Building the Technological Backbone of Sovereign AI
Session Overview
With the rapid advancement of AI technologies, the importance of “Sovereign AI”—where nations and regions exercise sovereign control over their own data, algorithms, and infrastructure—has become increasingly paramount. The growing focus on Sovereign AI is driven by challenges such as geopolitical risks, supply chain disruptions, and the imperative of data sovereignty.
Achieving Sovereign AI requires not only excellence in model and software development, but also a resilient hardware foundation that meets critical requirements of performance, power, footprint, and sustainability, achieved through a combination of leveraging existing datacenter infrastructure and strategic investments in new data center capacity. As the AI landscape continues to evolve, enterprises and organizations must develop strategic investment plans for their AI infrastructure, leveraging best practices and case studies to build a sustainable competitive advantage in the Sovereign AI era.
Speaker
Jinuk Luke Shin has over 25 years of experience in designing AI and HPC processors, as well as system development. As a founding member of SambaNova Systems, he currently serves as Senior Director of Hardware Engineering where he leads teams responsible for implementing hardware solutions from chip to system level. Additionally, he acts as a power architect, driving energy efficiency in SambaNova’s hardware. Prior to joining SambaNova, Luke spent 18 years at Oracle and Sun Microsystems, where he designed multiple generations of Sparc microprocessors.
He is the author of 39 publications and 25 US patents. Luke has also served as a member of the ISSCC conference committee and as an editor for various journals. He holds Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and in Computer Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.