Speaking
Presentations That End the Comfortable Silence
The room changes when the evidence arrives. Keynotes, panels, and executive briefings on sovereignty, governance, and national autonomy.
Explore the Duology
Diagnosis, exposure, and the instruments to reclaim control.
Meet the Author
Thirty years inside the machine. Now naming what it does.
Read the Reviews
Peer-reviewed by the people this book was written for.
500+ stages, across four continents.
Engagements range from Gartner Symposium/Xpo keynotes to 5 board members in a room and government workshops.
Thirty years of saying what the industry would not.
Examples of What I Talk About
The kill switch replication property
The same architecture that locks one person out of a Google account locks 195 nations out of their digital infrastructure. Scaled from a single credential to an executive order in 90 minutes. Named actors, dated events, the mechanism that does not change with the stakes.
The advisory industrial complex
How Gartner, McKinsey, and their peers monetise the gap between the dictionary and the digital domain, deliver definitions engineered to be unfailable, and redefine sovereignty as impossible so that managed dependency, which requires their services, becomes the only option.
Digital Dependency Stockholm Syndrome
Why institutions defend the systems extracting value from them, why governments certify the vendors holding their kill switch, and how to recognise the pattern in your own procurement and policy decisions.
The garrison model versus sovereign deployment
The US model, the Chinese model, and the sovereign deployment model. Each makes structural trade-offs in legal reach, operational control, data access, and provider dependency. Each fails the Survivability Condition in different places. This talk tests all three on identical terms.
Permission choreography
How compliance certification, audit frameworks, and governance theatre produce the appearance of sovereignty while preserving dependency. Why your compliance programme is the dependency, not the defence against it.
Shrapnel in the server room
When Iranian drones hit AWS data centres in the UAE and Bahrain, the force majeure clauses transferred all risk to the customer, the insurance excluded the damage, and the data sovereignty laws trapped client data inside a bombed building. The system was not flawed. The system was the flaw.
Sovereignty-washing and definitional capture
Eighteen definitions of digital sovereignty from the world's leading advisory firms, and not one would survive a courtroom. How the most profitable undefined space in the history of technology was manufactured, maintained, and sold back as consulting services.
The five control planes
Technical, legal, commercial, execution, narrative. How to audit your own infrastructure against all five and why every national strategy that tests only one is already compromised. The Survivability Condition applied live.
The correction: open source as sovereign infrastructure
What it actually takes to build digital infrastructure that a government or enterprise controls without external permission. The cost has collapsed. The technology exists. The obstacle is not capability. It is the institutional willingness to stop renting sovereignty from the people who took it.
And many more. Each presentation is tailored to the audience, the sector, and the decision that matters most to the people in the room. Have an angle your audience needs to hear? Suggest it.
Digital Sovereignty Today is Dion Wiggins’s personal blog, publishing ~5+ posts a day on real-world events, developments, and shifts in digital power as they happen.
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Formats
Keynotes
30 to 60 minutes. The full prosecution, structured for impact. Named actors, sourced evidence, and conclusions your audience will not hear from anyone else on the circuit.
Executive briefings
Board and C-suite. Closed door, no recording. The sovereignty exposure your organisation has not been told about by the people you pay to tell you.
Podcasts
Long-form conversation. No scripted answers. Ask the hard questions and I will give you the answers your audience searches for but rarely hears.
Virtual sessions
Any format above, delivered remotely. No reduction in depth, preparation, or engagement.
Panels
Moderated or open. I do not deliver talking points. I bring evidence and I challenge the other panellists to do the same.
Government advisory
Ministerial and senior official level. Sovereign strategy assessed against the Survivability Condition, not against vendor marketing.
Media Commentary
Television, radio, and press. On-call for breaking events in digital sovereignty, AI policy, and technology geopolitics. Short-form, quotable, sourced. No hedging.
Workshops
Half-day or full-day. Hands-on application of the five control planes to your actual infrastructure, contracts, and governance. Participants leave with a sovereignty exposure map they built themselves.
Debate
Formal or informal. Pick your strongest advocate for the status quo. I will bring the prosecution.
Private Roundtables
Invitation-only, 10 to 20 participants. Senior leaders working through a shared sovereignty challenge in real time. No presentations. Evidence on the table, decisions before the room leaves.
Webinars
Live, interactive, recorded. The same rigour as the stage, adapted for remote audiences who need to act on what they hear.
Fireside Chats
Informal, unscripted, conversational. The questions the moderator is afraid to ask and the answers the audience came to hear.
I do not endorse products, platforms, or vendors.
Every recommendation in every presentation is independent, evidence-based, and unpurchased.