Sovereign Cloud and AI Infrastructure

• Munich's Industrial AI Cloud runs 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
• T-Systems is now a certified Sovereign Partner Cloud Provider for ServiceNow
• ServiceNow's AI Control Tower now runs on Deutsche Telekom's T Cloud
• Airlock added sovereign WAAP and IAM protection for Kubernetes workloads
• The T Cloud Partner Day drew more than 200 partners
• Anywhere Cloud frames sovereignty as flexibility, not location

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Agentic AI Moving From Demo to Production

• The Industrial AI Cloud and Magenta Business AI Agent Platform ran agents at the T Hub
• The T-AI Agent Platform, built with n8n, targets repeatable AI workflows
• Salesforce and Deutsche Telekom advanced Agentforce, building toward Dreamforce
• Bosch Service Solutions, Cognigy and Deutsche Telekom ran a joint agentic AI masterclass
• Sparkasse's Vibe Coding area let visitors build an AI agent with Lovable in an hour
• A live demo showed AI workers automating finance processes inside ERP systems
• Christoph Legat's "From Automation to Autonomy" proposes standards for industrial autonomy
• The outside read: AI experimentation is over, industrialization is next

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Cybersecurity and Network Resilience Partnerships

• Sovereign Cortex targets cutting SOC resolution time from days to minutes
• Deutsche Telekom won Fortinet's North EMEA Partner of the Year
• Thomas Masicek confirmed sovereign cybersecurity work with Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and CrowdStrike
• Deutsche Telekom launched T Secure Fabric, a global secure networking platform
• Microsoft ran a live Security Copilot session on attack detection
• A well-attended KRITIS masterclass underlined critical infrastructure protection

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Software and Infrastructure Partnerships

• Dell Technologies and T-Systems signed a Zero Outage 2.0 agreement
• Factorial deepened its joint AI digitalization solution with Deutsche Telekom
• Zoom ran two masterclasses with T Business
• NinjaOne and Deutsche Telekom ran joint customer demos
• Masterclasses on the EU Digital Identity Wallet and d-you signaled new identity potential
• Sven Fella showcased Magenta Security Sign, a sovereign e-signature platform

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Physical AI, Robotics and Connectivity

• Humanoid robot EVO, usually stationed in Telekom shops, worked the show floor
• Christoph Legat is contributing to ISO/IEC standardization work on Physical AI
• T-Systems showed an "AI-powered Automatic Driving in Logistics" exhibit
• A masterclass with RWE covered Starlink satellite internet access
• ASTOC Architects and Planners showed AI supporting design in a physical model pavilion
• Deutsche Telekom deployed four micro-containers on site for mobile network capacity

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Leadership, Talent and the Trust Debate

• Merkel, Habeck, Wüst, Harari, Busch and Podolski shared the stage
• Harari's Tower of Babel metaphor: trust breaks down as AI masters language
• Merkel's core message, "we are not excited enough," challenged European risk aversion
• The Women in Tech Leadership Lunch tied AI to leadership with Birgit Bohle and Lydia Balkenohl
• Henri Hickethier: Europe holds 45 percent of deep-tech startups but only 17 percent of the capital
• Tim Höttges called for "kill the company" workshops

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Thanks to Tim Höttges, Lara Sophie Bothur, Markus Ehrle, Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, Elke Anderl, Nick Tzitzon, Klaus Werner, Dominique Leroy, Roman Howe, Ulrich Reitz, Elvira González Sevilla, Niklas Horstmann, Sadaf Moussazadeh, Torsten Brodt, Sabrina Herrmann, Dirk Ramhorst, Lars Neumann, Mohamed Khair Salha, Hermann Hänle, Magdalena Groneberg, MICHAEL BOSHAMMER, Dr. Philipp Schmitz, Ralf Hüpel, Miriam Hassan-Gazic, Nicole Schmidt, David Adamczewski, Cathleen Bauermeister, Michael Paschek, Marco Juntorius and Niclas Lipps for contributing insights to this edition. Find the full list of posts and voices on LinkedIn: