With four stages running across three days, picking a route through the agenda takes some planning. Here are eight sessions worth building a schedule around
Opening Keynote Panel: Execution Matters: How to turn AI ambition into real returns Day 1, Market Forces Stage, 09:45-10:40
The show opens with AT&T Business International’s Ricardo Lizarralde, Orange Wholesale International’s Valerie Cussac, STC’s Mohammed Al-Abbadi, T Wholesale’s Dimitrios Rizoulis and Vodafone Group’s Fanan Henriques unpacking where AI is actually delivering revenue, and where board priorities, talent gaps and CapEx constraints are holding it back.
Panel: From Grid Constraint to Competitive Growth Day 1, The AI Build Stage, 14:10-14:50
Power has become the gating factor on data centre growth across Europe, as grid operators and hyperscalers have been discussing all year. Verne CEO Dominic Ward and Balkan Gate Greece & Lancom’s George Nolis join energy and infrastructure specialists to discuss grid access, on-site power and renewables at scale.
Panel: Licence to Operate: Earning Community and Government Buy-In Day 1, The AI Build Stage, 15:40-16:20
Planning delays and community opposition are slowing data centre, fibre and energy projects across Europe, a tension that has only sharpened in recent weeks. Telehouse’s Mark Pestridge, CyrusOne’s Alanna Hasek and Khazna Data Centres’ Roula Khaled discuss what it actually takes to fix approvals and win local buy-in, a theme that runs alongside the dedicated Community & Data Centres Forum on day two.
Panel: The New Rules of Network Design Day 2, Market Forces Stage, 09:40-10:30
Security, resilience and sovereignty are reshaping how networks get routed and interconnected, the same forces behind Telecom Egypt’s new Red Sea bypass build. Tata Communications’ Vilas Thawale, RETN CEO Tony O’Sullivan and Orange’s Jean-Louis Le Roux weigh the cost and speed trade-offs operators now face.
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Panel: Chokepoints & Shockwaves: Protecting the Cables Europe Can’t Lose Day 2, Market Forces Stage, 11:40-12:30
With subsea infrastructure increasingly treated as a geopolitical target, this panel brings together the Dutch Subsea Cable Coalition’s Martin Prins, Meta’s Ugne Kleinauskaite, Midgard Infra’s Luke Fox and Seacom Group CEO Alpheus Mangale to discuss diversified routes and sovereignty moves protecting Europe’s undersea lifelines. Given how much of this year’s subsea news, from Red Sea cable cuts to new bypass routes, has centred on exactly this fragility, expect a packed room.
Panel: Capital at Risk: Navigating investment and returns in the AI Era Day 2, The AI Build Stage, 09:40-10:30
Kao Data’s David Bloom, BGO Data Centers’ Dharman Sury, Guggenheim’s Oliver Felice-Owens, Echelon Data Centres’ David Smith and DigitalBridge’s Zach Gellman discuss deal structures and risk strategy as AI infrastructure demands capital at a scale few balance sheets are built for.
Panel: From FLAP to Frontier: Rethinking Europe’s footprint for AI Day 2, The AI Build Stage, 11:40-12:20
As AI workloads push development beyond the traditional Frankfurt-London-Amsterdam-Paris hubs, DE-CIX CEO Ivo Ivanov, Meta’s Amar Khan, Nscale’s Kristin Zwez and Portus Data Centers CEO Falk Weinreich debate where Europe’s next data centre geography actually forms.
Closing Keynote Panel: Digital Infrastructure in 2029: Who Captures the Next Wave of Value? Day 3, The Fibre Investment Stage, 15:30-16:10
The event closes by looking three years out. Flag Telecom’s Paul Abfalter, ING’s Jeroen Kleinjan, Mobile UK’s Hamish MacLeod and LINX CEO Jennifer Holmes discuss where investment priorities shift next and who is positioned to capture the value.
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