SESSION MODERATORS:
Sasha Qadri, Host, TM Forum
George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
KEYNOTE: Becoming cloud native for growth and flexibility
- How can being cloud native help initiate growth and how can we as industry make change happen
- Deep dive into Jio’s API adoption journey, and the role it has played in digital transformation
- What is the future vision for Jio?
Kiran Thomas, CEO, Jio
Anish Shah, COO, Jio
FIRESIDE CHAT: Agility and innovation through cloud transformation – key learnings and outcomes
- Creating a successful cloud transformation journey: defining roadmaps and goals, identifying barriers to remove, evolving leadership requirements
- Key learnings and achievements: how to gain agility and accelerate time to market through culture change
- Focus innovation: use case examples driving tangible end customer improvements
- Creating the cloud-native fly-wheel effect: how to tackle “what’s next”
Interviewer: George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
Peter Leukert, Global CIO, Deutsche Telekom
Fabio Cerone, Managing Director EMEA, Telecom Industry, AWS
INTERVIEW: Driving growth through new networks and services – winning strategies and lessons learned
- Where do we start and what are you starting with? How to effectively balance short-term and long-term goals
- How to streamline operations and processes to enable effective collaboration with partners to drive new services
- Investment in talent and culture
- What new opportunities has ODA unlocked?
Interviewer: George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, Telus
PANEL: Leveraging DevOps and CI/CD for maximum agility, cost efficiency and scalability
- How CI/CD makes software development easier, faster and less risky to deploy and manage solutions with components created and supplied by multiple vendors (such as 5G) throughout their lifecycle
- Unifying development and operations teams into a shared repository for coding, testing, deploying and supporting software
- Building cross-functional teams to achieve the agility, speed, and partner-centricity required to succeed with cloud native
Moderator: George Glass, CTO, TM Forum
Hesham Fahmy, CIO, TELUS
Amaia Lesta, Chief Cloud Product Manager, Vodafone Cloud Engineering
Luca Cassani, Technology Strategist and Account CTO, Microsoft
Padma Ravichander, CEO, Tecnotree