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Keynote Presentation : Will Australia be all at sea on national sovereign AI connectivity by 2030?#

AusNOG 2026 digest Program Wildcard pick 3–4 September 2026

Recording

Bevan Slattery - SUBCO

Play the recording: Keynote Presentation : Will Australia be all at sea on national sovereign AI connectivity by 2030?

  • Why: A keynote on sovereign AI connectivity from one of the region's most consequential subsea/DC infrastructure investors is a direct where-is-the-field-headed signal for WAN capacity and interconnect planning.
  • What: No abstract or slides are published; a recording exists but has not been transcribed, so this write-up reflects only the title and speaker. From those, the topic is Australia's international capacity and connectivity position relative to AI-era workloads and digital sovereignty by 2030 — presumably covering subsea cable investment and whether Australia can host and serve AI compute domestically.
  • How: Unknown from available material.
  • Where applicable: Australia/Pacific-specific by construction; relevant to anyone whose WAN interconnect strategy depends on trans-Pacific or intra-Asian capacity trajectories. Check the recording.