The Global Sovereign AI Opportunity: Exploring the Impact of Open Source in Public and Private Sector Sovereign AI Innovation and Competitiveness
Inspired by the emergence of DeepSeek to change the innovation landscape, this study will deploy both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to engage technology stakeholders and strategists to better understand sovereign AI trends and opportunities within and beyond the nation-state context. It will explore the extent to which leaders across government (federal, state/provincial, municipal) and enterprise (Fortune 500, SMEs, startups) are adopting open source AI technologies to create sovereign AI systems that are uniquely tailored to the entities’ use cases to achieve competitive advantage and business value, and give an understanding of related barriers to implementation (computational resources, datasets, team member skills, ethics, and standards).
LF AI & Data has hosted a three-part webinar series across different time zones to engage a global audience on this important topic. Watch webinar recordings below:
Webinar #1 – North America Edition
- Watch this webinar recording on LF AI & Data YouTube channel
- Moderator:
- Hilary Carter, SVP Research at The Linux Foundation
- Panelists:
- Vincent Caldeira, CTO of Red Hat in APAC
- Marc Lijour, FinTech Innovation at Exaion
- Jerry Cuomo, Fellow at IBM
- Eugene Cheah, CEO at Featherless.AI, Co-Lead for RWKV project under Linux Foundation.
Webinar #2 – Europe Edition
- Watch this webinar recording on LF AI & Data YouTube channel
- Moderator: Hilary Carter, SVP Research at The Linux Foundation
- Panelists:
- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, EU Policy Lead & Applied Researcher at Hugging Face
- Louis Stewart, Head of Strategic Initiatives at NVIDIA
- Colin Eberhardt, CTO at Scott Logic
- Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer at OpenInfra Foundation
Webinar #3 – APAC Edition
- Watch this webinar recording on LF AI & Data YouTube channel
- Moderator: Anni Lai
- Panelists:
- Dr. Minghui Zhou, Tenured Full Professor and Vice Dean of PeKing University, School of Computer Science, Software Engineering Institute
- Dr. Qin Wang, Sr. Research Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Professor at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Richard Bian, Head of Open Source, Ant Group
- Emily Chen, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
- Richard Lin, Co-founder & 2025 Vice Chairperson, KAIYUANSHE (China Open Source Alliance)
