What do digital sovereignty, open standards, and interoperability actually mean for the companies building Europe’s XR ecosystem?
These concepts are often discussed as long-term policy priorities, but their consequences are immediate for SMEs making decisions about platforms, tools, technology stacks, partnerships, procurement, market access, and investment. Dependence on closed ecosystems can affect costs, scalability, access to customers, and the ability to retain control over products and data.
Bringing together SME owners and policy experts closely embedded with industry, this conversation puts these high-level priorities into practical business terms. It explores where open standards, interoperability, open-source technologies, and European policy create genuine opportunities for companies, where barriers remain, and what trade-offs businesses face when choosing between open and proprietary ecosystems.
Closing the journey from identity to infrastructure, the session asks what practical choices companies, industry organisations, and policymakers can make today to support a more open, competitive, sustainable, and sovereign European XR ecosystem.