Fireside chat: AI Verticals & Telco opportunities

Building connectivity for the AI era — Essentia × Kortix

Data centers are the largest private infrastructure program in modern history. The telecom industry has never delivered capital programs at this speed and scale, with so little margin for error, and traditional ways of planning, designing and deploying networks without AI won’t keep up.

Speakers:

Lindon Hayes, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Essentia

Igor Tomić, CTO at Essentia

Marko Kraemer, CEO at Kortix

Moderator: Tihomir Bajić, General Partner at 5QV

What topics will be discussed:

The challenges of building connectivity for data centers

How AI can speed up the way telecom infrastructure gets built without adding risk

Kortix’s AI operating system approach

Essentia’s AI transformation strategy and the deployment of a sovereign AI platform in partnership with Kortix

How Serbian startups can help build this future alongside global players

For whom this event:

Founders and engineers building in AI, telecom, or infrastructure

Startups looking to partner with or sell to large enterprise and telecom players

Product and tech leaders driving AI adoption inside their companies

Anyone curious about sovereign AI and how data center growth is reshaping the industry

See you at Haos!