Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast

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.

Lead judges for this year’s TM Forum Excellence Awards, Camille Mendler, Chief Analyst, Omdia, and Joann O’Brien, Vice President, Digital Ecosystems, TM Forum, discuss the key industry trends revealed by this year’s entries, including in the important new categories of AI and network monetization, as well as what makes the winners stand out.

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Patrick Lopez, Founder and CEO, Core Analysis and Mark Newman, Chief Analyst, TM Forum, discuss the global telecoms market's current commitment to the development of Open RAN and where the Open RAN market is heading. 

In the run up to DTW24 – Ignite, which is taking place 18-20 June in Copenhagen, Nik Willetts, CEO, TM Forum, Dr. Steffen Roehn, Partner at Bain & Company and Chairman TM Forum, and Dean Ramsay, Principal Analyst at TM Forum, discuss what to expect from this year’s event as the industry seeks new growth avenues, while adapting to the rise of AI.

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Ayedime Amadi, Senior Manager Enterprise Architecture & Customer Channels for MTN Group, talks about her passion for helping people develop technology and leadership skills, which in turn help MTN Group transform from a telco to a techco. 

Sami Luukkonen, Managing Partner of Telco+ at Singtel Group NCS, shares his learnings from AI and generative AI (GenAI) deployment and how the technology can help transform the telecoms industry.

Jacques Bonifay, CEO of Transatel NTT, has played an integral role in developing the global MVNO market since co-founding Transatel in 2000.  In this podcast Bonifay discusses how global MVNO services have developed, including in the IoT space, and where he sees future opportunities for growth with Mark Newman, chief analyst, TM Forum