Investor
Digital Infrastructure Forum Global Summit 2020
19 March 2020,
Hilton Hotel, Berlin
Informing infrastructure investors on digital investments
Hear from investors in this increasingly important sub-asset class. With the growth in data use globally, the fundamentals underpinning digital infrastructure investments are clear. Infrastructure investors have a crucial role to play and this event is the perfect place to discuss strategies for investing digital.
Who attends?
Fund Managers
Learn more about an emerging asset class. Find out whether telecoms towers, fibre-optic rollouts and data centres are really an infrastructure play. Meet investors looking to put money to work in a less frothy part of the market.
Investors
The infrastructure to support the storage and transmission of global data will represent a phenomenal investment opportunity, comparable to the ongoing decarbonisation of the energy mix. Investors will discover the potential of digital infrastructure is much more than a real estate play.
Service Providers
To meet and network with new business partners from every corner of the globe. Service providers will be especially interested in meeting the new funds active in this space. Colony Northstar and Digital Bridge; OPTrust, GIC and Mount Elbert Capital Partners’ and Helios Towers Africa are just three of the players.
Key themes for 2020
- Impacts of increasing 5G connectivity on the fibre investment market.
- Smart cities – transforming a metropolis through digital infrastructure.
- Connectivity and network models of the future and what they will mean for investors.
- Should investors aim higher on the risk curve? Embracing technology risk in a digital world.
- Converging asset classes – examining the synergies between data centres, towers and fibre.
- Impacts of increasing 5G connectivity on the fibre investment market.
- Smart cities – transforming a metropolis through digital infrastructure.
- Connectivity and network models of the future and what they will mean for investors.
- Should investors aim higher on the risk curve? Embracing technology risk in a digital world.
- Converging asset classes – examining the synergies between data centres, towers and fibre.
One Summit: Seven Forums
The Global Investor Forum is the largest global gathering of institutional and private capital devoted to infrastructure and the focal point of the Global Summit.
Explore infrastructure opportunities across frontier and growth markets at the Emerging Markets Forum.
Hear from government on infrastructure policy across key global markets and the broader effect of politics and government on infrastructure.
The ESG & Sustainability Forum provides a place to showcase best practice and understand what good looks like from a sustainability perspective.
The Energy Transition Forum is the event to learn from and network with a truly international delegation focused on investment opportunities in renewables and the energy transition.
Analyse the benefits of differing investment structures, learn about landmark transactions and pinpoint new opportunities for yield.
World-leading infrastructure managers that attended last year include:
Testimonials
Lincoln Webb
Senior Vice President, BCI
If you are serious about infrastructure investing, Infrastructure Investor’s Global Summit should be a fixture in your calendar.
Stephane Wattez-Richard
Executive Director, Conquest AM
The Global Summit is the best event to meet peers, investors and keep up-to-date on the key challenges & opportunities the asset class faces today.
Holger Haaf
Uniper
To meet so many people in such a short time is not possible without the Summit.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit offers a unique opportunity for organisations to raise their profile as a part of the premier meeting for infrastructure investment professionals.
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities contact Alexander Jakes, alexander.j@peimedia.com, +44 (0)203 862 7498
Matteo Andreoletti
Head of Infrastructure Equity, Whitehelm Capital
Roxanna Cieplinska
VP of Hyperscale Sales, International - e-shelter | NTT
Uwe Fleischhauer
Managing Director, YIELCO Investments AG
Stefan Franssen
Geschäftsführer, Investment42
Matthias Hamel
Partner and Managing Director, Solon Management Consulting
Ayesha Khanna
Co-Founder and CEO , ADDO AI
Alessandro Ravagnolo
Principal - Consulting, Analysys Mason
Tony Rossabi
Executive Vice President, TierPoint
Darragh Stokes
Senior Managing Partner, Hardiman Telecommunications
David Zimmer
Managing Director, inexio Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation
Agenda
Day 1 - Thursday 19th
Chairperson’s welcome address
Converging sub-asset classes – examining the synergies between data centres, towers & fibre
- What are the market developments that are blurring the lines between these three assets?
