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Quick Talk: A TM Forum podcast

Tackling the latest telecom news with today's network and communications business leaders

Podcast · By TM Forum · English · Official site

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Sep 17, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    MTN Group CTIO on improving skills and margins (opens the original)

    Episode notes · Positive tone

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    Charles Molapisi, MTN's Group Executive for Technology and Information, discusses with TM Forum's Willie Stegmann the importance for technology leaders to focus on business outcomes. He outlines how MTN Group is using AI to reduce costs, improve customer experience and simplify operations, and notably in the mature, low-margin market of South Africa. In addition, he explains why MTN is the investing in software engineering hubs across Africa to develop local digital and AI skills and reduce reli

  2. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    Vodafone's El-Sayed on insourcing software development (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Inside Out , Mark Newman and Willie Stegmann speak with Vodafone Group CIO Ahmed El-Sayed about the transformation of the technology function in the AI era. Topics covered include how to bring AI across the entire software development lifecycle, people transformation and the changing roles of software engineers and architects, and building AI into customer journeys.

  3. Episode · Jul 13, 2026

    DTW26: AI moves to deployment at scale (opens the original)

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    TM Forum members at this year's DTW Ignite 2026 demonstrated many examples of how AI adoption and autonomy have entered a new phase of adoption. They also debated how to address the challenges of effecting organizational change and implementing trustworthy AI at scale, as you will hear in this summary. In keeping with the theme of AI deployment, TM Forum's AI agent, AIVA, drew on dozens of presentations and debates from the event to produce the summary. Meanwhile, Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice Presi

  4. Episode · Jul 13, 2026

    DTW26: AI moves to deployment at scale (opens the original)

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    TM Forum members at this year's DTW Ignite 2026 demonstrated many examples of how AI adoption and autonomy have entered a new phase of adoption. They also debated how to address the challenges of effecting organizational change and implementing trustworthy AI at scale, as you will hear in this summary. In keeping with the theme of AI deployment, TM Forum's AI agent, AIVA, drew on dozens of presentations and debates from the event to produce the summary. Meanwhile, Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice Presi

  5. Episode · Jul 9, 2026

    BT's Leukert on future IT skills (opens the original)

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    Peter Leukert, Chief Digital Officer at BT, discusses with TM Forum how an AI-native future depends of nurturing future skills and building strong foundations in data management, cybersecurity, testing and software engineering

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