At an IES event yesterday, 5 February 2026 on the topic ““Seminar on Cloud Knowledge“, the speakers covered a lot of good and useful areas and I think it was worth the 3 hours.

One of my takeaways came on my way home (via the North East Line from Punggol Coast station), was what if the OpenClaw idea is buttressed with good and reliable and considered safety (cybersecurity being the cornerstone), the time is now for the next innovation in enterprise systems.

Organizations who have not committed to the usual SaaS providers for the various enterprise services, can with qualified help, build solutions that both comply to interoperability and safety standards and be completely not in the clutches of these SaaS providers.

Could the OpenHook Enterprise – OHE – become the moment when organizations and individuals escape from the vendor lock-in of SaaS and cloud providers?

Organizations would have all of their data and code (by way of prompts) owned and kept within their control.

This could also address some of the challenges that open source communities have been facing since the advent of genAI.

Could Sovereign Cloud and by extension, Sovereign AI, become the norm. In a hurry. Within the next 12 months?

More on these in a later post.