Be at the intersection of technology and business strategy.
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.
Thought leadership, not just an ad
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.
Demonstrate deep category knowledge
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.
Educate your buyers
Explain how your solution addresses real customer needs in a format executives and architects actually watch and share.
Build credibility by association
Appear alongside other recognized thought leaders — carriers, enterprises, and vendors — inside independent, analyst-authored research.
Get an early-mover edge
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.
What's included
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.
Thought Leadership
$12,500per sponsor
- Showcase video (~3–5 min highlights reel)
- Deep-dive interview (~10 min)
- Featured interview inside the research report
- Custom, sponsor-specific promotion
- Full distribution rights to your videos
Our multi-vendor research reports are independent research — not designed to favor any specific vendor or provider.
Your executive, featured in the report — alongside leaders like NVIDIA, Nokia, DriveNets, Aryaka, and Nile.
An influential, hard-to-reach audience
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.
2026 report & showcase roadmap
Reserve your slot early — filming runs ahead of each publication and slots are limited. Quarters are approximate and subject to change.
| Report / Showcase | Coverage | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Connectivity | SASE, SD-WAN, ZTNA, Campus NaaS, and the convergence of security and networking from branch to campus to WAN. | Q4 2025 Available now |
| Data Center Networking for AI & Cloud | Scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across fabrics — switch silicon, NVLink/UALink, Ethernet/UEC, and the role of optics. | Q1 2026 Available now |
| OFC 2026 Optical Showcase | On-the-ground executive interviews on optical networking and interconnects, captured at OFC. | Q1 2026 Open for sponsors |
| MWC Barcelona 2026 Showcase | Conference showcase spotlighting the biggest telecom and AI infrastructure announcements from the show floor. | Q1 2026 Open for sponsors |
| Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) | Satellite and NTN for the AI era — direct-to-device, telco backhaul, and enterprise use cases. | Q2–Q3 2026 Open for sponsors |
| Next-Gen Edge Computing | Edge and distributed cloud — AI inferencing at the edge, Physical AI, AI-RAN, and monetizing 5G SA. | Q2–Q3 2026 Open for sponsors |
| AI for Networking 2026 | The evolution of AIOps — from deterministic automation to reasoning-based, agentic network operations. | Q3 2026 Open for sponsors |
| Telco AI Factories 2026 | The economics, use cases, and ecosystem behind telco AI factories — does the AI factory pencil out? | Q3 2026 Open for sponsors |
Partner with us on the next report
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.