AN Leadership Forum: Achieving industry-scale AN deployments

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 
Senior Representative, 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 

Panelists:  
Monika Nowak-Toporowicz, Chief Technology & Information Officer, Virgin Ireland 
Valeria Baiamonte, Director of Network Strategy & Transformation, VodafoneThree
Afnan Ahmad, Director, Network Strategy and Architecture, Telenor Group