Mplify Member Summit – Americas | Topics

The Mplify Member Summit – Americas convenes global thought leaders shaping the future of AI-ready, NaaS-enabled networks. Our fast-paced program presents a clear view of the state of the NaaS industry, with focused sessions on transport, automation, federation, and edge, along with deeper exploration of priority implementation topics such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and NaaS for AI.

Wednesday, 23 Sept 2026 — Summit Conference Day

The Agentic AI Era – NaaS as the Infrastructure for AI​

This day delivers presentations, demonstrations, case studies, and interactive sessions designed to drive insight, discussion, and action to prepare, optimize, and monetize networks for AI.

NaaS State of the Industry, Mplify Strategy and Work Programs

As a unifying alliance for NaaS, Mplify frames the agenda, establishes a shared view of industry progress, and defines the priorities needed to advance adoption in the AI era.

  • State of the Industry: Analyst Readout
  • NaaS for the Agentic AI Era: Mplify Strategy Overview
  • State of the Alliance: Building and Leveraging NaaS Ecosystems
  • Audience Discussion: Voice of the Mplify Membership​

Transport for AI: Scaling NaaS with High-Performance Connectivity

AI workloads are placing new demands on transport networks. Explore how operators are monetizing existing assets and accelerating investment to support AI-driven services.

  • AI Training and Inference Demands and Transport Readiness
  • Wavelength, Carrier Ethernet, and Broadband Design Approaches
  • Industry Timelines for Composable, Elastic, and On-Demand NaaS for AI
  • Leveraging Mplify Transport Standards to Support NaaS Evolution

Automating NaaS for AI

Over more than a decade, Mplify has developed a comprehensive portfolio of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs and product payloads that underpin multi-domain automation. This segment focuses on how these assets are being applied to support AI-driven services and accelerate ecosystem integration.

  • The LSO API Portfolio: Overview, Applications, and Success Stories
  • Evolution of Automation: From APIs to Intelligent, Context-Aware Models
  • LSO as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Control Plane
  • Introducing Mplify AI Agent Implementation Guides​

Edge Monetization & Federation Fabrics

As AI reshapes wholesale and interconnection models, explore the impact of sovereign AI, the evolution toward a federation of the future, and how new trust and commercial frameworks will support an AI-driven digital economy, as well as how Mplify members can prepare and participate.

  • Monetizing the Stack: GPUaaS and Model-as-a-Service
  • Federation Fabrics: Networks for an AI-driven Economy
  • AI Exchange and Interconnect Models
  • Certifying Trust in the AI Era

Thursday, 24 September 2026 — Mplify Views

Advancing the AI-Native Ecosystem

The conversations that began in Lisbon are becoming tangible initiatives across the Mplify ecosystem. Mplify Views explores the progress made in Agentic LSO, NaaS for AI, and the NaaS Federation, with members aligning on the architectures, security, governance, and implementation priorities that will shape AI-enabled connectivity and service delivery in 2027.

NaaS for AI

Securing AI Networks: SD-WAN, SSE, Zero Trust, Quantum-Safe and Trusted Agents

How do we secure AI-ready connectivity across distributed networks?

Building on the momentum from Lisbon, NaaS for AI has advanced considerably across both training and inference use cases, with standardization of the LSO product model—Carrier Ethernet, Cross Connect, SD-WAN, Cloud Connect, IP Peering, and Power & Space—providing a common foundation for AI service delivery. Security now takes center stage as AI workloads traverse distributed and federated environments. The session explores new SD-WAN, SSE, and Zero Trust test requirements, quantum-safe connectivity, and trusted agent identity, extending standardized, verifiable delivery into the security domain while supporting secure AI infrastructure, Agentic LSO, and the NaaS Federation.

NaaS Federation

From Foundations to Launch: Agent-Enabled Services and Trusted Onboarding

How do providers work together to deliver trusted AI-powered services?

Building on the direction set in Lisbon, the NaaS Federation is moving from concept toward launch following Board approval to prepare a detailed launch plan. Boston brings members together to align on scope, architecture, and the commitments required to stand up a federated ecosystem. The discussion focuses on agent-enabled services, trusted identity based on W3C DID and Verifiable Credential standards, partner discovery, NaaS catalog access, and legal identity. Participants will also review the new onboarding project defining federation credentials, governance, and member participation as the industry moves toward launch.

Agentic LSO

Blueprint, Architecture and Trusted Agents

How will AI agents transform network operations?

Following the progress shared in Lisbon, Agentic LSO is entering a new phase as AI agents begin interacting directly with network systems, orchestration platforms, and operational workflows. Boston provides the forum to review progress on blueprint architectures, MCP-based interaction frameworks, trusted agent environments, deterministic APIs, and agent coordination models that support orchestration at scale. The session also explores governance, auditability, identity, and policy controls as AI systems assume greater operational responsibility, while highlighting early milestones including the ASR-to-LSO transition and a working Quote-to-Cash demonstration with legal agent identity.