Monday 20th April 2026

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6.00 pm – 9.30 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

8.30 am Welcome Opening Remarks

 

8.35 am OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS

 

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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9.55 am Coffee Break

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10.25 am 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 

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11.35am Coffee Break

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11.50am 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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1.00pm Lunch

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2.10pm  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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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

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**Please note this is the draft CCT Nordics 2026 agenda, which is subject to change and will be updated once all speakers are finalised.

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