Robert Michon (he/him)
Senior advisor, Micrologic
Robert Michon is a Senior Advisor for Micrologic’s sovereign Canadian cloud. Robert has a long career in the cloud and data center industry. He has managed data center consolidation and migration projects for companies such as Taleo, Oracle, CA Technologies et SunTrust Bank. After working for American companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, he has returned to Canada to assist Micrologic clients in their migration to their sovereign cloud. He is the author of a best-selling book on Software as a Service. He is also one of the co-founders of 4Degrees, the first Tier III data center in the Quebec City region and the genesis of the data center industry in that region.
Sessions
FWD50
Tech, procurement and digital autonomy
In a changing geopolitical landscape, Canada needs independence along three axes: Economic autonomy, which comes from building and buying domestic services; informational sovereignty, so our sensemaking as a nation is resilient; and technological autonomy, from a tech stack we control. See More.
Own the stack: the geopolitics of digital autonomy
Reprising our July conversation on digital autonomy for an executive audience, we'll talk candidly about what it means to control our own destiny. Digital sovereignty is more than just data repatriation—it's the ability to decide and build without the intervention of others. Now that AI is turning data centers into platforms for cognitive work, geopolitics is inseparable from technology. See More.