Sanas and Mavenir on bringing voice AI into the telco network
By Tony Poulos
Oct 2, 2026
Shawn Zhang, Sanas & Nilesh Parikh, Mavenir
Shawn Zhang, CTO of Sanas, and Nilesh Parikh, SVP AI & strategic growth at Mavenir, discuss why voice AI is becoming a major opportunity for operators, what the Mavenir-Sanas partnership brings to the market, why the mobile core is critical to delivering voice AI natively with sovereignty and low latency, the shift from cloud back to on-prem processing, how in-call automation could allow subscribers to complete tasks mid-conversation, and much more.
Featuring:
- Nilesh Parikh, SVP, AI & Strategic Growth, Mavenir
- Shawn Zhang, CTO, Sanas
Recorded September 2026