AI sovereignty demands control beyond data residency, says Abdelilah Nejjari
Organisations that first identify which workloads are mission-critical can apply sovereignty where it has the greatest impact, rather than uniformly across every system. Home-Slide, Interviews, UAE AI sovereignty demands control beyond data residency, says Abdelilah Nejjari Sandhya D'Mello 2 hours ago October 26, 2026 Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director for the Gulf, Levant, Türkiye, Caucasus & Central Asia, Cisco.
It can be configured and operated in air-gapped, on-premises environments, giving organisations secure infrastructure to run AI workloads in data centres or AI factories that they trust and control.
Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director for the Gulf, Levant, Türkiye, Caucasus & Central Asia at Cisco, examines how organisations can translate sovereignty ambitions into operational capability.
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