In this session Deutsche Telekom Chief Product & Digital Officer Jon Abrahamson meets ElevenLabs CEO Mati for a fireside chat on the future of voice AI. From text-to-speech to real-time AI agents inside live telecom calls, they explore how voice is becoming the natural interface for AI—and how agents are turning telecom networks into platforms for intelligent interaction.
Join us for a forward-looking conversation on the role of voice in AI and what it takes to scale trusted AI experiences to millions of customers.


Join Deutsche Telekom's Jon Abrahamson and ElevenLabs CEO Mati as they discuss voice AI's future, exploring text-to-speech and real-time AI agents in telecom calls, revolutionizing intelligent interaction platforms.

Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the AI research and product company building audio tools for businesses, developers, and creators. The company’s two platforms span creative work for speech, music, and sound generation, and a platform for voice agents that listen, talk, and act. Before founding ElevenLabs, Mati worked at Palantir as a Deployment Strategist with Fortune 500 companies and governments, and at BlackRock, where he helped launch the Aladdin Wealth platform.

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Mati Staniszewski 

Jon Abrahamson 

Chief Product and Digital Officer, Deutsche Telekom

The Future of Voice

__Magenta AI at Scale. Human at Heart.__
At MWC 2026, Deutsche Telekom showcases Magenta AI in products, services and the network — secure, sovereign and human-centered. From AI-powered voice services and real-time authenticity verification to autonomous, self-healing networks and the Industrial AI Cloud, the company is redefining infrastructure for the age of Physical AI. Abdu Mudesir, Executive Board Member Product & Technology, hosts the keynote and welcomes Mati Staniszewski, CEO and Co-Founder of ElevenLabs, to the stage.

As Board Member for Product & Technology, Abdu is responsible for the technology strategy and its execution. He focuses on digital transformation, the impact of new technologies like AI on business models, our work and lives, product and technology innovation, as well as security and crisis management. Before joining the Board of Management, Abdu Mudesir was CTO of Deutsche Telekom AG, leading Technology Strategy, Architecture & Innovation, as well as Strategic Vendor Management. In addition, he was Managing Director of Technology for Telekom Germany. Prior to this, he served as SVP Services & Platforms and Group Chief Architect. He joined Deutsche Telekom in April 2018 from Huawei Technologies where he held the role as Vice President of 5G Europe. Abdu holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and completed the Executive Management Program at Stanford University in California.

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Abdu Mudesir

Member of the Board of Management Deutsche Telekom,  Product and Technology

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