CCT 2025 Agenda
Tuesday 17 June 2025
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8am - CCT 2025 GOLF EVENT
9am - TEE-OFF
Transport provided both ways from The Alex Hotel.
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All CCT 2025 attendees are invited to participate. Places are strictly
limited and attendees MUST REGISTER to confirm attendance by
emailing racheljones@theintelligentnetwork.net.
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2 - 5pm EXCLUSIVE VISIT TO THE GUINNESS STOREHOUSE
Hosted by & euNetworks & Ciena
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Ciena and euNetworks are delighted to host a guided visit to the famous
Guinness Storehouse in Dublin for all CCT 2025 registered attendees. Included
in the visit is participation in the Guinness Academy, where you will learn how to
pour your own pint of the world’s most famous stout. Transport will be provided
to the Guinness Storehouse both ways from The Alex Hotel. All attendees must
register to attend, and places must be confirmed.
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For more information, please email racheljones@theintelligentnetwork.net.
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7.15pm Pre-event Cocktail Reception sponsored by Aquacomms
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Wednesday, 18 June 2025
8.15am Registration and Breakfast sponsored by EdgeConnex
8.45am Welcome Remarks
8.50am
THE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE REVOLUTION: A CHANGING ECOSYSTEM, REDEFINING NETWORKS,
INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONNECTIVITY HUBS TO MEET FUTURE NEEDS AND DEVELOPING NEW
PARTNERSHIPS
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Moderator: Jurgen Hatheier, CTO, EMEA & APAC, CIENA
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Speakers:
Annette Murphy, Chief Commercial Officer, COLT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Bruce Owen, President, EMEA, EQUINIX
Scott Cowling, Director, Network Investments, META
Fred Sun, General Manager, Europe, TENCENT CLOUD INTERNATIONAL
Carl Grivner, CEO, FLAG
Paula Cogan, Managing Director, EMEA, DIGITAL REALTY
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9.50am Coffee Break
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10.15am
DIGITALISATION AND FIBRE INVESTMENT IN EUROPE: BUILDING NETWORK CAPACITY AND
INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT FUTURE CONNECTIVITY AND SERVICE DEMANDS: NEW COMMERCIAL
AND PARTNERSHIP MODELS
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Moderator: Tim Passingham, Chairman, CAMBRIDGE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
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Speakers:
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John Fitzgibbon, Senior Manager, Network Planning & Acquisition EMEA, AWS
Alex Goldblum, CEO, EUROFIBER
Marisa Trisolino, CEO, EUNETWORKS
Jim Fagan, CEO, EXA INFRASTRUCTURE
Maxime Anne-Archard, VP Digital Infrastructure Development, ORANGE WHOLESALE INTERNATIONAL
Colman Deegan, CEO, ZAYO EUROPE
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11.15am Coffee Break
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11.30am
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT INSIGHT: ASSESSING MARKET OUTLOOK FOR RAISING
CAPITAL, SHIFT FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC AND EXPLORING NEW INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Moderator: Tim Passingham, Chairman, CAMBRIDGE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
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Speakers:
Daniel Kurgan, CEO, ARELION
Henry Harris, Chief Strategy Officer, ATLAS EDGE
Edward Rubin, Managing Director, TMT Investment Banking, GOLDMAN SACHS
Jaime Rodriguez-Ramos, Operating Director, ISQUARED CAPITAL
Pia Lambert, Executive Director, MORRISON
Cengiz Oztelcan, Board Member & Chair of Investment Committee, QNBN, Communications Director, TMT INVESTMENTS
