Our pledge
Resilience is a choice. We make it together.
The stakes have changed
Europe's critical digital infrastructure — cloud, chips, AI models, collaboration tools, identity systems and security software — is overwhelmingly rented from jurisdictions beyond our control. This is not a procurement problem. It is a strategic vulnerability. When extraterritorial laws, supply shocks or geopolitical friction ripple through the stack, European industry, public services and research institutions pay the price.
Digital resilience is sovereignty in action
We define digital resilience as the capacity to design, operate, maintain and evolve the digital systems that power our economies under our own terms. It means choice, not dependence. It means knowing how the technology works, who controls it, and how to repair or replace it when conditions change. Sovereignty without resilience is a slogan; resilience without sovereignty is impossible.
The full stack, from the fab to the foundation model
A resilient European digital stack spans every layer: EU-designed chips and RISC-V roadmaps, sovereign cloud and Gaia-X-aligned infrastructure, open-source virtualization, European AI models and inference, sovereign workspace and communications, open directories and identity, security and compliance tooling, desktop and mobile operating systems, and the business applications that run on top. No single company or country can build this alone. Only a networked ecosystem can.
Open source is the commons of resilience
Open source is not merely a licensing model; it is the shared engineering commons that makes interoperability, auditability and continuity possible. European open-source projects are already producing the kernels, databases, hypervisors, models and protocols that a sovereign stack requires. Our job is to fund them, deploy them at scale, and connect their maintainers to the organisations that depend on them.
Decision-makers and builders, in the same room
Strategy without engineering is wishful thinking; engineering without strategy is underfunded. Digital Resilience Europe brings together CIOs, CDOs, VP Engineers, enterprise architects, AI engineers, senior developers, public-sector technologists and open-source leaders. The goal is not another conference panel. It is a working alliance between the people who decide budgets and roadmaps and the people who write the code, operate the clusters and train the models.