Panel: From FLAP to Frontier: Rethinking Europe’s footprint for AI

14 Oct 2026
The AI Build Stage
Operations, Automation & Execution , Policy, Regulation & Security
Europe’s landscape is decentralising. This panel examines emerging AI hubs, edge growth, and how policy, sovereignty and latency shape location decisions, and who will host Europe’s billion-euro AI factories.
Chairperson
Dame Dawn Childs
Dame Dawn Childs, Chief Executive Officer - nLighten
Speakers
Ivo Ivanov
Ivo Ivanov, CEO - DE-CIX
Amar Khan
Amar Khan, Head of Network Site Investments - Meta
Falk Weinreich
Falk Weinreich, CEO - PORTUS DATA CENTERS
Giancarlo Giacomello
Giancarlo Giacomello, CEO - ARUBA DC & INFRASTRUCTURES