AI Sovereignty Certification

1 & 2 October 2026, 15:00-17:00 CEST

1 & 2 October 2026, 15:00-17:00 CEST

AI Sovereignty Certification

Become a Certified AI Sovereignty Practitioner

AI sovereignty is the question of who controls the systems Europe now depends on: where models run, under whose jurisdiction, trained on whose data, and answerable to whom. For European democracies, this is not only an industrial policy question. The same models increasingly mediate how citizens find information, what reaches them, and what they believe, which makes dependency on foreign-controlled AI a democratic resilience issue as much as an economic one.

This certification gives professionals a working command of that landscape. Over two days, you will learn how AI systems and their supply chains actually function, where Europe’s real dependencies lie, what the EU’s regulatory and infrastructure push does and does not change, and how AI is reshaping the information environment that European democracy runs on.

The course is built for practitioners rather than technologists. It moves past sovereignty as a slogan toward decisions you can defend: what to assess, what to ask vendors, where autonomy is achievable, and where dependency is structural.

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With a maximum of 12 participants, reserve your place in this exclusive programme. Empower yourself with skills used across leading European institutions. Enrol now and join a growing community of practitioners shaping how Europe builds, buys, and governs its own AI.

Course Overview

Course Description

This certification is designed for professionals across sectors who need to understand AI sovereignty and act on it in a European context.

No technical background is required, though familiarity with data protection and technology policy work is beneficial.

Ideal for

  • Policy officials and advisers working on AI, digital and information policy
  • Data protection and privacy specialists
  • Risk managers and technology procurement leads
  • AI project leads and innovation managers
  • Civil society, media and research organisations assessing their own AI dependencies

What you'll learn

  1. Understand the fundamentals of AI, machine learning, and generative AI, and what these systems can and cannot reliably do.
  2. Define AI sovereignty across its layers (compute, data, models, and governance) and locate how your own organisation can use each.
  3. Read the European landscape with confidence: what the AI Act requires today, and what the EU’s infrastructure and sovereignty programmes are building.
  4. Apply AI to analysis and narrative intelligence, and understand how the same tools are used against open societies.
  5. Critically evaluate AI systems and outputs for accuracy, security and reliability.
  6. Assess dependency and vendor risk, and make the sovereignty trade-off explicit, where autonomy is worth its cost, and where it is symbolic.

your instructors

Doowan Lee

Doowan Lee is Chief Strategy Officer at EdgeTheory where he provides detection, prioritisation, and visualisation solutions on influence dynamics in the information environment. He works closely with public sector organisations to develop AI tools for operations in the information and cyber domains. Lee has closely worked with the US government to advance and align AI infrastructure with allies and partner nations. Lee has extensively published in leading journals and magazines on how to mitigate the harms of malign information in content supply chains. Before joining EdgeTheory, he founded and worked at leading AI companies in Silicon Valley. He also taught at the Naval Postgraduate School for more than 11 years as a faculty member and principal scientist where he developed and executed operational and communications technology projects with federal R&D agencies to support the U.S. government’s efforts to combat violent extremist networks and foreign malign influence.

Course Schedule

Highlights

  • 4 sessions across two afternoons, interactive online format
  • Expert-led, taught by a practitioner working at the intersection of AI infrastructure and technology policy
  • Professional certification  recognised credential on completion

Participants who complete the programme qualify as AI Sovereignty Practitioners, able to explain what sovereignty means at each layer of the AI stack, assess their own organisation’s exposure, and brief decision-makers on the trade-offs.

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Additional Information

For any questions, you can email our team at julian.neylan@alliance4europe.eu.