Digital sovereignty: Dassault Aviation's pragmatic approach : Keynote by Laurent Bendavid at Tech For Industry Show 2026 (Paris Expo Porte de Versailles).
As the only European business-jet player facing North American leaders, and a national defense actor, Dassault Aviation has sovereignty "in its genes." In this no-nonsense keynote, its Digital leader offers a concrete definition: not depending on extraterritorial laws and staying resilient even in wartime — meaning mastering one's dependencies.
Key topics: the cyber threat (54,000 incidents in France in Q1 2026, two attacks per week on its supply chain), a clear-eyed analysis of cloud risks (kill switch, no audit rights, exit fees, price hikes), the role of SecNumCloud and the "Bleu" trusted cloud, intellectual property protection in the face of AI, and a call for European champions — without ever "buying underperforming solutions in the name of sovereignty."
