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DESCRIPTION:12:15 - 12:45You can't automate what you don't understand: Why 
 semantic digital twins are now essential infrastructure. Digital twins are
  becoming a foundational capability for autonomous networks\, driven by a 
 market shift toward AI-driven\, resilient operations. This session explore
 s why this inflection point is happening now and the challenges operators 
 face in moving digital twins from concept to production. It also examines 
 the growing role of cybersecurity in network operations and how digital tw
 ins seamlessly combine security\, network\, service context\, and policies
  in day-to-day operations. Drawing on 17 years of experience delivering se
 mantic digital twins in some of the world’s most complex operator enviro
 nments\, we will share practical strategies to overcome these challenges. 
 Explore further at our Catalyst - Security use cases for digital twins - w
 ith Vodafone and Telia. Anne-Flore Agard\, Head of Telecom at Capgemini En
 gineering\, Capgemini Wim te Niet\, Senior Vice President of Global Sales\
 , NumoData 12:45 - 13:15Grounding the agent: Why agentic network operation
 s start with data\, not models.Most AI-driven network automation deploymen
 ts stall before achieving a fully closed loop not because the models are i
 nadequate\, but because the data layer they operate on was never designed 
 for autonomous action. This session makes the case that agentic network op
 erations is fundamentally a data architecture problem. Drawing on deployme
 nt patterns across Tier-1 operator environments\, we identify four precise
  failure modes that block AI closed-loop execution: unresolvable state acr
 oss conflicting OSS systems\, broken causal chains between alarms and reme
 diation paths\, absent post-change verification loops\, and temporal data 
 skew — the often-overlooked problem of AI agents reasoning over composit
 e snapshots assembled from systems with wildly different polling cycles an
 d propagation delays. A practical four-stage insertion roadmap shows how o
 perators can deliver measurable value within 90 days while building toward
  full domain autonomy and how reaching AN-4 unlocks the shift from connect
 ivity provider to Operator-as-a-Service. Siddhartha Dattagupta\, Chief Tec
 hnology Officer\, AXON Networks
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LOCATION:The Loft Stage
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:(DTW-Ignite 2026) The Loft: Autonomous Networks
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