Keynote Presentation - Service Providers & Neoclouds: The Spinal Cord of the AI Era

13 Oct 2026
The AI Build Stage
AI Revenue & Service Innovation , Core Infrastructure & Capacity (Fibre, Data Centres, Subsea) , Operations, Automation & Execution

AI is reshaping how infrastructure creates value. As inference becomes more distributed, customers need resilience, trust, sovereignty and assurance end to end. Service providers and neoclouds occupy potential complementary positions in this evolving value chain, spanning reach, interconnection, trusted delivery and inference platforms. This session briefly examines where this shift creates opportunities for differentiated services and new revenue models.

Speakers
Johan Gustawsson
Johan Gustawsson, CTO and Vice President, Provider Connectivity - CISCO

Sponsored by:

Cisco