Shaping the Future of Telecoms Together

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A GUIDE TO EXPANDING YOUR REACH SHAPING THE FUTURE OF TELECOMS TOGETHER @BroadGroup_Intl | @CapacityMedia | @ITW_Telecoms | @Layer123live | @TowerXchange | @WANSummit | @GLFCommunity
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Mexico Connect

November 2022 Mexico

TowerXchange

Meetup Asia November 2022 Singapore

Layer123 World Congress December 2022 United Kingdom

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Capacity Middle East March 2023 Dubai

Capacity Asia November –December 2022 Singapore March 2023 Brazil

TowerXchange

Meetup MENA March 2023 DubaiMetro Connect USA January –February 2023 USA

WAN Germany March 2023 Germany Capacity LATAM Mh

Datacloud Global Congress April 2023 Monaco

Datacloud Global Awards April 2023 Monaco TowerXchange

Meetup Europe May 2023 United Kingdom

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Capacity Caucasus & Central Asia June 2023 Azerbaijan

Messaging & SMS World

June 2023 United Kingdom

TowerXchange

Meetup Americas

July 2023 USA

Digital Infra MENA September 2023 Saudi Arabia

Datacloud Nordics September 2023 Norway

DIGITAL INFRA AFRICA

Digital Infra Africa

June 2023 South Africa

WAN USA September 2023 USA

Datacloud USA September 2023 USA

Capacity Europe October 2023 United Kingdom WAN London June 2023 United Kingdom

TowerXchange Meetup Africa October 2023 South Africa International Telecoms Week May 2023 USA

YOUR BRAND FRONT AND CENTRE

Position your brand as the strongest leader within the ICT infrastructure community. Through our portfolio of events and thought-leadership products, you will engage, educate, captivate and collaborate with the audience that is #KeepingTheWorldConnected & shaping the future of our industry.

Get Ahead of Your Competition

Get your business noticed by thousands of decision markers by becoming an event sponsor

Build connections and fuel your sales pipeline for the year ahead

Amplify your biggest announcements and use our events for product launches Gain invaluable insight through out membership programmes - identify growth areas and plan your future strategy

Make your voice heard and carve out space for the industry’s most critical conversations by speaking at one of our events

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OUR DIGITAL REACH IN 2022 Our Website Reach 1.9m+ Pageviews 85,000+ Followers Our Email Reach Our Social Reach across all of our brands in the last 12 months across all of our social channels 150,000+ Contacts across all of our brands Where do they come from? Europe - 35% Asia-Pacific - 13% Americas - 27% Africa - 4% Middle East - 21%

ATTENDEES AT

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EVENTS IN 2022 Geographical split of our event attendees in the last 12 months Seniority split of our event attendees in the last 12 months North America South/Latin America Europe Asia-Pacific Middle East Africa 34% 5% 37% 14% 5% 5% Director & Head C-level, President, VP, SVP, EVP Manager Executive Other 21% 26% 29% 6% 18%

ITW is our biggest event of the year and I have always considered it as the Super Bowl of all conferences.

Joe Scattareggia

Chief Revenue Officer, Wholesale Solutions, Windstream Wholesale

INTRODUCTION TO OUR ICT INFRASTRUCTURE & CARRIER BRANDS

BroadGroup was founded in 2002 and today provides global C-level conferences in the US and Europe. Datacloud Global Congress & Awards, Datacloud Nordics & Datacloud USA facilitate high-level strategic networking and learning for data centre, cloud, edge and the entire global ICT infrastructure ecosystem, encompassing everything from technological developments to M&A and beyond. www.broad-group.com

The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) provides leadership and direction to interconnect the digital world. The GLF’s mission is to uphold the principle of interoperability and ubiquitous connectivity. It provides a single voice to the broader digital ecosystem, and drives industry transformation. Linked to the ITW Global Leaders’ Forum, the GLF Community facilitates an open dialogue to advance technical and commercial interoperability as an enabler for future connected businesses, societies and economies.