- How is 5G in particular bringing the three closer together?
- Cost or revenue basis – are there true strategic synergies between these or is this simply a financial play? Do customers genuinely overlap?
- What impact should this convergence have on an investor’s approach to digital infrastructure?
Connectivity & network models of the future - what they’ll mean for investors
- Small cell technology – driving network models & telco tower evolution as we head into the future?
- Considerations for low power wide area networks (LPWAN) – benefits they can bring in their application and for investors
- What other new models are there to consider? And what can investors do to educate themselves on these and open up new opportunities for themselves?
- How might regulation impact these connectivity models of the future?
Looking to the long-term in your investment approach when it comes to fibre
- As the fibre market develops at speed, what can savvy investors do to evaluate regulatory risk in the long term?
- Overbuild risk considerations at a time when Europe looks to embrace increasing fibre rollout
- Assessing long-term market penetration when it comes to fibre and why investors must take this into account
- Various models to evaluate across Europe & beyond – market-based models, concession models, wholesale models, PPP’s and more
Coffee & networking
Case Study Presentation – Digital Infrastructure
This presentation will provide in-depth case study to a recently carried out digital infrastructure transaction
Smart Cities – Transforming a metropolis through digital infrastructure
- Defining smart cities – what are they and how do they relate to digital infrastructure?
- The early adopters – how are Toronto, Barcelona & other examples leading the way and what can others learn from them?
- The role of fibre and how digital infrastructure is applied
- State of play – how is deal flow maturing when it comes to smart city funds & investment?
- Partnering effectively with all parties to implement your smart city vision
Keynote Presentation – Smart Cities
Networking lunch with Energy Transition and Infrastructure Debt Forum attendees
Impacts of increasing 5G connectivity on the fibre investment market
- How will developments & rollout of 5G globally in the coming months or years impact investment in fibre? Where does Europe stand compared to other countries & regions?
- Competition, regulation & market cannibalization – what impacts might it have on the network environment?
- Is 5G set to be a friend or foe to fibre when it comes to front-end payment?
- Assessing the knock-on effects of 5G for towers & data centres
Data centres: taking centre-stage?
- Evaluating data centre’s recent performance – is it their turn to be the growth asset in the digital infrastructure market?
- How are edge computing & regional data centre trends pushing the agenda for growth and what opportunities are they presenting to investors?
- How will hyperscale, movement to the cloud and other factors define the future for data centres?
- Is Europe still playing catch-up to the US? And if so, how far behind do they remain?
Risk vs reward in emerging markets digital infrastructure
- A skewing of a traditional market model? How & why emerging markets might have gained a step on developed markets in digital infrastructure
- Opportunities in Asia, Africa and elsewhere – can they bring more reward than Europe & the US for investors?
- How should you go about evaluating country risk and increased market volatility in your investment decision-making process? And how do you truly balance risk and reward?
- Ensuring you take a holistic approach and consider the market maturity model as a whole – all the way through from developed to emerging
Coffee & networking break
Should investors aim higher on the risk curve? Embracing technology risk in a digital world
- The case for – why investors should embrace more technology risk in order to reap rewards
- Shaking off a debt-like mindset when it comes to digital infrastructure – what can European investors learn from their Asian counterparts?
- How are social-economic factors skewing investor attitudes and appetites in this environment?
- The case against – should investors indeed be particularly wary of risk in this lightning-paced investment market?
The importance of not being idle - maintenance considerations in digital infrastructure
- How does it compare across data centres, fibre and towers?
- How to get ahead through active management & investment in maintenance in order to create value and maximise returns
- Evaluating asset development, maturity & long-term reliability in your investment approach, in order to truly understand maintenance costs & revenue potential
- The increasing role of service providers in maintenance provision for digital infrastructure
Close of conference
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit offers a unique opportunity for organisations to raise their profile as a part of the premier meeting for infrastructure investment professionals.
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities contact Alexander Jakes, alexander.j@peimedia.com, +44 (0)203 862 7498