The speaker, from Upper Nebula Systems, discussed the work that European companies are doing at the open source sector to align the geo-strategic interests of the European Union. They want to bring balance to the cloud market in Europe, which is currently dominated by hyperscalers, by fostering a decentralized edge computing model where other European companies have a say. The European Alliance for Industrial Data at Cloud is an initiative launched by the European Commission, which aims to align and identify investment needs and priorities for the industry in Europe. The speaker also discussed the Sovereign Edge initiative, which brings together European open source technology providers that have developed technologies relevant for edge computing. Finally, the speaker discussed the important European interest for next-generation cloud infrastructure and services project, which will cover topics like interoperability, portability, and meta orchestration across different providers to manage the huge, heterogeneous infrastructure expected to be in Europe in the coming years.