

Fireside chat: AI Verticals & Telco opportunities
Building connectivity for the AI era — Essentia × Kortix
Data centers are the largest private infrastructure program in modern history. The telecom industry has never delivered capital programs at this speed and scale, with so little margin for error, and traditional ways of planning, designing and deploying networks without AI won’t keep up.
Speakers:
Lindon Hayes, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Essentia
Igor Tomić, CTO at Essentia
Marko Kraemer, CEO at Kortix
Moderator: Tihomir Bajić, General Partner at 5QV
What topics will be discussed:
The challenges of building connectivity for data centers
How AI can speed up the way telecom infrastructure gets built without adding risk
Kortix’s AI operating system approach
Essentia’s AI transformation strategy and the deployment of a sovereign AI platform in partnership with Kortix
How Serbian startups can help build this future alongside global players
For whom this event:
Founders and engineers building in AI, telecom, or infrastructure
Startups looking to partner with or sell to large enterprise and telecom players
Product and tech leaders driving AI adoption inside their companies
Anyone curious about sovereign AI and how data center growth is reshaping the industry
See you at Haos!