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The AI Sovereignty Duo
Who shapes the logic, and who holds the switch?
Join this engaging session with Dr. Anneloes Smitsman and Dion Wiggins, with thought-provoking ideas to test not only whether you are building and deploying your AI solutions on sovereign foundations, but also the underlying logic that drives them.
The logic | Anneloes
We Gave AI Our Zero-Sum Logic. Now We Have to Change the Game.
Agentic safety is not only an engineering problem; it is a systemic one. Rules and guardrails alone will not stop rogue agents, because the deeper driver is the zero-sum logic we trained into them.
Anneloes shows that a different path to agentic safety is possible: agents that learn win-win logic through the experience of consequence, measured and tuned with the EARTHwise Alignment Benchmark.
Intelligence is accelerating. Wisdom is not.
Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, lead architect of the AGI Constitution framework
The switch | Dion
The Kill Test: Does Your AI Still Run When Permission Is Withdrawn?
If a platform, vendor or foreign jurisdiction withdraws permission tomorrow, does your system still operate, recover and exit under your own authority?
Drawing on 500+ stages across four continents, Dion exposes the kill switch hidden across five control planes (technical, legal, commercial, execution and narrative) and why conditional sovereignty is dependency with paperwork.
Sovereignty is not where your data sits. It is whether your systems still run under your authority when cooperation is withdrawn.
Dion Wiggins, The Digital Sovereignty Imperative
Where the two talks meet
Two lenses on one question.
Sovereign infrastructure without aligned agents is not safe. Aligned agents on revocable infrastructure are not sovereign.
A sovereignty test you can apply
Check whether your AI still runs under your own authority when permission is withdrawn, across all five control planes.
A new route to agentic safety
See why rogue agent behaviour grows from zero-sum logic, and how win-win logic can be designed in and measured.
Decisions for the room
Leave with sharper questions for procurement, deployment and governance, from boardrooms to governments.
Watch
Watch both keynotes.
Anneloes and Dion both spoke in Amman, Jordan. Watch Anneloes’s keynote from the NUJUM16 Launch, a landmark event on architecting Jordan’s sovereign AI infrastructure, and Dion’s keynote on digital sovereignty.
Dr. Anneloes Smitsman
We Gave AI Our Zero-Sum Logic. Now We Have to Change the Game. NUJUM16 Launch, Amman
Dion Wiggins
Keynote on digital sovereignty
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- Governments, public agencies and institutions
- Enterprises, boards and executive teams
- AI summits, conferences and event organisers
- Universities, research and policy forums
Formats
- Duo keynote with moderated dialogue and Q&A
- Fireside conversation or panel
- Executive and board briefing closed session
- Workshop half or full day, in person worldwide or remote
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