Biography
Jan Kavalírek is a former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, responsible for artificial intelligence and new technologies. Now he serves as a CEE AI Ambassador representing CEE AI business and research community and also as a Director for EU AI Affairs of Czech Radiocommunications. In this role he is responsible for leading the czech AI Gigafactory project.
Session
- AI FoundationsSpeaker
Debate 3 — Sovereign AI or Surrender? Should Europe Stop Outsourcing Its AI Future?
Wednesday 23 September, 12:00 – 12:55Auditorium StageEurope is building 13 AI Factories, funding Mistral and Aleph Alpha, demanding open weights, and writing the world's strictest AI law. Yet 90% of European AI compute still runs on AWS, Azure and GCP, and the foundation model leaderboards are American and Chinese. So is sovereign AI the project of the decade for European strategic autonomy — or an expensive industrial-policy fantasy that taxes EU founders without producing winners? One debater says Europe must stop renting its future. The other says we already lost — partner up and accept it.
With Damien Acheson, Justin Strharsky, Pedro Romera, Siobhan Fairman