Europe, the Americas, and Africa want more data and fast internet. The Atlantic Convergence is the first conference and business event focusing on the potential of digital connections across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s where Europe, North and South America, and Africa meet.
Inaugural Event Exploring Pan-Atlantic Business Prospects.
Data is super important for changing how things work digitally. It helps countries compete globally and sparks new ideas for making money and growing. Nowhere is this clearer than around the Atlantic Ocean. The growing need for digital stuff across the Atlantic is pushing us to build better internet connections, creating more value and chances for businesses to work together across continents.
The EU is putting a lot of money, up to €300 billion, into building things like roads and internet connections from 2021 to 2027. They started by investing about €150 billion in Africa-Europe projects. They’re doing similar stuff with Latin America and the Caribbean. They’re also making a cable called the EurAfrica Gateway Cable to connect Europe and Africa along the Atlantic coast.
This will make sure both places have control over their digital stuff and will make the internet faster and safer. The European Secure Satellite Communications Program will help Africa get better internet, even in places far away from cities.
Across the Atlantic, they’re doing similar stuff. In September 2023, the US government made a big announcement about working together with 32 other countries along the Atlantic coast. They want to focus on making the economy better, and also on science and technology.
Some of the countries involved are Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Liberia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, the Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
All Transatlantic Opportunities in One Conference.
The brand-new Atlantic Convergence conference wants to mix government ideas with real business strategies. It’s where Africa, Europe, and the Americas meet up. People from all over the Atlantic Ocean will gather to plan for a future where everyone is connected.
It’s a special place for businesses, organizations, and service providers to talk and work together.
Some of the topics covered are:
1. How can we make internet connections faster, cheaper, and less laggy across the Atlantic?
2. What can Europe and North America do to have better internet connections with places like Latin America and Africa?
3. How safe are our current internet systems from cyber-attacks?
4. What’s driving the digital economy across the Atlantic, and what new technology like AI and Cloud do we need?
5. Is the current internet infrastructure, like undersea cables, land connections, and satellites, enough for the growing demand?
6. What new routes are being created for sending data across the Atlantic?
DE-CIX, which runs Internet Exchanges globally, is starting the Atlantic Convergence event. They’re teaming up with other companies like Altice Wholesale Solutions, Atlas Edge, EllaLink, and Interfiber to organize the first one. It’s all happening from October 1st to 3rd in Lisbon, Portugal.
Lisbon is a big hub for data moving across the Atlantic and a major meeting point for all the continents around the Atlantic Ocean. This event will bring together people and companies from all over the Atlantic world and beyond to talk about how we can make internet connections better in the future.
Dreamers, Users, and Designers.
The conference brings together big thinkers, experts, super-users, and the designers of internet systems from both sides of the Atlantic. It’s the place to be for big companies that work in many countries, places that store lots of internet data, companies that run undersea cables and satellites, as well as those that provide cloud services and operate internet exchanges.
Ivo Ivanov, who leads DE-CIX, a company from Germany that helps with internet stuff in many countries around the Atlantic, will talk about why good internet connections across the Atlantic are so important for business and how they can make money.
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