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Chennai's commanding location facing towards the major markets of South Asia and as a point of access to India for goods and services arriving from the east means Chennai is a critical node in India's digital networks. This has led to strong increase in the numbers of data centres and hyperscale in Tamil Nadu but the whole digital ecosystem relies on connectivity. As Chennai's digital demand grows and the city moves towards becoming an "alternative data exchange hub for the Asia Pacific" according to Mordor Intelligence how will the city's connectivity and network infrastructure meet this emerging growth?
The Chennai Interconnect Forum is an exclusive event, accessible only by invitation, that brings together over 300 leaders from Telcos, ISPs, IXs, TMT Investors, and Government Agencies. Attendees will have the opportunity to gain valuable insights from presentations and panel discussions led by industry thought leaders. These discussions will center around essential strategies, projects, and initiatives related to the digital infrastructure and development in the region.
Additionally, the forum offers excellent networking prospects, connecting participants with stakeholders from various industries such as telecommunications, submarine networks and services, investment, data centers, power, and land development. With attendees coming neighboring regions, the forum serves as a platform for forging connections between end-users, hyper-scalers, and government representatives, paving the way for potential collaborations.
Please note that attendance is strictly by invitation.
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The global surge in submarine cable investments is reshaping digital trade routes, and Chennai is emerging as a pivotal gateway linking Asia with the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. With multiple high-capacity systems such as SEA-ME-WE 5, Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1), and 2Africa landing on its shores, Chennai offers enterprises faster, more resilient routes to global markets.
This session explores how evolving cable corridors across the Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and Mediterranean are reducing latency to key hubs in the Middle East and Europe
This session explores how fiber infrastructure serves as the foundational layer for an AI-ready India. It will examine the current state of fiber deployment across urban and rural India, the role of national initiatives such as BharatNet, 5G backhaul, data centers, and cloud networks, and the growing need for fiber densification to support edge AI and hyperscale computing. The discussion will highlight opportunities for telecom operators, policymakers, technology providers, and enterprises to collaborate in building future-proof networks that can sustain India’s AI ambitions.
As India’s AI, cloud, and digital economy accelerates, subsea cable infrastructure is becoming a strategic enabler of national competitiveness, global connectivity, and data center scale. Chennai—already one of India’s most important subsea landing hubs—is emerging as a critical gateway connecting India to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and global cloud networks.
This panel explores how next-generation subsea systems, landing stations, and data center ecosystems must evolve to support AI-scale traffic, hyperscale cloud architectures, and latency-sensitive workloads.
As enterprises race to deploy AI and scale hybrid cloud, connectivity is emerging as the silent constraint on digital growth. Networks built for steady, predictable traffic are now under pressure from volatile demand, latency-sensitive workloads, and tightening limits around power, spectrum, and physical infrastructure.
This panel challenges the assumption that more bandwidth alone solves the problem. It will debate whether capacity-as-a-service models, private 5G, and edge connectivity are genuine breakthroughs—or just new layers of complexity. With AI workloads pushing networks to the edge, the session asks a direct question: will enterprise connectivity evolve fast enough, or will it impede innovation?
This session explores why building interconnection before scaling capacity creates stronger defensibility, faster monetization, and more resilient long-term returns—and how this shift is changing site selection, capital allocation, and platform strategy.
As artificial intelligence reshapes industries, supply chains, financial systems, public services, and digital consumer experiences, telecom operators sit at the center of this transformation. With their control over connectivity, data flows, edge infrastructure, and network intelligence, telcos are uniquely positioned to power and safeguard the AI-driven economy.
However, this opportunity comes with responsibility. Operators must balance innovation with evolving AI regulation, cybersecurity risks, ethical considerations, and growing public scrutiny around trust and transparency.
As telecom networks grow more complex with 5G, edge computing, cloud-native cores, and massive IoT deployments, traditional automation is no longer sufficient. The industry is entering the AI Era, where agentic AI — autonomous, goal-driven AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting — is emerging as the next evolution in network intelligence.
The session will also take a critical look at the impediments to development of mature agentic AI systems, as well as the checks and balances required to allay concerns surrounding efficiency of delivery, as well as customer data safety, especially when it comes to mission critical environments.
In financial services, milliseconds—and sometimes microseconds—define competitive advantage. This session explores how connectivity providers are designing ultra-low-latency, high-resilience network solutions tailored for high-frequency trading (HFT) environments and mission-critical payment platforms like National Payments Corporation of India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
From deterministic routing and exchange proximity hosting for trading firms to scalable, always-on architectures supporting billions of real-time transactions, we examine how purpose-built connectivity underpins modern fintech performance. Attendees will gain insights into latency optimization, redundancy design, and SLA-driven engineering strategies that transform connectivity into a true financial edge.
The subsea cable industry is entering a new era—one defined not by traditional telecom consortia, but by hyperscalers taking direct control of global connectivity infrastructure. Technology giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are increasingly investing in privately owned or co-developed submarine cable systems to secure long-term capacity, reduce latency, and support AI- and cloud-driven traffic growth.
This session will examine how hyperscaler-backed cables are reshaping global traffic flows, shifting bargaining power in wholesale markets, and influencing where new digital hubs emerge.
As the industry begins to look beyond 5G, 6G is set to redefine global connectivity with ultra-high speeds, AI-native networks, and seamless integration between terrestrial, satellite, and subsea systems. This panel will explore how next-generation technologies could enable new digital experiences, from immersive applications to autonomous systems and massive machine connectivity.
The discussion will also highlight India’s role in shaping the 6G ecosystem through initiatives such as the Bharat 6G Alliance and the national Bharat 6G Vision, while examining the opportunities and challenges for operators, enterprises, and technology providers in building the next digital frontier.
