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Summit Agenda
Day 1 | Wednesday, 10 June 2026
State of the Industry, Mplify Strategy & Work Plans
8:45
Opening Remarks
Kick off the Summit with a look at the priorities, momentum, and industry shifts shaping Mplify’s NaaS work in the AI era. This executive welcome will set the stage for the conversations and collaboration taking place throughout the week.
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Kevin Vachon
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8:55
State of the NaaS Industry & Mplify’s 2026 Research Program
Gain a broader view of where the NaaS market is heading and the trends influencing service providers, enterprises, and the ecosystem. This session also introduces Mplify’s 2026 research program and the areas expected to shape industry direction moving forward.
9:15
The Agentic AI Era: Mplify NaaS as the Infrastructure for AI
AI is rapidly changing how networks are built, operated, and consumed. This session explores Mplify’s strategic vision for the agentic AI era and the role of automation, APIs, orchestration, and ecosystem collaboration in enabling AI-ready connectivity.
9:55
Reinventing The Mplify Work Plan – Committees, Processes, Roadmaps, Tools & Meetings
Mplify is evolving how member work is organized and advanced across the alliance. This discussion looks at new approaches to collaboration, execution, tooling, and roadmap development designed to help members move faster and work more effectively together.
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Daniel Bar-Lev
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DSC Chair: Jason Wolfe
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TCC Co-Chair: Divesh Gupta
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CBC Co-Chair: Antonella Sanguineti
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LSO Co-Chair: Patrick Roosen
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State of the Alliance and Voice of the Members
10:40
Expanding the Mplify Ecosystem Part 1 – New Member Rapid Intros: Cross-section
Meet new members joining the Mplify ecosystem and hear how their organizations are contributing to the future of AI-ready connectivity, automation, and interoperable digital infrastructure.
10:55
Expanding the Mplify Ecosystem Part 2 – New Member Rapid Intros: Automating Internet Exchanges with LSO
Internet Exchanges are playing an increasingly important role in automated, AI-driven connectivity. This discussion explores how organizations are applying LSO APIs and automation frameworks to improve coordination, interconnection, and operational efficiency across exchange environments.
11:20
State of the Alliance – Fireside Chat
Mplify leadership shares perspectives on alliance growth, strategic priorities, industry momentum, and the opportunities ahead as AI continues reshaping connectivity and digital infrastructure requirements.
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Daniele Mancuso
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Franck Morales
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11:45
Voice of the Members – Open Audience Discussion
An interactive discussion where members share perspectives, priorities, and implementation challenges directly with Mplify leadership. The session is designed to encourage open dialogue around what the industry needs next and where the alliance should focus moving forward.
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Daniele Mancuso
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Franck Morales
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Daniel Bar-Lev
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Pascal Menezes
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Kevin Vachon
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Sunil Khandekar
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Defining the AI-Ready NaaS Infrastructure
13:30
Demonstration | Automating Overlay and Internet Branch Networks
This session explores how automation is transforming overlay and internet-based branch networking to support evolving enterprise connectivity requirements. Vodafone Business will share insights into enterprise WAN priorities and demonstrate how automated SD-WAN, SASE, and internet access services are evolving toward AI-ready network environments. The session also includes a live portal demo highlighting simplified digital customer experience and network management capabilities.
13:45
Leadership Insights | Winning the AI Arms Race
In a world where the global AI “arms race” is shifting focus from AI training to real-time AI inferencing at the edge, the network plays a critical role. Verizon Business Chief Product Officer Scott Lawrence shares how Edge AI is not merely a technical layer, but a business imperative for autonomous operations, enhanced security, and cost-effectiveness.
14:00
Demonstration | Post Quantum Cyber Security
As AI workloads drive unprecedented movement of sensitive data across edge, cloud, and data center environments, enterprises increasingly require secure, future-ready connectivity. This session showcases RAD’s Encrypted NaaS demo featuring quantum-safe MACsec and hybrid key distribution, demonstrating how service providers can deliver scalable, standards-based, enterprise-ready secure NaaS services.
14:15
Leadership Insights | A Tale of a Global Carrier in the AI Age: A 100-year perspective on resilience and trusted ecosystems
We are moving more data than at any point in history, yet the value of moving it has never been smaller. In a world where AI agents negotiate at machine speed, where trust is becoming an infrastructure property, and where the next operating model for our industry is still being written, what is a global carrier actually for?
14:30
User Story | Trusted Agentic Ordering for AI-Ready NaaS: From STLS-AI Trust Fabric to Secure A2A/MCP Workflows
Sparkle will present its secure agentic ordering user story, demonstrating how AI agents can support quote-to-order workflows across telecom domains while preserving trust, confidentiality, auditability, and provider control. The session explores how secure A2A/MCP interactions and STLS-AI create a trusted communication layer for autonomous, multi-domain NaaS operations, bridging today’s API-driven ordering processes with future AI-native service coordination.
14:45
Leadership Insights | Dynamic Networks – Real-Time Networks for the Agentic AI Era
Delivering NaaS for AI – Automating the Ecosystem
15:20
Leadership Insights | What Gen Z on TikTok Can Teach Us About AI Networking
David Shacochis has a history of using music as a mirror for the networking industry — from Taylor Swift’s eras to Bob Dylan’s electric turn — and this year he turns to TikTok, where four Gen Z artists have inverted the music industry’s core assumptions about access, composition, modernization, and identity. The same inversions are now reshaping enterprise networking in the age of AI, where workloads are the new audience and AI agents are the new creators.
