Our agenda

Plenary sessions

12:30 PM
12:50 PM

Reset, Refocus, Rise

Speakers
Keri Gilder
12:50 PM
13:05 PM

three engines, one colt

Speakers
Avi Singh
13:05 PM
13:15 PM

Metrics that matter

Speakers
Dan Harris
13:15 PM
13:30 PM

Driving the future of frontier technologies

Speakers
Buddy Bayer
13:30 PM
13:45 PM

The autonomous digital network of the future

Speakers
Frank Miller
13:45 PM
14:00 PM

Preparing for
Q-day

Speakers
Ash Surti
14:00PM
14:30 PM

Q&A

Speakers
ELT
14:30PM
14:50 PM

BREAK

Breakout sessions

14:50 PM
15:30 PM

A) Customer impact drives everything we do

Speakers
Mark Beeden
or

B) Building resilient networks in the AI / Quantum era

Speakers
Vivek Gaur + Prasanna Sundaram
15:30 PM
16:10 PM

A) Being the Enterprise partner of choice

Speakers
Laura Farina
or

B) Our digital Infrastructure building blocks

Speakers
Joe Scattareggia
16:10 PM
16:50 PM

A) Programmable WAN for EnterpriseS

Speakers
Peter Coppens
or

B) Be Sovereign-ready or get left behind

Speakers
Mirko Voltolini + Alessandro Galtieri
speakers

Our speakers

Keri Gilder

Chief Executive Officer

Keri is at the helm of our mission to make effortless connections everywhere and enable extraordinary outcomes for customers.

She strives to make every interaction with Colt as easy as pushing a button.

Buddy Bayer

Chief Operating Officer

Buddy leads our global product and operations, developing network strategy and infrastructure that makes the digital world go round.

He innovates to bring unique and sustainable technology solutions to life.

Ashish surti

Chief Digital & Information Officer

Ash brings our digital ambitions to life, steering our technology and security strategy while streamlining systems and processes.

He simplifies and automates to make extraordinary effortless.

avi singh

Chief Strategy Officer

Avi shapes our strategic direction as Colt continues to evolve and grow, and oversees our global brand and marketing.

He plans and executes visionary programmes that deliver extraordinary outcomes.

DAN HARRIS

Chief Financial Officer

Dan drives our growth ambitions with the delivery of our global financial strategy and metrics and leading the integration of Lumen EMEA.

He captures critical business value and tells compelling stories driven by data.

LAURA FArina

EVP, Enterprise Sales

Laura drives our enterprise revenue growth and bold market presence, steering Colt's enterprise sales and customer success teams.

She transforms insight into solutions and extraordinary outcomes for customers.

joe scattareggia

EVP, Infrastructure + Connectivity Sales

Joe drives our wholesale revenue growth and hyperscale business, leading Colt's infrastructure and connectivity sales.

He seizes growth opportunities with his finger on the pulse of nascent market trends.

frank miller

Chief AI Architect

Frank drives our AI vision and intelligence.

He helps automate, simplify and transform Colt, making it easier than ever for our customers and partners to do business with us.

MARK BEEDEN

Chief Marketing & Communications Officer

Mark is responsible for creating and communicating Colt's vision, purpose and brand and connecting stakeholders with Colt's capabilities and culture.

Vivek Gaur

VP, Network Engineering

Vivek drives Colt’s global engineering function.

He focuses on delivering high-performance, efficient, and reliable infrastructure to drive enhanced customer experience and operational excellence.

prasanna sundaram

Director, Optical & Fibre Engineering

Prasanna heads up Colt’s Global Optical Network Engineering Function.

He champions our quantum resilient connectivity across our terrestrial and subsea optical network, as well as building Colt’s future-ready infrastructure.

peter coppens

VP of Product

Peter is responsible for defining and executing Colt’s global product strategy.

He steers Colt’s transformation towards software-driven, digital-first and AI-ready products, including the successful evolution of Network as a Service (NaaS) and API-based consumption models.

Mirko Voltolini

VP, Technology & Innovation

Mirko leads Colt’s network platform architecture, overseeing our technology and innovation strategy and our partner ecosystem to drive sustainable growth.

He applies innovation initiatives to develop our platforms, leading the way for us to be ahead in the future to come.

Alessandro Galtieri

VP, Corporate Law & Deputy General Counsel

Alessandro is responsible for many of Colt's strategic initiatives in our Legal and General Counsel function.

He uses his expertise to help oversee Colt’s AI and Audit committee, maintaining our Regulatory and Government Affairs and Group Data Protection. He drove the approval of Colt’s Binding Corporate Rules.

beyond connectivity

a broader vision for enabling ai readiness

"We cannot afford to be narrow minded about AI infrastructure. As industry leaders, we must embrace a broader, bolder vision that goes far beyond connectivity. Enabling true AI readiness for enterprises also demands security, sovereignty, capacity, scalability, low-latency, capillarity, responsibility and simplicity."

Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt Technology Services

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1,100+

Centros de datos conectados

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230+

Ciudades conectadas

cloud

250+

Cloud POPs en todo el mundo

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62

NPS GLOBAL

cloud

250+

Cloud PoPs worldwide

host

1,100+

Centros de datos conectados

corporate_fare

230+

Ciudades conectadas

cloud

250+

Cloud POPs en todo el mundo

sentiment_satisfied

62

NPS GLOBAL

cloud

250+

Cloud PoPs worldwide

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