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11:30 amEXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLES
- The Network of the Future and the Future Telco
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12:15 pmOpening CxO Keynote PANEL: The Future of the Telco: Business models and network strategy for successMark Newman,Chief Analyst, TM Forum & ConnectivityXChristoph Aeschlimann,CTIO, SwisscomColin Bannon,Chief Technology Officer, BT GlobalEnrique Blanco,Chief Technology & Information Officer , TelefónicaRick Hamilton,Senior Vice President, GM, Blue Planet, a division of Ciena
- Collaboration and innovation – how is the industry preparing the networks and business for the challenges of today and tomorrow?
- Driving value – assessing the ambitions of the telco today and the implications for the network
- New business models and operating models: The roadmap to growth?
- Open networking, programmability and disaggregation: What does this mean for the telco of the future?
- Hyperscale cloud providers and telcos: Defining the relationship for future business models
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1:00 pmZero-Touch Service Automation: Enabling the digital service providerRick Hamilton,Senior Vice President, GM, Blue Planet, a division of Ciena
- New customers and new opportunities: Realising the on-demand promise of 5G, IoT, EDGE & AI - models for success and use cases
- End-to-end service lifecycle automation: Delivering operational agility, and an improved customer experience
- Accelerating innovation: Enabling a new ecosystem and engagement models
- Towards zero-touch operations: Moving from exploration to deployment – what is the roadmap?
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1:20 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Automation & AI driving the intersection of Cloud, Edge, 5G and IoT: The real growth opportunity?James Crawshaw,Principal Analyst, OmdiaAri Banerjee,Vice President Strategy, NetcrackerH.L. Gupta,President - Network and Service Operations, Reliance JioDr. Muslim Elkotob,Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone
- Tackling latency: Will 5G and edge computing be the cornerstone for many IoT and AI applications and devices?
- Assessing the role of automation and intelligent operations in leveraging the opportunities
- Enabling a sustainable, secure, data rich future: Understanding the links between these technologies and how they can be mutually supportive
- Models for success and early use cases
- Embedding the right capabilities and technologies in the proposition: The role of automation and AI
- Creating the right culture and environment to integrate these new technologies into the telco DNA
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- Delivering on the 5G & EDGE promise
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2:00 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Operating at the Edge: 5G & Cloud EDGE – What is the opportunity and how to embrace it?Dalia Adib,Principal Consultant & Practice Lead – Edge Computing, STL PartnersDomenico Convertino,VP of Product Management, Communications Technology Group, HPELester Thomas,Chief IT Systems Architect, VodafoneKim Larsen,CTIO, T-Mobile Netherlands
- Partnership opportunities and defining the right model: How to partner?
- Pathway to automation and scale: What is the roadmap?
- Symbiotic or mutually exclusive - is the future of the Cloud in danger as computing moves to the edge or is there a role for both?
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2:30 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Delivering on 5G’s promise to drive the next industrial revolution: How to accelerate the path to zero-touch 5G networks?Chris Lewis,Managing Director, Lewis InsightDr. Ibrahim Gedeon,CTO, TELUSTerje Jensen,Senior VP & Head of Global Network Architecture, TelenorTL Viswanathan,Head of Products, Digital Operations, Nokia
- Multi-vendor automation and transformation: The roadmap
- The role of automation in being able to offer end-to-end slices in 5G
- Zero-touch slice lifecycle automation enabling the creation, modification, and deletion of network slices at speed
- Monitoring of different end-to-end network slices across a multi-domain 5G infrastructure
- Simplifying operations and reducing cost
- Reduce the time-to-market for delivering new 5G network services for your customers
- Meet customer demands, ensure customer satisfaction, reduce churn, and increase revenue with a reliable and scalable 5G network
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3:00 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Network and Service Automation – Making the promise of 5G a reality?Anil Rao,Research Director, Analysys MasonNeil McRae,Managing Director & Chief Architect, BTThomas van Briel,SVP Architecture & Strategy, Deutsche TelekomLakshmi Mandyam,Vice President of Product Management for the Telco Edge Cloud BU, VMware
- Implementing a digital operations model to manage the complexity of 5G networks: The path to success
- Automating the management of network functions across multiple clouds
- Operating and optimising 5G networks with ease whilst keeping costs low: The modern telco cloud platform
- Accelerating services, provisioning on demand and accelerating revenue: The role of automation and AI
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3:30 pmRealising the 5G promise: A journey towards zero-touch operationsCarla Penedo,Cognitive Automation Senior Expert, Celfocus
- Main challenges to realising the 5G promise
- Setting the stage to enable zero-touch operations: Key Pillars
- Critical use cases and real-life experiences
- AI and automation working together for the greater good
- Intelligent Orchestration and Service Assurance
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4:00 pmHow service orchestration and customer experience can be smarter than the networkPrabhat Dubey,GM CXX – Product and Technology , Vodafone Idea LimitedNicolas Timothee,Director of Business Strategy, Anritsu
- Network orchestration: Breaking down the silos between SDN, NFV and OSS for an end-to-end service orchestration
