Panel: Chokepoints & Shockwaves: Protecting the Cables Europe Can't Lose#

Martin Prins (Dutch Subsea Cable Coalition), Ugne Kleinauskaite (Meta), Martin Dowling (CTO, Midgard Infra), Andy Bax (EXA Infrastructure)

• Why: A complement to Panel 2 above: the protection and partnership side of subsea resilience, including hyperscaler-driven reshaping of cable ownership. A second Meta speaker at the event signals how much of Europe's subsea build is now hyperscaler-financed.
• What: How hyperscaler investment and global crises are reshaping Europe's subsea connectivity, exposing fragilities, and how diversified routes, new partnership models, and sovereignty moves can protect capacity (from abstract only).
• How: Panel discussion — chokepoint analysis, route diversification, cable-partnership models.
• Where applicable: European subsea capacity and cable-partnership structures; policy-tinged but with operator participants.