Session
10:30–11:1040 min
Geopolitics, sovereign compute and the physical infrastructure behind AI
AI is becoming geopolitics. Chips, compute, energy, data centres, networks and cloud are now part of industrial strategy. The Nordics have power, land and competence. But hosting infrastructure is not the same as controlling it.
What must Europe build or own, what role can Norway play, and where does real estate fit?
10:30–10:40
Hosting AI infrastructure is one thing. Building an industry around it is another.
Data centres need much more than land and power: cooling, connectivity, automation, construction, security and energy systems at enormous scale. With a background from Big Tech and infrastructure development, Shahzad Rana asks how Norway turn its advantages into companies, capabilities and expertise we can export.
10:40–10:50
Sovereign AI: Security Is the Architecture
AI is becoming critical infrastructure. But running it in a Norwegian data centre doesn't necessarily make it sovereign, or secure.
Who controls the models, the data and the intelligence they produce? Who can access them? And how do we protect AI systems that will increasingly operate our energy grids, industries and essential services?
Tee Ganbold, co-founder and CEO of Frontier/1, makes the case for security built into the entire AI stack, from hardware and models to every request and response.
10:50–10:55
10:55–11:10
Europe wants greater technological sovereignty. But hosting data centres is not the same as controlling the infrastructure beneath the digital economy.
Who should control land, power, compute, data and cloud? How much dependency is acceptable? For Nordic real estate, the question is shifting from where to build to how much of the stack we should own.
