Panel: Digital backbone or national risk?#

Stijn Grove — Dutch Data Center Association; Elina Gansetska — Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine; Taras Stetsenko — Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

• Why: For a PM whose core work is physical datacenter networking, the policy layer increasingly shapes what can be built: siting, power, sustainability mandates, and sovereignty requirements. The Ukrainian participation is what elevates this — first-hand perspective on keeping digital infrastructure running under physical attack is among the hardest-won operational lessons available anywhere.
• What: A policy panel on organizing data and data centres "smartly, sovereignly, and sustainably" — i.e., how national digital infrastructure should be planned, with the contrast between the Netherlands' DC market and Ukraine's wartime digital-continuity experience. (from abstract only)
• How: N/A — panel format; expect policy framing with some operational color from the Ukrainian side.
• Where applicable: Relevant to DC siting/strategy in Europe generally; the Ukrainian resilience lessons are distinctive and broadly instructive for continuity planning.