Kamil Szczepański – Poland as a Hub for Eastern Europe Connectivity

Kamil Szczepański leads international wholesale business at Orange Polska S.A. A growth-driven telecom leader with two decades of experience, he combines commercial, operational, and technical expertise across wholesale connectivity, infrastructure, interconnection, and digital services. He actively engages in industry forums focused on automation, APIs, peering, IXPs, network evolution, and collaboration across the global telecom industry.

At BalticNOG 2026, Kamil will bring this wholesale and infrastructure expertise to the stage with his talk, “Poland as a Hub for Eastern Europe Connectivity.”

A Country Built for Transit

Poland borders seven countries and connects by subsea fiber to two more, sitting directly on the goods transit route between China, Russia, the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine on one side and Germany and Western Europe on the other. With a population of 38 million and the sixth-largest economy in the EU, Kamil will make the case for why this geography matters just as much for digital connectivity as it does for physical trade.

The Market Behind the Geography

Kamil will walk through the telco and IT companies shaping Poland’s market today, along with where international cloud providers stand. None of the major hyperscalers, AWS, Microsoft, Google, or Oracle among them, have a local zone in Warsaw yet, a gap that says something about where the market still has room to grow.

He’ll also cover Poland’s top three internet exchanges, including peak traffic figures in the multiple terabits and their reach across major Polish cities and into neighboring capitals.

Consolidation and New Infrastructure

The Polish and regional telecom market has seen a wave of consolidation, from Deutsche Telekom’s acquisition of Inea and Fiberhost to Orange Polska’s move into Nexera, alongside smaller ISPs banding together under strategic investors. Kamil will connect these deals to what’s being built next: new fiber routes toward Vilnius and Lviv, a Suwałki corridor route improving resiliency between Kaunas and Białystok, and new subsea plans linking Poland to Denmark and Sweden.

Why You Shouldn’t Miss This Talk

If your network touches Eastern Europe or you’re evaluating where to route around it, this talk gives you a grounded picture of Poland’s role in that map, backed by real market data rather than assumptions. Kamil brings both the wholesale market view and the infrastructure roadmap together in one place.

Whether you’re planning interconnection strategy, evaluating new markets, or just want a clearer picture of the region, this talk gives you the numbers and the context to back it up.

📅 When: 23-24 September 2026

📍 Where: BalticNOG 2026, Riga, Latvia

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