www.itwglf.com

Founded in 2000, Capacity Media provides news and events for the global ICT infrastructure industry. Capacity’s mission is to enable industry collaboration, information sharing and trading for the global connectivity market. www.capacitymedia.com

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International Telecoms Week (ITW) is the world’s largest annual meeting for the global connectivity community to meet, learn and conduct business. Uniting decision makers from across the telecoms and ICT Infrastructure ecosystem, this is a mustattend event for anyone who is enabling and pioneering the future of communication.

www.internationaltelecomsweek.com

At Layer123, we connect everyone involved in the network transformation process – helping operators and network owners to virtualise their networks and find commercial benefits from the improved performance this transformation brings. www.layer123.com

TowerXchange is an open community for thought leaders in the global telecom tower industry. We bring together towercos, MNOs, investors, equipment and service providers to share best practices in passive and active infrastructure management, opex reduction, and to accelerate infrastructure sharing and more cost-effective and wider mobile connectivity.

www.towerxchange.com

Connecting enterprise networking managers with industry peers and leading service providers on all things WAN. The WAN Summits bring together the buyers and providers of enterprise WAN services to identify and discuss trends in international network planning, procurement, and design. www.wansummit.com

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As the premiere conference in its space, Datacloud Global Congress unites key players in the ICT space. The event provides a unique meeting place, and has now made its way into the calendar of C-level representatives from across the entire digital infrastructure ecosystem. Providing high quality thoughtleadership and bringing the rock stars of the data centre space on to its stage, the congress is consistently rated as Excellent by attendees. Join us this April and find out why!

14 BroadGroup is the leading company facilitating high-level strategic networking and learning for data centre, cloud, edge and the entire global IT infrastructure ecosystem, encompassing everything from technological developments, to M&A, and beyond. Our Flagship Event: Opening Minds. Closing Deals www.broad-group.com 2,100+ 680+ 80+ Delegates Companies Countries
25-27 April 2023, Monaco Who attends Datacloud Global Congress?

European Data Centre Association

15 Who attends BroadGroup events: Future Datacloud events: September 2023, Austin, USA September 2023, Oslo, Norway Seniority Company Type Director & Head C-level, President, VP, SVP, EVP Manager Executive Other 24% 37% 19% 3% 17% Bank, Private Equity, Pension Fund Internet Exchange Internet Exchange Government, Regulatory Real Estate Construction Network Provider (Metro, Subsea, Terrestrial) OtherCloud Service Provider Energy Provider Law Firm Software Vendor Consultancy, Research Press, PR, Media Equipment Vendor Data Centre Industry Association 3% 2% 1% 8%9% 26% 18%10% 1%1% 1% 1% 1% 9% 6% 3% Datacloud Global Congress is the data centre event of the year. Nowhere else offers the level of content, the depth of discussion or the ability to network with anyone who is anyone in the industry!

CAPACITY MEDIA FLAGSHIP EVENTS Keeping The World Connected

Capacity Media is an essential source of news and events in today’s telecommunications wholesale carrier and service provider marketplace and focuses on the critical business issues that carriers face in the rapidly changing telecoms market. Through these flagship events, it has become a vital source of business intelligence and peer-to-peer networking for the global carrier industry.

Capacity Media’s flagship events consist of Capacity Europe & Global Carrier Awards, Capacity Asia and Capacity Middle East. These events bring together a wide cross-section of the global and regional digital infrastructure verticals, including: network operators, cloud providers, data centres, legal firms & consultancies, finance & fintech, subsea, content providers and internet service providers. Content covered at these events includes sustainable networks, M&A activity, future tech, diversity & inclusion, plus subsea and terrestrial fibre deployment.

Upcoming events include:

Capacity Europe is a powerful opportunity for the development of many initiatives, based on it’s location, time of year and the attendees it regularly attracts.

