Cavell Group's International Cloud Comms Summit

Established by Cavell in 2015, the Cloud Comms Summit is the leading and largest vendor-agnostic event for Service Providers focused on the Cloud Communications industry.

why attend

Why should you attend the Cloud Comms Summit?

Search for attendees and start a conversation in our dedicated networking sessions through our virtual platform. Make connections with service providers and vendors and talk directly to advisors and experts from Cavell Group.

Walk away equipped with the practical insights that enable you to turn your ideas into action. Learn about the change in competition and industry best practices through a mix of keynote presentations and panel discussions with key industry players. 

As an impartial party in the Cloud Comms space, Cavell keep the event vendor neutral and non-biased. Cavell will will be sharing their experiences combined with key findings from the latest Cloud Comms Market and Enterprise Insight Research Reports to help you understand the market. 

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Great Networking

Search for attendees and start a conversation in our dedicated networking sessions through our virtual platform. Make connections with service providers and vendors and talk directly to advisors and experts from Cavell Group.

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Actionable Insights

Walk away equipped with the practical insights that enable you to turn your ideas into action. Learn about the change in competition and industry best practices through a mix of keynote presentations and panel discussions with key industry players. 

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Unbiased Environment

As an impartial party in the Cloud Comms space, Cavell keep the event vendor neutral and non-biased. Cavell will will be sharing their experiences combined with key findings from the latest Cloud Comms Market and Enterprise Insight Research Reports to help you understand the market. 

Events

Our events bring together the leaders in our industry.

A connected industry is a successful one. We take great pride in connecting expert speakers, industry analysts and business leaders from across the telecoms and technology sectors.

Due to travel restrictions and social distancing measures in this current climate, we are hosting a mixture of in-person, hybrid and online events. To find out more please visit individual event pages.

upcoming events

Cloud Networking Summit

22 September 2022

London, United Kingdom

22 September 2022

London, United Kingdom

Cloud Comms Summit London

8 March 2023

London, United Kingdom

8 March 2023

London, United Kingdom

Comms Council UK dinner with Cavell Group

23 March 2023

London, United Kingdom

23 March 2023

London, United Kingdom

Cavell Invest Summit

May 2023

London, United Kingdom

June 2023

London, United Kingdom

Cloud Comms Summit US

October 2023

United States

October 2023

United States

Cavell Enable

December 2023

London, United Kingdom

December 2023

London, United Kingdom

become a speaker

Interested in speaking at our next event?

At Cavell, we pride ourselves in curating events which entail an array of speakers which offer several different viewpoints and years of valuable experience. 

Our past speakers are a mixture of service providers, vendors, and investors who all share a real passion in cloud communications and cloud networking. If you fit this criteria, sign up today!

Here are some of the companies which have spoken at our events:

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Previous speakers

Just some of the Industry leaders who have spoken at the Cloud Comms Summit

Matthew Townend

Executive Director

Matt has always been involved in early-stage markets, beginning his career at Pipex, the UK’s first commercial ISP That would lead to roles at UUNet, Worldcom and MCI before working for the pioneering VoIP provider, Inclarity. Matt has held senior, commercial and market-facing roles managing hundreds of people in dozens of markets. Spotting a gap in the industry for good market data and insights, he founded illume in 2005, which would later become part of Cavell Group. Matt works with our clients on technology strategy, go-to-market frameworks, transformative consulting projects and due diligence exercises.

Gail Smith

Executive Director

Gail has held product management, sales leadership and board-level roles in leading technology companies like Motorola, MFS (Verizon Business) and Level3 (CenturyLink), where she was President for Europe and a member of the executive team. In 2002, Gail founded Cavell, originally focusing on consulting and working with service providers and vendors like Cisco. Subsequently, she would merge her business with those of Mike and Matt to form Cavell Group as it is today. With Cavell, Gail helps service providers with their enterprise strategies as well as working on channel enablement programmes to help technology providers to expand their geographical footprints.

Michael Graham

Executive Director

Mike is a lifelong engineer and a computer science graduate. He spent 20 years at General Electric Information Services where he held various technical management roles. Since the late 90s, he has been in the Internet industry with several years at UUNet, Worldcom and MCI, where he was involved in the rollout of the first MPLS network with Juniper. Mike founded CF11, a technical consultancy focused on wireless networking, which would be a subsequent part of the merger that would form Cavell Group. Mike’s focus continues to lie with large-scale networking rollouts, technical advisory projects, and working with leading vendors on engineering and deployment.

Dominic Black

Director - Research Services

Dom has worked in the telecoms and technology sectors for his entire career. He is undoubtedly one of the world’s leading analysts in Cloud Communications and he continues to generate 20+ reports per annum in his research sectors. Dom has built a strong global reputation as an insightful speaker with profound market knowledge, making him an in-demand presenter at events around the world. His focus at Cavell is to ensure that our research output and reports are focused on insights that are actionable, not just theoretical, so that our clients can take practical steps to improve their performance in the market.

Antonio Sardinha

Director - Engineering Services

Antonio is an electrical engineering graduate with a technical background working on big networks and with large enterprise customers on their networking requirements. He has worked for two of our major types of client – service providers and technology providers – including Cisco, Verizon and Siemens. Antonio works on both consulting projects and in engineering services. For several years, he has also been a consultant for Riverbed, one of Cavell’s major clients. He believes that to be successful with network architecture and technical advisory work, a deep technical knowledge is needed, and that’s what he seeks to bring to his client engagements.

Getting the Most of a Virtual Cloud Comms Summit

Matthew Townend
Executive Director
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Francisca Dinga
Events & Marketing Manager
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