Anne-Flore Agard
Head of Telecom at Capgemini Engineering
23-25 June 2026
Copenhagen
The Loft: Autonomous Networks
June 24, 2026
12:15-13:15
The Loft Stage
Autonomous Networks
Digital twin
Autonomous operations
Loft
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 explores 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 twins seamlessly combine security, network, service context, and policies in day-to-day operations. Drawing on 17 years of experience delivering semantic digital twins in some of the world’s most complex operator environments, we will share practical strategies to overcome these challenges. Explore further at our Catalyst - Security use cases for digital twins - with Vodafone and Telia.
Anne-Flore Agard, Head of Telecom at Capgemini Engineering, Capgemini
Wim te Niet, Senior Vice President of Global Sales, NumoData
12:45 - 13:15
Grounding the agent: Why agentic network operations start with data, not models.
Most AI-driven network automation deployments stall before achieving a fully closed loop not because the models are inadequate, but because the data layer they operate on was never designed for autonomous action. This session makes the case that agentic network operations is fundamentally a data architecture problem. Drawing on deployment patterns across Tier-1 operator environments, we identify four precise failure modes that block AI closed-loop execution: unresolvable state across conflicting OSS systems, broken causal chains between alarms and remediation paths, absent post-change verification loops, and temporal data skew — the often-overlooked problem of AI agents reasoning over composite snapshots assembled from systems with wildly different polling cycles and propagation delays.
A practical four-stage insertion roadmap shows how operators can deliver measurable value within 90 days while building toward full domain autonomy and how reaching AN-4 unlocks the shift from connectivity provider to Operator-as-a-Service.
Session speakers
Wim te Niet
Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Siddhartha Dattagupta
Chief Technology Officer
AXON Networks
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