Meet the 8ra Initiative at CCX Cloud Computing Conference 2025

The CCX Cloud Computing Conference 2025 brings together decision-makers, architects and practitioners to discuss the next generation of cloud infrastructures. This year’s focus topics include sovereignty, AI, multicloud, scalability and new business models.

The 8ra Initiative will participate with key contributions on Europe’s Multi-Provider Cloud-Edge Continuum – an open, federated and sovereign digital infrastructure enabling interoperability and resilience across providers and borders.

On 4 November (11:50–12:15 CET), Dr. Johann Schmidt and Florian Denzin will present the 8ra Initiative in a keynote session, outlining how around 120 European partners are collaborating to create a modular, interoperable foundation for next-generation cloud-edge services. The talk will highlight concrete use cases and applications, including ApeiroRA, by SAP, KeeCEK by Ericsson, PoQUaSIA by Rheinmetall.

On 5 November (12:20–13:20 CET), Andreas Schlosser (SAP) will represent 8ra in the panel discussion “Mehr Souveränität wagen – Zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit in der Cloud”. Together with experts from Viessmann, IONOS and Netgo, he will explore how European organisations can balance openness and independence while maintaining innovation, security and compliance in multicloud environments.