ITW is the global wholesale telecoms and interconnect event, drawing 6,000+ participants from 120+ countries for four days at National Harbor. Beginning with a May 18 Warm-Up Day and running through May 21, ITW is the venue where international voice, data, subsea, satellite, and interconnection deals are negotiated in person. Attendee mix skews toward carriers, IX operators, subsea cable consortia, data center interconnect teams, cloud on-ramp providers, and the increasingly large AI-traffic buyer population.

ITW matters because data center strategy and carrier strategy have become inseparable at the interconnect layer. Where do the next subsea landings go? Which carrier-neutral colocation hubs win AI traffic? How are hyperscalers buying private fiber at scale, and what’s the pricing trajectory for dark fiber between AI campuses? ITW’s network of meetings — the event’s currency is the scheduled 30-minute bilateral — is the place where most of those answers surface first.

Attend if you operate or design interconnect-dense facilities, evaluate carrier partnerships, or want to understand how the AI-era network economics are being priced and contracted at the international wholesale layer.