15:35
Demonstration | Beyond Portals: AI Agents as the New Enterprise Interface
PCCW Global presents the industry’s first real‑world proof of concept for Agentic AI + MCP, showcasing how natural‑language automation can transform telecom operations. In this demo, AI Agents use the MCP Server to execute standardized LSO Quote and Order workflows — converting plain English requests into real network actions like address validation, quoting, ordering, and inventory checks.
15:50
Leadership Insights | Intelligent Interconnection – How AI Transforms Global WAN Connectivity
What happens when AI meets Carrier Ethernet, open APIs and global interconnection? This session explores how the next phase of WAN evolution is emerging: from standardized connectivity to intelligent, multi-carrier orchestration. Using an Equinix-led global carrier interconnection model as an example, we will show how AI and MCP-based integration can help translate between network capabilities, automate service delivery and unlock a more seamless global Ethernet experience.
16:05
User Story | Building an Interoperable AI Agent Ecosystem for NaaS
NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS will share its approach to building a reusable AI agent ecosystem to support scalable, AI-ready NaaS operations. The session explores how interoperable agents, A2A-based collaboration, and MCP-enabled access to NaaS APIs can reduce duplication, improve operational intelligence, and create a standardized foundation for future AI-driven network automation.
16:20
Demonstration | Intelligent B2B2X Automation: The Foundation of NaaS LSO Ecosystems
In the session we’ll explain why multi-provider, multi-service LSO ecosystem requires intelligent B2B2X automation. We will also present how Customers Experience can be improved through AI Agents and use of MCP Servers.
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Michael Kearns
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Dominik Pacewicz
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16:35
Demonstration | Monetizing Distributed AI
AI is rapidly distributing to where power and users are. With AI everywhere, no one provider can connect it all alone. MaiaEdge enables providers to capitalize on fragmenting AI infrastructure with programmable private Ethernet connectivity across multi-provider domains, over any available transport. Reach beyond your network edge, discover partner providers, and monetize existing capacity, while ensuring customer data remains sovereign and secure.
16:50
Analyst Perspectives
Mplify works closely with industry analysts tracking the evolution of NaaS, AI infrastructure, and automation. This interactive discussion gives attendees the opportunity to hear independent perspectives and candid reactions to the day’s conversations, strategic priorities, and emerging industry direction.
17:25
Day1 Closing Remarks and Day 2 Profile
Mplify Views
Mplify Views is a series of review sessions examining where Mplify’s key technology programs stand today and what comes next. From autonomous network operations to AI-ready infrastructure and multi-operator federation, the program moves beyond strategy into practical implementation discussions shaping the year ahead.
Structured as interactive working sessions, Mplify Views brings members together for deeper dialogue around federation, AI infrastructure, automation, and orchestration. Led by committee leaders and ecosystem contributors, each session encourages practical discussion, shared perspectives, and active member engagement.
9:00
Opening Remarks
The day opens with a welcome and overview of the discussions ahead, setting the stage for a highly interactive program focused on member engagement, open dialogue, and practical implementation conversations around NaaS for AI and agentic orchestration.
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Daniel Bar-Lev
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9:10
NaaS Federation
Building the Foundations of Federated NaaS: Standards, Interoperability, and Trust
As Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) evolves beyond single-provider environments, federation is becoming foundational to scalable, AI-ready service delivery. This working session explores how providers can coordinate services and operations across domains while maintaining interoperability, trust, and operational consistency.
The discussion examines the building blocks required to support federated ecosystems, including supply chain coordination, cross-domain interoperability, standardized APIs, and certification frameworks. Participants will explore how federation models are evolving to support dynamic interconnection, automated service coordination, and multi-provider assurance.
Focused on practical implementation rather than formal presentations, the session encourages open dialogue around operational gaps, governance considerations, deployment realities, and the standards work still needed to support large-scale federated NaaS delivery.
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SESSION LEAD: Isabella Melli
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10:15
NaaS for AI
Network as a Service for AI Workloads
AI workloads are rapidly changing how networks are designed, consumed, and monetized. This session explores the infrastructure and operational requirements emerging as providers support distributed AI environments spanning data centers, campuses, cloud environments, and edge locations.
Topics include connectivity requirements for training and inference workloads, deterministic transport and performance assurance, and the evolving role of Carrier Ethernet, wavelengths, and interconnect infrastructure in supporting AI traffic flows. Participants will also examine AI campus integration and cross-connect automation.
Bringing together perspectives from across the ecosystem, the discussion explores deployment challenges, operational priorities, and the capabilities providers must develop as AI adoption accelerates.
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SESSION LEAD: Abilash Menon
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11:40
Agentic LSO
Blueprint, Architecture and Trusted Agents
Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) is entering a new phase as AI agents begin interacting directly with network systems, orchestration platforms, and operational workflows. This session explores how agentic orchestration models are reshaping service delivery and what architectural and operational foundations are required to support them at scale.
The discussion examines emerging approaches to AI-driven orchestration, including agent coordination models, blueprint architectures, MCP-based interaction frameworks, trusted agent environments, and deterministic APIs enabling machine-to-machine operational collaboration. Participants will also explore how governance, auditability, identity, and policy controls become increasingly important as AI systems take on greater operational responsibility.
Members will share perspectives, implementation priorities, operational concerns, and real-world use cases as the industry begins defining practical frameworks for agentic automation and AI-enabled orchestration.
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SESSION LEAD: Michal Łączyński
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12:45
Closing Remarks
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Kevin Vachon
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