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12.30pm Lunch Sponsored by Zayo Europe
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Track 1
1.45pm TELCO BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION FROM LEGACY TO DIGITAL – EVOLVING EXISTING SERVICE PORTFOLIOS WITH CONNECTIVITY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND THE CLOUD:
CREATING GROWTH
Moderator: Isabelle Paradis, Founder & President,HOT TELECOM
Speakers:
Jurgen Hatheier, CTO, EMEA & APAC, CIENA
Lee Myall, CEO, NEOS NETWORKS
​Tony O'Sullivan, CEO, RETN
Tom Major, SVP Product Management, GTT
Diego Teot, Head of OTT, Media & Telco, RETELIT
2.45pm NETWORK-AS-A-SERVICE, FABRIC AND PLATFORM-BASED MODELS: DELIVERING FUTURE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE DIGITAL AGE – KEY OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Moderator: Caroline Chappell, Founder,CCSQUARED
Speakers:
Rutger Bevaart, CEO, GNX
Amajit Gupta, Group CEO & MD, LIGHTSTORM
Justin Ryburn, CTO, KENTIK
Mike Last, CMO, WIOCC
Michael Glynn, Senior Vice President, Digital Automated Innovation, PCCW GLOBAL - CONSOLE CONNECT
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3.45pm Coffee Break
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4.10pm SUBSEA INSIGHT: RESILIENCY AND ANALYSING FUTURE SUPPLY PIPELINE TO MEET DEMAND – TAKING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND DEVELOPING SOUTIONS TO OVERCOME KEY CHALLENGES
Moderator: John Maguire, Director, AP TELECOM
Speakers:
Svein Arild Ims, CEO, ALTIBOX CARRIER & SKAGENFIBER
Will Rhodes, Director CMS Partners EMEA, CIENA
Fergus Innes, CCO, CROSSLAKE FIBRE
Philippe Dumont, CEO, ELLA LINK
Nigel Bayliff, Global Submarine Lead, GOOGLE
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5.10pm FIXED, MOBILE AND SATELLITE CONVERGENCE: LEO DISRUPTION AND THE ENABLING OF NEW MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
Moderator: Dean Bubley, Founder & Director, DISRUPTIVE ANALYSIS LTD
Speakers:
Kyle Whitehill, CEO, AVANTI COMMUNICATIONS,
Wilfried Dudink, Senior Director - Strategy & Development, Network Service Providers, DIGITAL REALTY
Elie Hanna, CEO, TAMPNET
Adam Godwin, Head of Satellite, TELSTRA
Martijn Blanken, CEO, NEO
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6.10pm - Cocktail Reception
Track 2
1.45pm MULTICLOUD NETWORKING, DATA MOVEMENT AND BUILDING SECURE, SCALABLE INFRASTRUCTURE TO MEET COMPUTE-INTENSIVE NEEDS
Moderator: Marc Halbfinger
Speakers:
Paul Gampe, CTO, CONSOLE CONNECT
Philip Marangella, CMO, EDGECONNEX
Shaunak Thakkar, Global Leader, Infrastructure Acquisition, Delivery & Partnerships, ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Jezzibell Gilmore, General Manager, Service Providers, KENTIK
Azfar Aslam, CTO, EMEA, NOKIA
​2.45pm EDGE, AI, DATA CENTRES AND FUTURE HUBS: MEETING THE DEMANDS OF HYPERSCALE COMPUTING – NEW APPLICATIONS AND NEW REQUIREMENTS
Moderator: Azfar Aslam, CTO, EMEA, NOKIA
Speakers:
Michael King, Director, Data Center Strategy, CLOUDFLARE
Cole Crawford, CEO, VAPOR IO (TBC)
Kapil Maheshwari, Sr. Director, Business Development, VERIZON BUSINESS GROUP
Bryan Hill, Global Director, Strategy & Business Development AI/HPC & Digital Media, DIGITAL REALTY
Don MacNeil, Chief Revenue Officer, EDGECONNEX
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3.45pm Coffee Break
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4.10pm DATA CENTRE INSIGHT: THE POWER CONUNDRUM – MOVING TOWARDS ENERGY AND TELECOMS NETWORK/DC INFRASTRUCTURE CONVERGENCE AND FINDING SOLUTIONS TO MEET FUTURE REQUIREMENTS SPOTLIGHT FOCUS: THE NORDICS AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Leading experts will explore and analyse the Nordics
and the Middle East as optimum data centre location
hubs and will evaluate both the opportunities and
the challenges including characteristics, latency,
sustainability, access, power pricing predictability,
scaling potential and access to capital.
