A discussion on how agentic AI and shared guidelines are scaling AI native networks across markets. Drawing on DT’s implementation experience, we highlight partner collaboration and contributions to industry standards while calling on the ecosystem to embrace interoperability.

Explore how agentic AI and shared guidelines are scaling AI-native networks, with Deutsche Telekom’s experience, partner collaboration, and a call for industry-wide interoperability.

Matt Sanchez is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, watsonx Orchestrate at IBM, where he leads the product and technology strategy for watsonx Orchestrate, IBM’s platform building, managing and scaling AI agents that automate real business work. A trailblazer in enterprise AI, Matt is driving the next generation of intelligent workflows — helping global organizations reimagine how work gets done through agentic AI technologies.
With a track record as a successful entrepreneur and CTO, Matt has scaled AI-powered platforms across telecom, fintech, and healthcare, raised over $100M in venture capital, and delivered transformative products that sit at the intersection of automation, AI, and user experience. He has spoken globally on the future of work, responsible AI, and the evolution of agent-based systems in the enterprise.
Matt brings a rare blend of technical depth, product intuition, and strategic vision — shaping how businesses harness AI to unlock productivity and human potential at scale.

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Matt Sanchez

Vice President & CTO, IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Outmane Laaroussi is the AI for Network Tribe Lead at Deutsche Telekom, where he drives key initiatives to advance AI-powered transformation across network engineering and operations. With an engineering degree and a background in business administration, he brings over 20 years of global experience in the telecommunications industry, having worked with operators and vendors across multiple markets.
Passionate about the transformative power of AI, Outmane leads major initiatives in Autonomous Networks and Agentic AI, contributing to architecture and strategic direction while building and scaling innovative AI-driven use cases across network teams. His work focuses on embedding intelligence into the network to enhance automation, resilience, and performance at scale.

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Outmane Laaroussi

Tribe Lead AI for Networks, Deutsche Telekom AG

UK-based Ray was appointed Editorial Director at TelecomTV in April 2020. He has been an editor and journalist covering the telecoms sector for more than 25 years, and has been reporting on telco cloud and virtualisation developments for more than a decade.

Ray Le Maistre

Ray le Maistre

Tunc Yorulmaz is a Senior Managing Director and Accenture Networks Global Lead with over 25 years of experience across telecommunications and high-tech, spanning vendors, operators, and integrators. He has held senior executive roles at Ericsson (US and Middle East), Turk Telekom, Accenture, and Itochu. In the US, he led Core Network and Business Transformation sales at Ericsson’s largest client, developing capabilities in virtualization (SDN), automation, and IoT. As EVP at Ericsson Middle East, he managed operations across 28 countries, driving USD 2.9B annual sales and leading a globally recognized top-performing sales organization.

At Turk Telekom, he established the Strategy and Business Development function and led transformation initiatives post-privatization toward IPO readiness. He also built Accenture’s Communications business in Turkey and founded Itochu’s first corporate venture capital fund focused on foreign high-tech investments. Tunc is a proven sales leader and transformation driver with strong financial acumen, holding an MBA in International Management and degrees in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Military Sciences.

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Tunc Yorulmaz

Senior Managing Director, Global Lead Cloud First Networks

Scaling Agentic AI to build AI Native networks

Discover how Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud are accelerating the path to autonomous networks with agentic AI at scale. From the RAN Guardian Agent’s journey from concept to live deployment in just nine months, this session shares real-world learnings, measurable CX impact, and what it takes to move from experimentation to production. Building on the proven success of RAN Guardian, MINDR elevates agentic AI from domain-level optimization to service-level intelligence, enabling more proactive, resilient, and self-healing telco operations. Powered by the industry-leading partnership between Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud, MINDR combines deep telecom expertise with cutting-edge AI technology: the next step towards autonomous self-healing networks.

Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud advance autonomous networks with AI. RAN Guardian's quick deployment and MINDR's service intelligence pave the way for resilient, self-healing telco operations.

Ahmed is currently the SVP Network Strategy and Data & AI at Deutsche Telekom, overseeing end-to-end network strategy and leading Data and AI in networks besides special projects focused on converged "network and security" products & services, Wi-Fi sensing and AI for Networks. With over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, he has held various roles spanning strategy, network architecture, solution design, technology investments prioritization, AI and product development.
Obtained his Electronics and communications Bachelor in 2000 and finished his MBA in 2011 from Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.

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Ahmed Hafez

SVP Network Strategy and Data & AI in Networks, Deutsche Telekom

Muninder is responsible for setting the strategy, vision and investment strategy for Google Cloud Networking and Network Security products. Muninder carries over 25+ years of leadership experience in product management and engineering across Cloud, Security and Networking. He has a proven track record for building next generation security, networking and as-a-service software products that have generated billions of dollars in revenue. A technical leader adept at managing product transitions, leading cross-functional, global product management teams, and outbound marketing teams. Muninder holds an Electronics and Communication degree and an MBA. He holds 8+ US patents in networking and security.

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Muninder Singh Sambi 

Vice President of Product Management for Networking, Google Cloud

Ray le Maistre

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Scaling Agentic AI to build AI Native networks

Scaling Agentic AI for Self-Healing, Autonomous Networks