Gary Waterworth Meta

16 3-6 March 2023, Dubai, UAE29 November – 1 December 2022, Singapore
www.capacitymedia.com
17 October 2023, London, UK Global Carrier Awards October 2023, London, UK Who attends Capacity Media Flagship events: Seniority Director & Head C-level, President, VP, SVP, EVP Manager Executive Other 17% 1% 9% 1% 3% 1% 6% 6% 8% 2% 2% 10% 10% 2% 33% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1%26% 33% 6% 18% Company Type Bank, Private Equity, Pension Fund Cloud Service Provider Construction Equipment Vendor Internet Service Provider Press, PR, Media Consultancy, Research Fintech Messaging & SMS Aggregator Satellite Operator Content Platform Government, Regulatory MVNO Mobile Operator Software Vendor Data Centre Internet Exchange Network Provider (Metro, Subsea, Terrestrial) Other

CAPACITY MEDIA REGIONAL AND TOPIC FOCUSED EVENTS

Keeping The World Connected

Capacity speciality events are topic, country, or region-specific summits that bring together key players within their local ecosystems. These include Capacity LATAM, Capacity Caucasus & Central Asia, Mexico Connect and Messaging & SMS. Unlike our flagship events, these focus on particular communities and provide opportunities to network and share thought-leadership with a set of players from across a defined ICT

network.

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Upcoming regional & topic focused events include: 16-17 November 2022, Mexico City, Mexico 14-15 March 2023, Sao Paolo, Brazil www.capacitymedia.com June 2023, London, UKJune 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan

Messaging & SMS World is one the best places for us to meet our customers and prospects, have them all in one room together and have some good conversations.

19 June 2023, South Africa DIGITAL INFRA AFRICA September 2023, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Henrietta Shone
Vice President Marketing XCONNECT

Connect USA is the most important annual meeting for US digital infrastructure leadership teams. Now in its 22nd year, Metro Connect unites C-level executives from the North American fibre, data centre, cloud, tower and cable industry, as well as Directors and Partners from the finance sector. The conference is the traditional kick off to the year for leaders in the space, with CEOs sharing announcements and updates on M&A deals, forecasts

on market disruptions and

the year ahead, with solution-focused

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ITW GLOBAL LEADERS’ FORUM

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The voice of the global carrier industry

The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) is a Board representing a global network of leaders from the world’s largest International Carriers.

The GLF’s primary objective is to provide leadership and direction for the international telecoms industry by advocating common priorities that will limit network fragmentation and improve interconnectivity so that new digital services can be delivered at scale anywhere in the world.

Examples of work produced by the GLF include:

�� Annual reports on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Telecoms; State of Fraud in International Telecoms (voice and messaging);

�� Thought-leadership on key topics such as edge computing, softwarisation and cloud networking;

�� An anti-fraud Code of Conduct (produced with the i3 Forum) including 35+ signatories and an attestation process for members certify their compliancy against the Code of Conduct;

�� A Code of Conduct for direct peering of critical, international IoT traffic.

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www.itwglf.com

Telco: Use case enablement, network architecture and operational transformation

Seats on the Board are governed by strict eligibility criteria. All GLF Board members are also members of the GLF Community.

GLF is proud to work with all the Euromoney Telecom brands and our partner network to ensure that our members receive tangible brand exposure benefits.

Event activities include:

Summits

Lounges

Board Meetings

Activities and

22 Examples of working groups and programmes: �� Network Security �� Anti-Fraud �� Critical IoT Traffic Separation �� Evolution of Settlement �� Talent �� Tomorrow’s
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THE GLF COMMUNITY

Launched in late 2020, the GLF Community represents the ecosystem of companies, partners and industries that underpin global digital infrastructure.

The GLF Community is open to any active company involved in Digital Infrastructure to join including:

Telecoms Carriers

Tower Companies

Data Centres

Investors

Cloud Providers

ICT Service providers (hardware and software)

System integrators

Associated service providers such as Law Firms, Consultancies and Recruitment Agencies.

Many of our meetings and social activities are co-located with events run by Capacity Media, Layer123, BroadGroup, Wan Summits, ITW and TowerXchange.

