The business value from cloud-native investments

Recorded for the Cloud-Native Telco Summit, this cross-industry panel discussion examines how operators can demonstrate measurable commercial returns from their cloud-native transformations. Panellists from Telstra, Swisscom, CTTC and Appledore Research discuss which cloud native-enabled monetisation opportunities are most realistic in the short term, from network APIs and public-safety applications to enterprise and private networks, how to balance long-term transformation against near-term financial pressure, and how to link cloud-native investments to meaningful business KPIs rather than counting containerised functions. They also take viewer questions on what 6G should learn from the 5G cloud-native journey and what success will look like by 2030.

Featuring:

• Ashan Senevirathne, Product Owner, Telstra
• Francis Haysom, Principal Analyst, Appledore Research
• Joel Studler, DevOps Engineer, Swisscom
• Ricard Vilalta, Convenor ETSI TC NET (Federated Network, Edge, Cloud and AI Technologies) & Research Director, CTTC

Broadcast Live: October 2026