October 6-7, 2026
Dallas
Building the foundations for composable IT transformation
October 6, 2026
16:00-17:30
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: The next wave: Building AI-native enterprise architecture for telecom
David Deng, CTO, OSSera
Case study: Harvesting legacy network assets: Turning $1B of retired copper into fiber-era fuel
Jason Blakey, Vice President, Legacy Simplification, Lumen Technologies
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: The next wave: Building AI-native enterprise architecture for telecom
- Evolving enterprise architecture from traditional integration models to AI-native platforms
- that enable intelligent automation and decision-making
- Building AI-native enterprise architecture to simplify complex telecom IT environments and
- support enterprise-wide transformation
- Implementing a phased Agent - Master Agent - Orchestrator maturity model to scale AI
- across the enterprise
- Applying Open APIs, ODA and Autonomous Networks principles to build interoperable,
- future-ready telecom IT architectures
- Lessons learned from reducing operational complexity and improving efficiency through AI-native
- enterprise architecture
David Deng, CTO, OSSera
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
Jason Blakey, Vice President, Legacy Simplification, Lumen Technologies
Session speakers
Asad Nabi
CIO
Liberty of Puerto Rico
Mehraj Gulzar
Chief Growth Officer
Fazhong (David) Deng
CTO
Lars Groenhagen
Enterprise Architect TM Group
Chris Anderson
Managing Director, Communications, Media and Technology
Ludvic Baquie
Partner
Jason Blakey
Vice President, Legacy Simplification
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