Podcast | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous operations

DTW Ignite 2026: AI moves to deployment at scale

Aaron Boasman-Patel

13 Jul 2026

TM Forum members at this year's DTW Ignite 2026 demonstrated many examples of how AI and network autonomy have entered a new phase of adoption. They also debated how to address the challenges of effecting organizational change and implementing trustworthy AI at scale, as you will hear in this summary.

In keeping with the AI theme, TM Forum's AI agent, AIVA, drew on dozens of presentations and debates from the event to produce the roundup. While Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President Innovation, TM Forum is the 'human in the loop' providing the curation and narration.

Aaron Boasman-Patel

Vice President of AI, Customer Experience and Data, TM Forum

Aaron Boasman-Patel is the Vice President of AI, Customer Experience and Data at TM Forum. In this role, Aaron was responsible for setting up and is now leading the Forum’s AI collaboration program, as well as the established customer experience and data work.

Aaron has worked in the telecoms and associated industries for over twelve years. He graduated with an M.A. (Oxon) from the University of Oxford.