For fifteen years, the cloud has transformed the way we think about infrastructure. But the rise of AI, the consolidation of providers, changing costs, sovereignty issues, and the resurgence of hybrid infrastructure are once again changing the rules of the game.

The challenge is no longer a matter of choosing between the cloud and on-premises solutions, but rather of building an infrastructure capable of combining the two, scaling as needed, and—above all—preserving our freedom of choice.

What if reversibility, openness, and the ability to switch technologies or providers became fundamental properties of the architecture?

Drawing on the experience of Vates’ open-source platform and its ecosystem, Jb Piacentino will explore an alternative vision of infrastructure: one that is open, hybrid, high-performance, and capable of supporting new workloads—including AI—without recreating the dependencies of the past.

In short, how can we build infrastructure today that will still give us choices tomorrow?