Dan Davis joins leaders from Microsoft, Google and Zayo to address Artificial Intelligence impact on US fiber networking
In 2023, the telecommunications sector witnessed the ballooning growth and awareness of artificial intelligence (AI). As terms such as “ChatGPT” became part of our everyday lexicon and major services such as Microsoft’s Bing began to incorporate it as part of their solutions, many of us have seen benefits that reinvigorated our ability to learn, generate content and uncover new insights.
In yesterday’s keynote presentation on the transformative power of AI, led by INCOMPAS CEO Chip Pickering, panelists explored how operators big and small leverage AI to streamline business, enhance the customer experience and cut costs. A reinvention of voice services, network panelists included Dan Davis (CEO, Arcadian Infracom), Rick Lievano (CTO, Microsoft Worldwide Telecommunications Industry), Bill Long (CPO, Zayo) and Kevin Shatzkamer (Managing Director, Google Engineering GCP Cloud AI & Industry Solutions).
“We overuse the word transformation sometimes,” said Pickering, “but a lot of what we’re talking about today has become so pervasive. AI has transformed many aspects of life, work and the operations and networks that connect us. It’s pretty remarkable to think it took 100 years to connect 100 million people on the telephone and 20-30 years alone to connect that many to wireless.
