6 MAY 2026
Data Center Dynamics
DCD Connect Live: South Europe 2026Debate: Cloud, on-prem and everything in between – Can enterprises keep control?
📍 · Madrid, Spain
Most digital transformations succeed at the technology and fail at the business.
John Bradshaw is a cloud and AI strategist at Akamai Technologies, focused on cloud infrastructure, edge computing, and AI inference. He speaks at conferences across Europe and the Middle East — from WeAreDevelopers World Congress to The AI Summit London — on cloud economics, API security, and bringing AI to the edge.
$300M Cloud transformation led
8→150 Team built in 18 months
$2M/qtr FinOps savings delivered
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Media
View all media →Short session examining how organisations are reconsidering AI deployment locations as the technology accelerates, exploring how edge-based AI is transforming cloud design, application performance, and data governance.
John Bradshaw discusses whether AI's competitive advantage in 2026 lies in model size or infrastructure placement, and how financial scrutiny is refining rather than slowing adoption, pushing intelligence toward edge infrastructure for improved performance and cost efficiency.
John Bradshaw, Field CTO Cloud EMEA at Akamai, explains why 2026 is shaping up to be the breakout year for AI inferencing — the process of putting trained models to work — and why the market remains wide open for challengers to hyperscaler dominance.
Writing
View all writing →How hyperscaler pricing models and data egress fees constrain innovation, and why portable architectures, distributed systems, and open ecosystems are the way forward.
How organisations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa balance innovation with economic constraints through AI, edge computing, and distributed architectures.