Biography
Oscar Lepoeter is an AI Fellow at Herprogrammeer De Overheid and Co-Founder of Manava, where he advises organizations on learning, development, and AI literacy. A lecturer in digital literacy at Windesheim University, Oscar studies the impact of digital technology on children's development and champions critical thinking about AI in education. He is a contributor to the Netherlands' National AI Delta Plan, a major initiative to drive widespread AI adoption and literacy across Dutch society. A self-described generalist, Oscar holds degrees in Cultural History, Biomedical Engineering, and Education from institutions including Utrecht University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and UCL Institute of Education. He is a recognized voice in AI education discourse, regularly publishing research-driven insights on prompt engineering, AI pedagogy, and digital literacy to his 18,000+ newsletter subscribers.
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 Justin Strharsky, Jan Kavalírek, Pedro Romera, Siobhan Fairman, Pawel Rzeszucinski