- Role of real-time customer experience and anomaly detection in assurance and orchestration
- Automation is the new monitoring
- Enabling true service innovation with scalable, agile networks that meet today’s customer demands
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4:30 pmGetting the most out of the 5G RevolutionMarcin Nowak,Senior Solutions Manager, Comarch
- Zero-touch orchestration of network slices to support multiple 5G use cases
- Enabling the agility to isolate and slice instantly into the network
- Operationalising 5G slicing: Defining the orchestration needs of the vRAN
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4:50 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Dynamic Orchestration: Driving end-to-end network automation and service orchestration across multiple domainsRoy Chua,Founder and Principal, AvidThinkStefan Walraven,Co-founder and CEO, InmantaKlaus Martiny,Senior Program Manager, Deutsche Telekom AGRuss Bartels,Sr. Director – Data Science & Software Defined Networking, WindstreamJavier Garcia Jimenez,IT Chief Architect, Telefonica
- Accelerating new service introduction and enabling new revenue streams
- Service fulfilment – enabling new services and products to be ordered and deployed efficiently
- Transforming network and service performance through closed loop assurance and AI
- Implementing the closed loop at multiple levels in the network to dramatically address threats as well as performance and quality issues in the network
- Developing a framework for automated/policy enabled service assurance
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5:20 pmEXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLES
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11:30 amEXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLES
- The Open Telco & Automation
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12:20 pmKeynote CxO PANEL: The Open Telco: How do we harness the innovation required for networks of the future?Jeremy Cowan,Editorial Director & Publisher, IoT Now & VanillaPlusAmol Phadke,MD Google Cloud & Head, Global CSP Industry Solutions, GoogleNed Taleb,CEO and Founder, B-YondAntonio-Carlos Correia-Fernandes,VP Lead Partner Manager, Deutsche Telekom,Alternate board director at NGMN, project lead of ODIN - “Operating Disaggregated Networks”,Andrea Calvi,VP Innovation Standard & Product Portfolio, TIM
- Assessing the importance of open networking for the future of communications service providers
- O-RAN: Accelerating the transition towards open and interoperable networks
- Running and maintaining the O-RAN: What are the economic benefits (OPEX) for adopting new Open RAN models – do the OPEX efficiencies truly deliver?
- Intelligent RAN: AI and automation in the O-RAN – what role do they play?
- How O-RAN and existing RAN co-exist: Assessing the challenges for automation
- Managing the vendor ecosystem and assessing the role of AI/ML: Accountability issues with end-to-end network performance
- Integration and interoperability challenges: The role of the system integrators in the automation strategy
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Jeremy CowanEditorial Director & Publisher, IoT Now & VanillaPlus
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Amol PhadkeMD Google Cloud & Head, Global CSP Industry Solutions, Google
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Ned TalebCEO and Founder, B-Yond
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Antonio-Carlos Correia-FernandesVP Lead Partner Manager, Deutsche Telekom,Alternate board director at NGMN, project lead of ODIN - “Operating Disaggregated Networks”,
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Andrea CalviVP Innovation Standard & Product Portfolio, TIM
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12:50 pmNext-Gen Automation: Agile and dynamic networks as a serviceRikard Kjellberg,Chief Operating Officer, B-Yond
- Assessing the business models and the role of automation
- Are networks and IT systems able to open to APIs and what about the legacy?
- Telco as a service: Achieving scalability, efficiency and control
- Ecosystem models: Co-creating and collaborating to drive value
- Automation & AI: Operational Transformation
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1:20 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Managing the networks of the future: How to leverage AI and automationPatrick Kelly,Founder, Partner, and Principal Analyst, Appledore Research GroupMichael Fränkle,Executive Vice President and CTO, TDC NETBradley Mead,Head of Network Managed Services, EricssonRandeep Singh Sekhon,Chief Technology Officer, Airtel
- Transformation to be a digital service provider: Keys to success
- Navigating the operational complexity and challenges with 5G
- Integrating AI and automation into the DNA of the business: People, culture, competency
- Ensuring AI and data are at the core of the transformation model
- Identifying the next phase for operating the networks of the future
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1:50 pmOrange Case Study: AI to develop smarter networks and enhance operational efficiencyEmmanuel Lugagne-Delpon,CTO, Orange Group Networks
- Positioning AI and data at the heart of the innovation model: Smarter networks, greater operating efficiency and reinventing customer experience
- Establishing the right capabilities – human + AI model
- Creating the right environment to integrate AI into the DNA
- Using AI to bring value to every phase of the network lifecycle from planning and design to smart maintenance and security
- Operational AI – moving from concept to implementation: Keys to success
- Strategic partnerships – the role of cloud hyperscalers
- Lessons learnt and next steps
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2:10 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: The Future Telco – Transforming the way we run our businesses through automationR. Scott Raynovich,Founder and Chief Analyst, FuturiomSandeep Gupta,EVP Network Strategy & Architecture, AirtelThomas Martensson,Director of Network Service Management,, Telia CompanyChris Wade,CTO, Itential
- Moving from a telco cloud native to an autonomous network – how do we get there?
