Chair: Shengfan Hou, Senior Manager, Catalyst Development, TM Forum

14:00 – 14:05
Accelerating innovation

14:05 – 14:20    
Ethical AI
Ensuring AI-driven decisions are fair and free from harmful bias and are designed to respect our privacy, security, and fundamental rights
Presenters
Chris Thornton, Telecoms Partner Ecosystem Development Leader, Red Hat
Naman Gupta, Telecoms Partner Ecosystem Development Leader, Red Hat

14:25 – 14:40   
The Metaverse experience: Re-inventing telco business – Phase II
The advent of Metaverse translates into opportunities and challenges for Telcos to create deep levels of meaningful personalization in customer experience, which will help build a customer-centric approach for sustainable business
Presenters
Mingying Zhu, Catalyst Project Lead and Senior System Architect, China Telecom
Jun Zhu, Catalyst Technical lead and Product Director, AsiaInfo Technologies
Fei Zhao, Catalyst Marketing Lead and Product Operation Manager, AsiaInfo Technologies

14:45 – 15:00
Digital Twin towards highly autonomous networks
Enabling a highly autonomous network beyond L4 using an efficient collaboration mechanism to integrate the industry’s best digital twin capabilities and solutions
Presenter
Lexun Wang, Marketing Manager, Huawei

15:05 – 15:20    
Translating customer needs into service and network intent- Phase II
Managing the lifecycle of a 5G network slice through its expressed business intent
Presenters
Takuya Kato, Core Researcher, Operation Laboratory, Network Division, Advanced Technology Laboratories, KDDI Research, Inc.
Malla Poikela, Portfolio Marketing Manager, Nokia
Martin Vieth, Solution Architect Lead, Nokia
Kshitij Shivani, Distinguished Solution Engineer, Salesforce