data center region in Sweden.
Daniel Akenine is a physicist, lecturer, writer and former neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He works as the National Technology Officer for Microsoft Sweden. In 2015 he was appointed to IASA Fellow and ranked as one of the top IT-architects worldwide. In 2022 he was listed as one of the 50 most influential in tech in Sweden by IDG and TechSverige.
This session was recorded at Swetugg Stockholm 2023, Swetugg is run by a group of volunteers with different IT backgrounds with a common denominator: A passion for creating good software and better software developers, no matter if you are just starting your journey or have been writing code since the beginning of unix time.