In a fast-moving infrastructure landscape, IT and network leaders must stay ahead to stay competitive. Converge Digest and AvidThink partnered to build NextGenInfra — a combined research and video package that spotlights the technologies powering the AI era, and puts your experts in front of the people making buying decisions.
Sponsorship positions you as an innovator and a credible vendor. Each report pairs a succinct, analyst-authored research brief with a set of executive video interviews — yours among them.
Go on the record with a professionally produced interview that shows the market you understand where the technology is heading — not just what you sell.
Explain how your solution addresses real customer needs in a format executives and architects actually watch and share.
Appear alongside other recognized thought leaders — carriers, enterprises, and vendors — inside independent, analyst-authored research.
Align your brand with cutting-edge topics before they hit the mainstream, and stay in front of buyers for 6–12 months per report cycle.
We work with you to produce the video — remotely or on-site in the SF Bay Area — with editing and assistance provided. Every participant and sponsor reviews and approves before anything is published on nextgeninfra.io and our YouTube channel.
$12,500per report
Our multi-vendor research reports are independent research — not designed to favor any specific vendor or provider. Filming at a conference instead? See the Winter/Spring 2027 event package.
Your executive, featured in the report — alongside leaders like NVIDIA, Nokia, DriveNets, Aryaka, and Nile.
Our content rotates throughout the year to keep engagement high, and reaches executives and technologists at enterprises, cloud providers, and network operators.
Readers and viewers include Fortune 500 enterprises (Boeing, Chevron, GM, Salesforce, Visa), leading service providers (AT&T, BT, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Microsoft, NTT, Verizon), and top financial and venture firms — in roles from Network Engineer and Infrastructure Architect to CIO, the office of the CTO, and Cyber Security Lead.
From mobile and telco AI in Barcelona, to optics for AI data centers in Los Angeles, to IP and transport networking in Paris — MWC, OFC, and Upperside World Congress bring together the decision-makers shaping next-generation infrastructure. Build visibility before, during, and after each show through executive video, editorial coverage, and industry analysis.
Mar 1–4, 2027 Fira Gran Via · Barcelona, Spain
The world’s largest connectivity event, gathering operators, vendors, hyperscalers, and enterprises to set the agenda for mobile, AI-native networks, AI-RAN, 5G-Advanced, 6G, and the telco AI opportunity.
Mar 7–11, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center · Los Angeles, California
The premier event for optical networking and communications, where the optics, photonics, and interconnect technologies scaling AI data centers — from pluggables and co-packaged optics to DCI and fiber — make their debut.
Apr 6–8, 2027 Palais des Congrès · Paris, France
Europe’s long-running gathering for network architects and operators, covering IP and transport networking for the AI era: SRv6, AI-driven operations, DCI, quantum networking, post-quantum cryptography, and SASE.
$5,000per event
For companies launching products, demonstrating technology, or building awareness around MWC Barcelona, OFC, or Upperside World Congress. Book one event or several.
Reserve your slot early — filming runs ahead of each publication and slots are limited. Quarters are approximate and subject to change.
| Report / Showcase | Type | Coverage | Timing | Previous Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MWC Barcelona 2027 | Showcase | The mobile and telecom industry’s flagship show — AI-native networks, AI-RAN, 5G-Advanced, 6G, and telco AI — executive interviews. | Mar 1–4, 2027 Open for Sponsors | MWC Barcelona 2026 |
| OFC 2027 | Showcase | Optical networking and communications for AI data centers — pluggables, co-packaged optics, DCI, and fiber — executive interviews. | Mar 7–11, 2027 Open for Sponsors | OFC 2026 |
| Upperside World Congress 2027 | Showcase | IP and transport networking for the AI era — SRv6, AI networking, DCI, quantum networking, PQC, and SASE — executive interviews. | Apr 6–8, 2027 Open for Sponsors | Upperside World Congress 2026 |
| Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) | Report | Satellite and NTN for the AI era — direct-to-device, telco backhaul, and enterprise use cases. | Q3/Q4 2026 Open for Sponsors | — |
| Inferencing and the Rise of the Edge | Report | Edge and distributed cloud — AI inferencing at the edge, Physical AI, AI-RAN, and monetizing 5G SA. | Q3/Q4 2026 Open for Sponsors | — |
| AI for Networking 2026 | Report | The evolution of AIOps — from deterministic automation to reasoning-based, agentic network operations. | Q3 2026 Open for Sponsors | AI in Networking 2025 |
| Data Center Networking (Fall 2026 Update) | Report | Q4 2026 update to our comprehensive report on data center network — scale up, out, and across with a refresh after major fall AI and data center conferences | Q4 2026 Open for Sponsors | 2026 Data Center Networking - Spring Edition |
| Next-Gen Enterprise Connectivity | Report | Ongoing convergence of enterprise campus, branch, and private data center and cloud connectivity. Includes SASE, ZTNA, and NaaS trends. | Q4 2026/Q1 2027 Open for Sponsors | Next-Gen Enterprise Connectivity 2026 |
| Telco AI Factories 2026 | Report | The economics, use cases, and ecosystem behind telco AI factories — does the AI factory pencil out? | Pending Register your Interest | — |
Tell us which topic fits your story and we'll help you find the right showcase. We only need about an hour of your executive's time for the shoot.