Biography
Siobhan is a product and engineering executive at Compliance & Risks/Adherent, where she leads the development of AI-driven regulatory intelligence solutions for global enterprises. With a background spanning platform transformation and data-centric product strategy, she has played a key role in evolving legacy systems into modern, AI-first architectures.
Beyond her work at C&R/Adherent, Siobhan is a founder and fractional CTO, advising B2B SaaS companies on scaling engineering teams, embedding AI into products, and navigating complex technical pivots. Her experience bridges deep technical execution with commercial product thinking, particularly in regulated industries and data-rich environments.
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, Jan Kavalírek, Pedro Romera