Past speakers
Meet the 2026 speaker lineup:
Submarine Networks EMEA speakers:
Ferris Adi, CISO, Trans Americas Fiber System
Sabah Alkubaisy, Associate Partner, Salience Consulting
Gwenn Amice, Technical Sales Leader, Americas, EXFO
Jorge Andrade Santos, Head of International Wholesale, MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA
Rachel Archer, Co-Chair, NextGen Subgroup - ESCA & Marine Maintenance APM, Alcatel Submarine Networks
Erling Aronsveen, Senior Partner, Cambridge Management Consulting
Harry Baldock, Editor, Total Telecom
Peter Barham MBE, Chair, Seabed User & Developer Group
José Barros, Executive Council, JTF for SMART Cables
Stuart Bausor, Market Development Manager - Fiber Sensing, VIAVI Solutions
Naaz Bax, Founder & CEO, Team Bax
Damien Bertrand, COO, Medusa Submarine Cable System
Steinar Bjørnstad, Research Manager, head of optical sensing, Tampnet AS
Stuart Blythe, Partner, BAKER BOTTS (UK) LLP
Julien Bollati, Team Leader, European Commission
Erik-Jan Bos, Senior Advisor, NORDUnet
Matt Bowden, Director of Operations, Red Penguin Marine
Steve Boyd, Network Investment Manager, Colt Technology Services
Elisabeth Braw, Author of 'The Undersea War' & Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Kent Bressie, Partner, HWG LLP
Horst Brockmueller, CEO, Oceanic Environmental Cables GmbH
Eckhard Bruckschen, CEO, IOEMA-1 Holding B.V.
Pia Bruhn, Project Manager - Cable Systems, Space Norway
Owen Bryant, Head of Global Infrastructure, Vodafone
Tom Burton, Senior Partner – Cyber Security & Digital Resilience, Cambridge Management Consulting Ltd
Anna Butchart, Subsea, Independent
Manuel Cabugueira, Board member, ANACOM
Laurent Campagne, Senior Consultant, AQEST
Samuel Carvalho, CMO, Angola Cables & CEO, TelCables Europe
Louis Carver, CCO, AFR-IX Telecom & Medusa Submarine Cable System
Christopher Case, Hybrid Threats Analyst, NATO-SHAPE J2
Zvika Caspy, VP Sales Europe, Sparkle
Shaiju Cheruvathur, Director, Product Line Management, Ciena
Franck Chevalier, Head of Technology Consulting, Analysys Mason
Mathew Chigwende, Group Head Of Network Engineering, Liquid Intelligent Technologies
Bertrand Clesca, Partner, Pioneer Consulting
Magda Cocco, Director, VdA - Vieira de Almeida
Hadleigh Coffey, Senior Vice President, Product & Solution Engineering, Fiber Sense
Mike Conradi, Partner, DLA Piper
Ben Cooke, Chief Technology Officer, Crosslake Fibre
Sylvain Cotte, PARTNER, Wagram Corporate Finance
Andy Cowan, VP Business Development, Fiber Sense
Stéphane Cugnon De Sévricourt, SVP International Infrastructures, Orange
Mike Cunningham, CEO, Crosslake Fibre
Valentina DAL BORGO, Manager, Carrier Business, China Mobile International (UK) Limited
Dan Danskin, Commercial Manager - DAS, ASN
Bart de Jong, Managing Director, DTCP
Didier Dillard, CEO, Orange Marine & Elettra Tlc
Wilfried Dudink, Senior Director - Strategy & Development, Digital Realty
Philippe Dumont, CEO, EllaLink
Robert Earrey, Founder, InterProtect
Andrew Euston, Solution Engineering Team Lead, Windward Marine Risk (UK) Ltd.
Darwin Evans, Senior Director, Product Line Management, Ciena
Andrea Forder, Operations and Marketing Director, SubOptic Association
Leigh Frame, COO, Xtera Ltd
Mattias Fridström, VP, Chief Evangelist & Head of CEO Office, Arelion
Jens-Olav Frorud, CTO, Space Norway
Shamil Gabitov, Head of Wholesale Business, Middle East & Africa, China Unicom Europe
Paul Gabla, President, SubOptic Association
Esther Garcés, Chief Executive Officer, Islalink Holding
Chris George, Principal, SELF Infrastructure
Stephen Hall, Head of Partnerships, Nippon Foundation - GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project
Steen Hansen, Head of PLAN, Tusass A/S
Richard Harrison, Deputy General Counsel, Alcatel Submarine Networks
Peter Harvey, Senior Product Manager, Starboard Maritime Intelligence Limited
Steve Holden, Chairman, ESCA & Network Operations Engineer Infrastructure (Subsea), Meta
Christos Holevas, Network Development, Meta
Geir Holmer, Chief Executive Officer, JTD Associates
Bruce Howe, Research Professor, Joint Task Force for SMART Cables and University of Hawaii
Peter Jamieson, Vice Chair, European Subsea Cables Association (ESCA)
Hervé Jost, Director, Infrastructure Business Development and Eurotunnel Concession, Colt Technology Services
Svante Jurnell, Co-Founder, Optic Tunnels
Antti Kankkunen, Senior Advisor, Product Line Management, Ciena
Camino Kavanagh, Senior Visting Fellow, King’s College London
Rajesh Kheny, Senior Associate, DRG Undersea Consulting
Pat Kidney, Partner, Analysys Mason
Albert KIS, Group Chief Wholesale and Infrastructure Officer, 4iG
Grace Koh, Vice President, Government Relations, Legal, Ciena
Gretchen Krantz Evans, Senior Manager, Africa and the Middle East, US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA)
Viktor Kyuzov, Global Head of Market Development, Digital Realty
Dave LaPommeray, Senior Legal Counsel, IT International Telecom Inc.
Brian Lavallée, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Ciena
Alexander Li, Vice President of Global Sales Department, HMN Tech
Andy Lipman, Partner, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP
John Maguire, Director, Europe, APTelecom
Captain Niels Markussen, Director of the Nato Shipping Centre and NATO Maritime Centre for the Security of Critical Infrastructure (NMSCSUI), Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM)
Bill Marra, Chief Commercial Officer, Cinturion Group
Angel Martin, Business Development Manager, EMEA, Telxius
Eduardo Mateo, Executive Committee, SubOptic Association & Chief Strategy Officer, Submarine Network Division, NEC Corporation
Sandra Maximiano, Co-Chair, International Advisory Body for Submarine Cable Resilience, ITU & Chair of the Board of Directors, ANACOM
Tansy McCluskie, Network Investments - EMEA, Meta
Sarah McComb, Principal Network Business Developer, Amazon Web Services
Artur Mendes, VP Sales, Angola Cables
Oscar Monteagudo, Carrier Sales and Subsea Business Director, Vodafone
Vinay Nagpal, CEO, IG Group
Mr Kristian Nielsen, Chief Revenue Officer, WFN Strategies, LLC
Wayne Nielsen, Managing Director, WFN Strategies
Pete Nisbet, Managing Partner, edenseven
Richard Norris, Senior Director, Sales Engineering, Ciena
Rebecca Nottingham, Director, R N Subsea Consulting
Joel Ogren, Chief Executive Officer, Assured Communications (ASSURED)
Michalis Oikonomakos, Business Development Director, Islalink Holding
Tony O'Sullivan, CEO, RETN
Prenesh Padayachee, Chief Technology and Operations Officer, Seacom
Andy Palmer-Felgate, Executive Committee, ICPC & Submarine Cable Engineer, Meta
Isabelle Paradis, President, HOT TELECOM
Deanne Paris, Senior Consultant, Global Submarine Sales, Ciena
Timothy Parker, Chief Growth Officer, Assured Communications
Alberto Passos, Head of Business and Submarine Project CAM, IP Telecom
Bram Peeters, Chief Network Services Officer, GEANT
Oli Pope, Managing Director, Route Position
Martin Prins, Ambassador, Dutch Subsea Cable Coalition
Oscar Pyrgies, Marine Spatial Planning Manager - Telecoms, The Crown Estate
Captain Juha Ravanti, Finnish Defence Attaché to the UK, Embassy Of Finland
Brenden Rawle, Senior Director Business Development, Equinix
Elaine Reed, Senior Manager - Submarine Engineering, Vodafone
Davin Rice, Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer, Zayo Europe
Iain Ritson, Senior Director, Pioneer Consulting
Jaime Rodriguez-Ramos, Operating Director, I Squared Capital
Alexandra Rotileanu, Head of Unit (acting) - Investment in High Capacity Networks, European Commission
Navjot Sandhu, Director Physical Security, Telenor
Ranulf Scarbrough, Submarine Cable Modernisation Lead, Cayman Islands Government
Joerg Schwartz, Chief Partners & Solutions Officer, Xtera
David Simarro, Head of Sales EMEAA, Telxius
Eleanor Skinner, Project Engineer, Red Penguin Marine
Thomas Soerensen, Vice President, Sales, Ciena
Jayne Stowell, Trustee, SubOptic Foundation
Maja Summers, Director, Strategic Accounts and Network Solutions, WIOCC Group
Thorvardur Sveinsson, CEO, Farice
Marc Tachelet, Director, Health and Digital Executive Agency
Luca Tagliaretti, Executive Director, European Cybersecurity Competence Centre
Diego Teot, Head of OTT, Media & Telco, Retelit
Torsten Thiele, Senior Advisor, Blue Finance, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
Lynsey Thomas, Independent Consultant, Advisory Board, Lynsey Thomas Consulting Ltd
John Tibbles, Executive Director Operations, SubOptic Foundation
Gavin Tully, Managing Partner, Pioneer Consulting
Anders Tysdal, CTO Infrastructure, Tampnet AS
Aki Uljas, Partner, Cambridge Management Consulting
Giuseppe Valentino, VP Product Management, Backbone & Infrastructure Solutions, Sparkle
Henri van Soest, Senior Analyst, RAND Europe
Valentin Velichkov, CEO, VESTITEL
Silvia Viceconte, Team Leader, European Commission
Colin Wallace, General Manager of Cloud Network Engineering, Azure Fiber, Microsoft
Simon Webster, Chair, Cable Sensing Working Group, International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC)
Alasdair Wilkie, Chairman, Atlantic Cable Maintenance & Repair Agreement (ACMA)
Jonathan Winkler, Professor of History, Wright State University
Denise Wood, Partner, Greenberg Traurig LLP
John Wrottesley, Executive Director, European Subsea Cables Association (ESCA)
Peng Yan, CCO, Axent
Subsea Security Summit & Expo speakers:
Ferris Adi, CISO, Trans Americas Fiber System
Sabah Alkubaisy, Associate Partner, Salience Consulting
Gwenn Amice, Technical Sales Leader, Americas, EXFO
Jorge Andrade Santos, Head of International Wholesale, MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA
Rachel Archer, Co-Chair, NextGen Subgroup - ESCA & Marine Maintenance APM, Alcatel Submarine Networks
Erling Aronsveen, Senior Partner, Cambridge Management Consulting
Harry Baldock, Editor, Total Telecom
Peter Barham MBE, Chair, Seabed User & Developer Group
José Barros, Executive Council, JTF for SMART Cables
Stuart Bausor, Market Development Manager - Fiber Sensing, VIAVI Solutions
Naaz Bax, Founder & CEO, Team Bax
Damien Bertrand, COO, Medusa Submarine Cable System
Steinar Bjørnstad, Research Manager, head of optical sensing, Tampnet AS
Stuart Blythe, Partner, BAKER BOTTS (UK) LLP
Julien Bollati, Team Leader, European Commission
Erik-Jan Bos, Senior Advisor, NORDUnet
Matt Bowden, Director of Operations, Red Penguin Marine
Steve Boyd, Network Investment Manager, Colt Technology Services
Elisabeth Braw, Author of 'The Undersea War' & Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Kent Bressie, Partner, HWG LLP
Horst Brockmueller, CEO, Oceanic Environmental Cables GmbH
Eckhard Bruckschen, CEO, IOEMA-1 Holding B.V.
Pia Bruhn, Project Manager - Cable Systems, Space Norway
Owen Bryant, Head of Global Infrastructure, Vodafone
Tom Burton, Senior Partner – Cyber Security & Digital Resilience, Cambridge Management Consulting Ltd
Anna Butchart, Subsea, Independent
Manuel Cabugueira, Board member, ANACOM
Laurent Campagne, Senior Consultant, AQEST
Samuel Carvalho, CMO, Angola Cables & CEO, TelCables Europe
Louis Carver, CCO, AFR-IX Telecom & Medusa Submarine Cable System
Christopher Case, Hybrid Threats Analyst, NATO-SHAPE J2
Zvika Caspy, VP Sales Europe, Sparkle
Shaiju Cheruvathur, Director, Product Line Management, Ciena
Franck Chevalier, Head of Technology Consulting, Analysys Mason
Mathew Chigwende, Group Head Of Network Engineering, Liquid Intelligent Technologies
Bertrand Clesca, Partner, Pioneer Consulting
Magda Cocco, Director, VdA - Vieira de Almeida
Hadleigh Coffey, Senior Vice President, Product & Solution Engineering, Fiber Sense
Mike Conradi, Partner, DLA Piper
Ben Cooke, Chief Technology Officer, Crosslake Fibre
Sylvain Cotte, PARTNER, Wagram Corporate Finance
Andy Cowan, VP Business Development, Fiber Sense
Stéphane Cugnon De Sévricourt, SVP International Infrastructures, Orange
Mike Cunningham, CEO, Crosslake Fibre
Valentina DAL BORGO, Manager, Carrier Business, China Mobile International (UK) Limited
Dan Danskin, Commercial Manager - DAS, ASN
Bart de Jong, Managing Director, DTCP
Didier Dillard, CEO, Orange Marine & Elettra Tlc
Wilfried Dudink, Senior Director - Strategy & Development, Digital Realty
Philippe Dumont, CEO, EllaLink
Robert Earrey, Founder, InterProtect
Andrew Euston, Solution Engineering Team Lead, Windward Marine Risk (UK) Ltd.
Darwin Evans, Senior Director, Product Line Management, Ciena
Andrea Forder, Operations and Marketing Director, SubOptic Association
Leigh Frame, COO, Xtera Ltd
Mattias Fridström, VP, Chief Evangelist & Head of CEO Office, Arelion
Jens-Olav Frorud, CTO, Space Norway
Shamil Gabitov, Head of Wholesale Business, Middle East & Africa, China Unicom Europe
Paul Gabla, President, SubOptic Association
Esther Garcés, Chief Executive Officer, Islalink Holding
Chris George, Principal, SELF Infrastructure
Stephen Hall, Head of Partnerships, Nippon Foundation - GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project
Steen Hansen, Head of PLAN, Tusass A/S
Richard Harrison, Deputy General Counsel, Alcatel Submarine Networks
Peter Harvey, Senior Product Manager, Starboard Maritime Intelligence Limited
Steve Holden, Chairman, ESCA & Network Operations Engineer Infrastructure (Subsea), Meta
Christos Holevas, Network Development, Meta
Geir Holmer, Chief Executive Officer, JTD Associates
Bruce Howe, Research Professor, Joint Task Force for SMART Cables and University of Hawaii
Peter Jamieson, Vice Chair, European Subsea Cables Association (ESCA)
Hervé Jost, Director, Infrastructure Business Development and Eurotunnel Concession, Colt Technology Services
Svante Jurnell, Co-Founder, Optic Tunnels
Antti Kankkunen, Senior Advisor, Product Line Management, Ciena
Camino Kavanagh, Senior Visting Fellow, King’s College London
Rajesh Kheny, Senior Associate, DRG Undersea Consulting
Pat Kidney, Partner, Analysys Mason
Albert KIS, Group Chief Wholesale and Infrastructure Officer, 4iG
Grace Koh, Vice President, Government Relations, Legal, Ciena
Gretchen Krantz Evans, Senior Manager, Africa and the Middle East, US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA)
Viktor Kyuzov, Global Head of Market Development, Digital Realty
Dave LaPommeray, Senior Legal Counsel, IT International Telecom Inc.
Brian Lavallée, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Ciena
Alexander Li, Vice President of Global Sales Department, HMN Tech
Andy Lipman, Partner, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP
John Maguire, Director, Europe, APTelecom
Captain Niels Markussen, Director of the Nato Shipping Centre and NATO Maritime Centre for the Security of Critical Infrastructure (NMSCSUI), Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM)
Bill Marra, Chief Commercial Officer, Cinturion Group
Angel Martin, Business Development Manager, EMEA, Telxius
Eduardo Mateo, Executive Committee, SubOptic Association & Chief Strategy Officer, Submarine Network Division, NEC Corporation
Sandra Maximiano, Co-Chair, International Advisory Body for Submarine Cable Resilience, ITU & Chair of the Board of Directors, ANACOM
Tansy McCluskie, Network Investments - EMEA, Meta
Sarah McComb, Principal Network Business Developer, Amazon Web Services
Artur Mendes, VP Sales, Angola Cables
Oscar Monteagudo, Carrier Sales and Subsea Business Director, Vodafone
Vinay Nagpal, CEO, IG Group
Mr Kristian Nielsen, Chief Revenue Officer, WFN Strategies, LLC
Wayne Nielsen, Managing Director, WFN Strategies
Pete Nisbet, Managing Partner, edenseven
Richard Norris, Senior Director, Sales Engineering, Ciena
Rebecca Nottingham, Director, R N Subsea Consulting
Joel Ogren, Chief Executive Officer, Assured Communications (ASSURED)
Michalis Oikonomakos, Business Development Director, Islalink Holding
Tony O'Sullivan, CEO, RETN
Prenesh Padayachee, Chief Technology and Operations Officer, Seacom
Andy Palmer-Felgate, Executive Committee, ICPC & Submarine Cable Engineer, Meta
Isabelle Paradis, President, HOT TELECOM
Deanne Paris, Senior Consultant, Global Submarine Sales, Ciena
Timothy Parker, Chief Growth Officer, Assured Communications
Alberto Passos, Head of Business and Submarine Project CAM, IP Telecom
Bram Peeters, Chief Network Services Officer, GEANT
Oli Pope, Managing Director, Route Position
Martin Prins, Ambassador, Dutch Subsea Cable Coalition
Oscar Pyrgies, Marine Spatial Planning Manager - Telecoms, The Crown Estate
Captain Juha Ravanti, Finnish Defence Attaché to the UK, Embassy Of Finland
Brenden Rawle, Senior Director Business Development, Equinix
Elaine Reed, Senior Manager - Submarine Engineering, Vodafone
Davin Rice, Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer, Zayo Europe
Iain Ritson, Senior Director, Pioneer Consulting
Jaime Rodriguez-Ramos, Operating Director, I Squared Capital
Alexandra Rotileanu, Head of Unit (acting) - Investment in High Capacity Networks, European Commission
Navjot Sandhu, Director Physical Security, Telenor
Ranulf Scarbrough, Submarine Cable Modernisation Lead, Cayman Islands Government
Joerg Schwartz, Chief Partners & Solutions Officer, Xtera
David Simarro, Head of Sales EMEAA, Telxius
Eleanor Skinner, Project Engineer, Red Penguin Marine
Thomas Soerensen, Vice President, Sales, Ciena
Jayne Stowell, Trustee, SubOptic Foundation
Maja Summers, Director, Strategic Accounts and Network Solutions, WIOCC Group
Thorvardur Sveinsson, CEO, Farice
Marc Tachelet, Director, Health and Digital Executive Agency
Luca Tagliaretti, Executive Director, European Cybersecurity Competence Centre
Diego Teot, Head of OTT, Media & Telco, Retelit
Torsten Thiele, Senior Advisor, Blue Finance, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance
Lynsey Thomas, Independent Consultant, Advisory Board, Lynsey Thomas Consulting Ltd
John Tibbles, Executive Director Operations, SubOptic Foundation
Gavin Tully, Managing Partner, Pioneer Consulting
Anders Tysdal, CTO Infrastructure, Tampnet AS
Aki Uljas, Partner, Cambridge Management Consulting
Giuseppe Valentino, VP Product Management, Backbone & Infrastructure Solutions, Sparkle
Henri van Soest, Senior Analyst, RAND Europe
Valentin Velichkov, CEO, VESTITEL
Silvia Viceconte, Team Leader, European Commission
Colin Wallace, General Manager of Cloud Network Engineering, Azure Fiber, Microsoft
Simon Webster, Chair, Cable Sensing Working Group, International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC)
Alasdair Wilkie, Chairman, Atlantic Cable Maintenance & Repair Agreement (ACMA)
Jonathan Winkler, Professor of History, Wright State University
Denise Wood, Partner, Greenberg Traurig LLP
John Wrottesley, Executive Director, European Subsea Cables Association (ESCA)
Peng Yan, CCO, Axent
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