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Digital Infrastructure Forum 2026

07 October, 17:30 - 21:30

Every ambition around AI, electrification, or seamless logistics ultimately comes down to one fundamental question: can the digital infrastructure keep up – today and tomorrow?


Our inaugural Digital Infrastructure Forum brings together the people shaping computing capacity, connectivity, and energy to explore a central challenge: How do we future‑proof the systems that businesses and economies depend on? This is an event designed for leaders and decision‑makers who may not be technical experts, but who recognise that digital infrastructure will ultimately make or break their long‑term plans.


Together, we'll explore what rising energy demand, the rapid growth of data centres, and the need for more resilient networks really mean for growth, risk, and competitiveness.


Key themes

  • How constraints in power supply and grid capacity will shape investment, expansion, and innovation
  • The evolving role of data centres and major cloud providers in an increasingly AI‑driven economy
  • Networks and connectivity, and their growing strategic importance

Programme at a glance

Welcome & Introduction
Per Dalemo, CMS
Dipesh Santilale, CMS
Fredrik Warneryd, Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK
Setting the scene: the state of the digital infrastructure nation
Rachel Cary, Energy UK
Katie Davies, techUK
Rebecca Roffe, CMS
Financing our digital future
Matthew Bloxham, Bloomberg LP
Roberto Saraceni, SEB
The backbone of the infrastructure
Nadine Allen, Ericsson
Mattias Fridström, Arelion
Sophie Greaves, techUK
Building it: from AI ambition to hard hats
Johan Bergqvist, Mistral AI
Richard Davidson, Sweco UK Ltd
Rebecca Roffe, CMS
John Wernvik, EcoDataCenter
Powering it: tomorrow’s terawatts
Rachel Cary, Energy UK
Alastair Evans, Rolls-Royce SMR
Anders Granö, Videberg Kraft
Jon Kiteley, Skanska UK
Summary Reflections and Closing Remarks
Rebecca Roffe, CMS
Per Dalemo, CMS
Fredrik Warneryd, Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK

Speakers

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Johan Bergqvist

CFO

Mistral AI

Featured Speaker

Johan Bergqvist is Chief Financial Officer of Mistral AI. He previously served as CFO of TradingView and as Group CFO of Banking Circle, Teya and Bolt, following earlier roles including VP of Corporate Finance at Spotify. He has also been a scout for Sequoia Capital, and brings over two decades of finance leadership in high-growth technology and fintech.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Nadine Allen

Head of UK and Vodafone Group

Ericsson

Featured Speaker

Nadine is a global executive with extensive experience in the telecommunications and enterprise technology sectors. In 2025 she was appointed Head of UK and Vodafone Group at Ericsson. Nadine joins Ericsson from SES Satellites, where she led the company's global enterprise business as Global Head of Enterprise & Cloud.


Prior to her role at SES Satellites, Nadine held various senior leadership positions at Ericsson, including Head of Enterprise Business and Strategy for Southeast Asia, India and Oceania, where she was responsible for growth businesses in 5G, Private Networks, Cloud, Security and IoT. Prior to this Nadine held roles as CEO of Ericsson Thailand and Head of Global Customer Unit Telenor group, as well as Head of Enterprise Business in Western Central Europe.


Nadine holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Warwick.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

John Wernvik

Chief External Relations & Sustainability Officer

EcoDataCenter

Featured Speaker

John Wernvik is Chief External Relations & Sustainability Officer at EcoDataCenter, where he leads the company’s work across sustainability, energy, public affairs, communications. He has over 15 years of experience at the intersection of sustainability, branding, and stakeholder engagement, with a strong track record in shaping narratives for complex infrastructure and technology sectors.


The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Anders Granö

Commercial Director

Videberg Kraft

Featured Speaker

Anders is Videberg Kraft’s commercial interface to Rolls-Royce SMR and the forthcoming continued negotiations with the Swedish State on the finance and risk sharing model and back-end solutions. Anders also advises on supply chain strategy and interacting with relevant stakeholders in the eco system, as the link to all members in Industrikraft. Born and raised in Västerås, Anders is president of a football club and an avid golfer at Frösåker Golf & Country Club.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Mattias Fridström

Chief Evangelist

Arelion

Featured Speaker

With over 25 years in the telecommunications industry, Mattias Fridström can be considered a veteran – but his enthusiasm hasn’t faded. Mattias combines expert knowledge with anecdotes from behind the scenes and deep insight into the networked economy: What are the challenges of tomorrow for network providers? How can we meet ever-increasing traffic demand and customer quality expectations within the same cost frame? Mattias holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Since joining Telia in 1996, he has worked in a number of senior roles within Telia Carrier / Arelion and most recently as CTO. Since July 2016 he is Arelion’s Chief Evangelist.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Rachel Cary

Head of Industrial Strategy

Energy UK

Featured Speaker

Rachel leads the industrial strategy work at Energy UK, looking at how the energy sector can work with commercial and industrial sectors to decarbonise, and how the energy transition can help develop UK supply chains and skills to maximise economic growth.


