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Check-in and Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00 am |
Welcome Address |
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JOHN VITHOULKAS
County Manager,
Henrico Virginia
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CHAD WILLIAMS
CEO,
QTS Data Centers
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| 9:10 am |
IEIC Report |
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VINAY NAGPAL
President,
InterGlobix, LLC. |
Executive Director & Founding Member
IEIC |
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| 9:15 am |
Keynote 1: Dr. Vint Cerf: “Why the Internet Infrastructure Matters?”
Importance of resiliency and diversity of the Internet, and how critical the Internet has become to our lives—both during and post-pandemic, IEIC’s success in Henrico and a ”blueprint” for other markets globally. |
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 DR. VINT CERF
Chief Internet Evangelist
Google |
Chairman
IEIC |
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| 9:45 am |
Panel 1: The Rapidly Evolving Global Internet Infrastructure Landscape
Digital infrastructure developments in Jakarta, Mumbai, Sydney, Melbourne, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Ireland, UK, Denmark, Guam, Singapore, Africa, and other potential Global Internet Hubs.
SPEAKERS
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RUSS MATULICH
CEO & Founder
RTI Cables |
RAYMOND TONG
CEO
SUNeVision |
NIGEL BAYLIFF
CEO
Aqua Comms |
JOHNSON AGOGBUA
CEO
Kasi Data Centers |
ERICK CONTAG
Ex-Chairman, GlobeNet
Chairman, SubOptic |
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MODERATOR |
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VINAY NAGPAL
President
InterGlobix, LLC. |
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| 10:30 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am |
Panel 2: Latency, Edge Data Centers & Cloud Security:
Why latency matters in the era of serving content at the speed of light, edge data center landscape and the importance of cloud security.
SPEAKERS
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VINAY KANITKAR
CTO
Akamai Technologies
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KRISHNA NARAYANASWAMY
CTO
Netskope
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JEZZIBELL GILMORE
CCO and Co-Founder
PacketFabric
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JASON BLACK
Director of Cloud & Datacenter Eng.
NVIDIA
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SARAH KELLER
Head of Network Sourcing
Uber
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MODERATOR |
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SANDY MCMURTRY
VP of Interconnection Business Development
QTS Data Centers
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| 11:30 am |
Fireside Chat: The Economic Growth Drive by Digital Infrastructure
The impact of Digital Infrastructure in Henrico and across the Commonwealth of Virginia. |
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MODERATOR |
JASON EL KOUBI
President & CEO
Virginia Economic Development Partnership
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ANTHONY ROMANELLO
Executive Director
Henrico Economic Development Authority
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VINAY NAGPAL
President
InterGlobix, LLC.
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| 12:00 pm |
Networking Lunch |
| 1:00 pm |
DE-CIX Richmond Internet Exchange Ribbon Cutting
World’s Largest Data Center-Neutral and Carrier-Neutral Internet Exchange
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| 1:15 pm |
Secretaries of States’ Remarks |
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SEC. CAREN MERRICK
Secretary of Commerce & Trade
Commonwealth of Virginia
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SEC. LYN MCDERMID
Secretary of Administration
Commonwealth of Virginia
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| 1:45 pm |
Ivo Ivanov “The Genesis Behind DE-CIX Richmond” |
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IVO IVANOV
CEO & Chairman
DE-CIX Group AG
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| 2:00 pm |
Panel 3: “Accelerating Digitization Across Multiple Industries”
Digital transformation across various industries, including healthcare, finance, automobile, academia, banking, and others.
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FRANK NAZZARO
CIO
Freddie Mac
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MICHAEL KARAFOTIS
MD, Data Quality & Control Exec., Tech. & Ops.
Bank of America
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JEZZIBELL GILMORE
CCO and Co-Founder
PacketFabric
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DR. BARBARA BOYAN
Dean, College of Engineering
VCU
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DR. VOLKAN OTUGEN
Chair Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng.
SMU Lyle School of Eng.
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JENNIFER TAYLOR
President & CEO
NVTC
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MODERATOR |
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IVO IVANOV
CEO & Chairman
DE-CIX Group AG
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| 2:45 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:00 pm |
Panel 4: “Why Subsea cables are a catalyst of the Digital Economy, Feeding the Local Connectivity”
The resurgence of subsea cables, paradigm shifts, new business models, and impact to the digital economy and the data center industry.
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SCHMIDY S.
Network Sourcing
Meta (Facebook)
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GERARDO BONILLA
Head of Sales
Telxius
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HUNTER NEWBY
CEO, Newby Ventures
Owner, Fibre Centre
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MICHAEL ORTIZ
CEO and Co-Founder
Layer9 Data Centers
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CRAIG WALDROP
VP, Service Provider Segment
Interxion
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SCOTT BROWN
CEO
Pixel Factor Data Center
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MODERATOR |
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VINAY NAGPAL
President
InterGlobix, LLC.
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| 3:45 pm |
Panel 5: “The Road Ahead: AI, IoT, Edge, Connected Cars, Connected Homes, Broadband Edge & Bridging the Digital Divide”
The impact of underlying digital infrastructure to the up-and-coming new technologies and “use cases”. How digital infrastructure advancements can help bridge the digital divide.
SPEAKERS
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STAFFAN GÖJERYD
CEO
Arelion
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STEVE ALEXANDER
CTO & Co-Founder
Ciena
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ZAID KAHN
GM, Cloud, AI, Advanced Systems
Microsoft
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BRENT BENSTEN
CTO
QTS Data Centers
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NICK SERFASS
CEO
Richmond Technology Council
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GARY WOOD
President & CEO
Firefly Fiber Broadband
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MODERATOR |
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DR. VINT CERF
Chief Internet Evangelis
Google
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| 4:30 pm |
Closing Remarks by Vint Cerf & IEIC Awards |
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DR. VINT CERF
Chief Internet Evangelis
Google
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| 4:45 – 6:45 pm |
DE-CIX Richmond Reception, Kick-off by Ivo Ivanov |
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IVO IVANOV
CEO & Chairman
DE-CIX Group AG
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