Shanthi Ravindran previews the Asian edition of FutureNet World in Singapore, 18-19 October, 2023. FutureNet World turns five this year and for the Asia Pacific region, this is a unique conference in the region with its sole focus on Automation in Telecom. The conference brings together many major Telcos in the region from Japan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka and all the major vendors supporting them in the region. It focuses on their business opportunities, the supporting technologies and the changes in operating models, as they advance towards their new avatar as a Cloud-native Telco. And it is right on track for Asia, where many operators are going through major mergers, making transformations in their networks essential and in some cases imperative for their operations. CSPs on a high-growth path are transforming their business and looking into areas where extreme automation at the core and edge can transform themselves and the industries that they serve. AI and GenAI are on everyone’s minds as we go into this conference, with all members of the telecom ecosystem having jumped into the fray with solutions specific for the telecom industry. We believe it is important to view this in […]