LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

The European energy grid's modernization embeds physical and digital "kill switches" within smart assets and their software supply chains.
True digital sovereignty cannot be purchased as a proprietary product; it is an ongoing operational discipline. In this session we will dissect how the principles of open source, open standards, and reproducible builds directly mitigate the risk of both physical and logical kill switches. We will move beyond the theoretical to explore the concrete architectural patterns required to build a "Sovereign Stack" for energy systems, providing real examples. Specifically, we will demonstrate how to enforce:
Supply Chain Attestation: Generating and validating cryptographically signed Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) from source to production edge.
Immutable and Reproducible Edge Environments: Ensuring that operating systems and container platforms deployed on grid edge nodes can be fully audited, rebuilt from source, and run completely air-gapped.
Decoupled Control Planes: Architectural designs that separate software delivery from operational runtime, ensuring that a vendor cannot unilaterally "kill the switch" on a running grid system.