DTW Ignite 2026

Autonomous networks: elevating experience, unlocking value.

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DTW Ignite 2026

Name: DTW Ignite 2026
Start: 06/23/2026 06:00:00
End: 06/25/2026 11:30:00
Location: Booth 303

Jun 23, 2026 08:00

to Jun 25, 2026 13:30 (CET)

Booth 303
Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

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We’re delighted to be a Platinum Partner at DTW Ignite 2026 again this year. Join us at booth 303 to connect with our teams and explore how autonomous networks is elevating experience and unlocking value.

What to expect on site:

Innovative demos that showcase our newest capabilities
Time with our experts for focused, relevant conversations
Practical pathways to accelerate your digital transformation

We look forward to meeting customers, partners, and industry leaders, sharing insights, and exploring how we can drive transformation together.

Please book a time with us. Reserve an in booth demo or a dedicated discussion so we can tailor the experience to your priorities.

See you at booth 303!

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Enter new horizons with autonomous networks, AI & differentiated connectivity.

Autonomous networks

Intent driven, closed loop automation and autonomous operations
Faster rollout, higher efficiency, improved reliability at scale
OSS/BSS: Agentic AI to sell → deliver → get paid.

AI for networks and networks for AI

Predictive, AI native automation across RAN, core and cloud
“Talk to Network” operations with agentic AI
Networks engineered for AI apps and next gen experiences

Differentiated connectivity

SLA backed performance with 5G SA, slicing & APIs
On demand premium experiences driven by AI
New revenue models for CSPs and developers

Ericsson on stage at DTW

You will have the opportunity to see our customer, experts and executives across the conference agenda in the:

Autonomous Network Summit
Catalyst Showcase
Innovation Hub Pioneer Projects Showcase
Masterclasses
AN Mission Garage
Autonomous Networks Leadership Forum (ANLF)

Here are some highlights where you can catch the Ericsson team:

Day 1, June 23

Autonomous networks promise a new horizon of efficiency, customer experience, and market opportunity.
Where do we need to focus, what challenges are we seeing?
Where are the opportunities that will drive our industry forward?

Speakers

Erik Ekudden, CTO, Ericsson
Ankur Kapoor, EVP, Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile USA

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Transforming legacy BSS for the 5G era: from monoliths to cloud-native architecture
Enabling autonomous networks through real-time monetization, data and automation
Composable IT and ecosystem readiness: Open APIs as the backbone of 5G services

Speakers

Haythem Saied, Head of Intelligent Network Planning & Implementation, e& egypt
Seda Dolen, Head of Business & Operational Support Systems Europe, Middle East and Africa, Ericsson

Stage

Vision Stage

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As networks become autonomous and software-defined, the biggest disruption will be a rethink of skills, roles, and organisational design. This session opens with the launch of the AN Upskilling Hub, then examines how operators are thinking about skills roadmaps, certifications, and career pathways while bringing IT and network teams closer together. Through shared experience and discussion, we’ll explore how workforce strategy must evolve alongside autonomous operations.

Speakers

Gordon Rawling, Head of Marketing BOS NM and CNS, Ericsson
Aayush Bhatnagar, Chief Technology Development Officer, Jio Platforms
Howard Watson, former Chief Security and Networks Officer, BT

Stage

Future Skills Stage

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Discover how autonomy moves from pilot projects into mission-critical operations
Learn how operators industrialise AI and automation across the network stack
Explore what separates scalable success from stalled innovation

Speakers

Rudolf Strijkers, Lead Architect Network & Infrastructure IT, Swisscom
Sana Khan, Director Digital Transformation Strategy, Telenor
Pramath Jha, Principal Consultant, CTO Office, CMI Business Group, TCS
Ibrahim Eldeftar, Global Head of Solution Line Cognitive Software and Services, Ericsson

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Growth Stage

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ODA is evolving to provide the architectural patterns, standards, governance, ontologies and best practices for enabling AI-driven intent-based autonomy across IT and networks. In this session, members of TM Forum’s collaboration community will explain these recent advances and why they are essential for the industry’s adoption of agentic AI at scale, while laying out the collaborative work program to further develop ODA’s support for AI native operations.

How should AI work alongside and within existing OSS/BSS systems?
What and where are the control points for AI security, compliance and costs
What standards are needed for multi-vendor AI interoperability across IT and networks?
How does standardization need to change in a world that is evolving too fast for traditional approaches to keep up?
How much of this is already available in ODA, and what is still on the roadmap?

Speakers:

Laurent Donnay (former DT rep on CITE)
Mark Sanders, Chief Architect and Product Architecture and Head of AN Enablement, Telstra
Mark Austin, VP Data Science, AT&T
Rick Lievano, CTO, Microsoft
Mats Karlsson, VP & Head of Ericsson OSS and BSS Solution Area

Stage:

Vision Stage

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Day 2, June 24

The path to autonomous networks is well underway — but realizing its full potential requires moving beyond RAN automation towards a truly unified, AI-driven approach that spans the entire network

Explore how to bridge the gap between RAN and core automation, and what a consolidated platform model means for the industry's shared ambition of network-wide intelligence
Examine how AI use cases can drive measurable improvements in network performance and resilience with predictability and observability for differentiated connectivity
How to build on the momentum already seen in RAN automation and extend it to Core

Speakers

Rodrigo Correia - Head of Solution Line SMO, Ericsson
Krishna Prasad Kalluri - Head of Solution & Portfolio Core Network
Richard Kilmurray, Principal Automation Architect, Vodafone
James Crawshaw, Principal Consultant, Omdia