Rachel joined Energy UK from DESNZ where she was head of policy for the Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA).


She has 20 years’ experience working across a wide range of energy and climate policy roles in regional Government, consultancy and the energy industry.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Katie Davies

Head of Energy and Infrastructure Policy

techUK

Featured Speaker

Katie is Head of Energy and Infrastructure Policy at techUK, leading work spanning energy demand and costs, grid connections, strategic planning, heat networks, and digitalisation in both energy and water. Katie joined techUK from Seahorse Environmental, where she led sustainability-centred public affairs and communications campaigns, with a focus on clean tech, renewable energy, low-carbon transport, and water regulation. Before that, she was a journalist at IJGlobal, reporting on renewable energy mergers and acquisitions.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Roberto Saraceni

Head of Project & Infrastructure Finance UK

SEB

Featured Speaker

Over 17 years of banking experience mainly across Leveraged Finance and Infrastructure Finance, working in Milan and London. Main focus areas: Energy and TMT. Currently heading the Project & Infrastructure Finance team of SEB UK

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Jon Kiteley

Divisional Director - Energy, Water and Environment UK

Skanska UK

Featured Speaker

Jon leads Skanska UK operations in Energy, Water and Environment and is a member of the Infrastructure Leadership team. He has over two decades experience in the built environment sector working with public and private clients across a broad range of project types including highways, flood and coastal and civic buildings along with his current portfolio. Jon also has over a decade of experience in industry advisory roles and policy consultations to a broad range of stakeholders and organisations across local and national government and higher education.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Matthew Bloxham

Media, Technology and Telecom Research

Bloomberg LP

Featured Speaker

Matthew is a senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, the investment research arm of Bloomberg LP. He covers the technology and media sectors and also heads up the unit's strategic data and content initiatives. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Matthew spent 15 years working in investment research for Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. He's also spent time working in industry, including projects to help global telecom carriers build purpose-led strategies and expand connectivity to underserved populations. Matthew started his career in strategy consulting working for PA Consulting and Arthur Andersen.


The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Alastair Evans

Director of Corporate & Government Affairs

Rolls-Royce SMR

Featured Speaker

Alastair has 15 years of Corporate Affairs and Government experience across the energy sector, notably with NuGeneration and Neptune Energy. Alastair has a legal background and experience working in Europe, North Africa and the Asia Pacific regions on a diverse set of policy and communications challenges. Alastair is responsible for public affairs, policy, communications, and investor relations.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Richard Davidson

Business Unit Manager Mission Critical

Sweco UK Ltd

Featured Speaker

Richard Davidson is the Business Unit Lead for Mission Critical Design Delivery at Sweco UK. He leads multidisciplinary teams delivering data centre and mission-critical projects across the UK and Europe, combining expertise in design management, planning, permitting and project delivery. Richard has worked on major hyperscale, colocation and AI infrastructure developments, supporting projects from site selection and masterplanning through detailed design and construction delivery. He is particularly interested in the intersection between digital infrastructure, sustainability and the practical challenges of delivering resilient facilities at scale. Through his role within Sweco's international Mission Critical business, Richard regularly collaborates with teams and clients across multiple European markets to develop innovative and sustainable data centre solutions.

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Sophie Greaves

Associate Director, Digital Infrastructure

techUK

Featured Speaker

Sophie Greaves is Associate Director for Digital Infrastructure at techUK, the trade association representing the UK tech sector. She leads techUK's Telecoms Programme and oversees its Cloud and Data Centres Programmes, bringing telecoms, cloud, data centres and spectrum together into techUK's Digital Infrastructure unit. She also oversees the Spectrum Policy Forum, the UK's industry-led sounding board on spectrum policy, and is project lead on techUK's work on AI infrastructure and the future of TV broadcast.

Mistress of Ceremonies

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Rebecca Roffe

Partner

CMS

Featured Speaker, Mistress of Ceremonies

Rebecca is a partner at CMS in the Real Estate group, based in Sheffield. She has over 15 years of experience in all planning and environmental matters. She deals with contentious and non-contentious issues for investors, developers, consenting authorities, contractors and operators, particularly in the energy and climate change, real estate and digital infrastructure sectors. She focuses on derisking investment in, and development of, complex schemes through strategic advice and novel approaches to risk allocation. She has deep expertise in land assembly and CPO, environmental impact and habitats assessment, Development Consent Order applications, planning/highways agreements, energy and sustainability regulation and contaminated land. Rebecca has is also a member of the TechUK’s Data Centres Council and is involved in delivering significant policy outcomes for the UK data centre sector.


Roffe Rebecca | Partner | Real Estate | Planning | CMS UK

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Location

CMS

Cannon Place, 78 Cannon Street, London, United Kingdom, EC4N 6AF

Resources

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Delegate

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Jan Ståhlberg

Founder & Managing Partner

Trill Impact

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Emmie Jones

Partner

White & Case

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce

David Samuelson

Partner

Nordic Capital

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