- First-of-its-kind platform champions data sovereignty and
operational resilience with physical AI and supports
competitiveness in the path to agentic AI
- Accenture and NVIDIA achieve momentum with European
organizations such as KION AG, L’Oreal-backed Noli, and Nestlé
GTC EMEA 2025 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded its AI
Refinery™ platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic
capabilities to help European organizations maintain control over
critical data and apply innovative AI solutions.
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Accenture has expanded its AI Refinery™
platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic capabilities to
help European organizations maintain control over critical data and
apply innovative AI solutions.
“AI provides a unique opportunity for Europe to reinvent its
economy, drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness, and
support its future growth,” said Mauro Macchi, Accenture’s CEO for
Europe, Middle East and Africa. “The expansion of our AI Refinery
platform enables European organizations to accelerate the
deployment of AI agents, while addressing their sovereignty
concerns. This is particularly crucial for the public sector and
critical infrastructure industries, such as energy,
telecommunications and defense.”
“Sovereign AI is unlocking extraordinary new possibilities while
preserving the integrity of national data, infrastructure, and
cultural identity across Europe,” said Justin Boitano, vice
president, Enterprise Software Products at NVIDIA. "Together,
NVIDIA and Accenture are working with leaders across the public
sector, energy, telecom and the continent’s industrial core—from
manufacturing to retail—to build a resilient, innovative future
powered by AI.”
New sovereign AI architecture capabilities
“As AI adoption accelerates across industry and society, there
is a growing need for management and operations across various
elements of the AI stack, from infrastructure to models and
applications, including data management,” said Karthik Narain,
group chief executive – Technology and CTO, Accenture. “To address
this, we’re providing a platform-based approach with AI Refinery
for sovereignty, enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI
capabilities – leveraging their own cloud infrastructure and
adhering to data residency and security requirements with
management and observability capabilities baked in – to drive new
value and growth while maintaining control in a fast-moving
market.”
Accenture estimates Europe will account for up to 30% of the
global sovereign AI market by 2030. To address this demand,
Accenture’s new sovereign AI architecture builds on the success of
Accenture and NVIDIA in deploying one of the world’s first
comprehensive AI stacks for Indosat.
Part of AI Refinery, which is built on NVIDIA Enterprise AI, the
sovereign AI architecture has solutions that cater to different
market needs and priorities, offered as-a-service. This includes
configurable AI models tailored to national languages and contexts;
a development and deployment platform that is hosted and managed
within a nation’s jurisdiction; and secure, easy-to-customize
solutions to meet the unique needs of the public sector and
critical infrastructure industries.
Digital sovereignty often calls for organizations to adopt
controls and provisions aligned to sector-specific needs. For
example, Accenture is working with a public utility in Europe to
deploy sovereign GPUs as-a-service to ensure dedicated AI compute
resources remain secured within its national borders.
Physical AI enhances operational resilience in
manufacturing
Manufacturers across Europe are pushing to optimize their
production, warehouse, and supply chain operations. The industrial
sector is particularly strategic for Europe as it accounts for
roughly a quarter of Europe’s GDP. With its AI Refinery, Accenture
is helping clients implement AI-powered robotics, simulation and
digital twins and adapt ways of working with human workers to
effectively reinvent warehouse, logistics and manufacturing to
drive efficiencies and lower costs.
Today, Accenture also introduced a physical AI software
development kit (SDK) that can understand video and image
segmentation based on predefined parameters or natural language
queries by leveraging NVIDIA Metropolis and the NVIDIA AI Blueprint
for Video Search and Summarization (VSS).KION has partnered with
Accenture and NVIDIA to explore these capabilities to enhance
safety, productivity, and quality control in manufacturing and
warehouse automation.
AI fueling competitiveness and growth
Accenture and NVIDIA have continued to demonstrate how AI can
help European organizations create a competitive edge by building a
foundation for continuous reinvention and future growth.
Noli (No One Like I) the first, AI-powered multi-brand
marketplace startup founded and backed by L'Oréal Groupe, has
teamed with Accenture and NVIDIA to reinvent how people discover
and shop beauty products by addressing the number one pain point
for beauty shoppers - the overwhelming volume of products and lack
of unbiased, often conflicting advice in the market. With AI
Refinery, Noli acts as a Beauty Advisor, cutting through the noise,
using powerful AI diagnostics and tools built from over one million
face scans and analysis of thousands of product formulations, to
decode each user’s beauty profile and to provide product
recommendations to help them make confident, right-for-them
choices, which are then delivered to their doorstep.
Nestlé is launching a new AI-powered in-house service that will
create high-quality product content at scale for eCommerce and
digital media channels. Developed in partnership with Accenture,
this new content service is based on digital twins and powered by
NVIDIA Omniverse platform, providing exact 3D virtual replicas of
physical products. Product packaging can be adjusted or localized
digitally, enabling seamless integration into various environments,
such as seasonal campaigns or channel-specific formats. This means
that new creative content can be generated without having to
constantly reshoot from scratch.
AI Refinery momentum
Accenture unveiled its AI Refinery platform in October 2024. It
has since filed 55 patent applications across 10 countries, and the
technical achievements of its AI Refinery platform have been
presented and explored in 12 technical whitepapers. Accelerating
the path to agentic AI for organizations, Accenture is on track to
deliver its goal of 100 industry agent solutions by the end of the
year. In March 2025, it debuted agent builder, which can easily
customize agents in a no code environment. The following month, it
announced the Trusted Agent Huddle to bring first-of-its-kind
multi-system AI agent collaboration capabilities to organizations
that need solutions that can span the enterprise.
Accenture AI Refinery is available on all public and private
cloud platforms and integrates with other Accenture Business Groups
to accelerate AI across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem.
About Accenture
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helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other
organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations,
accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating
tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and
innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of
change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping
drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine
our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI
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and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our
clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We
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