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The concept of digital sovereignty has become increasingly important in today's technology-driven world. As organizations rely more heavily on cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI), they face new challenges in maintaining control over their data and IT resources. At Civo Navigate London, we brought together industry leaders to discuss the topic of digital sovereignty and its implications for the cloud industry.

Digital sovereignty isn’t won in policy papers. It’s earned in production. That was the challenge issued by Civo CEO Mark Boost and Board Director Kelsey Hightower at Civo Navigate London 2025. They argued that the cloud's real failure lies not with the providers, but with the customers who refused to change. Catch up on the full fireside chat below The power shift is underway, moving from large vendors back to the practitioner.

Bindplane engineers have stayed deeply involved in the OpenTelemetry community this summer. With KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta coming up I wanted to dive into all the work that has been done and give the engineers a well deserved shoutout. Here’s what we built, fixed, and contributed since KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe in London this March.

At Civo Navigate London 2025, we hosted a panel discussion with Josh Mesout, James Faure, Abdul Hummaida, Jonas Vermeulen, and Daniel Miodovnik to discuss the latest trends and challenges in AI adoption. Through this conversation, the panelists covered topics such as the current state of AI adoption to the challenges of scaling AI, and the future of work.

Two weeks ago, we hosted IDPCON 2025, and the response has been overwhelming. Over 250 engineering leaders from 20+ countries joined us for 12 sessions featuring speakers from Canva, Skyscanner, Blackstone, and more. Attendees participated in discussions at 20+ roundtables, sharing strategies and challenges around engineering excellence and internal developer portals.

Building on the success of previous years, this year’s edition of our premier customer event dove even deeper into exploring how SquaredUp users can leverage the power of their data. Our sessions featured real-life use cases, product demos, dashboarding tips and tricks, and live discussions with the SquaredUp team and fellow users.

The third Civo Navigate London event has come to an end - and as you might be able to tell, this was an extra special one with some big changes for Civo First, a huge thank‑you to our amazing sponsors, attendees, speakers for making this event possible.

AI is transforming how software is written and operated. Every day, engineering teams are discovering new ways to accelerate development, reduce toil, and push the boundaries of innovation. But this acceleration makes it easy to forget a fundamental truth: speed without guardrails creates risk, especially when implementing the AI-powered tools that dominate today's news cycles.

Over the last few months, I’ve had countless conversations with my peers about one topic: the rise of AI coding assistants. I know this isn’t exactly breaking news, and I’m sure you’ve had these conversations as well. But there’s a reason the common coffee chat today is 10 percent small talk and 90 percent about the AI-first world that we live in. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin are fundamentally changing how we write software.