Fierce Network Research Virtual Summit: 

AI and the Network

June 3-4, 2025 | Free Virtual Event

Fierce Network Research Virtual Summit — AI and the Network

About AI and the Network

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as fundamental to network and business operations across the communications service provider and enterprise landscapes. AI is not only improving customer experience, but when it comes to CSPs, it’s also powering transformative technologies such as real-time network optimization and autonomous networks. In the wireless realm, AI promises advances in the radio access network with AI-RAN; and in 6G where big vendors like Nvidia, Cisco, MITRE and Booz Allen, among others, are already working together to build out an AI-native 6G network. To make AI worth its while, CSPs are under unprecedented pressure to deliver high-volume, low-latency data flows – which means demand for data centers to process all this information is skyrocketing. Data center construction, networking, GPUs and cooling technologies are the name of the game today. Fierce Network Research’s AI and the Network virtual summit examines how operators are rearchitecting networks to support AI’s rigorous requirements and what operators need to know to be ready for the changes ahead. Join industry leaders as they discuss AI’s impact on data centers, network operations, the network edge and more.

Speakers will address topics, including:

  • AI Factories
  • Data centers
  • Inferencing
  • Edge Networks
  • 6G
  • Intelligent automation

AGENDA

Tuesday, June 3 

11:00 AM ET – FIRESIDE CHAT: AI and the Network: Muninder Sambi, Vice President of Product Management for Networking, Google Cloud, and Diana Goovaerts, Executive Editor, Fierce Network​

11:20 AM ET – KEYNOTE: Building a New AI Supply Chain: From AI Factories to Your End Customer: Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer, Vultr​

11:40 AM ET – PANEL: AI factories: The Hot New Real Estate​
Moderator: Mitch Wagner, Chief Analyst, Fierce Network Research​
Panelists: Jack Gold, President and Principal Analyst, J. Gold Associates, LLC​
Robin Kuepers, Director of Solutions, Product and Solutions Group, EMEA, Supermicro​
Joao Kluck Gomes, Senior Director, Global Business Development, Nvidia​

12:30 PM ET -- KEYNOTE: Redefining the Economics of AI Factories: Robin Kuepers, Director of Solutions, Product and Solutions Group, EMEA, Supermicro​

1:00 PM ET – FIRESIDE CHAT: Architecting the Network for AI: Dave Ward, Chief Technology and Product Officer, Lumen, and Diana Goovaerts, Executive Editor, Fierce Network​

1:20 PM ET – PANEL: Architecting the Mobile Network for an AI future​
Moderator: Monica Alleven, Executive Editor, Fierce Wireless​
Panelists: Peter Adderton, CEO, MobileX​
Sylwia Kechiche, Senior Director, Industry Analysis, OpenSignal​
Alan Jones, Chief Network Officer, C Spire

Wednesday, June 4​

11:00 AM ET – FIRESIDE CHAT: AI Ops and serving large enterprise customers: Indrani Deb, Senior Director, Technology Solutions, Verizon Business and Elizabeth Coyne, Editor-in-Chief, Fierce Network                  ​

11:20 AM ET – Partner Keynote: You Can’t AI What you Can’t See: Illuminating the Path to a Level 4 Autonomous Network : Kailem Anderson, Vice President, Global Products & Delivery, Blue Planet​

11:40 AM ET – PANEL: Intelligent automation: Making the network smarter with AI​
Moderator: Elizabeth Coyne, Editor-in-Chief, Fierce Network​
Panelists: Indrani Deb, Senior Director, Technology Solutions, Verizon Business​
Kailem Anderson, Vice President, Global Products & Delivery, Blue Planet  ​

1:40 PM ET – PANEL: Making AI work at the edge in the age of inferencing​

Moderator: Diana Goovaerts, Executive Editor, Fierce Network​

Panelists: Bill Long, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Zayo​, Roy Chua, Principal, AvidThink​, Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer, Vultr​

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