Photo Image: Joel Ogren (left) and Tim Parker (right)
Vint Hill, Virginia – January 06, 2026 – Assured Communications, a strategic firm specializing in advisory and implementation of end-to-end telecommunications systems, announces today that Joel Ogren, CEO & Founder, and Tim Parker, Chief Growth Officer, will be featured speakers for multiple sessions at PTC’26.
Parker will open the weekend by joining a Poster Session for the Submarine Cable Workshop. His poster, Edge Computing & Subsea Cables: The Infrastructure for AI Inference at Scale, will be featured on the “Wonder-Wall” with other industry thought leaders, and he will be available to discuss how the convergence of edge computing and subsea cables is creating a new “continental edge” for AI, enabling data to be processed closer to where it is generated to support low-latency, hyper-local performance.
WHAT: Submarine Cable Workshop: Poster Session at PTC’26
WHERE: MPCC, Coral Lounge | Hilton Hawaiian Village | 2005 Kālia Rd, Honolulu, HI 96815
WHEN: Sunday, January 18, 2026 | 8:30 a.m. HST
WHO: Tim Parker, Chief Growth Officer, Assured Communications
Ogren will join a Lightning Talk, delivering a 10-minute presentation titled, The Evolution and Future of Submarine Fiber Optic Cable Capacity: Bridging the Global Connectivity Gap by 2030. He will address how submarine cable capacity has scaled, the technologies and hyperscaler dynamics reshaping system design, and why global data growth will require a significant increase in subsea bandwidth by 2030. He will also share lessons from Assured’s work on cable landing stations and hybrid infrastructure, highlighting paths to close connectivity gaps in underserved regions while maintaining sustainable, resilient, and secure networks.
WHAT: PTC’26 Lightning Talk
WHERE: MPCC, Coral 3, 4, 5 | Hilton Hawaiian Village | 2005 Kālia Rd, Honolulu, HI 96815
WHEN: Monday, January 19, 2026 | 1:07 p.m. HST
WHO: Joel Ogren, CEO & Founder, Assured Communications
Parker will also participate in a separate Lightning Talk. In the presentation titled, Edge Computing & Subsea Cables: The Infrastructure, he will explain how AI’s shift toward real-time inference is shaping digital infrastructure, with subsea cables and edge data centers becoming critical to delivering low-latency, hyper-local AI experiences at scale. He will discuss how geography, network design, and new edge deployment models are reshaping costs, capital planning, and long-term strategy for cloud providers and infrastructure operators as they plan to support AI workloads more broadly.
WHAT: PTC’26 Lightning Talk
WHERE: MPCC, Coral 3, 4, 5 | Hilton Hawaiian Village | 2005 Kālia Rd, Honolulu, HI 96815
WHEN: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 | 12:54 p.m. HST
WHO: Tim Parker, Chief Growth Officer, Assured Communications
To register to attend PTC’26, please visit this link.
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About Assured Communications:
Driven by a desire to create meaningful solutions to connectivity, Assured Communications (Assured) brings decades of public and private sector experience to mission-critical advisory. Assured offers strategic advisory services, project management, owner’s representation, and facility management to deliver highly reliable, assured communications to its clients. Assured identifies and orchestrates the right partners to navigate complicated political, regulatory, economic, and/or technical barriers to entry to create opportunities in areas thought too costly or complex to develop. No matter the environment- land, sea, or sky – Assured thrives on overcoming obstacles to create ICT solutions worldwide. Assured Communications knows the human impact technology can bring and works to connect the under-connected by serving its clients. Connect with Assured Communications on LinkedIn to learn more.
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Email: assured@imillerpr.com
