A conversation about local LLMs with a senior government AI leader

I'm a local LLM solutions developer and I've recently had the opportunity to spend an hour talking to the head of AI technology for one of the smaller European governments. His remit is to promote AI within the country's business community and champion local AI research and projects and so on. We connected on a technical level as he's an older guy (as am I) and we have similar technical backgrounds and worked in similar global IT organisations.