SESSION MODERATORS:
Dean Ramsay, Principal Analyst, TM Forum
Sasha Qadri, Host, DTW Ignite 

KEYNOTE: Harnessing automation and AI – Accelerating growth and boosting productivity at Elisa

• Exploring Elisa's strategic adoption of automation and AI to drive growth and amplify productivity
• Lessons learned from Elisa's 10+ years of automation and AI development, showcasing cutting-edge advancements in AI deployment
• How Elisa's robust automation and AI capabilities have become the cornerstone of its rapidly expanding digital services business, in domestic markets and international B2B sectors, including telecom and manufacturing 

Veli-Matti Mattila, CEO, Elisa

PRESENTATION & FIRESIDE CHAT: Seizing the AI opportunity for CSPs through building the foundations of a truly data driven company 

• Enabling a successful AI strategy for telcos: Cloud offering a complete framework for focused investment
• AI innovation tailored to CSP needs: A layered approach to make innovation accessible and affordable
• Building the organizational foundations to create business value from a data driven approach
• Culture change to build experience, skills and knowledge to seize technology opportunities, such as GenAI
• Tangible outcome driven use cases for CSPs 

Interviewer: Dean Ramsay, Principal Analyst, TM Forum
Dr. Rainer Deutschmann, SVP and Group Chief Operating Officer, Telia Company
Ishwar Parulkar, Chief Technologist, Telecom, AWS

FIRESIDE CHAT: AI transformation across the telecommunications value chain

• What is the value of AI, the strategic business outcomes, and why CSPs should we care?  
• Leveraging AI to make complex network and infrastructure data more accessible
• Capturing the potential of AI to make online interactions more humanlike
• Using AI to improve decision-making, productivity, and customer experiences

Interviewer: Dean Ramsay, Principal Analyst, TM Forum
Ankur Jain, Vice President, Telco and Google Distributed Cloud, Edge, Google Cloud
Ulrich Irnich, CIO, Vodafone Germany    

INTERVIEW: Simplifying network operations to deliver world class customer experiences with Azure and AI

• Discuss the role of Azure for operator scale analytics
• Explore how network operators like 3UK can extrapolate data from their networks at a speed needed to make decisions
• Define how experience-based decision making improves the overall customer experience
• Learn how 3UK is simplifying service network management with AI to improve operations

Interviewer: Paul Brittain, Principal PDM Manager, Microsoft
Iain Milligan, Chief Network Officer, 3UK