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Sovereign AI at Scale: Enterprise-Ready AI with Microsoft and AMD

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AI is becoming central to how governments and enterprises operate, but adoption is shaped by data, security, compliance, and cost requirements. This session explores Microsoft’s approach to Sovereign AI, informed by experience supporting public-sector and regulated organizations. Learn proven practices for data residency, governance, confidential computing, and enterprise readiness, and how AMD-powered infrastructure helps deliver performance, scale, and cost efficiency for secure inference and enterprise AI workloads.

July 23, 2026 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT

Alistair Speirs
Alistair Speirs

General Manager, Azure Infrastructure | Microsoft

Scott Tease
Scott Tease

Topic

Enterprise AI

AI Infrastructure

Session Type

Breakout Session

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EPYC, Instinct, ROCm

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