Date & Time
Wednesday 2 July 2026
6pm–8:30pm
Location
The Soho Hotel
London
Format
Discussion + networking drinks + light bites.
Free to attend.
About Us
The GB networking community has a new home.
GB(NUG) is for enterprise network engineers, architects, operational leaders and innovators who want real conversation with people who understand the job.
We meet quarterly to share experience, debate the hard problems, and make connections with other networking professionals. The agenda is shaped by the community: cloud networking, automation, resilience, security, career development, and whatever's keeping you up at night.
This is your peer group. Come and be part of it.
GB|(NUG) is made possible through the support of Alkira and Megaport, two organisations who believe a stronger practitioner community benefits the whole industry.
Networks, AI & More: Insights from real-world engineers
Join the Inaugural (GB)NUG Connect Event
The Soho Hotel, London | 2nd July | 6pm-8:30pm
Talks · Open Discussion · Drinks · Light Bites
(GB)NUG's first event brings together two practitioners ready to share their experiences and opinions on enterprise networking. Grab a drink, connect with your peers, hear from fellow practitioners and join the conversation.
Madoc Batters
Head of Cloud & Cybersecurity at Warner Hotels
With 25+ years building cloud, network and hybrid platforms across hospitality, telecom and finance.
Madoc will be sharing his experiences driving multi-cloud migrations and applying GenAI to real-world security and cost operations.
Duncan Bates
Solutions Architect, Fortinet
AI Enabled Networking – Isn’t this what Skynet wanted in Terminator?
There is lots of talk about AI changing everything, but in this day and age what should an AI enabled network look like? What is the good and bad of this approach and when things go wrong, how can we fix them?
Agenda
- 6pm: Meet for drinks and networking in the Crimson Bar
- 6.30pm: Hear from our speakers in Screen Room 2
- 7.15pm: Connect with your peers over drinks and light bites
- 8.30pm: Event closes
(GB)NUG is a practitioner-led, open, collaborative community for enterprise network architects, engineers, operational leaders and innovators across Great Britain. The group is independent, open and built around peer knowledge.
First event - no playbook - come and help shape what this becomes.
Supported by Alkira and Megaport.