K2K®: Powering the Next Generation of Sovereign AI for Cognitive Cities

Barcelona, November 2025


K2K® is redefining how cities think, act, and grow in the era of sovereign AI. With a clear vision, to build ecosystems where data, knowledge, and people work in harmony. K2K® is leading the way toward a future where AI is powerful, responsible, and locally owned.

K2K® develops advanced, sustainable neural network architectures that extract and capitalize on meaning from real-time video streams. Its sovereign-by-design approach combines cloud power with local context and control, empowering cities and communities to turn data into trusted, actionable intelligence.



Introducing IKM® VLM: A New Cognitive Layer for Cities

At the heart of K2K®’s strategy is the IKM® Vision-Language Model (VLM), the first model of its kind fully compliant with both the AI Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and leveraging NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI.

Unlike traditional computer vision, this VLM doesn’t just see: it understands, describes, and contextualizes what it observes. It connects imagery with language, knowledge, and intent, unlocking a new semantic intelligence layer for cities.


• Real-time interpretation of urban life: from traffic flow to crowd behavior.

• Faster AI deployment: cutting integration time and boosting ROI.

• Seamless interoperability: fully integrated with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack: next-generation GPUs, NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA CUDA, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, and frameworks like NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA NeMo Curator, and NVIDIA Cosmos Reason.


This synergy amplifies K2K®’s ability to transform raw video streams into structured, certified, and sovereign knowledge, enabling faster decision-making and scalable intelligence.



Turning City Data into a Living Cognitive Fabric

Every image. Every movement. Every urban event.

Through K2K®’s architecture, these elements are captured, certified, and transformed into what the company calls a “genetic heritage of information”, a living, evolving knowledge base that cities can own, protect, and monetize.


• Data is not consumed, it is regenerated.

• Cities build cognitive capital that compounds over time.

• Intelligence becomes measurable, interpretable, and actionable.



Real-World Adoption: European Cities Leading the Way

K2K®’s technology is already being adopted and tested by a growing number of forward-looking municipalities across Europe.


• Palermo (Italy), deploying IKM® VLM to strengthen urban intelligence and mobility monitoring.

• Łódź (Poland), piloting sovereign AI models to improve traffic and environmental awareness.

• Acquappesa (Italy), exploring cognitive city applications for local governance and public safety.

• Locri (Italy), testing community-scale deployments to enhance operational efficiency and resilience.

These early adopters represent a new wave of cognitive cities: urban environments where AI is implemented responsibly, owned locally, and designed to serve communities first.



From Smart Cities to Cognitive Cities

Across Europe, pioneering cities are already working with K2K® to move beyond the “smart city” paradigm toward urban neural networks, cities capable of learning, adapting, and collaborating in real time.

Every GPU, every AI agent, every model becomes a node in a shared cognitive fabric that strengthens the community’s capacity to act locally, responsibly, and sustainably.



Sovereign by Design, Built with Trust

For K2K®, AI isn’t just about performance. It’s about trust, transparency, and sovereignty.
That’s why its solutions are designed to keep data, computation, and models in the hands of the communities that generate them.

“We believe AI should serve people, not replace them. Together with NVIDIA, cities, and institutions, we are building the digital neural system of the cities of tomorrow,” said Marco De Paoli, CEO of K2K®.



About K2K®

K2K® is a pioneering company in sovereign AI for urban environments. Its mission is to build cognitive city ecosystems where data is meaningful, trusted, and locally controlled. K2K® combines cutting-edge neural network architectures with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing technologies to unlock real-time intelligence and responsible innovation.