• Beyond connectivity: where do telcos play and is the ecosystem ready?
• Driving value – assessing the ambitions of the telco today and the implications for the network
• The platform business & connectivity as a service: defining the model and the role of automation
• Delayering and utilising assets more effectively: future models & operational considerations
• Hyperscale cloud providers and telcos: have we defined the roles and capabilities that can accelerate future business models?

• Defining the role of today’s telco: What are the requirements for the network of the future?
• New customers & new opportunities: realising the on-demand promise of 5G, IoT, MPN, EDGE & AI – a blueprint for success
• Key uses cases telco’s will need to enable in enterprise driven models and how can these be leveraged with automation and AI?
• How to evolve the network monetization paradigm to leverage an enhanced ecosystem

• What has been achieved to date and what needs to change to truly leverage the opportunity?
• What are the commercial models and how can telcos drive value?
• Partnerships and the ecosystem – what is the roadmap?
• Tackling the legacy issues: technology, people & culture
• Operating models: How to accelerate the transformation

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• What are the business models and how to translate into actual services and monetise?
• The concept of marketplaces: what is the opportunity?
• Are networks and IT systems able to open to APIs & what about the legacy?
• Leveraging customer data and linking AI/ML to the entire customer journey
• Partnerships and the ecosystem – what is the roadmap?

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• Intelligent orchestration & injecting innovation into the model
• Achieving flexibility in abstraction and composition
• Building network capabilities and exposing to users effectively: what is the process?
• Orchestrating key components in the network and provisioning effectively
• Leveraging automation and intent based closed loop to offer this as part of the ´as a service‘ paradigm

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• Implementing a digital operations model to manage the complexity of 5G networks: The path to success
• Automating the management of network functions across multiple clouds
• Operating and optimising 5G networks with ease whilst keeping costs low: the modern telco cloud platform
• Accelerating services, provisioning on demand and accelerating revenue: the role of automation & AI
• Cloud, data driven AI and new software architectures to accelerate 5G growth

• Defining the use cases: why do we need SA? What are the use cases that will drive success – IoT, private networks, slicing, something else?
• What’s role do cloud native networks play? Does a cloud native foundation help or hinder SA deployment – driving automation in the process?
• Operational transformation: what does SA mean for transforming the whole OSS architecture for orchestration, assurance & fulfilment?
• Vendor choices: how should suppliers think about traditional vendors vs cloud native software and OTT suppliers?

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• Defining the role of the telco and satellite partnership models
• Where is the value? Commercial and operating models
• Private 5G at the Edge for disaster recovery
• Delivering Edge as a service to enterprise customers

• A gamechanger? What are the key use cases that will be enabled by edge?
• What is the value vs application and implementation costs?
• Defining the right model for ROI
• Pathway to automation and scale: what is the roadmap?
• How can AI & automation be implemented at the edge, to trailblaze the latest service innovations?

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• Managing the 5G network complexity through data-driven operations: Fact-based learnings
• Unlocking the power of data to improve network operations and drive innovation
• Operational transformation: accelerating the adoption of automation and AI to better meet the needs of the business
• Gaining cloud native agility and scalability to monetise new services quickly and effectively
• From data-driven to intent-driven operations: What is the roadmap?

• Defining the roadmap for new operations models
• Re-thinking the OSS as the engine for automation in the 5G & IoT era
• In the promised land of 5G and ‘sliceable’ networks, what should network operations look like?
• Embracing openness and promoting open platforms where APIs and data is accessible by multiple processes
• Moving towards scalable & cloud native network services delivery
• Fully automated operations: vision vs reality

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• Organisation, structure and culture: why is this still a barrier?
• Getting the mindset right: people, culture & attitude – what needs to be done?
• Hyperscaler collaborations and discovering the right model
• How to accelerate the adoption of new operating model

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