Keynote: Digital Sovereignty by Design: Turning Developer Intent into Portab... O. Kristiansen (ASL)

This talk features Oskar Kristiansen, an Enterprise Platform Engineer at Saxo Bank, who addresses the concept of digital sovereignty in the enterprise. He highlights the challenges posed by fragmentation in identity, network boundaries, and infrastructure dependencies, emphasizing the need for a solution that allows for control without vendor lock-in. The speaker explains how Saxo Service Blueprint leverages Kubernetes operators and GitOps to create an abstraction layer that bridges developer intent with the underlying infrastructure. By automating identity management, access control, and environment provisioning, the talk illustrates the significant reduction in onboarding time and the benefits of a declarative, version-controlled approach in maintaining flexibility and consistency across multiple environments. Additionally, he discusses extending this automation model to on-premises workloads, enhancing operations through a unified and portable platform.