The Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee, an independent global committee that promotes Internet diversity and resilience through the formation of new global Internet nexus points, announced that it will be hosting the highly successful summit in Henrico Virginia on November 8th, 2022. The summit will also mark the official opening of DE-CIX Richmond Internet Exchange platform.
The IEIC/NAP Summit 2.0 is being organized on the heels of the success of the inaugural IEIC/NAP Summit 1.0, which was held in May of 2019. The inaugural summit was attended by over 400 industry executives, 30 speakers and entailed five panel discussions spanning the data center, terrestrial fiber, subsea fiber, Internet Exchange Point, and various other network service provider industry sub-sectors. (Register for the IEIC/NAP Summit 2.0 here.)
Vint Cerf to Keynote IEIC Global NAP Summit 2.0 Advocating Diversification and Interconnection Ecosystem Developmment
“The creation of new enterprise and new customers in areas ripe for new development is a high priority for this country. Henrico can be a bellwether for the opportunity and worked examples raise the economic tide for everyone,” said Vint Cerf, Chairman of IEIC and Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, also known as the “Father of the Internet.”
Over the past two years, during the pandemic, the digitization of enterprises has been fast-tracked, and our consumption and production of data has skyrocketed. In 2020-2021, IEIC held Virtual Summit Series covering various digital infrastructure topics, including—The Resiliency of the Internet, Digitizing Enterprises, Preparation in the Public Sector, Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and what could be next, Autonomous Cars, Connected Cars and & Digitization of the Automobile Industry. The replay of these webinars is available on the IEIC website.
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“Henrico has evolved to become the Global Internet Hub in the Mid-Atlantic part of the eastern seaboard of the United States”, said Clint Heiden, Founder of IEIC. “The shifting of almost 18% of all international Internet traffic to the region over a short span of four years demonstrates the significant potential that is ahead of us harnessing the true power of these subsea cable systems that connect us across countries and continents, converging with data centers. Henrico has become a role model for regions around the world to follow.” The link to a short video on Henrico’s digital infrastructure is here.