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Call for Papers: Unifying the European Sovereign Cloud: An Open Source Interoperability Hub

Dev Room Focus

The European vision for Sovereign Cloud faces a critical challenge: fragmentation. EU member states, institutions, and agencies must navigate a complex ecosystem of multiple in-country cloud providers/hosters, each operating with distinct APIs, disparate procurement workflows, and varied resource definitions. This operational complexity hinders cross-border collaboration and makes compliance with new EU digital legislation (like the NIS2, DORA, and upcoming Data/Cyber Resilience Acts) overly burdensome.

This Dev Room aims to launch a practical, open-source project that will create a Unified Interface—an API Gateway—to simplify the interaction between EU bodies and national cloud providers. This platform will enable bi-directional onboarding, procurement, and management of cloud resources across the continent, ensuring all operations align with the specific regulatory demands of the EU.

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking submissions for presentations (15-20 minutes), lightning talks (5-10 minutes), and interactive workshops (30-45 minutes) that contribute to the design, governance, and development of this unified sovereign cloud interface.

Ideal submissions will focus on:

  1. Technical Design and Implementation

  2. Proposals for the Unified API Specification (e.g., based on OpenAPI/Swagger) that can abstract diverse cloud APIs (IaaS/PaaS).

  3. Case studies or proposals on Cloud Brokerage and Interoperability platforms.
  4. Security and identity management models (e.g., using EU eIDAS) for a cross-provider, multi-tenant gateway.

  5. Open-source tools or projects that could serve as the core building blocks (e.g., CNCF projects, standards bodies).

  6. Procurement and Compliance

  7. Experiences or models for standardizing Cloud Procurement processes across different national public sector entities.

  8. Strategies for ensuring the Unified Interface explicitly addresses the requirements of EU Digital Acts (e.g., data residency, exit strategies, security controls).

  9. Presentations on Data Sovereignty requirements and technical approaches to enforcing them (e.g., encryption, geo-fencing).

  10. Governance and Community

  11. Models for open-source governance that can sustain a project involving multiple EU institutions, national agencies, and private cloud providers.

  12. Discussions on licensing strategies suitable for public-sector technology.
  13. Use cases and requirements from EU bodies or member state agencies regarding cloud management challenges.

Submission Details

TBC

Item Details
Submission deadline TBC
Notification of Acceptance TBC
Submission format Title, Abstract (max 500 words), Speaker Bio, and talk lenght - NO COMMERCIAL
How to submmit TBC