2026年8月8日 –, TR211
Europe isn't just talking about digital sovereignty anymore. Governments are actually doing it. Schleswig-Holstein is moving 30,000 workstations off Microsoft. France is deploying open source productivity stacks across ministries. Denmark, the ICC, universities, hospitals — the list keeps growing. And at the center of most of these migrations sit open source tools like Libre Office, Nextcloud and more.
This talk is about what these migrations really look like in practice — the architecture decisions (why Hub over Suite matters), the deployment realities (self-hosted, air-gapped, sovereign cloud), the partner ecosystem that makes it function, and the things that go wrong that nobody puts in the press release.
But this isn't a Europe talk at a European conference. This is a Europe talk at an Asian conference, and that's the point. Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, and more; Every country in this room is navigating some version of the same question: how dependent are we on infrastructure we don't control? Europe is five years ahead on this journey. Some of what they (and we) have learned is directly transferable. Some of it isn't. I want to bring that honest conversation to COSCUP: What works, what doesn't, and what your community can start doing now rather than waiting for policy to catch up.
Eeshaan is a DevRel Engineer at ONLYOFFICE and a CNCF maintainer for multiple projects, with five years deep in open source and cloud native. His job? Making technical things a little less technical – or at least, a little less painful
A seasoned speaker, he's shared stages at APIDays Australia, GNOME Summit Japan, Write the Docs Australia, UbuCon Asia, KubeCon Amsterdam and many more FOSS events across the globe.
Eeshaan loves sharing what he learns, especially around open source. His continuous contributions to the greater open source community have earned him the Dan Kohn Scholarship twice, the LiFT Scholarship, and much more.
Based in India 🇮🇳, he spends his off-hours hitting the gym and brewing good coffee. ☕️