Tobias Brunner
Tobias Brunner (aka tobru) is a Product Manager and Partner at VSHN (pronounced ˈvɪʒn as in "vision"), Switzerland's leading DevOps and cloud operations partner, and co-founder of Servala, the Sovereign App Store. His focus is on innovation, developing new products, and bringing new technologies to customers and partners. With over 25 years of IT experience, he is a regular speaker at meetups and conferences in the cloud-native space.
Session
What do sausages, furniture, and airplanes have in common with digital sovereignty? Give it a moment! It's not a trick question.
I promise there's a good answer, and it's the reason I want to spend some time with you. It has to do with why buying cloud services in Europe and Switzerland still feels so different from buying them at a hyperscaler and what an airplane and a Swiss sausage can teach us about changing that.
If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "But it's all open source, so what's the problem?" come along. By the end, you might never look at a Cervelat the same way again.