Agility under Sovereignty: Operating, Investing and Innovating across a Fragmented Europe
As shifting geopolitics and sovereignty policies reshape cloud, AI, and data strategies, organizational agility has taken on a new dimension. True agility now requires a seamless integration of governance, across data, investment, and operating models, with adaptable architectures and procurement practices.
Technology Business Management (TBM) is purpose-built for this complexity. This session explores how to navigate emerging sovereign-cloud and data-residency requirements without sacrificing innovation or speed-to-value. Attendees will gain actionable insights into maturing their TBM capabilities, balancing strict compliance with total transparency into tech costs and consumption.
Key Discussion Topics:
TBM Playbooks: Practical strategies for adoption, measuring value, and improving investment outcomes.
Sovereign Realities: Navigating regulatory trends and their implications for architecture and vendor management.
Execution Agility: Leveraging flexible funding and rapid re-prioritization to protect business outcomes.
Wednesday June 24
Q2 EMEA Regional Advisory Board Meeting Closed Door
An exclusive strategy session for EMEA Advisory Board members to align on regional governance, taxonomy updates, & the 2026–2027 TBM roadmap.
OBA Congres — Prinsenzaal 6.6Executive Networking Lunch Director+
Private networking lunch for Director-level & above attendees to connect & align strategic goals prior to the afternoon sessions.
OBA Congres — Torenkamer (7th Floor)Executive Roundtable Director+
An interactive, peer-to-peer session exploring complex leadership challenges in balancing regulatory data residency demands with corporate tech agility. This collaborative session addresses:
- Sovereign Impact: What Can You Do? – Practical steps for navigating localized data infrastructure rules.
- AI: Tokenomics & the AI Economy – Assessing the structural financial realities of scaling enterprise generative AI models.
- Operating Model & Governance of the Future – Adapting cross-functional oversight boundaries between Finance, IT, & Procurement.
Pre-Event Workshops Simultaneous Tracks
Deep-dive technical configurations & strategy labs. Choose one track to attend live:
TBM Primer
Perfect for updating core skills. Covers modern TBM taxonomy, framework fundamentals, & deployment success paths.
AI Champion
Go beyond simple productivity. Build advanced agentic AI tools & walk through modern corporate machine learning use cases.
AI Sovereignty by Design
A critical capability model detailing data residency controls, open-source model ownership, & avoiding provider lock-in.
Evening Network Dinner
Evening networking dinner featuring informal discussions overlooking the city of Amsterdam.
LuminAir NORTH (DoubleTree Rooftop)Thursday June 25
Morning Coffee & Registration Check-in
Room: Breakout Gallery / FoyerOpening Remarks & Welcome
Opening parameters outlining the core infrastructure focuses of the summit: balancing cost visibility, multi-region architecture risks, & engineering expansion speeds.
EU Sovereignty: The Realities We Must Prepare For
An executive-level assessment evaluating how unfolding European data containment acts, localized vendor requirements, & sovereign ecosystems impact technology budget forecasting.
TBM As the Semantic Layer for AI
Learn how Technology Business Management functions as the cross-functional communication architecture needed to convert complex engineering resource metrics into standard financial ledgers.
Managing Costs in a Fragmented Landscape
A high-level general assessment mapping immediate strategic financial defense pathways for multi-country enterprises working across disparate localized clouds.
Philips: An Adoption Journey
A transparent case-study briefing looking at Philips' structural framework rollout, detailing their custom internal IT finance allocation & chargeback methods.
The Evolution of the TBM Office: Operating at AI Speed
Analyze how autonomous automation layers change the speed of TBM offices, allowing teams to dynamically adjust active charts of accounts & metric structures.
Tech Economics & TBM Benchmarking
An interactive methodology block on utilizing standard TBM operational benchmarking datasets to uncover immediate cost optimization spaces within IT Resource Towers.
One Model Doesn't Fit All: Operating Models Shape TBM Practice
A tactical session focusing on building precise cost-allocation maps that match distinct corporate operational topologies.
From Standing Start to Value Driver: A TBM Journey
Case Study: Discover how Skipton Building Society transformed basic spreadsheets into an integrated economic system connecting EA blueprints with financial portfolios.
AI Age Talent Demands: Are You Keeping Pace?
An interactive look at changing organizational designs & the technical-financial training pathways required to sustain teams in an automated cloud environment.
Next-Gen Software Intelligence
Practical techniques on tracking software pipeline investments, accelerating code development speeds, & managing asset models inside strict compliance frameworks.
Main Summit Lunch Break
Room: WE ARE EDN Restaurant (Ground Floor)EMEA TBM Awards Recognition
Honoring regional enterprise achievements in execution maturity, financial transparency, & delivery agility across Europe.
Tokenomics: Considerations for the AI Economy
A deep dive into token-consumption economics, foundational licensing rules, & methods to accurately forecast scalable multi-model execution costs.
Tech Sustainability: What You Need to Know & What You Can Do
A case chat highlighting how ABN AMRO mapped cloud energy outputs directly to core cost accounts to motivate green technical designs.
AI for TBM Innovators: Learning from Those That Are Doing
Real-world panel reviewing live corporate deployments where predictive automation models are sorting unstructured billing lines.
Managing Strategic Tech Investments in a Fast-Changing World
Strategic capital mapping techniques to maintain growth & pipeline momentum despite volatile changes in continental regulatory landscapes.
Learnings from a TBM Multi-Award Winner
A high-level dialogue uncovering the corporate engineering bottlenecks, career milestones, & unexpected cultural wins found when building a data framework.
FinOps Integration Strategies: Unifying Cloud & Ledgers
Learn how to connect fast-moving engineering resource usage feeds directly into fixed enterprise ledgers for immediate multi-cloud financial oversight.
Tech Sustainability & Carbon Measurement
A tactical blueprint for embedding carbon tracking metrics directly into standardized taxonomy layers to fulfill ESG reporting goals seamlessly.
AI for TBM
Move beyond concepts. Technical roadmap session details how to execute algorithms across multi-cloud environments to isolate ledger anomalies & build predictions.
TBM Master Class: Lessons from a Mature Enterprise
Advanced practitioner insights into custom chargeback structures, infrastructure mapping governance, & scaling high-volume tech investments.
How TBM Helped Dodge Increase Governance Effectiveness
Review Dodge's systemic governance changes, highlighting how detailed accountability mappings trimmed wasteful overhead & structured operations.
Need to Know: New Council Memberships & Services
A briefing detailing newly added corporate benchmark libraries, standard compliance tools, & network resources launched to build regional data fluency.
Summit Wrap-Up
A quick executive recap highlighting the critical strategic takeaways & implementation priorities from Day 2.
Room: NORTH 1–4Closing Coffee Reception
Concluding coffee & networking
Room: Breakout Gallery / FoyerAgenda subject to change.
Speakers
EuroStack Initiative Foundation e.V.
Skipton Group
MagicOrange
Technology Resourcing Ltd.
Securitas Group
TBM Council
Skipton Group
Yarken
Arcario Group
Archways AI
Posetiv Cloud Ltd.
naice-group.ai
TBM Council
Skipton Building Society
It's Value
Yarken
Yarken
ISG
Ecosystem Members:
DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station
Oosterdoksstraat 4, 1011 DK Amsterdam, Netherlands
Transportation:
- Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), 11 miles away (approx. 20 minutes by train)
- Amsterdam Central Station (East Entrance), 2-minute walk away
- Prins Hendrikkade Bus & Tram Stop, 3-minute walk away
- Nieuwmarkt metro station, 10-minute walk away