October 12-13, 2027
Dallas
Building the foundations for composable IT transformation
October 6, 2026
16:00-17:00
Innovate Stage
Composable IT & Ecosystems
IT transformation
Chair: Chris Anderson, Managing Director, Technology Strategy, Accenture
Case study: Lessons from the trenches: What we learned building a greenfield telco on best-of-breed components
Mehraj Gulzar, Chief Growth Officer, Prodapt
Case study: Harvesting legacy network assets: Turning $1B of retired copper into fiber-era fuel
Daniel Theander, Partner/Principal, EY
Case study: Unleashing Agentic AI across E2E process automation and the SDLC
Case study: Lessons from the trenches: What we learned building a greenfield telco on best-of-breed components
- Building a greenfield telecom platform using best-of-breed technologies
- Lessons learned from integrating multiple vendors into a composable architecture
- Overcoming operational complexity through standards, governance and data quality
- Applying TM Forum standards to improve interoperability and long-term scalability
- Balancing architectural flexibility with operational simplicity in a composable IT environment
Mehraj Gulzar, Chief Growth Officer, Prodapt
Case study: Harvesting legacy network assets: Turning $1B of retired copper into fiber-era fuel
- Transforming legacy network retirement into a repeatable value creation programme
- Building trusted data foundations to identify and monetize recoverable network assets
- Optimizing decommissioning through AI-enabled planning, orchestration and governance
- Establishing commercial and operating models that maximize value across partner ecosystems
- Reinvesting legacy asset value to support fiber expansion and AI-ready infrastructure
Daniel Theander, Partner/Principal, EY
Case study: Unleashing Agentic AI across E2E process automation and the SDLC
- AI-driven SDLC: Accelerate software delivery from requirement to deployment with multi-agent workflows and self-healing pipelines
- Pragmatic modernization: A phased, two-step roadmap for transitioning core operations without risky "big bang" system overhauls
- The abstraction layer: Decouple legacy OSS/BSS complexity using an agentic orchestration layer to enable rapid feature release
- The AI-native endstate: Evolving telecom architectures into adaptive, intent-driven architecture
Session speakers
Asad Nabi
CIO
Liberty of Puerto Rico
Mehraj Gulzar
Chief Growth Officer
Chris Anderson
Managing Director, Communications, Media and Technology
Jason Blakey
Vice President - Legacy Simplification
Ramesh Ramakrishnan
VP
Daniel Theander
Partner/Principal
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