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Your data sits in the UK. But who has the final say over it? As AI raises the stakes on where data lives and who controls it, digital sovereignty has moved from policy debate to boardroom priority. At Civo Navigate London, Lord Paul Drayson, Simon Hansford, Richard Woodfield of DataVita, Dan Chester of VAST Data and Ed Barker of Havishams explore what sovereignty really means for governments, businesses and the infrastructure behind them, and what it will take for the UK to adopt AI without giving up control.

Your AI agent can read every log, metric and trace in seconds. It still can't tell you why things broke. At Civo Navigate London, James Herbert of groundcover explains why AI SRE agents need that context to travel the whole development lifecycle. He shows how agents embedded in the tools where software is built and run can move from isolated tasks to investigating and acting with the full picture.

The data centre was built for a different era. Racks drawing more power than entire rooms once did, heat that air alone can't carry away, and inference that needs to run close to the work are forcing a rethink from the ground up. In this fireside chat from Civo Navigate London, Civo CEO Mark Boost, Anthony Sarno and Josh Mesout explore how the demands of AI are reshaping the data centre and challenging traditional approaches to cloud infrastructure.

Everyone depends on open source. Far fewer agree on who should sustain it, what counts as "open", or what portability really means.

Your infrastructure lives everywhere. Your view of it shouldn't. Civo CTO Dinesh Majrekar gives the first look at the new Civo dashboard. It's built around one idea: however many regions, clusters or environments you run, managing them should feel like one cloud. Civo makes complexity a thing of the past.

At some point, you have to stop talking about it and start building it. Civo CEO Mark Boost unveils Civo's plan for the UK: 40 edge data centres with a combined gigawatt of capacity, built for low-latency inference and NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the successor to Blackwell. Mark takes us inside a live digital twin of the rack. There are 72 GPUs wired so tightly together that they behave as a single machine, with so much power that the only answer is liquid in, liquid out. The rack is the computer.

Hardware costs are rising. But Civo Product Director Russ Smith has a different take: your existing kit just became more valuable. The hyperscalers competing for the same DRAM and compute as you still have to pass that cost on eventually. At high utilisation rates, your resource rental overtakes purchase cost. Typically in under a year.

Your Claude session cost $20. Shipping it safely shouldn't cost you a weekend. Vibe coders can build the app. Most can't deploy it without leaving the door open. Konstruct handles the infra, the Kubernetes, the "please don't get hacked" part, so your lazy Saturday idea gets to survive contact with the internet.

Raise your hand if your AWS cluster and your GCP cluster don't actually look the same That's the default, but it doesn't have to be. Watch Rishi show what "actually the same" looks like in practice.

The cloud first default has flipped. But every workload decision now needs to be made more deliberately. Civo Product Director Russ Smith shares his key takeaway: understand your legal constraints, know your lock-in maths, and check whether the economics that made sense three, five, or ten years ago still hold up today. You don't need to fund a new platform. You need a managed sovereign place for your data that actually fits where you are now.