October 6-7, 2026
Dallas
Composable IT in action: Powering the shift to the AI-native telco
October 6, 2026
09:00-09:45
Impact Stage
Composable IT & Ecosystems
IT & process automation
IT transformation
Chair: Chris Anderson, Managing Director, Technology Strategy, Accenture
Case study: Transforming legacy IT at scale through AI-driven modernization
Case study: Migrating from monolith to modular – de-risking the journey and accelerating value
Presentation: The reinvention playbook - how are CIOs accelerating transformation with composable IT?
Case study: Transforming legacy IT at scale through AI-driven modernization
- Unlocking cost savings, business agility, and operational efficiency beyond legacy infrastructure
- Using AI to accelerate application assessment, code modernization, and migration planning at scale
- Managing large-scale legacy application estates without disrupting critical operations
- Reducing disruption through phased transformation, automated testing, and AI-driven validation
Sapna Jain, Vice President, Global Operations & Services, AT&T
Case study: Migrating from monolith to modular – de-risking the journey and accelerating value
- Managing the cost and complexity of running legacy and composable stacks in parallel and identifying where ROI most often get delayed or diluted
- How to stop integration layers from becoming a bigger cost and risk than the monolith they were meant to replace
- Which business domains have delivered the fastest and most sustainable speed-to-value once decoupled and which turned out to be harder than expected?
- Designing accountability without reverting to a single-vendor comfort zone when an end-to-end service fails across a multi-vendor composable architecture
- What organizational or cultural change proved most critical to de-risking a multi-year migration?
Karthik Venkatesh, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Technology & AI, Zayo
Presentation: The reinvention playbook - how are CIOs accelerating transformation with composable IT?
- What “reinvention at scale” looks like in today’s telco environment
- Aligning business, technology and operating models to move faster
- Key decisions that unlocked speed and avoided transformation fatigue
- The next phase: from efficiency gains to new growth opportunities