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Growth Stage

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From transformation to tangible outcomes: Discover how Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is turning large-scale transformation into measurable business impact, driving growth, efficiency, and customer experience through a unified Digital Monetization Platform
Intelligence embedded across the digital core: Understand how AI-driven BSS and data platforms enable real-time monetization, smarter decisions, and autonomous operations
Accelerating value with AI and cloud at scale: See how IOH is leveraging AI and cloud to fast-track value realization, positioning itself at the forefront of Asia’s journey toward fully autonomous networks and Indonesia’s Digital Vision 2045

Speakers

Mats Karlsson, VP & Head of Ericsson OSS and BSS Solution Area, Ericsson
Sukhdeep Gill, Chief Digital Officer, Indosat Ooredeoo Hutchison

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Park Stage

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All contributors join in with a discussion led by George Glass, CTO, TM Forum:

Current landscape: which autonomous network capabilities are delivering real operational value today
Scaling autonomous workflows: moving from experimental loops to production-grade operations
ROI and outcomes: tracking measurable impact on network efficiency, reliability, and cost
Architectural trade-offs: managing risk, redundancy, and integration across domains
Acceleration opportunities: identifying high-impact use cases, quick wins, and transformational initiatives

Speakers

Mark Sanders, Chief Architect and Product Architecture and Head of Autonomous Networks Enablement, Telstra
Roslind Kaur, Head of Group Technology Performance, Axiata
Alexis Koalla, Director Operations Strategy & Autonomous Network Transformation, Orange
Jason Keane, Head of Portfolio BOS, Ericsson

Stage

Build Stage

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Catalyst

Catalysts generate proof-of-concept ideas that innovate to solve common industry challenges, validated by communications service providers and industry stakeholders. Delivering projects and solutions that leverage key TM Forum best practices and standards to ensure scalability, reuse across multiple applications, and reduced costs and risk.

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Conflict management in intent-based networks - Phase II

Innovation Zone, Autonomous Networks, -stand number i3.13

Day 1, 15:45 – 15:55, Moonshot Catalysts Showcase, Innovation Arena Stage

This catalyst demonstrates how conflict between autonomous entities can be avoided, detected and resolved. The solution uses AN to evaluate intents, analyse the impact of policy changes, and identify conflicting actions across layers and domains. It then applies rule-based and AI-driven strategies to propose or execute optimal resolutions, maintaining service quality and intent compliance even in complex multi-agent environments.

By addressing one of the biggest operational risks in autonomous networks, this Catalyst equips CSPs with the tools needed to adopt intent-based operations confidently and safely, accelerating the journey toward fully autonomous networks while protecting customer experience and network integrity.

Business-aware GNN (Graph Neural Network) -healing networks

Innovation Zone, Autonomous Networks, -stand number i3.15

Day 1, 16:05 – 16:15, Moonshot Catalysts Showcase, Innovation Arena Stage

This catalyst is empowering self-driving networks with graph AI and digital twins for predictive root cause analysis and Level 4 autonomy. Their solution unlocks the "zero-X" experience - zero wait, zero touch, zero trouble. Not all network failures carry the same business risk. A performance degradation in a revenue-dense cell serving a financial district represents a materially different operational priority than one in a low-traffic residential zone. Yet today's autonomous networks have no mechanism to express or act on that difference.

Isolating contributing factors across RAN, Core, and Cloud remains a manual and siloed process. Every fault enters the same resolution queue regardless of business impact. Business-Aware GNN-Healing Networks changes this. The key innovation is the first Business Intent Extension Model contributed to the TM Forum Intent Ontology (TIO). This provides operators with a standards-based vocabulary to declare which remediation branch executes first when recovery resources are constrained, decoupling business priority from network implementation.

Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Autonomous networks, Open Digital Architecture (ODA)

Innovation Zone, Autonomous Networks, -stand number i3.26

Day 2, 11:00 – 11:10, Catalyst Showcase, Innovation Arena Stage

This Catalyst aims to transform CSPs into resilient digital service providers - better equipped to protect customers, meet regulatory expectations, and sustain growth. It achieves this using intelligent telco security service orchestration of AI and automation with governance to protect, validate, and evolve telecom security.

A sneak peak at what you can see on the booth?

Boost OSS-BSS with agentic AI

Sell, deliver, get paid

Intelligent operations for charging and billing

Business Value Pathways

Autonomous Networks CSP Mingle

You are welcome to join Ericsson’s Autonomous Networks Mingle at DTW! A great opportunity to network with peer CSPs and industry professionals

When: June 24, 14:00-16:00

Where: Ericsson booth 303

Grab an ice cream and join us to discuss Autonomous Networks topics like:

Future-Proof Network for 5G Use Cases
Cost Optimization Focus: Here and Now
Legacy Consolidation for Operational Efficiency

Innovation Hub Pioneer Projects (IHPPs)

Innovation Hub Pioneer Projects (IHPPs) are specialized, high-impact initiatives within the TM Forum Innovation Hub ecosystem, designed to drive practical, real-world demonstrations of telecom innovation. You can see Ericsson in the TM Forum Industry Showcase driving the following:

The Foundation Project establishes the agentic canvas infrastructure enabling AI agents, models, tools, and data products to be registered, governed, secured, and made available for runtime composition. It is the enablement layer upon which all intelligent automation use-cases are built
The 5G Dynamic Slicing Project demonstrates an autonomous, AI-driven B2B network slice lifecycle, covering commercial offer creation, service assurance monitoring, and autonomous remediation and re-negotiation, all orchestrated through collaborative AI agents without manual intervention.

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