Servala Sponsors the Sovereignty Track at Cloud Native Zürich 2026
Sovereignty Is Becoming a Core Cloud Native Topic
Digital sovereignty has become one of the most important discussions in the cloud native ecosystem and increasingly, one of the most practical ones.
That is why we are excited to sponsor the Sovereignty Track at Cloud Native Zürich 2026.
Cloud Native Zürich has become one of the key community-driven cloud native events in Switzerland, bringing together platform engineers, Kubernetes operators, developers, architects, and technology leaders around open source and cloud native technologies.
👉 Event website Cloud Native Zürich 2026
A Full Track Dedicated to Sovereignty
The 2026 edition features a dedicated Sovereignty Track covering many different perspectives around digital sovereignty, sovereign cloud infrastructure, open ecosystems, and cloud native platforms.
We are especially happy that Servala is sponsoring this track and helping shape the program together with the Cloud Native Zürich organizers, including selecting speakers and topics around sovereignty and open cloud native ecosystems.
The Sovereignty Track includes:
Distributed by DNA: Why Europe's Cloud Market Will—and Probably Should—Be Decentralized - David Sterz
How to Build a Sovereign App Store - Tobias Brunner
Zentrum SDS - A Milestone for Switzerland's Digital Sovereignty - Pascal Stöckli
Panel Discussion: Digital Sovereignty - Perspectives from the Ecosystem - moderated by Markus Speth
Practical Guide for Cloud Native Engineers Thriving in the AI Age - Fabrizio Pandini
Battling the Paradox of Cloud Sovereignty - Andreas Pfenninger & Jakob Beckmann
[CTF] Kubernetes Capture the Flag Part 2 - Benjamin Koltermann
Sovereignty through Mastery: Building a Multi-Cloud IDP for Digital Autonomy - Christina Kraus
Ingress NGINX is Retired – Now What About My WAF Rules?! - Lukas Funk
It is great to see sovereignty discussed not only from a political perspective, but also from practical engineering, operational, security, and ecosystem perspectives.
We are very happy to support and contribute to the growing cloud native and open source community around Cloud Native Zürich.
👉 Full schedule (Sovereignty Track: ABATON 4)
Hosting the Digital Sovereignty Panel Discussion
We are also excited to host the panel discussion:
Digital Sovereignty - Perspectives from the Ecosystem
The panel brings together different viewpoints from across the ecosystem around sovereignty, open source, cloud infrastructure, and the future of independent digital platforms in Europe and Switzerland.
Panelists representing the various stakeholders in the ecosystem:
Implementation Partner: bespinian - Lena Fuhrimann
Cloud Provider: Switch - Roman Bachmann
Managed Service Provider: VSHN - Tobias Brunner
Software Vendor: Red Hat - Simon Reber
Society: Digitale Gesellschaft - David Sommer
The panel is moderated by Markus Speth.
At Servala, we strongly believe that sovereignty is not achieved through isolation or proprietary stacks. It is built through:
Open source
Open standards
Interoperability
Strong ecosystems
Community collaboration
Portable cloud native platforms
This is also one of the core ideas behind Servala - Sovereign App Store: enabling organizations to consume and operate modern applications across sovereign cloud providers, Kubernetes platforms, and independent infrastructure environments without unnecessary lock-in.
Community Matters
Community events like Cloud Native Zürich are essential because they create a space where these ideas can be discussed openly - across vendors, operators, developers, startups, enterprises, and public sector organizations.
A huge thank you to the organizers and community behind Cloud Native Zürich for creating and growing this event year after year.
If you are attending Cloud Native Zürich 2026, make sure to check out the Sovereignty Track and come say hello.
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