ETSI ISG NFV Telco Cloud and AI Native Open Session

ETSI ISG NFV is organizing a new session in their **Telco Cloud and AI Native Open Sessions** series. This event will take place on October 7, 2024, from 2pm to 6pm CEST, at the Courtyard Paris Porte de Versailles in Paris.

About the Event

This event will be a key opportunity for telecom operators, vendors, and other participants to discuss the opportunities and challenges of using AI technologies in the telco cloud domain. It will also explore how NFV standards could help the industry bring these technologies to reality.

Main Discussion Topics

Insights from Telco Operators’ Executives
Major technology trends related to next-generation telco cloud, especially in network, compute, and AI evolution and transformation
Future standard directions for telco cloud and AI-native technologies

Who Should Attend?

This event is of particular interest to those involved in network management and cloud technologies, including:

Telecom operators
IT infrastructure vendors
Academic stakeholders
Open-source communities
Standards bodies

Why Attend?

Learn from leading telecom operators and vendors about the future of telco cloud, AI, and computing
Get the latest updates on recent achievements and future plans from standards and open-source communities related to telco cloud, AI, and computing
Discover future use cases enabled by ETSI NFV and potential next-generation MANO standards
Hear feedback from implementation experiences with ETSI NFV standards and the Sylva project

Speakers

Agenda

Session	Speaker	Company/Organization	Details	Time
Welcome Speech	Yoshihiro Nakajima	ETSI NFV Chair	Welcome + Agenda introduction	14:00–14:05
1st session: AI-native Telco Cloud	Jonathan Bryce	Open Infrastructure	Observations of AI usage in Telco Cloud Industry	14:05–14:30
	Inderpreet Kaur	Omdia	Observations of AI usage in Telco Cloud Industry	14:30–14:55
	Philippe Ensarguet	Orange	Thoughts on how AI would be incorporated with Telco Cloud industry	14:55–15:20
	Michal Sewera	Deutsche Telekom	Thoughts on how AI would be incorporated with Telco Cloud industry	15:20–15:45
	Pål Grønsund	Telenor	Thoughts on how AI would be incorporated with Telco Cloud industry	15:45–16:10
	Gerardo García de Blas	Telefonica	Thoughts on how AI would be incorporated with Telco Cloud industry	16:10–16:35
Coffee Break				16:35–16:40
2nd session: Standard Evolution	Ruizhi He	Huawei	How Telco Cloud supports the future success of CSPs	16:40–17:05
	Panel	Moderated by Yoshihiro Nakajima	Telenor/Deutsche Telekom/Telefonica/Huawei	17:05–17:55
Summary	Yoshihiro Nakajima	ETSI NFV Chair	Summary of the roundtable	17:55–18:00