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

14 Oct 2026
The AI Build Stage
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, Non- Executive Director, Pure Data Centres Group & CEO - nLighten
Speakers
Ivo Ivanov
Ivo Ivanov, CEO - DE-CIX
Amar Khan
Amar Khan, Head of Network Site Investments - Meta
Kristin Zwez
Kristin Zwez, MD - Nscale
Falk Weinreich
Falk Weinreich, CEO - PORTUS DATA CENTERS