The forum for finance and investment in the data center, hosting, colocation and cloud sector is the annual marketplace for the leadership of publicly quoted and private data center, hosting and cloud businesses to network and engage with users, investors, financiers and industry partners, transacting companies, professional intermediaries, real estate brokerages, and legal counsel.
Consistently attracting a high level audience, the Finance and Investment Forum offers several critical advantages to all participants including exposure to key investors (providing often difficult or rare opportunities for many companies across the sector); hearing key influencers (such as the key players to support fund raising or an IPO); rich content with high level analysis of the market for data center and cloud assets, company valuations and investor experience and unparalleled networking among the representatives attending.
Programme
07:45h Registration & Continental Breakfast
09:00h Introduction to the Forum and State of the Market
Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup
09:15h Global Trends
Jonathan Atkin, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
09:30h Presentation
09:45h Impact of GDPR on sector
Sam de Silva, Partner, Nabarro LLP
10:00h The Outlook for 2017 Panel Discussion
Chair: Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup
Josh Joshi, CFO, Interxion
Jennifer Fritzsche, Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities
Neil Cresswell, CEO, Virtus
Rupprecht Rittweger, CEO, e-Shelter
Jonathan Atkin, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
10:45h Morning Networking Break
11:15h New Business Models
Chair: Richard Hall, CEO, CloudOrigin
Simon Hansford, CEO, UKCloud
Ralph Choufani, ABRY Partners
Nick Razey, CEO, Next Generation Data
Grethe Viksaas, Founder & Chairman, Basefarm
11:45h Future-Oriented Inclusive Ecosystems – NxtVn DC Parks
Khaled Sedrak, Founder & CEO, NxtVn
12:00h Opportunities in Africa – the Rack Centre story
Ayotunde Coker, Managing Director, Rack Centre
12:15h Operating in the fastest growing datacentre markets
Chair: Marion Howard-Healy, Senior Consultant, BroadGroup Consulting
Andrew Bartley, Chief Investment Officer, Global Telecoms & Technology, International Finance Corporation
Merhrdad Mansoupour, Partner, Viacable Group Holding International
Aldo Mareuse, CEO, Telkom Kenya
Michail Zekkos, Partner, Permira Advisors LLP
David Keller, VP of Sales and Business Development, MBC
Krzysztof Siedlecki, CFO, Beyond.pl
13:00h Lunch
14:00h The logic of consolidation: when, why and how does it make sense
Rupert Robson, CEO, Torch Partners
14:15h The next wave of M&A in the sector
Chair: Daniel Beazer, Senior Consultant, BroadGroup Consulting
Tom Wells, Partner, Arma Partners
Daryl Seaton, CFO, Virtus
John Eland, Data Centre Investments, AXA Investment Managers
15:00h Afternoon Networking Break
15:30h Telcos and co-lo providers – competitors or collaborators?
Andrew Kloeden, Principal, Analysys Mason
15:45h Debt Strategies
Chair: Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup Consulting
Pedro Tavares, CEO, Altimapa Limited
Sicco Boomsma, Director, Structured Finance – Telecom, Media & Technology, ING
Jeffrey Krogh, Managing Director, BNP Paribas
16:30h Capital Markets and how will they look in 2017?
Chair: Miles Loo, Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield Western Inc
John King, VP, European Software & IT Services, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
Milan Radia, Managing Director, Equity Research, Jefferies
Christof Hammerli, Chief Acquisitions Officer, Carter Validus
17:15h Wrap up and final thoughts
Steve Wallage, Managing Director, BroadGroup Consulting
17:30h Networking Reception
