• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

Generative AI and ML in Networking: From Proof of Concept to Production

Moscone Center

Generative AI is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry, enhancing network operations and performance monitoring through capabilities like text, image, video, and code generation, as well as intelligent search and reasoning for autonomous agents. The outcomes from real-time data analysis, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, network planning and optimization based on physical layer measurements, when efficiently used by AI, can further aid to achieve the vision of network automation. These advancements boost efficiency and productivity in network operations. However, concerns around cost, performance, and data accessibility, as well as security, privacy, and compliance issues, complicate the deployment process.

This session invites participants to explore generative AI use cases in telecommunications and AI-enhanced performance monitoring, addressing obstacles in transitioning from proof of concept to production. We will focus on the following topics:

  • Generative AI in Telecom: Applications for network operations, digital twins, capacity planning, and other use cases.
  • AI-Enhanced Performance Monitoring: Real-time data analysis, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and network planning and optimization.
  • Performance Monitoring at Physical Layer: Novel methods for performance monitoring including power profile estimation with coherent signal processing, polarization sensing, distributed sensing or combinations thereof. 
  • Tools and Collaboration: Open-source models, generative AI techniques (e.g. RAG), inter-vendor applications, and partnerships between vendors, operators, and AI companies.
  • Data and Security: Data governance, security, privacy, and responsible AI & model evaluation.

First Session
Anurag Sharma, Google, USA
AIOps: The Autonomous Network Journey

Cen Wang, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
LLM-centric Transport Network Configuration Management Framework and Demonstration

Christopher Janz, Huawei, Canada
Operations Science and Automation in Optical Networks: From Machine Learning to Generative AI

Harish Arunachalam, Verizon, USA
Generative AI Risk

Imen Grida Ben Yahia, AWS, UK
Generative AI for Network Operations

Larry Zhou, ATT, USA
Generative AI applications in Telecom
    
Second Session    
Inwoong Kim, Fujitsu Network Communications, USA
Digital Twin Optical Networks Aided by DSP-based Longitudinal Power Profile Monitoring

Takeo Sasai, NTT, Japan
Digital Longitudinal Monitoring: Advanced Physical Layer Monitoring for Network Automation

Matheus Sena, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
Beyond Optical Layer Monitoring: Exploring the Full Potential of Coherent Signal Processing

Seb Savory, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Machine Learning Based Physical Layer Monitoring

Zhiping Jiang, Huawei Technologies, Canada
New Performance Monitoring Capabilities at Physical Layer

Ming-Fang Huang, NEC Laboratories, USA
Generative AI for Distributed Acoustic Sensing Event Classification in Telecom Networks