AN Leadership Forum: Achieving industry-scale AN deployments

Chair: Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President, Innovation, TM Forum   

14:15 - 14:30 
Advancing the Autonomous Networks journey – delivering measurable progress toward the North Star 

• Building trusted, contextualized AI-ready data foundations to enable intelligent and autonomous network operations 
• Driving measurable business outcomes and operational ROI throughout the journey to higher AN levels 
• Enabling transformation through people, culture, and new ways of working - evolving skills, operational models, and trust in AI-driven operations 
• Scaling innovation through ecosystem collaboration across CSPs, partners, standards, and AI platforms 

Ron Porter, Head of Product Marketing, Amdocs 
Darlene Stephanie Chiong, FVP, Head of Business Excellence and Quality Management, PLDT   

14:30 - 14:45 
AN in Action: Delivering self-healing customer experiences with agentic AI 

• See how autonomous agents detect and resolve broadband and Wi-Fi issues before customers are impacted 
• Explore how cross-layer intelligence connects in-home, access, and IP data to enable real-time diagnosis 
• Understand how closed-loop automation restores service and validates performance without human intervention 
• Discover how autonomy unlocks new revenue opportunities through contextual, experience-led offers 

Ravindra Maurya, Director of Architecture, Deutsche Telekom 
Arshpreet Singh, Technical Architect, Deutsche Telekom 
Krishna Kumar, Principal Software Engineer, Deutsche Telekom

14:45
Panel: Turning autonomy into advantage: Monetizing the autonomous network 

• Exploring how autonomous networks are moving beyond operational efficiency to unlock new commercial value for operators 
• How Level 4 capabilities enable new service models through real-time assurance, dynamic SLAs and intelligent service orchestration 
• Turning operational intelligence into customer value across enterprise, 5G, edge and industry-specific connectivity services 
• How AI-driven networks can support differentiated offerings such as guaranteed performance, network slicing and premium digital services 
• Building the business case for autonomy: where operators are already seeing measurable revenue impact and competitive advantage 

Moderator: Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President, Innovation, TM Forum
Panelists:  
Valeria Baiamonte, Director of Network Strategy & Transformation, VodafoneThree
Afnan Ahmad, Director, Network Strategy and Architecture, Telenor Group
Raden Tofan Saifudin Akbar, SVP and Head of Network Operations, IOH