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SCS Summit 2025

Standardisation. Collaboration. Continuity.

The SCS Summit is the annual flagship event for the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) community.

This is where practitioners, developers, administrators, researchers and community members come together to share their experiences of cloud computing and digital sovereignty.

The summit promotes practical knowledge transfer, networking and the joint further development of secure cloud infrastructures.

When

The SCS Summit 2025 will take place on
24 September 2025
at Palisa in Berlin.

The event starts at 10:00 a.m. and continues into the evening.

Where

Palisa
48 Palisade Road
10243 Berlin

programme

09:00-10:00

registration

Arrive. Check in. Network.

10:00–10:10

Welcome & programme introduction

Lisa Seifert (Project Manager, Forum SCS Standards), Anja Voß (Project Manager, DigitalHub.SH)

10:10–10:20

welcome address

Diego Calvo de Nó (Chief Financial Officer, OSBA; Chief Executive Officer, Proventa AG), Janis Kemper (Spokesperson, Forum SCS Standards; Co-Founder, Syself GmbH) – Recording on YouTube

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10:25–10:55

From risk to opportunity: How geopolitical developments are influencing Europe's IT sector

Christoph Maier (Chief Executive Officer, Thomas-Krenn.AG)

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11:00–11:20

„Free as in freedom“ for Europe – open code against digital dependency

Dr Daniel Gerber (Deputy Chairman of the Board, OSBA; developer, ALASCA e.V.)

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11:20–11:40

Short break

Refresh. Activate. Engage in conversation.

11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Germany Stack – More Opportunity than Risk – eGovernment Podcast @ SCS Summit 2025

Torsten Frenzel (host and presenter of the eGovernment podcast), Julian Schauder (technical product manager at ZenDiS), Jutta Horstmann (co-CEO of the Heinlein Group), Luise Kranich (head of the Technology Strategy & Information Technology department at the BSI), Ralph Dehner (spokesperson for the SCS Standards Forum, founder/CEO of B1 Systems GmbH), Thilak Mahendran (Innovation Lead Agora Digitale Transformation gGmbH)

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Pull yourself together. Gather your strength. Exchange ideas.

4:15–4:45 p.m.

Progress on the SCS reference implementation

Kurt Garloff & Christian Berendt (SCS Project Board)

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4:45–5:30 p.m.

With Standardisation through Collaboration and Continuity to Certification: From the work of the SCS Standards Forum – with the awarding of the first SCS certificates!

Felix Kronlage-Dammers (Head of the SCS Standards Forum)

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from 5:30 p.m.

Get-together

Enjoy. Deepen conversations. Let the day come to an end.

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Standardisation. Collaboration. Continuity.

When

Where

programme

registration

Welcome & programme introduction

welcome address

From risk to opportunity: How geopolitical developments are influencing Europe's IT sector

„Free as in freedom“ for Europe – open code against digital dependency

Short break

Germany Stack – More Opportunity than Risk – eGovernment Podcast @ SCS Summit 2025

lunch break

„Goodbye VMware“ – Migration of our VMware platform to OpenStack (SCS/OSISM) as a service provider

Multi-provider cloud architecture at BTC AG: strategy, implementation and lessons learned

Completing the Sovereign Stack

A journey with ups and downs towards sovereignty on a large scale

coffee break

Progress on the SCS reference implementation

With Standardisation through Collaboration and Continuity to Certification: From the work of the SCS Standards Forum – with the awarding of the first SCS certificates!

Get-together

Our sponsors

SCS members

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