Insights - FutureNet World

Bring it on: leading telcos are upbeat about facing the future

Some of the speakers at next week’s FutureNet World event discuss their strategic and commercial priorities regarding the future network with Contributing Editor Annie Turner. We all know that network operators are under pressure to speed up their digital transformations, but what are the main drivers? According to Mallik Rao, CTIO, Telefónica Germany, “Telcos need to manage […]

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Intelligent OSS

6th May 20226th May 2022

Futurenet World Interview with Dr. Piyush Sarwal, Oracle

We recently caught up with Dr. Piyush Sarwal, VP, Product Management, Oracle to get his thoughts on Oracle’s strategy and the topic of Future Networks: Injecting intelligent automation into network and service operations. Can you... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Intelligent OSS

25th April 202211th May 2022

Driving DevOps closer to production and nowcasting comes to the fore

Philippe Ensarguet, Group CTO at Orange Business Services, explained how GitOps is the evolution of DevOps and why forecasting isn’t the right focus to Contributing Editor, Annie Turner. Philippe Ensarguet was an interesting choice as... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

7th April 2022

Rakuten Symphony orchestrated MWC’s drum beat

Telecoms guru, Tareq Amin and the company he leads, Rakuten Symphony, dominated headlines at MWC,... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

7th March 202210th March 2022

Automation is about networks complexity and customer experience, not cool tech

Dr Kim (Kyllesbech) Larsen has been CTIO and board member at T-Mobile Netherlands for more... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

7th February 20227th February 2022

Combining 5G Standalone, IoT, AI, cloud and edge is the key to techco success

Three key speakers from our upcoming FutureNet Middle East and Africa event answered a rapid round... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

12th January 202218th January 2022

FutureNet Middle East & Africa, Speaker Interview with Ayedime Amadi, MTN

Ayedime Amadi, Group Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture & Customer Channels, MTN is a panel speaker... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

21st December 202121st December 2021

FutureNet Middle East & Africa, Speaker Interview with Haithem M. Alfaraj, STC

Haithem M. Alfaraj, CTO, STC, is speaking on a Panel at FutureNet Middle East &... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Autonomous Networks

17th December 202121st December 2021

Virtualisation and automation will bring a shared future to benefit all

Abdallah Nassar, Chief Engineering and Network Officer at Orange Cameroon, talked to Contributing Editor Annie... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

2nd December 202118th January 2022

Reinventing operations through cloudification, automation and disaggregation

Thomas van Briel is SVP, Architecture & Strategy at Deutsche Telekom. He talked to contributing... Read more

Autonomous Networks, Automated Service Orchestration

4th November 202110th November 2021

FutureNet Asia, Rakuten Speaker Interview

Miro Salem, Global Head of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Networks, Rakuten Mobile, is speaking on... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

19th October 202110th November 2021

FutureNet Asia, NTT DoCoMo Speaker Interview

Zaif Siddiqi, Executive Director, Global Head 5G & IoT Enterprise Business, NTT DoCoMo, is speaking... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge

19th October 202110th November 2021

FutureNet Asia,Telstra Speaker Interview

Kim Krogh Andersen, Product & Technology – Group Executive, Telstra, is speaking on a Panel... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration

18th October 202110th November 2021

FutureNet Asia, M1 Speaker Interview

Nathan Bell, Chief Digital Officer, M1, is speaking on Opening CxO Keynote Panel at FutureNet... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS

15th October 202125th October 2021

FutureNet Asia, Robi Axiata Speaker Interview

Asif Rashid, CIO, Robi Axiata, is speaking on the Panel: Operational Transformation: Accelerating the journey... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Intelligent OSS

15th October 202110th November 2021

FutureNet Asia, Airtel Speaker Interview

Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Airtel, is speaking on the Panel: The Network of the Future and... Read more

Automated Service Orchestration, Customer Centricity, Intelligent OSS

15th October 202110th November 2021

A competitive cost base is Orange’s end-game, not short-term cost reduction

Yves Bellego of Orange talks to Contributing Editor Annie Turner about the group’s next big,... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Customer Centricity, Zero Touch Automation

5th August 202116th September 2021

Automation underpins ongoing ambitions at Telenor

Ingeborg Øfsthus is CTO of Telenor Norway, responsible for infrastructure and a multi-billion Norwegian Krone... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Customer Centricity, Zero Touch Automation

1st July 20215th August 2021

Rakuten Mobile’s DNA – template, replicate, automate, accelerate

Rahul Atri, Managing Director, Rakuten Mobile Singapore, Head of Products & Engineering, Rakuten Communications Platform... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Customer Centricity

3rd June 20211st September 2021

Telstra is poised for a slice of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Telstra Group Executive, Product & Technology, Kim Krogh Andersen talked to Contributing Editor Annie Turner... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Customer Centricity

7th May 202110th November 2021

Airtel’s network automation is as inevitable as water obeying gravity

Airtel’s CTO Randeep Sekhon and Bradley Mead of Ericsson talked to Contributing Editor Annie Turner... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Automated Service Orchestration, Intelligent OSS

6th April 202122nd September 2021

Why automation should be the Tricorder for telecoms

Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of Canada’s TELUS Communications, shares some forthright views with Annie Turner, Contributing... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Zero Touch Automation

3rd March 202110th November 2021

When automation met rocket science at BT

When automation met rocket science at BT. Neil J. McRae describes himself as a “space... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Intelligent OSS

4th February 202110th November 2021

Why Telefónica’s automation journey “will never end”

Juan Manuel Caro Bernat – better known as Juanma – is Director of Operations Transformation... Read more

Autonomous Networks

6th January 202110th November 2021

Massive network automation might be years away, but there’s plenty of scope now

Contributing Editor, Annie Turner asks Steve Jarrett, Global Head of Data and AI at Orange,... Read more

5G Automation and Intelligent Edge, Autonomous Networks, Service Assurance & AI

3rd December 20205th August 2021