CISERO at Cloud X Summit 2026: Matthias Kuom on the Future of Cloud in Europe
A European stage for digital sovereignty
On 17 September 2026, the RheinMain CongressCenter in Wiesbaden hosts the fourth edition of the Cloud X Summit, an event organised by cloud provider STACKIT under the theme "Xperience. Xchange. Xplore." Matthias Kuom, CISERO's coordinator from DLR, will take part in "The future of Cloud in Europe," a panel-format session held as part of Breakout Session 2, running from 12:15 to 12:40 on the Panel Stage. He is joined on the panel by Dr Sebastian Hausmann, Stéphane du Boispéan, Susanne Schöne and Dr Andreas Gentner.
Why this matters for the CISERO community
Digital sovereignty sits at the centre of the summit's programme, running through keynotes from figures including Claudia Plattner, President of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), and Dr Sandra Maus, Chief Growth Officer of SAP Germany, alongside senior voices from Schwarz Digits. This is the same territory IPCEI-CIS occupies: building the sovereign cloud-edge infrastructure that allows Europe to reduce dependency on non-European providers. For CISERO's stakeholder community — the industrial and research partners working across the twelve Member States involved in the initiative — a summit gathering IT decision-makers, national cybersecurity authorities and major cloud vendors around this exact question offers a useful read on where the wider market and policy conversation currently stands.
CISERO's role at the summit
Matthias Kuom brings a public-sector perspective shaped by more than two decades of experience helping governments apply technology for public value, with a current focus spanning the cloud-edge continuum, artificial intelligence, Industrie 4.0, data spaces and innovation management. In this breakout session, his contribution is expected to draw on the cross-sector vantage point to set out where large-scale, publicly backed initiatives like IPCEI-CIS fit into Europe's broader push toward a self-determined cloud infrastructure.