Pure Leadership Series: Data Sovereignty: Building Your Geopolitical Firewall Before You Need One

15 Jan, 2026, Thursday

Data Sovereignty: Building Your Geopolitical Firewall Before You Need One

Service disruption is no longer an “if” but an inevitability. Every enterprise is now rethinking where its data lives because one geopolitical move could shut down operations overnight.

This panel discussion goes beyond checking compliance boxes to discuss building real operational independence. A Pure Leadership Series Webinar, it will cover choosing providers who can’t be switched off by foreign governments, securing your supply chains, and designing IT architectures that keep running when the world doesn’t.

Key Takeaways:

    • Building for tomorrow’s regulations today: How to position your data infrastructure now for AI mandates and critical infrastructure rules that haven’t landed yet
    • The hybrid playbook: How to assess which data workloads stay sovereign and which go global—based on actual risk, not fear, and the technology to enable it
    • Provider due diligence that matters: How to vet ownership structures, operational control, and legal exposure to foreign interference

Date

2026-01-15

Time

1130–1230 SG/HKT | 1030–1130 ICT | 0900–1000 IST |
1430–1530 AEDT

Place

Online

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Hurry, seats are limited!

Event

AGENDA

11:30 AM (SGT)

Welcome Remarks

Speaker
Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and
DataOpsTrends

11:40 AM

Building Your Geopolitical Firewall Before You Need One

Every enterprise is now rethinking where its data lives because one geopolitical move could shut down operations overnight. How do you move beyond checking compliance boxes to attain real operational independence? This panel will discuss:

    • Building for tomorrow’s regulations today: How to position your data infrastructure now for AI mandates and critical infrastructure rules that haven’t landed yet
    • The hybrid playbook: How to assess which data workloads stay sovereign and which go global—based on actual risk, not fear, and the technology to enable it
    • Provider due diligence that matters: How to vet ownership structures, operational control, and legal exposure to foreign interference

 

Moderator:

Speaker
Winston Thomas

Editor-in-Chief
CDOTrends, HR&DigitalTrends and
DataOpsTrends

Panelists:

Speaker
Matthew Oostveen

Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan
Pure Storage

12:25 PM

Closing Remarks

Suggested

Content

Data Sovereignty: A New Era

Pure Storage

Navigating risk in a dynamic world.

Who Really Owns Your Data? Hint: It’s Not Who You Think.

Winston Thomas

How to redefine sovereignty from physical location to intelligent dependency management.

Pure Storage

Pure Storage accelerates and simplifies AI deployments, enhancing their value to the enterprise.

Maximizing Your Data Value With an Enterprise Data Cloud

Pure Storage

It’s time to unify disparate storage silos to create an intelligent data fabric.

Pure Leadership Series: The Data Sovereignty Imperative

CDOTrends editors

Pure Leadership Series – AI vs. AI: Can AI Solve the Data Crisis It Created?

CDOTrends editors