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We’re a company from Dublin, Ireland, that holds events across the world: Web Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Web Summit Qatar in Doha, Collision in Toronto, and RISE in Hong Kong.

Capacity Europe is the continent’s largest meeting for telecoms and ICT infrastructure with over 3,000 attendees from 1,000 companies. 

Join us and some 200 operator attendees in Central London on 6th-7th June 2023 for two days of invaluable, in-person networking and knowledge-sharing.

As telco operators are on the cusp of major network and business transformation choices, we seek to provide a meeting place for the telco community to come together to discuss the short to mid-term challenges impacting the industry, and the opportunities to monetize networks and offer service differentiation.

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Verizon's financial outlook for 2023 is today much lower than what the company's executives outlined during Verizon's analyst day almost exactly a year ago.

• Meets growing enterprise demand for embedded connectivity with a scalable, cloud-native platform
• Expands U.S.

• The US cloud giant is to invest $2bn in Germany and $1bn in the Netherlands
• The move comes hot on the heels of recently announced plans to invest $5bn in the UK
• Oracle has also been partnering with a growing number of telcos to support their own sovereign cloud ambitions

• Increased access to proven operations support system(OSS) capabilities with a cloud and AI-native platform
• 360-degree visibility and control over increasingly adaptive and virtualized networks and IT environments
• Accelerated telecom digital transformations and enhanced customer exper

• Nokia Autonomous Network Fabric brings together all the capabilities required to accelerate the journey to full network automation in an open, cloud-native, multi-vendor environment. 
• Key features include a library of cross-domain correlated data products, telco-trained models (LLM/LAM/ML), integrated s

Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom will team up to build what they term as the world's first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers on German soil.

According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, global Network Security revenue reached $6.2 B in 1Q 2025, expanding 12 percent year-over-year (Y/Y).

US public cloud giant AWS has unveiled a new company that will run its European sovereign cloud operations, with copious vows about security and autonomy.

The future of telecoms doesn’t just depend on cutting-edge technology – it depends on people.  As the UK pushes forward with next generation connectivity, from AI powered networks to 6G infrastructure, one challenge looms large: a growing skills gap.

Microsoft has announced a new enterprise agentic platform called Microsoft Discovery, which purports to accelerate research times by giving scientists and engineers specialised AI agents to collaborate with.

Juniper Networks and ServiceNow have integrated some tools for a joint network and service automation product which they say is the first of its kind.

• The major hyperscalers have reported their first-quarter 2025 financials
• Synergy Research Group has collected all the data
• AI workloads have fuelled a 23% year-on-year increase in the value of the global cloud infrastructure services sector to almost $94bn

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Chip firm Intel and Arqit Quantum, which specialises in quantum-safe encryption, have launched a security solution in which even they “are outside the trust boundary.”

According to the Worldwide Security Spending Guide published by International Data Corporation (IDC), European security spending is projected to grow by 11.8% year on year in 2025.

To become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) is the objective of the AI Continent Action Plan launched today.

Vodafone says it has more than doubled its number of Internet of Things (IoT) connections in the last five years, with a heart monitor becoming the 200 millionth.