Roundtable

Scaling Agentic AI in Sovereign Environments

October 14, 2026 9:30 am - 11:00 am EST
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Scaling Agentic AI in Sovereign Environments

Enterprises across the UK and Europe are racing to scale agentic AI, but regulations, tokenomics, model advancements, and geopolitics are complicating the issue and making sovereignty a growing priority. The EU AI Act, GDPR, and sector mandates like DORA introduce increasingly complex requirements around data, infrastructure, and decision-making. For most organizations, this collides directly with the pressure to innovate fast. How can enterprises scale agentic AI while maintaining sovereignty, compliance, and control over costs?

Leading enterprises are exploring how to move agentic AI from pilot to production without re-architecting for every new deployment, how to embed governance and auditability directly into AI systems rather than bolting them on afterward, and how to keep token and infrastructure costs under control as usage scales. This includes evaluating what it means to be sovereign by design, while balancing model selection, operational efficiency, and control over enterprise intelligence.

Join industry peers for a candid discussion on what sovereign by design actually looks like in practice, grounded in real production experience rather than theory. Attendees will share practical lessons on scaling agentic AI safely and efficiently, navigating

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Speakers

Tyler Jewell

CEO, Akka
Jewell is the CEO and President of Akka, the agentic AI systems platform built for reliability, risk control, find out more

Discussion Topics

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Exploring how organizations can achieve true data and operational sovereignty through in-country processing, infrastructure control, and compliance with evolving European regulations.

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Examining strategies for moving agentic AI from pilot to production while embedding governance, auditability, and operational controls into AI systems.

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Balancing model selection, infrastructure costs, and cross-organizational efficiency to scale autonomous AI workloads without compromising performance or control.

About Akka

Akka is the agentic AI platform that closes the gap between proof of concept and production for regulated enterprises operating at global scale. Built on 18 years of runtime reliability powering systems that touch 2 billion people daily, Akka lets enterprises describe what they want in plain language and ship governed, resilient AI systems in hours — not months. Akka is enterprise-grade, with 100,000+ deployments, 52 banks in production, and 19+ compliance certifications.

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