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“Telecom operators have long provided the infrastructure to power communication and connect people. Now they are poised to take on a new role: building the AI infrastructure that enables enterprises, governments, and consumers to unlock AI’s full potential.”
AI infrastructure: A new growth avenue for telco operators, McKinsey & Co., February 2025
09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Annie Turner
Editor
Mobile Europe
How AI is shaping tomorrow’s networks
Digital infrastructure forms the physical and software-based foundation for modern telecoms networks, leveraging automation, AI, open systems and cloud in the networks for digitalised operations. Where are the hold-ups and why is digital infrastructure so important?
Colin Bannon
CTO
BT Business
The agentic AI opportunity has many facets
A look at how, through digitalisation, operators innovate using their network resources and operations to create new business models to generate new revenue streams and increase their return on investment in networks – their biggest asset.
Moderator: Malik Saadi
VP & GM Strategic Technology
ABI Research
Partner Session
This panel looks at progress by operators towards becoming cloud-native, what’s working and what needs more work.
Moderator: Inderpreet Kaur
Sr. Analyst Telco Cloud & Network Automation
Omdia
Multiplying the impact of automation with AI
This panel looks at progress by operators towards becoming cloud-native, what’s working and what needs more work.
Moderator: Inderpreet Kaur
Sr. Analyst Telco Cloud & Network Automation
Omdia
How telcos can enable AI for enterprises
Digital infrastructure forms the physical and software-based foundation for modern telecoms networks, leveraging automation, AI, open systems and cloud in the networks for digitalised operations. Where are the hold-ups and why is digital infrastructure so important?
Moderator: Inderpreet Kaur
Sr. Analyst Telco Cloud & Network Automation
Omdia
12:10
Break
When we will see the ROI on all kinds of AI?
Cloudification is changing how services are delivered and managed, enabled by modular software architectures that depend on cloud native technologies like microservices, and cloud-native designs. Is digitalisation increasingly dependent on cloudification for all aspects of telco?
Moderator: Darius Singh
Consulting Director - Enterprise Platforms Lead
STL Partners
Partner Session
Cloudification is changing how services are delivered and managed, enabled by modular software architectures that depend on cloud native technologies like microservices, and cloud-native designs. Is digitalisation increasingly dependent on cloudification for all aspects of telco?
Moderator: Darius Singh
Consulting Director - Enterprise Platforms Lead
STL Partners
Data is AI’s raw material – are operators benefiting from theirs?
Cloudification is changing how services are delivered and managed, enabled by modular software architectures that depend on cloud native technologies like microservices, and cloud-native designs. Is digitalisation increasingly dependent on cloudification for all aspects of telco?
Moderator: Darius Singh
Consulting Director - Enterprise Platforms Lead
STL Partners
14:10
Closing Remarks & End of Conference
All times UK. Session timings and content subject to change.