Workshops & Talks on Sovereign Digital Workplaces
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The EU Cyber Resilience Act makes cybersecurity mandatory for almost every product with digital elements sold in Europe — from IoT devices to software. Timeline, scope, conformity assessment, reporting duties, penalties, and what it means for developers, startups and open-source projects.
Own your stack — and stay compliant. A sovereign digital workplace keeps your data, tooling and collaboration under your own control: self-hosted, open source, independent of hyperscalers. The talks explain why; the workshops turn it into practice for your team.
Dr. Tobias Weiss — computer scientist, researcher (VR/XR, AI) and conference speaker (incl. DELFI 2023). Trusted by teams that need compliance and sovereignty, not vendor lock-in.
All formats run on-site or remote, from a half-day session to a multi-day program, tailored to your stack and your risk profile.
The EU AI Act makes AI literacy a legal duty for everyone who uses AI tools (Art. 4, Reg. (EU) 2024/1689) — applicable since August 2026. A one-size-fits-all online course does not satisfy it: you must be able to prove competence. Breaches of the AI Act can trigger fines of up to €35 M or 7 % of global annual turnover.
Our KI-Kompetenz-Training delivers audit-ready, role-based AI literacy:
→ Explore KI-Kompetenz-Training
Product security is now law. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes security obligations mandatory for products with digital elements — conformity assessment, SBOM, vulnerability handling and coordinated disclosure. CRA duties phase in now and through 2027; breaches can mean fines of up to €15 M or 2.5 % of turnover (set nationally) and exclusion from public tenders.
This workshop maps CRA duties to your product reality:
→ Read the Cyber Resilience Act guide
A sovereign workplace that does not trade sovereignty for convenience: self-hosted collaboration built from openDesk Edu (office suite), mailcow (mail) and the sovereign-cloud-stack pattern.
Before: locked into a SaaS, data leaving your perimeter. After: a workplace you run yourself, on your own hardware.
Self-hosted office + mail you control end to end
Sovereign-cloud-stack blueprint, documented and repeatable
Hands-on labs: from "we depend on a SaaS" to "we run it ourselves"
Combine any of the three tracks into a single program. Typical shapes (price on request, fixed packages):
Beyond client work I publish and speak — recent highlights: