Fiber Infrastructure NEXUS Oslo, 9. June, Oslo

How do we bring robust connectivity to the data center projects rising across rural Norway? And how do we design the fiber infrastructure to adapt to multiple business models; cloud services, AI training and inference?

Many of these projects are being built in regions where fiber infrastructure is still sparse - a long way from being the commodity people often assume it to be.

Developing new fiber in rural Norway can be challenging when it comes to permitting, construction, and cost - and these realities are too often overlooked in early data center planning.

Meet leading industry experts in Oslo for an open conversation on these topics. Reserve your spot today!

Program:

11:30 – 12:00: Registration and mingling.

12:00 – 12:15: Welcome to Fiber NEXUS Oslo.

• Magnus Lutnæs, Partner at DLA Piper
• Bjørn Rønning, special advisor at NDI

12:15 – 12:30: Infrastructure as Code – what does it imply for data centers?  

• Bjørn Vik, Digital infrastructure builder & enabler at N0R5KE AS.

12:30 – 13:00: A conversation with newcomers building data centers in rural Norway

• Torgeir Brovold, country manager at Verne
• Bart Verdouw, VP Market Development EMEA at EdgeConneX

13:00 – 13:15: Lyse Tele and Midgard Infra  - the safe choice for DCI-services to Norway

• Øyvind Melkevik, Head of transmisson, Lyse Tele.

13:15 – 13:30: Smart Conduit Solutions for the Data Center Boom.

• Ronald Hendriks, Distribution & OEM Sales Manager Northern Europe, Dura-Line

13:30 – 14:00: Break and mingle

14:00 – 15:00: International subsea project updates

• Polar Connect Update: Towards a New Digital Route
  through the Central Arctic. Erik-Jan Bos, co-chair of the Polar Connect Executive Team 
• IOEMA update: IOEMA-1 – A SMART-Capable Subsea Cable Platform – A digital border for resilience, sensing and connectivity in the North Sea. Eckhard Bruckschen, CEO/Owner of IOEMA-1 Holding B.V.  
• Arctic Way: Engineering in extremes. Pia Bruhn, Project Manager for the Arctic Way project, Space Norway.

15:00 - 15:30: Fiber infrastructure protection and sensing

• How fiber sensing can increase uptime and reduce risk in critical fiber connections. Steinar Bjørnstad, Research manager at Tampnet.
• Building, maintaining and protecting critical fiber infrastructure. Merete Caubet, SVP Fiber Networks at Bulk Infrastructure AS.

15:30 – 16:00: Break and mingle 

16:00 – 17:00. Industry updates

• Innovation in Practice: Redefining Resilient Digital Infrastructure. Karsten Løvlid, managing director at Dark Fibrum Norway
• Far North Digital Update: Ik Icard, FN-Digital
• Turning AI Demand Into Critical Infrastructure for Northern Norway. Amalie R. Røsnes, project director, Kyst Tele
• Building a pan-Nordic network. Eirik Blix, managing director, Blix Solutions.
• How to keep up with the immense growth in the Nordic Datacenter ecosystem. Christiane Ulriksen, SEC
• Transaction infrastructure for Nordic data center capacity. Inthujan Rasalingam, CEO of Capacity Connect

Meet with people from:

Allstad - Arctic Way - Blix Solutions - Bredbåndsfylket - Bulk - Ciena - Dark Fiber Group - Dark Fibrum - DataEnergy - dataVue - De-CIX - Delta Electronics - Digi2Care - DLA Piper - Dura-Line - Eidisva Fiber - Fiberdrift - Fiberworks - GlobalConnect - Hexatronic - High Voltage Robotics - infraplast - IOEMA - ISE-Indre Salten Energi - Kyst Tele - Lyse Tele - N0R5KE - NetworksCentre - Nexans Norway - NorthDC - Nscale - Panduit - Polar Connect/NORDUnet - Siemon - Space Norway - Tampnet - Verne - Zpary - Østerbø Solutions

Support and backing: Ina Hansen Ofte - Vilde Sollien - Tore "Mr. FixIt" Svanes, Svanes Communications

Sponsors welcome!