Ari Weil
Vice President - Product Marketing & Cloud Evangelist Akamai Technologies
I am a hands-on, results-focused, growth-oriented marketing leader with a proven track record for launching successful Enterprise software products in the market from initial concept, market positioning, field training and execution and customer adoption. Experience spans public and private companies across various management and operational roles that require deep domain expertise, working with field teams, customers, and provide the leadership to enable and drive teams.
Seminars
Monday 7th December 2026
Panel Discussion: Navigating Community Pushback to Change the Narrative, Build Public Trust & Accelerate Project Approvals
- Identifying how the industry can collectively address concerns around power, water, sustainability, and community impact to improve stakeholder confidence in distributed edge infrastructure and reduce opposition to local Edge deployments
- Exploring how edge deployments can help reshape perceptions of data centers by demonstrating smaller-scale, community-oriented infrastructure that delivers tangible local and economic benefits
- Developing engagement strategies that clearly communicate the local value of edge infrastructure to build trust with policymakers, regulators, and local communities to accelerate future deployment opportunities
Tuesday 8th December 2026
Panel: Understanding End-User Requirements to Deliver Low-Latency Infrastructure That Aligns with Real Customer Demand
9:00 am
- Discovering how different use cases such as AI inference, autonomous vehicles, IoT, financial trading, etc. impact project specifications to design facilities capable of supporting a wider range of workloads
- Assessing how power density, cooling preferences, and connectivity requirements vary across edge use cases to improve infrastructure flexibility and long-term utilization
- Understanding how end users evaluate edge infrastructure investments to prioritize the capabilities that deliver the greatest business value
Tuesday 8th December 2026
Evaluating the Edge Ecosystem to Identify Strategic Partnerships & Coordinate Successful Deployments
12:00 pm
- Coordinating stakeholders earlier in the development lifecycle to align commercial objectives, technical requirements, and delivery timelines
- Evaluating ownership, operating, and partnership models to determine which structures best support scalability, investment, and long-term partnerships for edge
- Strengthening collaboration across the edge ecosystem to break down industry silos, improve decision-making, and create repeatable deployment models capable of supporting market growth
