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DESCRIPTION:Chair: Roz Roseboro\, Senior Principal Analyst\, Omdia 15:30 - 
 16:00How to build flexible business models for unpredictable marketsModera
 tor: Bob Titus\, CTO\, NetcrackerTiago Rocha da Silva\, CCO\, ZainCarolin 
 Treichl\, EVP\, Kapsch TrafficCom AG16:00 - 16:15Psychological and sociolo
 gical perspectives for successful introduction of AI The social sciences h
 ave been engaged productively with both natural sciences and technology fr
 om their beginnings. The benefits of this co-development have flowed in bo
 th directions This talk will indicate how the introduction of artificial i
 ntelligence at scale in both technical and social applications can benefit
  from the accumulated experience from these earlier engagements. Examples 
 will range from the micro level of individual and group psychology via the
  social shaping of technology in organisations to the macro levels of poli
 cy and governance. Jerome Carson\, Professor of Psychology\, Hume Institut
 e Lausanne Stephen Little\, Professor Extraordinaire\, Hume Institute Laus
 anne 16:15 - 16:30AI-Native Telco: Operationalising an AI-centric referenc
 e architecture Why telco AI stalls at scale: Architecture is the missing l
 ink Moving from reference to reality: Scaling AI across a federated telco 
 AI-native telcos will be defined not by the models they use but by the arc
 hitectures that allow Shekhar Kulkarni\, Global Chief Architect\, Deutsche
  Telekom 16:30 - 16:45Beyond AI experiments: building scalable telco opera
 tions Understand how leading telecom operators are scaling AI beyond pilot
 s to enterprise-wide adoptionLearn practical lessons from real-world AI tr
 ansformation journeysExplore the operating model\, data and governance cha
 nges needed for AI-first organizationsDiscover how AI can deliver measurab
 le impact across cost\, customer experience and revenue growth Nathan Guml
 ey\, Executive\, Strategy and Transformation\, TelstraJinu Koshy\, Vice Pr
 esident and Senior Industry Principal\, Infosys 16:45 - 17:15Rewiring the 
 telco enterprise for AI-native growth: Leadership\, trust and ecosystem ex
 ecution As AI shifts from experimentation to embedded capability\, the cha
 llenge for telecoms is no longer building the technology\, but scaling its
  use across the enterprise. Senior leaders from BT Group\, Telefónica Ger
 many\, Vodafone and Google will share how they are reshaping architecture\
 , operating models and partnerships to enable AI‑native growth. How BT i
 s evolving architecture and engineering practices to embed AI into core pl
 atformsHow Telefónica Germany is aligning strategy\, architecture and cul
 ture to operationalise AI at scaleHow Vodafone is enabling zero‑touch op
 erations and transforming network test environments into “labs of the fu
 ture” Moderator: Ranjan Band\, CTO Europe Telco & CX Business Lead\, Tec
 h Mahindra Jen Hawes-Hewitt\, Global Market Lead\, Telecom Industry\, Goog
 le CloudEva Ulicevic\, Director Architecture\, Strategy and Technology Ena
 blement\, Telefónica Germany David Perez\, Chief Architect\, BT DigitalSi
 mon Norton\, Director of Digital Network & OSS Engineering\, Vodafone Timi
 ngs are provisional only and may be subject to change.
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LOCATION:Build Stage
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:(DTW-Ignite 2026) AI native telco: From lab dreams to market realit
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