Discover Our Metro Meetups
Earlier this year, we were excited to introduce our invite-only Metro Meetups - a refined version of our previous community meetups.
Each session brought together the leading voices of the digital infrastructure world for meaningful conversations in a relaxed setting, the kind with real outcomes, from new partnerships and deals to fresh ideas shaping the year ahead.
Each meetup consisted of an hour dedicated to interactive discussion, followed by 30 minutes of relaxed networking, drinks and refreshments.
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2026 Metro Meetups Included:
The Data Center Meetup
23 Feb 2026 | 11:40 AM - 1:10 PM | Sea Level Restaurant
This session united data centers, hyperscale, neo-cloud and construction & engineering leaders for an in-depth, interactive discussion tackling the key challenges and opportunities shaping the data center landscape.
We covered:
- Financing the data center boom: financing strategies, is growth sustainable, or will the bubble burst?
- Build, baby, build: strategies to accelerate construction and overcome development roadblocks
- From lengthy lead teams to rising costs: overcoming challenges in the supply chain
- Enterprise vs hyperscale: the evolution of business models
- Upgrades, retrofits, rebuild: what solutions are emerging?
The first hour was dedicated to an interactive discussion, followed by 30 minutes of networking & refreshments.
The Data Center Fiber Meetup
23 Feb 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Sea Level Restaurant
The explosion of AI has led to an unprecedented demand for data centers, driving new fiber build outs. This session offered the prime opportunity for data center operators, hyperscalers & neo-cloud players to meet fiber providers to source connectivity for new and expanding facilities.
We covered:
- Assessing demand for additional data center interconnect capacity and routes
- From the ground up: embedding fiber strategy early in data center development
- Future-proofing connectivity: optimizing fiber infrastructure to meet capacity and speed requirements
- How has the shift to a power-first strategy impacted fiber connectivity to and between data centers?
The first hour was dedicated to an interactive discussion, followed by 30 minutes of networking & refreshments.
The AI Infrastructure Meetup
24 Feb 2026 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Sea Level Restaurant
This session united visionaries and leaders driving AI innovation across digital infrastructure, from neoclouds to AI platforms.
The discussions explored:
- The AI surge: How will the next wave of artificial intelligence reshape our digital infrastructure landscape?
- The rise of neoclouds: Are they the next generation of hyperscalers—and is their growth truly sustainable?
- Preparing for the future of AI: scaling compute, storage and connectivity
- Designing for efficiency: how cooling and chip architecture shape the future of compute
The first hour was dedicated to an interactive discussion, followed by 30 minutes of networking & refreshments.
The Power Meetup
24 Feb 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Sea Level Restaurant
Uniting energy & utilities companies, along with data center operators, hyperscalers and investors, this session addressed the challenges in powering and financing the infrastructure powering the data center boom. We covered:
- Overcoming grid and interconnection bottlenecks: which solutions can help overcome transmission restraints?
- How are developers financing energy infrastructure, and are data centers tied in to these deals?
- Cost, risk and sustainability: strategic planning for data center power
- Gas, nuclear, or hydrogen: which generation models are gaining traction, and how does this vary by facility size?
The first hour was dedicated to an interactive discussion, followed by 30 minutes of networking & refreshments.
The FTTH Meetup
24 Feb 2026 | 3:05 PM - 4:45 PM | Sea Level Restaurant
Fiber remains the gold standard in residential connectivity, and demand for bandwidth is only increasing with the rise in streaming, remote work, AI tools and smart home devices. This session united fiber operators, network designers, network construction, key technology vendors and state broadband offices to discuss:
- From streaming to smart homes: how are the FTTH services evolving?
- How can networks be monetised long-term, and how are public-private models developing?
- Deploying smarter: new tools and technologies powering the FTTH network
- Designing tomorrow’s connectivity: smarter network planning
- Planning and managing network build-out and delivery schedules
The first hour was dedicated to an interactive discussion, followed by 30 minutes of networking & refreshments.
