Alexandre Bompard, Chairman and CEO, Carrefour, says the partnership with Vusion, a French technological champion with global reach, reflects the company’ s broader growth ambitions.

Read how Carrefour is propelling its stores into a new era on p14.

The British Army is sponsoring the country’ s first undergraduate degree in Drone Technologies run by New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering( NMITE) in Hereford.

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The Masters in Engineering( MEng) degree course will train military and civilians in specialist drone technologies.

Read on p24 how the new programme has been designed to respond directly to current and emerging skills demands – with rapid developments in artificial intelligence, unmanned systems and data-driven technologies.

Sean Saperstein, on the leadership team at Sidero and a specialist in Kubernetes infrastructure automation, says European CIOs are rethinking cloud-first assumptions as geopolitical pressure, rising costs and regulatory demands drive a shift toward sovereign, flexible infrastructure models.

Read on p35 how organizations that once viewed cloud-first strategies as inevitable are discovering that digital sovereignty affects everything from cost predictability to competitive advantage – with Kubernetes emerging as the key technology enabling this strategic pivot.

In our new feature Talking Point on p18 we report on new research from Software Improvement Group that finds private equity firms are rapidly adopting AI pilots but struggling to embed the technology across core business processes due to weak software foundations.

This disconnect is emerging just as private equity faces expensive assets, swollen exit backlogs, slow liquidity and buyout returns that increasingly look modest compared with public markets.

Just a sample, then, of what’ s inside – enjoy the read.

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