October 12-13, 2027
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: Reimagining telco operations - AI at the core, transforming workflows, driving autonomy
Syam Suri, Vice President of Information Technology, Brightspeed
Mircea Anghel, SVP, Head of Strategic Customer Transformation, Tech Mahindra
Fireside chat: Transforming legacy IT at scale through AI-driven modernization
Case study: Migrating from monolith to modular – de-risking the journey and accelerating value
Case study: Reimagining telco operations - AI at the core, transforming workflows, driving autonomy
Syam Suri, Vice President of Information Technology, Brightspeed
Mircea Anghel, SVP, Head of Strategic Customer Transformation, Tech Mahindra
Fireside chat: 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, Transformation, AT&T
Moderator: Chris Anderson, Managing Director, Technology Strategy, Accenture
Moderator: Chris Anderson, Managing Director, Technology Strategy, Accenture
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, AI & Enterprise Technology, Zayo
