Guy Daniels, TelecomTV (00:09):
Welcome to the Great Telco Debate 2025. We have got five debates as usual.

Warren Bayek, Wind River (00:18):
AI is becoming physical. That means intelligence is no longer centralized only in data centers. It's moving outward.

Neil McRae, HPE (00:27):
The time to move to fully autonomous networks is now. The AI supercycle will actually be the one which generates the next wave of opportunities.

Nathan Rader, Deutsche Telekom (00:35):
It's not that one single telco will be able to monetize these APIs all by itself. We need to work together as a group.

Chris Lewis, Lewis Insight (00:43):
It's not just about providing connectivity, it's what people are doing with that connectivity.

Anita Döhler, NGMN Alliance (00:47):
Network operations need to be simplified clearly, and therefore, of course, a 5G standalone is paving the way for the future.

Andy Linham, Vodafone Group (00:58):
The thing that I love the most, right? The thing that really makes me smile is that at least half of those training workloads are that proper bleeding edge capability. At least half of it is running across ultra ethernet.

Fran Heeran, Red Hat (01:09):
So we're seeing essentially AI becoming a set of questions, which is, do I have the right infrastructure for the right application in the right location?

Lasha Tabidze, VEON (01:17):
We are moving to value creation, which will be less in margins, but which will be really changing how the operations are happening within the countries.

Itsuma Tanaka, Docomo Euro Labs (01:26):
Let's try to find the new degenerational pressure point where cloud-native economics and operator capability finally click.

Guy Daniels, TelecomTV (01:38):
The unique aspect and feature of the great telco debate is we have motions for you to consider and then to vote on.

Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analaysis (01:45):
I really like the sort of post-digital analog voting mechanism where everyone holds up the sort of green or red panels to say whether they support the motion or not.

Richard Card, SUSE (01:59):
One of the things that I found really interesting was just how pointed and direct the vendors are to the customers and the customers are to the vendors.

Iain Milligan, VodafoneThree (02:06):
I actually enjoy... It's a technical to technical community conversation about solving problems, which is a lot more refreshing.

Prashant Agarwal, Intel Corporation (02:12):
It's very open. You can be fun and it can be different things. So it's really a good experience in both ways.