• 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?

• Why is progress on SA slow? What has held up deployment – supply or demand?
• 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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• 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

• Do the world of developers and enterprises really need network slicing?
• Network slicing for Industrial applications – Ind 4.0 use cases
• Private networks & private 5G as a service: what is the model?
• Slicing in B2B2X & Network as a Platform: how to deliver
• Accelerate time-to-market and time to revenue for on-demand, network slice-based services to monetize your 5G investments

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• Industry trends and changing customer expectations
• Main drivers of customer experience in a 5G world
• Key pillars of a sustainable and premium quality mobile network
• A1 Group’s Network Analytics solution “SARA”
• Boosting time-to-market of new services while maintaining operational efficiency

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

• The vision of a 5.5G era and why Autonomous Networks(AN) Level 4 is a must
• Appling autonomous principles to improve the customer experience, quality of service, business performance and efficiency.
• How to accelerate the journey to Level 4 by promoting single-domain autonomy, standard network APIs and business values

• Navigating the operational complexity and challenges with 5G & Edge
• Re-thinking operating models for a new generation of services
• Speed & adaptability: enabling the capabilities to accelerate new functionality and achieve scalability
• Operational efficiency: ensuring shorter time to market for new services

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• The concept of marketplaces: what is the opportunity?
• Are networks and IT systems able to open to APIs & what about the legacy?
• Telco as a service: achieving scalability, efficiency and control
• Ecosystem models: co-creating and collaborating to drive value

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• Where are we now?
• What is the vision for the next 12-18 Months?
• How do we drive alignment and industry consensus?
• What needs to happen now from an automation perspective?

• 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
• Achieving more flexibility and agility towards and end-to-end close loop?

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• New Operating Models: How to tackle the data challenge and leverage the power of AIOps
• Mechanisms to organise operational processes and manage data effectively: what and how?
• Positioning AI and data at the heart of the innovation model: smarter networks, greater operating efficiency, and reinventing customer experience
• Orchestration of data: what is the roadmap to unleash the potential?

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• How to harness data and manoeuvre it efficiently and effectively: creating data flows that are dependable, reliable, and steady
• Storage/use: Public vs private cloud, handling security & assuring clean and accurate data
• New roles, skills and processes: transforming the culture and mindset
• Capex investment criteria and establishing long term ROI – the business case

• Identifying and correcting discrepancies between OSS inventory and network resources
• Federating inventory data from multiple sources with network data into a single model
• Gaining a single view of network assets and systems to drive agility and zero touch operations with enhanced customer experience

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• Telco transformation journey towards best-in-class customer experience
• How intelligent network data is creating new value for operators
• New 5G services: what are CSP’s doing to ensure they are meeting changing customer expectations?
• What are the benefits of AI in reshaping customer experience?
• Automating service provisioning & utilising insights on network usage and traffic for better customer experience and new revenues
• Towards predictive network operation with AI

• New customers & new demands: realising the on-demand promise of 5G, IoT, EDGE & AI – models for success
• Positioning AI and data at the heart of the innovation model: smarter networks, greater and reinventing customer experience.
• Establishing the right capabilities and environment – human + AI model to integrate AI into the DNA
• Operational AI in transforming customer experience – moving from concept to implementation: keys to success
• Strategic partnerships & the role of the ecosystem
• Digital twins – What if scenarios and solving problems in the future to improve customer experience

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• Disaggregation into the transport network: driving efficiencies and breaking vendor lock in
• Overlay of SDN services and underlay over IP & optical networks: Is underlay enough to provide latency control to enterprise customers
• Approach and strategy for enterprise customers & impact on value to customers.
• Transport and 5G standalone – synchronisation
• Legacy challenges and operational issues

• Topology, inventory and automation of large-scale transport networks
• Rapidly create, deploy and automate end-to-end service delivery across a multi-vendor transport network
• Lower OPEX while optimizing the transport network to offer new services
• Transform network operations with open, software-defined network (SDN) orchestration and a partially disaggregated multi-vendor optical network architecture

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