James Tyler
Managing Director UK, Equinix
Where digital leaders interconnect, scale and innovate
Join us at Equinix Engage London 2026, our flagship customer event exploring how organizations are navigating AI adoption, digital sovereignty and infrastructure modernization in an increasingly fragmented cloud landscape. Built around the theme of Connected Cloud, Engage brings together customer and ecosystem perspectives to discuss how enterprises are connecting to a growing number of cloud, neocloud, AI and sovereign platforms, and how they can unlock innovation while reducing complexity and maintaining control.
Designed for AI, cloud, infrastructure and networking professionals, Engage London delivers practical insights, peer perspectives and real-world examples to help organizations build, connect and scale the digital infrastructure powering the next era of innovation.
Featured speakers
DD Dasgupta
CMO, Equinix
Petrina Steele
Senior Director, Emerging Technologies, Equinix
Sheraz Bhatti
CIO, 3verest
David Silks
DCS Data Centre Integration Lead, Deutsche Bank
Ajay Vij
SVP, Global Value Advisory, Industry Value Engineering, Equinix
David Tairych
Global Principal Technologist, Equinix
Iiro Stubin
Principal Technical Solutions, Equinix
Matthias Guenther
Senior Manager Product and Solution Marketing, Equinix
Richard Wright
AI Factory Business Manager, EMEA, NVIDIA
Agenda
Register for a packed agenda on how to accelerate your AI journey.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 14:00 | Registration: Arrive, collect your badge and connect with peers over tea and coffee |
| 14:30 | Welcome address by James Tyler, Equinix |
| 14:35 | Connected Cloud: Enabling the Next Era of AI As AI spans clouds, neoclouds and sovereign platforms, organizations must manage complexity, performance, security and control. Equinix will share its Connected Cloud vision and customer use cases for building and scaling AI in a changing digital landscape. Speaker: DD Dasgupta, Equinix |
| 15:00 | Panel discussion: Rethinking AI Infrastructure for the Age of Reasoning As AI moves beyond generative models into reasoning and agentic systems, infrastructure demands are rising. Early adopters share how to build secure, scalable AI environments while balancing performance, sustainability, cost and value. Speakers: Richard Wright, NVIDIA, Petrina Steele, Equinix (Moderator) and more to be announced |
| 15:45 | Break |
| 16:00 | Breakout sessions: Choose your track Breakout 1: Risk, Resilience and Growth for Financial Institutions in an Age of Disruption Join Equinix and Deutsche Bank to explore operational resilience in financial services, including regulatory demands, risk, modernization and infrastructure strategies that support trust and growth. Speakers: Ajay Vij, Equinix & David Silks, Deutsche Bank Breakout 2: Customer-Controlled Sovereignty in a Connected World Learn how organizations can balance control, resilience and innovation while staying connected to customers, partners and digital ecosystems. Speakers: Sheraz Bhatti, 3verest & Matthias Guenther, Equinix Breakout 3: Multicloud Networking for the Distributed AI Era Learn how to architect secure, scalable connectivity across clouds, AI platforms, neoclouds and data environments, with a live demo showing how APIs and automation simplify networking for distributed AI. Speakers: David Tairych & Iiro Stubin, Equinix |
| 16:45 | Networking reception: Continue the conversation over drinks and canapés with peers, partners and the Equinix team. |
| 19:00 | Event close |
Getting Here
The British Library Knowledge Centre
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB