Building critical resilience in today’s geopolitically volatile environment requires organizations and nations to develop comprehensive preparedness strategies that address both traditional threats like natural disasters and emerging challenges including cyberwarfare, electromagnetic pulse and other infrastructure vulnerabilities. Effective resilience must integrate robust backup systems for essential services, diversified supply chains, and layered security.

This session of Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, Sept. 17 will explore how our nation can maintain a network of resilient critical infrastructure – in advance of the in-person Resilient Critical Infrastructure Summit on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. 

Resilient Critical Infrastructure Summit

September 18, 2025 | Washington, D.C.8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Clyde’s of Gallery Place

A One-Day Summit on Securing America’s Critical Infrastructure

America’s digital and energy systems face a critical test. Rising threats, soaring energy demands, and the race for AI dominance all point to one truth: infrastructure resilience is no longer optional. 

What to Expect

This one-day summit brings together leaders from government, industry, and national security to explore how the nation can protect and strengthen the infrastructure our economy and defense depend on.

A Framework for Resilience: Learn guiding principles for strengthening America’s infrastructure in an era of rising threats and rapid technological change.Cross-Sector Perspectives: Hear candid insights from leaders across government, energy, and broadband on shared challenges and emerging solutions.National Security Lens: Understand why resilient infrastructure is not just about connectivity or economics, it is fundamental to defense and stability.Actionable Takeaways: Leave with practical strategies and policy insights to help decision makers and industry leaders build stronger, smarter systems.Featured Keynote Speaker

Jase Wilson Founder & CEO, Ready.net 

Jase Wilson is the founder and CEO of Ready.net, a Public Benefit Corporation advancing resilient infrastructure for essential utility services. A serial entrepreneur at the intersection of technology and public service, Jase brings two decades of experience helping governments modernize critical systems. He studied at MIT, founded multiple civic-focused startups, and has remained passionate about building for a networked world. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he works with the talented Ready team on their mission to connect & protect America. 

Register Now

Join us on Thursday, September 18, 2025 at Clyde’s of Gallery Place, Washington, D.C. for a day of strategy, insight, and collaboration on securing America’s most critical systems.

Critical Resilience in an Age of Heightened Geopolitical Tensions

Building critical resilience in today’s geopolitically volatile environment requires organizations and nations to develop comprehensive preparedness strategies that address both traditional threats like natural disasters and emerging challenges including cyberwarfare, electromagnetic pulse and other infrastructure vulnerabilities. Effective resilience must integrate robust backup systems for essential services, diversified supply chains, and layered security. How can our nation maintain a network of resilient critical infrastructure?

Presenter Bios:

Ambassador David Gross is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on international telecommunications and Internet policies, having addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone else in modern history. Noted as bringing “innovation and vision to the rapidly changing TMT industry” by Who’s Who Legal and as one of the “Top 30 Telecommunications lawyers in the world” by Euromoney, David draws on more than 30 years of experience as a lawyer, global policymaker, and corporate executive to assist U.S. companies seeking to enter or expand international businesses. He also advises non-U.S. companies, and industry organizations seeking to invest in, monitor, and understand the U.S. and international markets, as well as national governments.

What Sources of Energy Are Needed for Resilient Infrastructure?

Energy supply is emerging as a vital need in ensuring Resilient Critical Infrastructure. Data centers currently consume 4% of U.S. energy output, and that share could triple in the next decade. Are current energy sources sufficient to meet the growing energy needs of data centers? What role will natural gas and small modular reactors play in this process? Is there a distinction between the energy needs of IXPs, multi-tenant data centers, and hyperscalers? How are behind-the-meter solutions adding (or aiding) America’s resilience on its electric grid?

Presenter Bios:

Stephen Snyder, Partner at Womble Dickinson Bond, represents energy clients in a broad range of transactions and regulatory, compliance, and litigation matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state regulatory commissions. His transactional representations include advising independent power producers, transmission-owning utilities, pipeline companies, renewable, energy storage, and traditional project developers, electric cooperatives, and lenders in drafting and negotiating wholesale and retail power purchase agreements; generation and transmission interconnection, affected system, and distribution service agreements; electric generation and transmission facility purchase and sale and financing agreements; fuel supply, O&M, operator, off-take and energy services agreements; pipeline gathering, storage, and interconnection agreements; renewable power purchase and lease arrangements, and REC purchase and sale agreements; and physical and financial power and gas commodity agreements.

How IXPs and Smart Infrastructure Can Strengthen Critical Infrastructure

Internet Exchange Points serve as critical nodes that strengthen national infrastructure resilience by reducing latency through localized traffic exchange, eliminating the need for data to traverse long-distance networks, and creating more robust, distributed communication pathways that are less vulnerable to single points of failure. Some states don’t harbor a single IXP within their territory, contributing to the possibility that a single outage could take an entire state network offline. More IXPs in more locations across the United States can allow states to remain connected, even in the case of disaster or attack.

Presenter Bios:

Ed d’Agostino serves as Vice President of DE-CIX North America, where he plays a central role in expanding the company’s internet exchange and interconnection ecosystem across major U.S. markets. He has driven strategic infrastructure upgrades and market growth in key hubs such as Dallas, New York, Chicago, and Houston. Under his leadership, DE-CIX has enhanced regional network resilience and capacity to meet evolving bandwidth and latency demands.

About the Resilient Critical Infrastructure Summit

The Resilient Critical Infrastructure Investment Summit will explore how public and private sector leaders prepare to respond. Discussions will range from ensuring universal last-mile BEAD implementation, middle mile interconnections to internet exchange points and data centers, threats to the internet backbone connections and interstate electricity transmission lines, plus securing the nation’s energy infrastructure. This event will provide practical insights and strategic guidance for building high-performance and resilient digital infrastructure networks.

Speaker BiosKeynote Speech

America’s vulnerable critical infrastructure is under siege, and traditional approaches are failing us. Rising demand for energy, compute, and storage reflects a growing need to invest in AI at the edge. In an increasingly uncertain world, America must rethink infrastructure from the ground up.

In this timely keynote, Ready.net founder and CEO Jase Wilson will reveal the seven key principles for resilient critical infrastructure. America’s position as the global leader in technology depends on infrastructure that can support the AI revolution and withstand threats ranging from natural disasters to tactical EMPs. This session will outline what it truly takes to stay strong in the face of disruption and build systems ready for whatever comes next.

Jase Wilson is the founder and CEO of Ready.net, a Public Benefit Corporation advancing resilient infrastructure for essential utility services. A serial entrepreneur at the intersection of technology and public service, Jase brings two decades of experience helping governments modernize critical systems. He studied at MIT, founded multiple civic-focused startups, and has remained passionate about building for a networked world. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he works with the talented Ready team on their mission to connect & protect America. 

1Finity, a Fujitsu company, is a global provider of communications networks for our connected world. We uniquely combine technological leadership and expertise in open optical and wireless networking, network automation, and applied AI/ML to design, build, operate, and maintain critical digital communications network infrastructure.