Monday 20th April 2026

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6.00 pm

WELCOME RECEPTION

Hosted by Altibox Carrier, Arelion, Bulk Infrastructure, Ciena, Tampnet

Location: Eight Rooftop Bar, The Grand Hotel, Oslo​

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Tuesday, 21st April 2026

 

 

8.00 am Registration, Welcome Breakfast, and Coffee

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8.30 am Welcome Opening Remarks

 

8.35 am OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS

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Karianne Oldernes Tung, Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance

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8.55 am THE CHANGING NORDICS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE ECOSYSTEM: KEY CHALLENGES IN MEETING ACCELERATED DEMAND AND EVOLVING THE NORDICS AS A KEY STRATEGIC AND INTERCONNECTED HUB

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Understanding current and future drivers of demand, where is the growth and demand coming from, AI workloads, shift from training to inference, data sovereignty, private vs public cloud.

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Can the Nordics evolve from locally-based hubs and remote compute to a fully interconnected region? What needs to happen?

Overcoming key challenges: cross-border and inter-regional fibre connectivity constraints, national fibre constraints, lack of investment, and access to power rather than availability.

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Determining future infrastructure connectivity requirements; network implications, access networks, changing DC models, DC to DC connectivity, convertibility of build, AI sovereign hubs, longevity of AI facilities, and chip life cycle:

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• Impact on data centre leases and ROI of infrastructure 

Impact of geopolitical environment: risks, security, and data sovereignty

• Does geopolitics impact the Nordics’ attractiveness as a standalone location vs FLAP-D

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Developing partnership and collaboration opportunities

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Strategically positioning the region: access to renewable energy, new hyperscaler investments, and political stability

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Moderator: Jurgen Hatheier, VP & CTO Global Partnerships

Speakers:
Kristin Zwez, Managing Director, NSCALE
Johan Ottosson,  Chief Strategy and Product Officer, ARELION
Jon Gravrak, CEO, BULK INFRASTRUCTURE
Regina Donato Dahlstrom, Managing Director, Nordics, EQUINIX
Elie Hanna, CEO, TAMPNET

Henry de Chaillé, Director, Google Network Infrastructure, Europe and Africa, GOOGLE

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9.55 am Coffee Break

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10.25 am DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: MARKET OUTLOOK, NEW FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES AND ACCESS TO FUNDING

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Investing in the Nordic region, demand drivers, impact of AI on the type of investments– is there real value? Impact on capital flows; is there enough demand? Where are the market opportunities?

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DC investment outlook: Financing future data centres – planning for the data centres of tomorrow 

Investing in networks and fibre connectivity across the region – where will the capital come from? challenges for raising capital

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Moderator: Tim Passingham, Chairman, CAMBRIDGE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

Speakers:
David Heimer, Managing Director, Head of Nordic Investment Banking Coverage, DEUTSCHE BANK
Bart de Jong, Managing Director, DTCP INFRA
William Lindstrom, Managing Director, EQT PARTNERS
Zacharias Karlsen, Managing Director, ICG INFRASTRUCTURE

Erik Botnevik, Partner & Country Manager, Norway, INFRANODE

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11.35am Coffee Break

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11.50am EVALUATING KEY FIBRE CONNECTIVITY CHALLENGES: CROSS-BORDER AND IN-COUNTRY - DEVELOPING OPTIMUM STRATEGIES TO MEET CHANGING DEMAND

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Analysing fibre connectivity requirements; needs of the hyperscalers and future edge/inference requirements; in-country and cross-border;  regional providers, redundancy.

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Understanding key challenges: legacy infrastructure, lack of investment and capital, focus on FTTH and mobile broadband, lack of fibre highways, terrain and distance, keeping up with demand, specific in-country challenges – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark

Where do regional players fit in? What is the status of cross-border fibre connectivity across the region?

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Development of data centres and pace of development – how can connectivity providers keep up with this sudden, accelerated demand and lack of infrastructure, evaluating alternative solutions

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Evaluating alternative commercial models for the development of fibre connectivity and how will they be financed?

Developing optimum partnership strategies, cross-border partnerships

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Evaluating developments in subsea connectivity and the impact on terrestrial connectivity 

 

​​Moderator: Will Rhodes, Head of EMEA Partners, CIENA
 

Speakers:
Martin Dowling, CTO, ALTIBOX CARRIER
John Fitzgibbon, Senior Manager, Network Planning & Acquisition, EMEA, AWS

Par Jansson, SVP, GLOBAL CONNECT 

Brendan Ives, CEO, DARK FIBER GROUP
Davin Rice, Chief Commercial Officer, ZAYO EUROPE

​Bjorn Blomberg, Director, Infrastructure Sales & Engineering, ARELION

 

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1.00pm Lunch

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2.00pm | NORDICS MARKET INSIGHT: DATA CENTRE ANALYTICS AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE

 

 

Speaker:
David Sandars, Regional Director EMEA, DATACENTERHAWK

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2.15pm  DATA CENTRES:

PART ONE: CHANGING DATA CENTRE REQUIREMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS; AI, HYPERSCALE INVESTMENT, EDGE AND INFERENCE

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Understanding changing demand drivers and future requirements; 

• needs of the hyperscalers; supply, distribution, security, latency, -

• impact of demands of alternative AI investments, connectivity requirements, and sustainable energy requirements

 

Power availability

• impact of the level of consumption and evaluating alternative power sources

• distance and access to power (Northern regions), and key connectivity constraints – will users of power go to rural regions?

 

PART TWO: BUILDING, DEVELOPING AND OPERATING NEXT-GENERATION AND FUTURE-READY DATA CENTRES

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS AND STRATEGIES

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Evaluating alternative strategies for building and developing secure AI infrastructure

Designing and operating next-generation data centres; convertibility, new technologies

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• ROI of infrastructure; data centre leases and chip lifecycles​

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How can data centres manage growing electricity demands, grid stability, and load balancing

Evaluating alternative power solutions; net zero digital energy hubs

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Sustainable and waste heat recovery – from a customer purchasing criteria perspective, does this make a difference or is it just marketing?

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Building and developing optimum ecosystems to enable data centre and DC connectivity

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IN-DEPTH CASE STUDIES:

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In-depth analysis of alternative national markets and specific associated challenges; site selections, permits, different power regions, approvals, connectivity:

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• Norway - Sweden

• Finland - Denmark

• Iceland

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Moderators:

Chris George, Founder, SELF INFRASTRUCTURE

Rob Bath, Director, FOUNDDIGITAL

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Speakers:

Kristian Kofoed-Solheim, Director Colocation, BULK INFRASTRUCTURE
Pernille Hoffmann, Managing Director, Nordic, DIGITAL REALTY
Ingrid Tjøsvold, CEO, ELTEL NETWORKS

Halvor Bjerke, Managing Director Nordics, GREEN MOUNTAIN
Oscar Thøgersen, Chief Commercial Officer, SKYGARD
Tate Cantrell, CTO, VERNE

Svein Atle Hagaseth, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, HEIM DATACENTER

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3.55 pm Closing Remarks 

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4.00 pm-6.00 pm Networking and Allocated Meeting Time

Closing Cocktail Reception

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6.30 pm CCT Nordics 2026 Dinner: Hosted by Altibox Carrier, Arelion, Bulk Infrastructure, Ciena, Tampnet

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