SAVECALL at leat con 2026

The Core Claim: 60 to 70 Network Calls

Economically, AI creates a new bottleneck. A single AI call, for example a request to a chatbot or agent, generates 60 to 70 network calls in the background. Each one depends on the availability and packet quality of the connection.

Voice AI tolerates only 200 to 400 milliseconds of latency. Connectivity used to be a commodity for a long time, interchangeable and secondary. For AI workloads it becomes a bottleneck, because without a stable network the entire chain does not work.

Four seconds to a standstill: if a single metric in this chain tips, for instance through packet loss or an overloaded line, the cascade comes to a standstill four seconds later. For production systems that is not a footnote, it is a direct risk to production and operations. Availability, packet quality and direct paths to AI providers thus become a prerequisite for every AI project, not an afterthought to be added later. That is exactly what the talk at leat con is about.

What Is leat con?

leat con describes itself as the industry’s largest networking convention, an experience technology convention rather than a classic trade fair. Exhibition and convention carry equal weight: the format includes seven stages, workshops, training areas, demo rooms, masterclasses and side events as a core part of the programme, not as a supporting act.

Five hubs connect areas that increasingly work together: Live Tech for audio, lighting, rigging and video, Stage Tech for stage construction and scenic technology, Broadcast for media technology and streaming, Install for AV system integration and digital signage, and Communicate for the communication and network technologies that carry it all.

In 2026, leat con takes place for the fifth time, for the first time across three halls at Hamburg Messe. It is complemented by the neo summit, a standalone premium conference format focused on AI and new ways of working in the event industry.

Why This Matters for the Channel

For system integrators and specialist retailers, this is the opportunity of the year. They know their customers and their IT landscape well. What is often missing is telecommunications infrastructure in their own portfolio, even though that is exactly where the orders sit in every AI project.

• Bandwidth and direct paths: connectivity to AI providers with sufficient capacity and low latency
• Voice AI and UCC workloads: tighter latency and packet-quality requirements in day-to-day operations
• Network architecture instead of a single line: underlay and overlay dimensioned for AI traffic

Anyone who raises this in the advisory conversation is not just selling a line, but the foundation for running AI in the enterprise. That is the thread running through the talk at leat con.

Who Nikolaus von Johnston Is

Nikolaus von Johnston is CEO of the SAVECALL Group. SAVECALL bundles telecommunications infrastructure from over 80 carriers worldwide for corporate customers: one portal, one point of contact, one invoice. Von Johnston is also Honorary Consul of the Republic of Senegal.

At conferences and in the trade press, he regularly explains how new technologies such as AI and multicloud are changing the requirements placed on corporate networks.

How SAVECALL Supports You  

SAVECALL is a carrier-neutral sourcing and consulting partner for telecommunications and IT connectivity, not a carrier and therefore without a product agenda of its own. We design the underlay from DIA, business internet, Ethernet and leased lines in the dimensioning that AI workloads actually need, and we assess overlay concepts such as SD-WAN and SASE on a vendor-neutral basis.

With access to more than 80 carrier partners worldwide, we compare prices, SLAs and availability across all regions and locations, including direct paths to AI providers. For system integrators and specialist retailers, we take on exactly the telecommunications part that is often missing from their own portfolio.

All the major carriers worldwide. One portal. One SPOC. One invoice.