EQUINIX ENGAGE 

Wednesday 13 November 2024 │ 09:00-14:00 GMT │ Searcys at The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8BF
 
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While many enterprises are investing heavily in AI, a select group of leaders have truly capitalised on the opportunity. These innovators have transformed their approach to critical infrastructure, shifting IT from a cost-cutting measure to a revenue-generating asset. 

By simplifying operations and reducing egress costs with high performance data centres, savvy leaders are improving throughput and reducing network costs while ensuring connectivity remains secure. They are also avoiding cloud vendor lock-in and surprise fees enabling them to focus their technology spend on Private AI. This ability to build new AI business models, on their private data, is transforming how their business competes, and succeeds.

Join us to discover how business and technology leaders are driving this transformation, the steps they took and the benefits they gained as pioneers in Private AI. We will also be discussing how to leverage AI for a successful multi-cloud journey and future-ready infrastructure.

AGENDA

09:00 Registration, refreshments and networking

09:30 Presentations, panels, fireside chats and discussions with experts on topics such as:

  • Harnessing the economic potential of AI
  • AI at scale: Turning ambition into action
  • The future of AI infrastructure: Perspectives, challenges and solutions
  • Future-Ready: Integrating AI, sustainability and Edge delivery
  • AI and Quantum: A new paradigm for secure connectivity in cybersecurity
  • Optimising application performance and resilience: Multi-cloud disaster recovery and low-latency solutions for 2025 and beyond
  • Seeds of change: Harnessing AI for innovation breakthroughs

Discussion zones during the mid-morning networking break - you’ll be able to learn from leaders and deep-dive into key topics including AI readiness, Cost optimisation, Data strategy, Sustainability, Application performance, and Security and privacy

13:00 Dedicated discussion groups over lunch - as innovators, change-makers and disruptors from across industry, you are invited to join pre-selected discussion groups under Chatham House rules. You can choose from:

  • AI readiness
  • Cost optimisation
  • Data strategy
  • Sustainability
  • Application performance
  • Security and privacy

13:45 Key takeaways and next steps

13:55 Closing remarks and further networking

14:00 Close 


HEAR FROM

Sanjeevan Bala, Chief Data and AI Officer, ITV

Sanjeevan Bala
Chief Data and AI Officer, ITV

Natalia Konstantinova-1

Natalia Konstantinova
Lead Architect in AI, BP

Chris Darriet-Jones, Chief Data Architect, Post Office-1

Chris Darriet-Jones
Chief Data Architect, Post Office

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Jon Jacobs
CTO, Haleon

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Bruce Owen
President of EMEA and Managing Director, Equinix

Mike Warriner, CTO, Flutter

Mike Warriner
CTO, Flutter

Richard Wright EMEA DGX AI Platform Segment Sales Lead, NVIDIA

Richard Wright
EMEA DGX AI Platform Segment Sales Lead, NVIDIA

Paul Brook Director of Data Analytics and AI, Dell

Paul Brook
Director of Data Analytics and AI, Dell

Andrew Shields Vice President and Head of Quantum Technology, Toshiba Europe

Andrew Shields
Vice President and Head of Quantum Technology, Toshiba Europe

Registration

This is a private event for members of our community. Membership is free and is open to all those who have a professional or academic interest in business leadership and disruption, or the capability to support our Full Members through their business transformation.