October 6-7, 2026
Dallas
Danielle Rios
CEO
Totogi
Trustworthy AI & Data
Danielle Rios (you can call her DR) is leading the telecom industry’s evolution from public cloud adoption to AI-native operations. She is the founder and CEO of TelcoDR and Totogi, a vertical AI company focused on telecommunications.
With more than 30 years in enterprise software, DR has raised over $1 billion to drive industry transformation. She created CLOUD CITY at MWC Barcelona 2021, which challenged operators to abandon on-premise infrastructure in favor of cloud-native platforms. Now she's leading the move to becoming AI-native—pushing the industry to embrace the semantic foundations that make enterprise AI actually work.
DR speaks regularly at MWC Barcelona and other industry forums, and has been featured in Forbes, TelecomTV, and Fast Company. She hosts the award-winning Telco in 20 podcast and holds a computer science degree from Stanford.
With more than 30 years in enterprise software, DR has raised over $1 billion to drive industry transformation. She created CLOUD CITY at MWC Barcelona 2021, which challenged operators to abandon on-premise infrastructure in favor of cloud-native platforms. Now she's leading the move to becoming AI-native—pushing the industry to embrace the semantic foundations that make enterprise AI actually work.
DR speaks regularly at MWC Barcelona and other industry forums, and has been featured in Forbes, TelecomTV, and Fast Company. She hosts the award-winning Telco in 20 podcast and holds a computer science degree from Stanford.
