The Network Is the Computer: Why the Path to Autonomous AI Runs Through the Network -Industry Leader Keynote
We spent the last decade making infrastructure programmable. The next challenge is making it understandable enough to operate itself.
More than forty years after the famous quote “the network is the computer,” AI is making that idea impossible to ignore. Before AI agents can safely act across networks, clouds, applications and security domains, they need more than intelligence—they need an accurate, real-time model of how the environment is connected, behaving and changing.
This keynote explores why network-centric observability – and the knowledge graph it creates – must become the foundation for trusted, explainable autonomous IT. Because the limiting factor for autonomous operations may not be the intelligence of the agent, but the quality of its understanding of the environment.
Michael Melillo leads Broadcom’s Network Observability business and invests in meeting the needs of organizations who deliver critical and complex network services at scale.
Mike has spent the last 20+ years creating IT services and products in support of the digital transformations and operations of enterprises, providers and governments. Through his career, Mike has focused on creating software solutions that help organizations adapt to technological transformations; from the modernization of mainframes, to the introduction of cloud computing, to the application of AI to operate complex IT systems and networks.
At Broadcom, Mike is chartered with delivering Network Observability solutions that help our customers navigate the rapidly evolving network landscape and successfully deliver connected experiences across any network, anywhere.
