Abstract
Europe is highly dependent on US cloud services. Until recently that was not a problem, but geopolitical shifts have made it risky. Technological sovereignty sounds nice, but how do we achieve it? Being able to easily move from one provider to another is an important part of the story. In this keynote Martin Kleppmann will talk about two technological trends that he has helped kick off, and that both aim to enable easy provider switching for different domains: local-first software (for collaborative tools) and the atproto ecosystem around Bluesky (for social media).
Speaker
Martin Kleppmann
Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, Author of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", Researcher in Decentralized Systems
Martin Kleppmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, working on decentralised systems and cryptographic protocols. He works with the Ink & Switch research lab on local-first collaboration software, and advises the decentralised social network Bluesky. In a previous life he was a Silicon Valley software engineer and entrepreneur, cofounding and selling two startups and working on large-scale data infrastructure at LinkedIn. He is the author of the best-selling O’Reilly book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".
