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Rene Felber is Chair of the TM Forum TPAC (TechCo, People and Culture) Collaboration Project, and he is joined by Ishari Siriwardane, General Manager for Transformation at SLT and key member of the group. In this podcast they speak to TM Forum's Principal Analyst Dean Ramsay about group's aims and progress.  The conversation focuses on the impact AI is having on telecoms people and culture and what strategies the group are seeing from a leadership perspective. Are telco leaders making the right decisions on reskilling? 

Saad Syed, CEO of Chenosis — MTN's API monetization venture — reveals how the company is shaping the future of Africa's digital economy. From a bold start-up culture to focused vertical strategies and early market wins, discover how Chenosis is unlocking new opportunities and driving innovation across the continent. Guest Speakers: Saad Syed, CEO, Chenosis Host: Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum

Veteran analyst Stéphane Téral, Founder & Chief Analyst at Téral Research, joins TM Forum Senior Analyst Richard Webb to discuss the 5G landscape, drawing on historic CSP investment cycles, the role of AI and automation in RAN, and what the future may hold with 6G.

In this episode, we explore how AI is reshaping telco-to-telco services and transforming the way operators collaborate. Tom Loozen, Managing Partner at Telco+, NCS, and Mark Newman, Chief Analyst at TM Forum, share their insights on the opportunities, challenges, and future of AI in the telecoms space.

This year's judges of TM Forum's Excellence Awards give a behind the scenes glimpse into how they choose the winners and why.

During more than 20 years as CTO of Telus Ibrahim Gedeon played a large role in shaping change in both the company where he worked and the industry. Now, as CTO Emeritus of Telus he shares a frank assessment of the telecoms landscape in a discussion with Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum.

Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt Technologies, explains why diversity, equity and inclusion programs are an important part of the company's strategy to achieve growth and remain competitive. 

Kim Kyllesbech Larsen, Industry Analyst, TechNEconomY, and former CTO of T-Mobile in the Netherlands, discusses how telcos' capex and opex trends are evolving with Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum.

In this podcast we explore the history of Open APIs and how they have led to the development of TM Forum's Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and the opening of TM Forum's Innovation Hub, as well as changes in how TM Forum members are collaborating. 

Marc Einstein, Research Director, Counterpoint Research, discusses how Japanese telecom operators have been diversifying their businesses in the face of a large drop in average revenue per user.

The telecoms industry is busy drawing up and implementing roadmaps for the next generation of operational support systems (OSS) that will support future intelligent network services. Dahyr Bergara, head of OSS at NTT Data, and Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum, discuss the challenges telcos face, as well as approaches to creating an OSS that delivers more operational autonomy and paves the way to intent-driven network services.

Nathan Bell, who led digital transformation projects at M1 Limited, Telstra, and Telkomtelstra (now known as Digiserve) before becoming a partner at Kearney discusses the challenges of digital transformation and the extent to which AI can help telcos evolve their businesses with discusses with Mark Newman, TM Forum's Chief Analyst.  

William Webb, Independent telecommunications consultant and author discusses the thesis of his new book 'The End of Telecoms History' with Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum. Webb contends that the telecoms industry is at a turning point, with communications service providers in many parts of the world no longer required to build networks to catch up with consumer demand for services. But is he right? 

In June TM Forum and MEF a joint initiative to align API development and enable end-to-end automation for MEF network-as-a-service (NaaS) services. We caught up with Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF, to discuss how he sees collaboration on standards helping the industry to automate the delivery of complex multi-provider network services.  

TM Forum's analysts discuss some of the trends and highlights from DTW24-Ignite, including what the show had to say about the telecommunications industry's adoption of AI, autonomous networks and open digital architecture.