Hybrid Cloud & Data Sovereignty

Hybrid Cloud & the question of Data Sovereignty.

A single-day program built for Caribbean enterprise leadership. The morning sets the boardroom case for sovereign hybrid-cloud architecture. The afternoon puts that architecture into your hands — clusters, containers, GPUs, and a single pane of glass across on-premises and public cloud.

Format

Hybrid / In-Person + Live

Duration

7:30 AM → 7:00 PM

Audience

C-Suite + IT Managers

Location

Kingston · Jamaica

From the boardroom to the cluster.

Sovereignty discussions usually stop at slide decks. This workshop deliberately doesn't. Decision-makers leave with the strategic argument and the architectural pattern that makes it real — on equipment they can actually point to.

Part One · Executive Briefing

7:30 AM
– 12:00 PM

Morning Session

Strategic Frame

A facilitated executive briefing for board-level and C-suite decision-makers. The session translates the Caribbean and Jamaican data-sovereignty conversation into language a CFO, CEO, and CRO can act on — and connects it directly to the LVW Data Curation Framework that anchors the MYLVW Roundtable.

Built around the question every regulated-sector board now faces: where is our data, who controls it, and what does it cost us if we cannot answer either question?

Designed For

Senior executives in banking, insurance, healthcare, academia, government, and major commercial enterprises across Jamaica and the Caribbean. IT managers with budget authority are encouraged to attend with their executive sponsor.

CEO CFO CIO CTO CRO Board Members IT Managers

Part Two · Hands-On Workshop

Technologies & Architecture

12:00 PM
– 7:00 PM

Afternoon Session

Hands-On Implementation

A working lab demonstrating a sovereign-friendly AI platform end to end. Participants observe — and where possible operate — a live OpenShift AI cluster running the AI Stack with vLLM for model serving, deployed on IBM hyperconverged infrastructure with GPU acceleration, software-defined storage, and federated identity.

The session covers cluster provisioning, container and VM workloads, Ansible-driven orchestration, and a single-pane-of-glass administration view across on-premises and public cloud regions.

Designed For

IT managers, platform engineers, infrastructure architects, security leads, and data engineering managers responsible for designing or operating regulated-data workloads. Sponsors from Part One who want to see the architecture they just approved are welcome to attend.

IT Managers Platform Engineers Architects Infrastructure Leads DevOps Security Data Engineering

A full day, start to finish.

Times are indicative and may be adjusted on the day. All sessions include facilitated Q&A.

Part 01 · Executive Briefing

07:30 → 12:00 · Boardroom Track

07:30 – 08:00

Arrival, Registration & Coffee

Welcome, materials, networking among Caribbean leadership cohort.

08:00 – 08:30

Opening & Framing

MYLVW host opening. Why this conversation, why now, why in Kingston.

08:30 – 09:30

The Sovereign Hybrid-Cloud Argument

Reference architecture for sovereign workloads. The LVW Data Curation Framework. Lessons from MIT Future of Data Initiative.

09:30 – 10:15

The Regulatory Landscape

Jamaica's Data Protection Act 2020, GDPR comparisons, and the CARICOM dimension for regional cooperation.

10:15 – 10:45

Mid-morning Refreshments

Networking break.

10:45 – 11:30

The Board's Role in Data Curation

Digitally savvy boards: MIT Sloan and McKinsey evidence. Stewardship, trusteeship, fiduciary responsibility for AI training data.

11:30 – 12:00

Facilitated Roundtable & Close

Open discussion. Setting the agenda for Part Two.

Part 02 · Hands-On Workshop

12:00 → 19:00 · Technical Lab Track

12:00 – 13:00

Networking Lunch

Working lunch for all participants. Executive sponsors and technical leads transition together to the lab floor.

13:00 – 13:30

Lab Setup & Architecture Overview

IBM HCI nodes (64-core & 128-core), 6 Gig fabric, dual GPU servers, two clusters, Ceph storage tier.

13:30 – 14:45

Deploying OpenShift Clusters

Provisioning OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure. Cluster lifecycle, networking, storage class configuration with Ceph.

14:45 – 16:00

OpenShift AI Stack with vLLM

Standing up the AI Stack: vLLM model serving, GPU scheduling, vector database integration (PostgreSQL pgvector + MongoDB), RAG pipeline patterns.

16:00 – 16:30

Afternoon Coffee Break

Refreshments, networking, side-conversations with sponsors and lab staff.

16:30 – 17:45

Containers, VMs & Orchestration with Ansible

Container workloads, VM creation inside containers, Ansible-driven orchestration of multi-cluster deployments and policy enforcement.

17:45 – 18:45

Single Pane of Glass: On-Prem + Cloud

Federated management across on-premises HCI and public cloud regions; sovereignty policy enforcement; live audit trail walkthrough.

18:45 – 19:00

Wrap, Q&A & Next Steps

Take-home materials, sandbox access, follow-on engagements. Close.

The stack you will actually touch.

Part Two is hands-on, not hands-near. The infrastructure below is provisioned for the workshop and available for participants to operate during the technical session.

— Infrastructure

Compute & Fabric

IBM HCI · 64-core nodes
IBM HCI · 128-core nodes
6 Gig network fabric
2× GPU servers (training + inference)
2 working clusters · prod & staging pattern

— Storage

Data & State

Ceph software-defined storage
IBM Storage · 7300-class tier
PostgreSQL with pgvector
MongoDB for operational workloads
Sovereign-residency configuration

— Platform

OpenShift + AI Stack

Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes)
OpenShift AI · vLLM serving
Container + VM workload patterns
GPU operator & scheduling
RAG pipeline reference deployment

— Operations

Orchestration & Glass

Ansible automation
Single pane of glass · hybrid
On-prem + public cloud federation
Policy-as-code enforcement
Auditable cross-cluster ops

What you take home.

01 · DEPLOYMENT

Provision OpenShift Clusters

Participants will observe and operate the provisioning of OpenShift clusters on hyperconverged infrastructure, including network, storage, and GPU configuration tailored for sovereign workloads.

02 · WORKLOADS

Containers & VMs in Concert

Build and run containerised workloads, create VMs inside containers, and design hybrid workload patterns that reflect real regulated-sector environments.

03 · ORCHESTRATION

Ansible-driven Management

Use Ansible to manage and orchestrate containers, clusters, and policy enforcement at scale across two working clusters and multiple environments.

04 · AI STACK

OpenShift AI with vLLM

Stand up the OpenShift AI Stack with vLLM model serving, integrate vector databases (PostgreSQL pgvector, MongoDB) and walk through a RAG reference pipeline.

05 · HYBRID OPS

Single Pane of Glass

Administer on-premises and public cloud estates from a unified control plane — the operational expression of sovereign hybrid-cloud architecture.

06 · GOVERNANCE

Sovereignty as Configuration

Translate the LVW Data Curation Framework and the boardroom argument from Part One into enforced policy: data residency, audit trails, and access controls.

Hybrid Cloud & the question of Data Sovereignty.

From the boardroom to the cluster.