Navigating the Future: 2024’s Emerging Trends in Enterprise Telecom – Lightyear Triple-T
Lightyear’s CEO & Co-Founder, Dennis Thankachan, will highlight the top trends impacting enterprise networks in 2024, including:
– Optimizing network costs in the post-pandemic economy
– The evolution from SD-WAN: SD-WAN 1.0 -> SD-WAN 2.0
– Satellite’s entry into the enterprise WAN: Starlink and beyond
– Balancing hybrid cloud strategies: reassessing public vs. private cloud
– AI’s impact on enterprise network infrastructure
In this session, Dennis will highlight the impact of each of these trends with corresponding data points, and provide recommendations on how best to navigate today’s enterprise network demands.
Dennis Thankachan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear. Founded in 2019, Lightyear
helps more than 400 enterprises procure, manage, and pay for telecom services through
one connected platform. Its Procurement, Network Inventory Management, and Expense
Management products combine software, AI agents, proprietary data from 1,200+
carriers, and telecom experts to reduce costs, save time, and maintain control across the
service lifecycle.
Before Lightyear, Dennis was a public equity investor at PointState Capital, and before
that, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Dennis is also an active investor and
advisor to several high-growth software companies.
