Schwarz IT, the internal provider of IT solutions and services of the Schwarz Group, participated in this year's edition of GoTech World, the largest business and technology event in Central and Eastern Europe. The company brought to the fore the topic of digital sovereignty and the ways in which Europe can strengthen its technological independence, highlighting the Schwarz Digits portfolio of customer-oriented sovereign solutions: cloud (STACK IT), cyber security (XM Cyber), AI (Aleph Alpha), communications (Wire) and workplace (based on Google Workspace). The company was represented on two of the main stages of the conference, Business & Transformation Stage and Developers Stage, by Octavian Ichim, CEO Schwarz IT Romania, and Holger Schell, Senior Managing Director Schwarz IT. The two presented a shared vision on the role of digital sovereignty in Europe's economic growth and how Schwarz Digits supports this goal through its cloud infrastructure and AI initiatives. In his presentation entitled «From Dependency To Discovery: Europe's Journey To Digital Sovereignty», Octavian Ichim emphasized that Europe has the resources, talent and energy to build its own digital path. «Digital sovereignty is not about isolation, but about the courage to create without restrictions. Europe does not need to copy Silicon Valley or fear Shenzhen, what we lack is the confidence in ourselves: to innovate in our own way, to transform confidence in a competitive advantage, to develop products not only for users, but for people, for citizens», said Octavian Ichim, CEO of Schwarz IT Romania.He also highlighted the current global context, in which over 70% of employees use AI without authorization, 63% of organizations do not have AI governance policies, and 95% of enterprise AI projects fail. In his opinion, true digital sovereignty requires an extensive understanding of data, tools used, information flows, operations and compliance. In the session «Unleashing Business Value in a Digital Sovereign World», Holger Schell presented how Schwarz Digits helps organizations create value in a world where digitization and sovereignty go hand in hand. «We are a complete provider for Europe's digital sovereignty. From STACK IT to intelligence solutions artificial intelligence and cyber security, our mission is to help European companies have confidence in their own digital potential», a declarat Holger Schell, Senior Managing Director Schwarz IT.He described how sovereign digital solutions are being used within the Schwarz Group to develop sovereign AI applications. For example, the Schwarz Group already makes more than 500 million decisions based on AI every day. The Schwarz IT Software Engineering division pursues the ambition to become one of the best performing software engineering units in the world and implements a series of transformational measures to achieve this goal. Among them are the ODJ (One Digital Journey) initiative, a unified platform intended for product teams, for the efficient development of new digital solutions, and the NEO (Next Level Engineering) program, which promotes a work culture based on clear principles and technical excellence. «Digital sovereignty means autonomy, trust and cooperation. Europe does not have to dream in someone else's cloud, it has the ability to build its own sovereign digital cloud,» Schwarz IT representatives concluded.
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