Moderator: Chris George, Founder, SELF INFRASTRUCTURE
Speakers:
Jon Gravrak, CEO, BULK INFRASTRUCTURE
Dan Thomas, CEO, GREENSCALE DATA CENTERS
Eoin Doherty, Vice President EMEA, Regional
Leader, Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO +1), MICROSOFT
Eric Boonstra, CEO, KEVLINX
Johan Nilerud, Chief Strategy Officer, KHAZNA DATA CENTERS
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5.10pm ENTERPRISE PERSPECTIVE: AI STRATEGY OR JUST ANOTHER DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION?
Moderator: Petrina Steele, Global Lead for Emerging Technologies – AI, Quantum & Intelligent Edge, EQUINIX
Speakers:
Dean Garvey-North, Former CIO, AFFINITY WATER and THAMES WATER, AFFINITY WATER
Michael Watts, CEO, BLUM HEALTH LTD, Doctor, NHS
Jack Sharpe, Deputy CIO, UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Gina Nomellini, COO, GLOBALGIG
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6.10pm - Cocktail Reception
Thursday, 19th June 2025
8.30am Networking Breakfast
9.00am I AFRICA SPOTLIGHT: INVESTMENT, CROSS-BORDER AND INLAND CONNECTIVITY - BUILDING DIGITAL
INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE FUTURE NEEDS AND DEMANDS OF A RAPIDLY
GROWING CONTINENT
Moderator: Russell Southwood, CEO, BALANCING ACT
Speakers:
Angelo Gama, CEO, ANGOLA CABLES
Nico Walters, Chief Innovation Officer, CMC NETWORKS
Scott Cowling, Director, Network Investments, META
Stanley Jegede, Chairman, PHASE 3 TELECOM
Chris Wood, CEO, WIOCC & OADC
Snehar Shah, CEO, IX AFRICA
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INDUSTRY VERTICAL FOCUS: MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATION, DRIVERS OF CHANGE, NEW
TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS, PARTNERSHIPS AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
In these unique panel discussions executives will hear from leading players in the media, entertainment and gaming
sectors on the latest developments and innovations happening within these verticals and gain in-depth insight
into market drivers, innovation and technological developments, new partnership opportunities and the impact
on network, infrastructure and connectivity.
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10.00am | GAMING AND ESPORTS
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- Trends shaping the gaming and esports market; new opportunities and innovation in the sector
- Emerging technologies and impact: VR, AR, and cloud gaming
- Monetisation strategies; new models and impacts on partnerships and collaboration
- Impact on infrastructure, connectivity, and network requirements
Moderator: James Dean, Founder & CCO, KUODA LTD, Former CEO, ESL UK
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Speakers:
Jim Sephton, Managing Director, HADO
Sol Rogers, Global Director of Innovation, MAGNOPUS, Chairman, BAFTA's IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT ADVISORY GRO
​Jorvik Zhang, GameTech/Cloud BD Director, TENCENT
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11am Coffee
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11.30am | MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT
- Trends and innovation in the media and entertainment market; surge in streaming demand and
anticipated content expansion, emergence of new live content, where will the content growth come
from the evolution of delivery of video to implications for traditional broadcasting
- Implications for network operators on network traffic, live content and overcoming the challenges of live spikes
- Exploring new partnership and collaboration opportunities
- AI predicted impact on the industry
Moderator: Jeffrey Gilbert, Principal Strategy Consultant, Streaming Media, Edge & Cloud Technologies, XSTEP
Speakers:
Alan Evans, Director, Cloud Computing EMEA, AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES
Kevin Epperson, Director of Network Architecture & Infrastructure Strategy, NETFLIX
Ayesha Chowdhury, Senior Manager, Global Digital Business & Senior Leadership Board Advisor, BBC WORLD SERVICE
​Iuniana Oprescu, Principal CDN Architect, SKY
Toby Williams, Chief Product Officer, EUNETWORKS
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12.30pm | WHAT'S NEXT?
THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE CCT ECOSYSTEM: EMERGING
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, QUANTUM COMPUTING AND BEYOND AI – WHAT’S NEXT?
Moderator: Duncan Clubb, Senior Partner, CAMBRIDGE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Speakers:
Dean Bubley, Founder, DISRUPTIVE ANALYSIS
Chris George, Founder, SELF INFRASTRUCTURE
Neil McRae, Chief Network Strategist, JUNIPER NETWORKS
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1.15pm Lunch
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2.30pm End of CCT Global 2025
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