AI Sovereignty Becomes Executive Strategy

AI sovereignty has moved from water-cooler debate to boardroom mandate. Logan Wolfe, Partner for Global AI Strategy and Sovereign Transformation at Kyndryl, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV to unpack why a shifting geopolitical landscape, the AI build-out, and the energy footprint behind it are forcing every major enterprise and government to treat sovereignty as a continuous, executive-level capability. Drawing on 16 years across AI/ML, digital forensics, and regulatory compliance in finance, healthcare, and the public sector, Logan walks through Kyndryl’s three-domain sovereignty framework — data, operations, and technology — and the trade-offs leaders must make between innovation and independence. He and Alan also dig into Kyndryl’s vendor-neutral Sovereignty Readiness Assessment, the open source dimension of free-as-in-freedom infrastructure, the EU Tech Sovereignty Package, and why energy decisions for data centers, from liquid natural gas to undersea wind farms to low Earth orbit data centers, are now part of the AI sovereignty conversation.