Live webinar · Tuesday, 12 August 2026 · 14:00 CET
The 12-point sovereign AI engineering checklist
If you're the engineer or architect tasked with standing up sovereign AI inside a regulated enterprise, this is the session for you. We walk through the 12-point engineering checklist behind MindMap's 50+ sovereign deployments: model family selection, vector database choice, inference server tradeoffs, chunking strategy, hybrid retrieval, re-ranking, observability substrate, evaluation harness, integration patterns, deployment lifecycle, oversight protocol, and the audit-store design that produces the cleanest regulatory evidence. Paired with an anonymised customer case study and 15 minutes of technical Q&A.
Duration
60 minutes
Audience
Architects, CIOs, CROs
Cost
Free
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You walk away with
- ✓The 12-point engineering checklist — what to evaluate, in what order
- ✓Reference architecture comparison: lean single-rack vs multi-tenant vs air-gapped vs edge vs hybrid
- ✓Model family decision framework — Llama 3.3, Qwen 2.5, Mistral, DeepSeek V3, Phi-3.5, Gemma 3
- ✓Vector database selection by scale — pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate
- ✓Evaluation harness design — RAGAS, custom eval, agentic eval, safety eval
- ✓Anonymised case study walk-through of a tier-1 bank deployment
Agenda
0:00 – 5:00Why the architecture matters more than the model
The 80/20 of sovereign AI quality. Where engineering teams typically over- and under-invest.
5:00 – 20:00The 12-point checklist
Model family · inference server · vector DB · chunking · hybrid retrieval · re-ranking · observability · evaluation · integration · deployment lifecycle · oversight · audit store.
20:00 – 35:00Reference architecture deep-dive
The five reference architectures we see in production. When to pick each. Median deployment timelines and cost-per-million-token economics.
35:00 – 45:00Anonymised tier-1 bank case study
Walk through a representative customer deployment — model choice, integration substrate, evaluation harness, regulator review.
45:00 – 60:00Technical Q&A
Open mic for engineering questions.
Speakers
MindMap Engineering
Engineering Practice Leads · MindMap Digital
The team behind 117 production-deployed AI accelerators across BFSI, healthcare, government, retail and telecom. Sovereign deployments as the default architectural pattern.
Saurabh Goenka
Founder & CEO · MindMap Digital
Engineering background; has personally led 50+ sovereign AI deployments in regulated environments.
Pre-reading
If you want to come in warmed up, the pillar page covers the substance from a different angle.
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