• What inflation protection is in place for existing digital infrastructure funds and assets?
• How are investors reacting to high interest rates, inflation and other factors when it comes to digital infrastructure allocation?
• How are funds coping with squeezed terms on financing in the current hostile environment?
• How are market conditions affecting portfolio companies and underwritings in this sector?

• Examining the rapidly developing investment market for fibre, towers and data centres
• Secondaries, debt funds and more: what options are institutional and private investors exploring?
• How is this being reflected in the fundraising arena amongst specialist, emerging and blue-chip fund managers?
• How are funds meeting investor ESG demand?

Moderator: Anish Butani, Senior Director, Infrastructure, bfinance

• A quality and price balance: how assets can stand out in todays and tomorrow’s market
• What does high-quality look like across the sub-sectors of digital infrastructure? Where does sustainability feature in this conversation?
• How are funds doing their due diligence on this and what tweaks can they make to perfect the process?

Moderator: Enrique Fuentes, Senior Managing Director, Stepstone Infrastructure & Real Assets

• On trend or not? Are digital asset valuations defying gravity like other infrastructure assets or are they reacting differently?
• When, if at all, might we see possible corrections? Will private follow public?
• How have asset valuations so far reflected investor interest and compared to other TMT sectors?

Moderator: Charles Clément-Fromentel, Managing Director, BTSG

• Examining rollout dynamics across Europe and beyond: which countries and regions have solved which challenges?
• Dissecting the latest dynamics between private capital, equity partners, developers, public organisations and other stakeholders
• Greenfield investments, market consolidation and other considerations as investors mitigate risk in an ever changing, complex environment

Moderator: Mark Weisdorf, Chair of the Investment Committee, IST3 IG

• Where is the demand when it comes to hyperscale, edge and other types of data centres
• Hurdles to success: addressing question marks over power and energy consumption, readiness for ESG and vulnerability to climate
• What regions are most appealing at present, and why?

Moderator: Matthias Hamel, Partner, Altman Solon

Each participant will champion the merits of technologies and developments that they believe will be paramount in the evolution of digital infrastructure assets as we know them. These include:

• Edge computing- Henri Kivioja, Founder & CEO, RAIN
• 5G & 6G networks-
• Small-cell technology- Enda Hardiman, Founder and Managing Partner, Hardiman Telecommunications 
• Artificial intelligence
• Satellites-Claude Rousseau, Research Director, Northern Sky Research
• Cloud technology – Christopher Stief, CEO & Co-Founder, Data Castle

Moderator: Alessandro Ravagnolo, Partner, Analysys Mason

• Data centres-Zahl Limbuwala, Chief Operating Officer, AtlasEdge Data Centres
• Towers- Charles Clément-Fromentel, Managing Director, BTSG
• Fibre networks- Pia Lambert, Executive Director, Morrison & Co
• Emerging markets- Shaharyar Jawaid, Senior ICT Specialist, Islamic Development Bank

• Executing cutting-edge sustainability methods across a global alternatives business unit
• How infrastructure and real estate are increasingly intersecting and how this is defining your ESG approach
• Reality bites? How can infrastructure funds counter present-day challenges like inflation, valuation volatility, soaring costs and other factors, whilst staying the distance on their ESG journey?

Moderator: Bruno Alves, Senior Editor, Infrastructure Investor