AWS studio sessions

Join us for the AWS Studio Session, where network operators and partners come together to explore future trends, innovation projects, and best practice on use cases that drive meaningful impact in the industry.

AWS studio

In the AWS studio at MWC 2025 we are bringing telecom operators and partners together to discuss future trends, innovation projects and best practice on use cases that drive meaningful impact in the industry.

All videos will be made available after MWC25

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AWS studio schedule - Day 1

Date	Time	Session Title	Speaker & Company
Mon, 3 Mar	10:00 - 10:30	From B2C to xVNE: How SaaS & Cloud Are Reshaping Telecom Economics	Sean Casey, Senior Vice President, Product Management, CSG
Mon, 3 Mar	12:00 - 12:30	Modernizing Mainframe Applications for OSS/BSS Systems	Riki Efraim-Lederman, President, Amdocs Studios Namrata Sharma, Worldwide Leader - Mainframe Modernization Partner GTM, AWS
Mon, 3 Mar	13:30 - 14:00	Going Digital at Scale: LLA's AWS Transformation Drives 25% of Revenue Through Online Channels	Dragana Linfield, Senior Director, LLA
Mon, 3 Mar	14:30 - 15:00	Telcos Mobilizing Enterprise Customers to Monetize Experiential Commerce	Abhi Sur, Sr. Director, Product Management & Strategy, Communications Industry, Salesforce Amanveer Singh, Principal Solutions Architect, Telco, AWS Robert Belson, AWS
Mon, 3 Mar	15:00 - 15:30	Achieving New Levels of Business Agility with Qvantel Flex BSS and AWS	Nuño Adams, Prepaid Business Unit Director, MasOrange Flaviano Gonzalez, VP, European Region, Qvantel
Mon, 3 Mar	15:30 - 16:00	Innovation at the Edge: How AWS, Verizon and the NHL are changing the game	Scott Lawrence, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Verizon
Mon, 3 Mar	16:00 - 16:30	BT network transformation with Generative AI	Reza Rahnama, Managing Director Mobile Networks, BT Ajay Ravindranathan, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Mon, 3 Mar	18:00 - 18:30	Nokia Cloud native 5G Network on AWS	Umer Chaudhary, Head of Telco Core Product Management, AWS Vishal Singh, SVP Global Business Cloud and Network Services at Nokia Robert Belson, AWS
		More sessions to be announced!

AWS studio schedule - Day 2

Date	Time	Session Title	Speaker & Company
Tue, 4 Mar	09:00 - 09:30	Advancing Mainframe modernization with GenAI	Rob Pinkham, Senior Managing Director - Global Mainframe Modernization Leader, Accenture Namrata Sharma, Worldwide Leader - Mainframe Modernization Partner GTM, AWS
Tue, 4 Mar	10:00 - 10:30	Taking out the legacy cost of voice and why to start your cloud journey with IMS	David Bachman, CEO, ng-voice Michael Steiger, Managing Director & Partner, BCG Robert Belson, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
Tue, 4 Mar	10:30 - 11:00	Managed integrations for smart home: powered by AWS IoT	Dwayne Benefield, CPO, TELUS Richard Barry, Head of IoT Tech Strategy, AWS Chivas Nambiar, General Manager, AWS for Telecom
Tue, 4 Mar	11:00 - 11:30	Embracing innovation to unlock new telco revenue streams	Vivek Srivastava, Head of Customer Engagement, Circles Aditya Goyal, CEO, Circles Jetpac Debbie Tsang, Account Manager, AWS Charlotte Kan – Editorial Contributor, TelecomTV
Tue, 4 Mar	11:30 - 12:00	Network Personalization: AWS Generative AI on Intel, from Cloud to Edge	Alex White, Technical Specialist, Intel
Tue, 4 Mar	12:30 - 13:00	Delivering Euro 2024 to 70MM Fans at Deutsche Telekom - Zero downtime with AWS	Mamta Bharti, VP Digital Omnichannel Transformation, Deutsche Telekom Sumit Bhardwaj, Sr TAM, AWS
Tue, 4 Mar	13:00 - 13:30	Deutsche Telekom's Path to 2030 with AWS' Multi-tenant Transformation	Mamta Bharti, VP Digital Omnichannel Transformation, Deutsche Telekom Akash Narayanan, Principal CSM, AWS
Tue, 4 Mar	13:30 - 14:00	Telefonica making Network of the Future a reality with AWS	Matthias Sauder, VP Networks, Telefonica Germany Umer Chaudhary, Head of Telco Product Management, AWS Robert Belson, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
Tue, 4 Mar	14:00 - 14:30	Unlocking Business Value with GenAI: Identifying and Proving the Right Use Case	Braden St. John, Vice President, Products, Marketing & Logistics, Telus Wolfgang Sixl, VP Strategy, Analytics & Client Solutions, MCE Ross McWalter, Head of Business Development, AWS for Telecom
Tue, 4 Mar	14:30 - 15:00	Supercharging customer experience at VMO2	Derek Melvin, Managing Director, Accenture Alan Stott, Director Customer Contact, VMO2
Tue, 4 Mar	16:00 - 16:30	Network digital Twin as a Graph for Network Ops	Keisuke Suzuki, Director, Network Service Management, NTT DOCOMO Imen Grida Ben Yahya, Principal SA, Telco, AWS
Tue, 4 Mar	16:30 - 17:00	5G Slicing Powered by AWS	Aayush Bhatnagar - President, Reliance Jio
Tue, 4 Mar	17:00 - 17:30	Telefonica aging in place: transforming elder care with AWS and Smart Home Technology	Leonor Ostos, Head of Innovation, Telefonica Spain Jose Luis Cerrada, CTO Altostratus, part of Telefonica Tech, Carlos Fernandez Casares, Telco Edge SAM, AWS,
		More sessions to be announced!

AWS studio schedule - Day 3

Date	Time	Session Title	Spekaer & Company
Wed, 5 Mar	09:30 - 10:00	Network operations powered by network digital twin as a graph and generative AI	Alexandra Reichl, VP Mobile and Network API, Liberty Global Koert Vlaeminck, Head of network operations, Telenet Bruno Silva Santos, Executive Director, Celfocus Imen Grida Ben Yahya, Principle SA, AI/ML, AWS Praveen Sinha, Senior Solutions Architect, Telecom, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	10:00 - 10:30	Enabling the era of digital brand management on AWS	Stephanie Ormston, Assistant Vice President, MVNx Ecosystem, AT&T Adil Belihomji, CTO, Oxio Aymen Saidi, Principal Solutions Architect, Data & AI, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	10:30 - 11:00	Unlocking Financial transformation through connectivity services	Mario Orphanou, Sr. Director, Head of Product - Messaging & Federation, Symphony Angela Lim, Chief Growth Officer, Oxio Aymen Saidi, Principal Solutions Architect, Data & AI, AWS Dafna Yanay, Lead Strategic Initiatives Business Development, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	11:00 - 11:30	Power of Gen AI & Telco Network - Innovation at Woodside	Jon Young Flores, Commercial & Solutioning Group Executive, Telstra
Wed, 5 Mar	11:30 - 12:00	ODP Partners with AWS to build state-of-the-art National Arabic LLM - Revolutionizing AI in Oman	Eng. Maqbool Al Wahaibi, CEO, Oman Data Park, Gouthami Gurram, Sr. ProServe Cloud Architect, AWS Hesham Zaki, Head of Telco BD MEA-, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	12:30 - 13:00	CloudRAN Innovation: Nokia, AWS, and Orange Collaboration for Next-Gen Networks	Elisabeth Py - VP Green & Radio Networks, Orange Aji Ed - VP Head of Cloud RAN, Nokia Amir Rao - Director Product Management, Telco/5G, EC2 Edge, AWS Robert Belson, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	13:00 - 13:30	Leveraging AI to breathe life into legacy BSS applications	Danielle Rios, Acting CEO, Totogi Michael Walker, Former CMO, SmythOS
Wed, 5 Mar	14:00 - 14:30	Shaping the future of digital communications through AI & cloud: Reliable, trusted & personalized communications	Christophe Van de Weyer, CEO Telesign - Chief Product Officer (CPO) PXS Global Ievgen Martsin, BICS, Head of Product Digitalization and Cloud Adoption Gordana Djankovic, Telesign, VP AI & Data Science Catherine Van Aken, Global Sales Head, AWS,
Wed, 5 Mar	15:00 - 15:30	Driving success in telecommunications with DevSecOps	Emilio Salvador, VP of Strategy and Developer Relations, GitLab
Wed, 5 Mar	15:30 - 16:00	AI-Powered Digital Experience Revolution	Dragana Linfield, Sr. Director, Technology Strategist & Advisor to Senior Leadership Team, LLA, Carla Gonzalez, Head of Digital Product, IT & CH, AT&T Mexico Antonello Arpino, Head of Operations Simplified, AWS Telco Business Unit Dafna Yanay, Principal BD, Strategic Initiatives, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	16:30 - 17:00	Transforming Customer Service with Data, AI, and Amazon Connect	Johnny Chivers, EMEA AWS Technical Director, PwC Lori Driscoll, US and Global Head of TMT Advisory, PWC Chad Dendren, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Wed, 5 Mar	17:00 - 17:30	AWS and Nokia Pioneering Radio Access Networks of the Future	Ari Kynaslahti, CTO, VP, Strategy & Technology, Nokia Amir Rao, Director of Product Management for Telco, AWS, Robert Belson, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

AWS studio schedule - Day 4

Date	Time	Session Title	Speaker & Company
Thu, 6 Mar	08:00 - 09:00	Unlocking AWS Potential for Telco: Swisscom's Cloud-Powered Network Transformation Journey with AWS	Mark Düsener, CTIO, Swisscom
		More sessions to be announced!