Broadband Breakfast on October 22, 2025 - Europe's Broadband and Tech Environment

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Unlike the United States’ model of largely private-sector-driven technological innovation, or China's state-directed command-and-control, Europe has seemed to pursue a "third way" balancing market competition with strong consumer protection. But could it be that regulations governing digital technologies – including the European Union’s Digital Marketing Act of 2023 – have forced Europe and its businesses into sluggish growth? Join us for a lively debate about Europe, tech and telecom regulation, and what Europe needs to do if it is to catch up?

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Panelists

• Greg Mesch, Vice Chairman, CityFibre
• Vincent Garnier, Director General, FTTH Council Europe
• Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Greg Mesch is the Founder of CityFibre and Vice Chairman. He led the company from inception to national scale, securing over £8 billion in financing and building the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform. He continues to support strategic direction and long-term value creation.

Vincent Garnier is the Director General of the FTTH Council Europe since July 2020. In this executive capacity, Vincent manages and shapes the FTTH Council’s agenda and ensures the continuous implementation of its mission to advance ubiquitous full fibre-based connectivity to the whole of Europe. Vincent brings to this position 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, in Marketing and Business Development in EMEA and Asia for BtoB companies. Most recently he was Marketing Director responsible for defining the marketing strategies for the broadband solutions at CommScope, a global network infrastructure provider company.

Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.