This discussion will cover the Board Level Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities and the 5 Critical Prioritization Factors that drive decisioning and funding from a Board perspective, how a board thinks about investment, balancing factors and business priorities, with an AI Context.
As networks become the foundation of digital business, CIOs face growing complexity, escalating costs, and mounting security demands. Traditional network operations can no longer keep pace with the scale, speed, and resilience required by today’s enterprises. Our ONUG session explores how Artificial Intelligence is redefining networking. From simple to closed-loop automation. We’ll examine how AI can predict and remediate incidents before they impact users, continuously optimize performance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and reduce technical debt by embedding intelligence into the network fabric itself. We’ll…
AI promises to revolutionize networking, but it cannot succeed without a solid foundation of trustworthy data. In today’s multivendor environments, network data is often fragmented, siloed, and inconsistent, making automation risky and AI unreliable. Traditional monitoring provides only partial visibility, while logs capture isolated events without the full picture of infrastructure behavior. This session explores how point-in-time snapshots of network state deliver the clean, structured, and contextual data that AI and automation truly need. By normalizing routes, rules, adjacencies, and more across diverse platforms, snapshots…
When users complain about slow SaaS applications, unavailable services, or glitchy video calls, IT teams often scramble in silos. NetOps looks at flow data, DDI teams check DNS anomalies, and SecOps monitors firewalls. But when the underlying issue is DNS, it’s among the hardest — and most time-consuming — problems to find. That’s why “It must be DNS” has become more than a meme: it’s a reflection of wasted troubleshooting cycles and frustrated users. The good news is that Intelligent NetOps can change the game….
Cyberattacks have made cybersecurity a top concern of CEOs and senior leadership teams globally. Are you doing everything you should be to defend your enterprise storage infrastructure and ensure the speedy recovery of your organization’s data? With cyberattacks costing enterprises $10.5 trillion (USD) in 2025, chances are you should be doing more to protect your data. Now is the time to incorporate enterprise storage resilience into your overall cyber security strategy. Attend this session to learn how: * Cyber storage software equips enterprises and service…
Generic LLMs offer limited value in the network space – they can’t handle time series data and don’t have the contextual awareness needed to produce relevant insights. In this session, we’ll offer a first look into IBM’s new strategy to deliver transformative impacts to network teams using purpose-built time series models which are trained on network data and enriched with semantic context. We’ll show how this reach stream of data analytics combined with a robust reasoning chain produces powerful insights to drive the next generation…
Network automation and AI promise faster, smarter operations—but only if your data can keep up. In this session, we’ll explore why accurate, contextualized network data is the foundation for automation at scale. Drawing parallels between the rise of automation and the next wave of AI adoption, we’ll show how data gaps derail efficiency, slow innovation, and increase risk. Learn practical steps enterprises are taking to establish a reliable Network Source of Truth, power event-driven workflows, and prepare their infrastructure for AI-driven operations.
Roll up your sleeves and experience design-driven automation in action. This technical workshop immerses practitioners in a complete automation workflow: programmatically create a site design, populate Nautobot’s Source of Truth, spin up a digital twin with Containerlab, deploy configurations with Golden Config, and validate changes using NUTS ( Network Unit Testing System) testing bundles. Guided by experts from Network to Code, you’ll gain practical skills to accelerate your automation journey and leave with confidence to replicate these methods in your own environment. Ideal for engineers and practitioners ready…
AI “factories”—large-scale distributed data pipelines combining GPUs, edge devices, and multicloud services—require a network designed for data intensity. Current enterprise WANs are ill-suited for the bandwidth density, deterministic latency, and cross-border compliance such workloads demand. Tata Communications is addressing this with a data-aware global network fabric, optimized for AI traffic flows. Using multicloud interconnects, intelligent routing, and adaptive traffic engineering, enterprises can guarantee throughput for AI pipelines while minimizing jitter and egress costs. Integrated AIOps ensures predictive assurance, identifying anomalies before they impact AI training…
Turn your branches into cloud-first, AI-ready, cafe-style workspaces — no VPNs, no SD-WAN, no firewalls. In 15 minutes see how the Zero Trust Branch architecture secures IoT/OT, stops lateral threat movement and slashes infrastructure spend — delivering security and simplicity at scale. We’ll walk through the security and cost benefits of a cafe-style architecture and share real world customer examples. Tap into the power of Zero Trust + AI for lower cyber risk, leaner operations and a smaller infrastructure footprint.
