Please join our virtual event on May 29th, 2025: 

Digital Sovereignty and Geo-Jurisdictions

Cloud Perspectives continues actively leading many international and Canadian digital initiatives to ensure resiliency, security, and sovereignty considerations are evaluated proactively such that risks are managed and mitigated.

Since January 2025 this subject area has generated tremendous interest as the trusted supply chains have been challenged, with the realization that companies may fall subject to US executive orders (or other countries) that can have economic hardship and consequences for those that have become dependent on those services.

Steven explores some of the standards work, scenarios, suggested practices, considerations, cultural implications and realities in these challenging times regarding sovereignty and geo-jurisdictions in service management.

Speaker(s):

Steven Woodward, CFPS, CSQA

Steven Woodward is founder and CEO at Cloud Perspectives, helping companies and governments effectively and transparently plan, secure, assess/ audit, procure, architect, deliver, support, cost and monitor cloud and digital transformation opportunities.

Cloud Perspectives has unique service offerings for “culture change by design”, using standards and metrics to effectively and securely optimize the value from innovative technologies.

Steven is respected for being vendor neutral, logical, and value-focused, where current Canadian standards contributions include AI Ethics, Geo-Jurisdictions, Cloud Resiliency, Cloud Shared Responsibilities and Data Governance.

Internationally he has leadership contribution and coordination roles with: NIST, ISO/ IEC, IEEE,ITU-T, Object Management Group and the Cloud Security Alliance.