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2024 INCA Summit: Programme

Here's the developing programme for the INCA Summit: Defining The Future, running over the 26th and 27th November. The outline provides session titles and the names of session chairs or keynote speakers where these are confirmed. Hopefully it will provide a sense of the structure and content over the two days of the Summit.

We'll add additional speakers as they are confirmed.

Day One: Tuesday 26 November 2024

 

09:30 Welcome Ros Singleton – Chair, Telecoms Supply Chain Advisory Council, INCA Board Member, and Summit Chair  
  Opening Keynote Greg Mesch – CEO, CityFibre  
  The Future of the Market Tim Stranack – Founder & Director at Community Fibre, and INCA Chair
Jeremy Chelot, CEO, Netomnia/YouFibre
Helen Wylde-Archibald, CEO, Wildanet
Hayden Shaw, Insight Director, FDM
Donal Hanrahan, Direcotr of Strategy, Strategic Imperatives/X3T
 
  Break    
11:00 Parallel sessions:    
  Whither Innovation? James Blessing – Head of IT, Freedom Fibre
Stephen Terry, Group Head of Regulatory, APFN
Wail Sabbagh, Director, Strategic Imperatives
 
  Navigating Brand Identity Hayley Sykes – Director of Communications and Public Affairs, nexfibre
Sarah Vining, Brand Marketing Director, Ogi
 
  Collaborating for Success: The Telecoms Access Review (TAR) Robert Burles – Director of Regulatory Policy, APFN/Cuckoo
Gita Sorensen, Managing Director, GOS Consulting
Malcolm Corbett
 
11:50 Keynote: Disrupt or Be Disrupted Calix - speaker tbc  
12:05 Killer Apps Tiffany Schurr – Global Vice President Cloud Solutions, Calix, and INCA Board Member
Daniel Heery – Founder, Cybermoor and INCA Board Member
 
12:45 Lunch & Networking    
  Welcome Back Ros Singleton  
13:50 Keynote Suw Charman-Anderson – Founder, Ada Lovelace Day  
14:05 The Future of Policy Alex Blowers – Director of Regulatory Affairs, CityFibre
Mark Shurmer – Managing Director of Regulatory Affairs, Openreach
Rebecca Molyneux – Deputy Director, Broadband Regulation and Investment, DSIT
Katy Crellin – Head of Regulation Policy and Compliance, PXC
Giles Rowbotham – General Counsel and Chief Development Officer, nexfibre
Till Sommer – Head of Policy, ISPA
 
  Break: Refreshments & Networking    
15:30 Parallel Sessions:    
  Investing in Connectivity: Public Fibre & Digital Equity Rob Leenderts – Founder & Director at The AssetHUB, BroadbandHUB and Hubbub, and INCA Board Member
Alexia Course – Chief Commercial Officer, Transport for Wales
Ben Allwright – CEO, Ogi
Shueb Ahmed – Commercial Lead - Fibre, Boldyn Networks
Shaun FensomCNI
 
  Consumer Engagement: Designing a Public Awareness Campaign Emma Shearer – Senior Public Affairs Manager, CityFibre  
  Project Gigabit: Where Next James Saunby – Consulting Director, GreySky Consulting, and INCA Board Member  
       
16:20 Keynote    
  Altnet Apocalypse John Irvine – CEO, Wightfibre and INCA Board Member
Giles Rowbotham – General Counsel and Chief Development Officer, nexfibre
Ben Allwright – CEO, Ogi
Stefan Stanislawski – CEO, Connect Fibre/Lightning Fibre
 
17:00 Close of Day One    
  Networking Drinks sponsored by GOS Consulting
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19:00 - late INCA Awards Dinner – this is a separately ticketed event    

 

Day Two: Wednesday 27 November 2024

 

09:30 Welcome Ros Singleton  
  Opening Keynote    
09:50 The Final Few Percent James Saunby – Consulting Director, GreySky Consulting, and INCA Board Member
Chris Croot – Head of Network Architecture & Design, Quickline
Alex Mather – Head, Digital Connectivity Forum
Peter Gradwell – Chief Commercial Officer, Telet Research
 
  Break: Refreshments & Networking    
11:00 A New Vision: The Future of INCA Paddy Paddinson – CEO, INCA
Tim Stranack – Chair, INCA
 
11:30

Parallel Sessions:

 

 
  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Lisa Hand – People Experience Director, Ogi

 
 

Network Sharing

Max Fernando – Head of Regulatory and Compliance, Glide

 
 

Security and Resilience

David Happy MBE– NED and Chair, Transport for Wales Fibre
Dr Greig Paul – Research Engineer, University of Strathclyde
James Blessing – Head of IT, Freedom Fibre
Jon Renshaw – Deputy Director of Commercial Research, NCC Group

 
12:15 Lunch & Networking    
  Welcome Back Ros Singleton  
13:20 Ofcom Keynote Dave Clarkson – Competition Policy Director (Telecommunications), Ofcom  
13:35 Infrastructure Sharing Roundtable Guy Miller – CEO, MS3 Networks
Domhnall Dodds – Senior Regulatory Advisor, CityFibre
Shaun FensomCNI
Rob Leenderts – Founder & Director at The AssetHUB, BroadbandHUB and Hubbub, and INCA Board Member
 
14:05 The Future of Investment Charles Cameron – Managing Partner, Cameron Barney Herbst Hilgenfeldt (CBHH)  
14:45 Summit Reflections Ros Singleton
Paddy Paddinson – CEO, INCA
Tim Stranack – Chair, INCA
 
15:00 Close    

 

Platinum Conference Sponsors

 

Adtran logo

 

Calix logo

 

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Gold Sponsors

 

Dexgreen

 

Ogi logo

 

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Silver Sponsors

 

Deepomatic logo

 

Netadmin Systems logo

 

Bronze Sponsors

 

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INCA gratefully acknowledges the generous support provided by all of our sponsors.
If you would like to be a sponsor of this event, or another like this, please get in touch
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