Who Controls Europe’s Technology? And What It Means for the Decisions You’re Making Now

​Increasingly, the answer is: not Europe. A handful of US and Chinese technology companies now control the infrastructure, platforms, and AI models that European businesses run on. With that control comes power over decisions that used to belong to governments and boards.

​Marietje Schaake, author of The Tech Coup, former Member of the European Parliament, and Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and Institute for Human-Centered AI, joins Perspectives for a live interview on what this power shift means in practice. Rather than how the rules work, the conversation is about what the new reality means for the decisions you’re making now: Europe’s dependence on US and Chinese tech stacks and what digital sovereignty realistically looks like; AI governance as a board-level question, not just a legal one; and how geopolitical tech risk should weigh on your choices about infrastructure, vendors, and AI adoption.

​The conversation is built around our members: a moderated interview shaped by questions from the network (around 30 minutes), followed by live Q&A. Bring your hardest question.

​About the speaker: Marietje Schaake served ten years in the European Parliament and is now a Fellow at Stanford HAI and the Cyber Policy Center, and a columnist for the Financial Times. The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley (2024) was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times.