- How do we bring this to the next level and where do we focus?
- Defining the role of AI/ML: What is the vision?
- Assessing the challenges to operate and maintain
- The impact of the radical shift in network architecture
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2:40 pmTelefónica Case Study: Automation Now: Next-generation operating models for the telco of the futureJuan Manuel Caro,Director Operations Transformation, Telefónica
- Open and programmable networks to deliver on-demand sliced based services to the customer: Establishing the framework
- Moving towards zero downtime in the network: What is the roadmap?
- The role of the vendor and assessing TCO
- Enabling agility with a DevOps-oriented culture: New skills and shifting the mindset
- Maintaining the network while we transform: Keys to success
- Operational transformation: Accelerating the adoption of automation and AI
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3:00 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: New Operations Models: Accelerating the journey to zero-touch automationGeorge Glass,Chief Technology Officer , TM ForumDima Alkin,VP of Service Assurance Solutions, TeocoBader A. Allhieb,Vice President of Operation Sector, STCAntonio-Carlos Correia-Fernandes,VP Lead Partner Manager, Deutsche Telekom,Alternate board director at NGMN, project lead of ODIN - “Operating Disaggregated Networks”,Brian King,CIO, T-Mobile USA
- Defining the roadmap for operational transformation
- In the promised future 5G and ‘sliceable’ networks, what should network operations look like?
- What is the optimum organisational model and where does accountability for AI/automation activities sit within a modern telco?
- Embracing openness and promoting open platforms where APIs and data is accessible by multiple processes
- Moving towards scalable and cloud native network services delivery
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George GlassChief Technology Officer , TM Forum
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Dima AlkinVP of Service Assurance Solutions, Teoco
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Bader A. AllhiebVice President of Operation Sector, STC
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Antonio-Carlos Correia-FernandesVP Lead Partner Manager, Deutsche Telekom,Alternate board director at NGMN, project lead of ODIN - “Operating Disaggregated Networks”,
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Brian KingCIO, T-Mobile USA
- Towards Autonomous Networks
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3:40 pmAutonomous Networks Empower Digital Operation TransformationLi Tong,Deputy General Manager, China Unicom Intelligent Network Center
- New challenges and opportunities: How to deliver the promise of the Zero-X experience to the customer and improve operational efficiency?
- The creative tri-unity system introduced: How China Unicom introduced Autonomous Networks?
- The practice of Network AI & automation: What is the outcome in 2020? How did they archive it?
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3:55 pmCohesion in Autonomous Networks Accelerates Industries TransformationDr. Haiping Che,SVP, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd.
- Business is the key driver of Autonomous Networks (AN). How we should leverage the AN to facilitate the business's closed-loop?
- Operation automation is the key focus for CSPs. How operational knowledge can empower intelligent operation of networks?
- The future of networks is autonomy, but how can we cooperate to speed up network autonomy?
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4:10 pmPANEL DISCUSSION: Autonomous networks – enabling the future of the telco industry?Amy Cameron,Principal Analyst, STL PartnersMattias Fridström,Chief Evangelist, Telia CarrierHwa-Jung Han,Director SDN Technology, Architecture, and Planning, VerizonTeresa Monteiro,Director Solution Marketing, Software and Automation, InfineraFrancesca Serravalle,Emerging Technology Director, Colt Technology Services
- New customers and new opportunities: Realising the promise of 5G, IoT, EDGE & ML/AI with autonomous networks - models for success and use cases
- Collaboration, Co-opetition & Co-creation: Accelerating innovation: Developing a new ecosystem engagement model
- Assessing the role of the vendor, operator and hyperscaler in a world of open networking
- Addressing the heterogeneous network: The evolution of legacy to autonomous networking
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Amy CameronPrincipal Analyst, STL Partners
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Mattias FridströmChief Evangelist, Telia Carrier
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Hwa-Jung HanDirector SDN Technology, Architecture, and Planning, Verizon
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Teresa MonteiroDirector Solution Marketing, Software and Automation, Infinera
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Francesca SerravalleEmerging Technology Director, Colt Technology Services
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4:40 pmCLOSING KEYNOTE CxO InterviewMark Newman,Chief Analyst, TM Forum & ConnectivityXTareq Amin,Group Executive Vice President, CTO, Rakuten, Inc.,,
- Network Transformation and the journey to autonomous networks
- The 5G opportunity and moving everything to the Edge
- Open networking and the Rakuten vision
- How does Rakuten mobile fit into the overall strategy of the business?