EQUINIX ENGAGE 2025
Tuesday 4 November 2025 | 14:00-17:00 GMT | Glaziers Hall, London

GUEST SPEAKERS
![]() Adam Winter
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Ian Heath |
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Dr. Paul Dongha
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Richard Wright
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Marcus Hopwood
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Petrina Steele
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Accelerate your AI advantage – Real-world insights from today’s leaders
We are entering a pivotal era in AI deployment, management, and scalability. Future-ready infrastructure must harness the strengths of cloud providers, neo-clouds, data centers and strategic edge locations—securely interconnected. This approach ensures AI workloads are optimized for training in high-compute environments, processing where privacy is protected and inference at the data source.
Join us to gain insights from industry leaders and prepare your organization for what’s next.
| Time | Activity |
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| 2:00 PM | Registration and Networking |
| 2:30 PM | Welcome Keynote by James Tyler, Equinix UK |
| 2:40 PM | Keynote: Accelerate Your Advantage with Distributed AI Speaker: Johan Arts, Equinix Learn how to move beyond AI experimentation and realise tangible business value. Distributed AI is the enterprise-grade architecture for deploying, scaling, and governing intelligent solutions. It gives you all the essential building blocks for driving innovation while respecting data sovereignty and avoiding lock-in: • Global high-performance data centers • Edge-to-cloud connectivity • Access to a vendor-neutral AI and cloud ecosystem Discover how you can accelerate your AI journey with distributed, edge-driven architectures — without compromising data privacy or operational efficiency. |
| 3:05 PM | Customer Keynote on AI Speaker: Adam Winter, Groq |
| 3:20 PM | Panel Discussion: Scaling AI – Insights from Industry Leaders Explore the evolving challenges businesses face in adopting AI technologies — from data residency and sustainability to compliance and regulation. Discussion topics: • Emerging consumption patterns for AI infrastructure, AI factories, and cutting-edge innovations • Use cases such as financial crime prevention and customer experience • Predictions for the future of AI innovation and deployment Panelists: Richard Wright (NVIDIA) • Ian Heath (Dell) • Dr. Paul Dongha (NatWest Group) • Petrina Steele (Equinix, Moderator) |
| 3:55 PM | Break |
| 4:10 PM | Breakout Sessions 1. What, Why and Who of Artificial Intelligence An interactive session that provides insights, direction, and challenges for enterprise AI delivery. Hosted by Matt George and Russ Winter, Equinix 2. Performance Redefined: HPDC Advanced Cooling Technology for Next-Gen Workloads Explore sustainable, advanced cooling solutions and real-world applications driving efficiency and scalability for future-ready, high-performance computing workloads. Hosted by Marcus Hopwood, Equinix and Ashley Whittaker, Dell Technologies |
| 4:50 PM | Closing Remarks by James Tyler, Equinix UK |
| 5:00 PM | Networking & Drinks |
For years, retail innovation has focused on efficiency—faster checkouts, cleaner interfaces, shorter paths to purchase. But in the rush to streamline, we’ve lost something essential: conversation. Forget chatbots. Forget dashboards. This is a conversation. And it’s quietly changing how retail works from the first “hello” to the final click.
Join fellow senior retail leaders for a dinner hosted in partnership with Rezolve Ai, and Microsoft. Together, we’ll explore how intelligent, conversational AI is reshaping digital commerce; not with noise, but with nuance. This is a shift from transactional UX to intelligent, contextual interaction powered by AI that works across the journey, not just at the edge of it.
We’re not talking about pilots or prototypes. We’re talking about what’s working:
This isn’t a new channel. It’s a new layer woven across the entire retail experience: search, discovery, decision-making, checkout, service, and loyalty. We’ll unpack how forward-looking retailers use conversational AI not as a bolt-on feature but as a strategic layer that deepens product discovery, increases conversion, unlocks lifetime value, and reduces friction across the customer journey. All without rebuilding from scratch.
AGENDA
18:30 Arrival & Welcome Drinks
19:10 Move to Seats
19:15 Opening Remarks
19:25 Scene-Setter: What’s Actually Working in Retail AI
19:35 Dinner & Moderated Discussion
21:35 Final Thoughts & Takeaways
21:30 Close
HEAR FROM
Daniel M. Wagner is an entrepreneur and technology pioneer, leading Rezolve Ai—a global force in Conversational Commerce and AI-driven retail. With four decades at the cutting edge of digital innovation, Dan is known for turning bold ideas into industry-shaping realities.
At just 20, Dan founded MAID, the world’s first commercial online information service, and by his late 30s, he had taken it public on both the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, becoming one of the youngest CEOs of a listed company. This early success established him as a digital commerce trailblazer.
Since launching Rezolve Ai in 2016, Dan has redefined retail technology, introducing Brain Commerce and expanding globally through partnerships with Microsoft and Google. Under his leadership, Rezolve Ai was named a “Next Big Winner” in AI for 2025 by MarketBeat.
Mark is an expert commercial leader with 25 years of experience bringing technology to life for retailers, brands and financial institutions globally. Focusing on strategic partnerships, business development and M&A, Marks’ past successes include a leadership role, as Chief Commercial Officer, in the successful IPO of Attraqt (LSE: ATQT), a business Mark joined at its inception.
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