GLF Community event activities include:

Closed-door Leadership Summits

Community meetups and Roundtables

Networking events and social gatherings

VIP member lounges

Members of the community benefit from:

A network of industry leaders

Community-only conferences and roundtables

Exclusive market analysis, reports and data, powered by Community member insights

Access to outputs from the GLF Board

Ability to participate in industry-wide collaborative initiatives including working groups and programmes

Ability to accredit your organisation as part of the ‘GLF Community’

4 x free delegate passes to any of our telecoms events per calendar year

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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMS WEEK

Global Connectivity Reimagined

2023, National Harbor, USA

Founded in 2008, ITW continues to provide a crucial platform for the entire digital infrastructure community to meet, conduct business and drive change across the industry. ITW plays host to thousands of meetings across three days where business critical agreements are signed, key alliances are formed and new partnerships are announced.

ITW is etched in the diaries of over 2,000 companies and 7,000 attendees as the must-attend event for anyone involved in the telecoms and ICT infrastructure space. Allowing companies to showcase their very best in front of more than 50% Director & C-suite attendees, ITW attracts a truly world-class audience of global leaders and decision makers spending the week consolidating existing partnerships and sealing new deals. With close ties to the Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF), ITW is at the forefront of the industry’s transformation enabling key conversations for senior executives at an international level all with the aim of #KeepingTheWorldConnected.

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25 Director & Head C-level, President, VP, SVP, EVP Manager Executive Other 26% 27% 27% 7% 13% Why is ITW the event for you? With 80% decision-makers, ITW helps you connect with the right
at the right time and fuel your sales pipeline for the year ahead. 120+
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Let the numbers do the talking - the ITW event platform delivered: Let ITW further your marketing campaign - in 2022 we generated: 91,510 messages 23,000+ meeting requests 18,747 connections 14,000+ followers across social channels 920,000+ social impressions 520,000+ page views on the website

LAYER123 EVENTS

The heart of network transformation

Layer123 is the neutral platform for ICT stakeholders to discuss the challenges of network transformation.

CSPs, hyperscalers, data centres, enterprises, hardware and software vendors join an analyst-heavy delegation to hear lead ing innovators and standards setters.

Layer123 is the meeting place for industry standards bodies and is seen as the birth-place of association projects from ETSI, MEF, Linux Foundation, TM Forum, OCP, ONF, TIP and more.

Building a technical community with content at the core of the events, Layer123 opens the discussion on how to operationalise and monetise the latest innovations.

you more than a general run of the mill trade show.

Our Flagship Event:

The Layer123 World Congress brings together the latest carrier applications, use cases & deployments, the broadest range of technology innovation, ideas & projects. We help you see the driving motivation of commercial transformation and solutions. Truly neutral and inclusive – carrier-driven, with no hidden agenda. With an annual audience of 1,000 professionals attending, 50+ exhibitors, the Congress provides the highest profile leadership platform where a common understanding of business reality and important technology directions are assessed debated and mapped out for the market.

Key areas:

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�� 5G & IoT �� Cloud capabilities & Edge Computing �� NFV, Network Automation & Orchestration �� Disaggregated Networking �� Quantum Communications & Emerging Technologies �� Security, SD-WAN & SASE 5-7 December, London, UKwww.layer123.com
27 8% 4% 53% 33% Company Type Seniority Who attends the Layer123 events? Analyst/ Researcher/ Academic Network Provider Operator Vendor Director & Head C-level, President, VP, SVP, EVP Manager Executive Other 10% 15% 3% 17% 55% Your annual global network transformation update. Something that is much costlier for all stakeholders in the Telco eco-system to miss, especially for Telcos themselves. Anuradha Udunuwara Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect Sri Lanka Telecom

TOWERXCHANGE

The home of the global telecom tower industry

Meetups

annual meeting places dedicated to the telecom tower industry. For the past 10 years, our five regional Meetups

brought

management teams of each continent’s major towercos

from CXOs to heads of areas including M&A, strategy, operations, energy, innovation, engineering, technology, legal and regulatory affairs to discuss growth opportunities, challenges, best practice and the future of the sector. Executive-level retreats welcoming investors, MNOs and the ser vice providers and supply chain that support the industry, TowerXchange Meetups are the definitive gathering of the who’s who in telecom towers.

28 29-30 November 2022, Singapore Meetup Asia July 2023, Florida Meetup Americas 7-8 March 2023, Dubai Meetup MENA May 2023, London Meetup Europe
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29 October 2023, Johannesburg Meetup Africa Who attends the TowerXchange events: Seniority Company Type Director & Head C-level, President, VP, SVP, EVP Manager Executive Other 29% 17% 15% 13% 26% 1% 5% 1% 7% 11% 1% 3% 43% 9% 4% 1% 3% 9% 2% Access Control Active Equipment Backhaul or Fibre Data Collection & Utilisation Managed Service Provider Strategic Consultancy Energy Mobile Network Operator Towerco Investment Management Advisor OEM Other Investor Static Assets TowerXchange is a niche platform exclusively for the telecom tower and infrastructure fraternity, not only to network and share knowledge but also serving as a de facto search engine for the global towerco industry.
former VP Strategic Initiatives GTL Infrastructure

TowerXchange Community Membership

TowerXchange Community Membership gives you access to the world’s most comprehensive online portal of tower industry news, interviews, analysis and data including:

The industry’s most trusted resource of global tower counts

Detailed country studies of telecom and towerco market dynamics

In-depth analysis of the latest tower deals

Regular interviews with the biggest names in the telecom sector

Monthly newsletter rounding up the latest industry news

Critical examination of emerging trends

Special focus reports on the industry’s biggest issues

Detailed write-ups of the main take-homes from our five world-leading tower industry Meetups

Individual and corporate memberships are available. For more information and to subscribe, please visit: https://www.towerxchange.com/subscribe or email: membership@towerxchange.com

30 TowerXchange Community Membership 7 Unlock a wealth of data points and tools Sub-Saharan African towerco activity and tower transaction heatmap Major tower transactions in the Latin American tower industry Towercos own the majority of towers Towercos own significant portion of towers with at least one major tower deal completed Limited towerco activity. No major tower deals completed No known towerco activity New SLBs or carve outs expected or rumoured 5TowerXchange Community Membership Unlock a wealth of data points and tools 10 7 60 3 1 Ownership of ground-based towers and rooftop sites in the German market Country-by-country profiles of the telecom tower energy landscape
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When we meet with investors, we use TowerXchange reports to provide independent market data and to corroborate our view of the market.

WAN SUMMITS

The premier WAN community

Where else can you spend all day discussing your WAN? The

one-of-its-kind WAN Summit offers networking, cloud, infra structure, architecture and security experts the opportunity to share best practices and connect with those facing similar chal lenges as we navigate this new world of connectivity.

The rapid growth of technology, economic disruption and changes in human geography continue to turn corporate con nectivity on its head. Supply chain disruption has met cyberat tacks, and work-from-anywhere has met ballooning bandwidth requirements.

The WAN Summit provides a platform for enterprises to meet each other and hear from the most successful vendors within the space of networking and telecommunications.

Upcoming WAN Summits:

March 2023, Germany

The WAN Summit is CPD certified, meaning that being a part of this event now counts towards continuing your professional development.

June 2023, United Kingdom

September 2023, USA

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The true heroes of today are our networking experts who have helped save the global economy and usher in a new world of hybrid working. These shows are for them.

The WAN Summit enables information sharing within a niche industry, and is constantly researching for new, innovative content to help you stay ahead in this highly competitive marketplace.

global series intends to bridge the gap between the various IT functions and levels, allowing you to draw on the experience and expertise of others to achieve your end goal.

WAN Summits?

Seniority

The WAN Summits are the best conferences to attend to get an impartial focus on enterprise WAN.

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