Roundtable

From Pilot to Production: Governing AI at Telco Speed

October 2, 2026 11:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
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AI is moving rapidly from experimentation into production across telecommunications, but governance is struggling to keep pace. AI pilots continue to stall as organizations grapple with unclear success criteria, fragmented ownership, legacy infrastructure, and regulatory requirements spanning customer data, billing, communications, and critical networks. With the CIO owning platforms, business leaders owning outcomes, and compliance owning risk, the challenge is creating enough control to satisfy regulators and the board without turning governance into a barrier to innovation.

Leading organizations are shifting toward practical, centralized governance frameworks that give engineering teams clear guardrails for model selection, data access, evaluation, and monitoring. This means establishing clearer accountability across the AI lifecycle, embedding compliance into development rather than adding it at the end, and modernizing the underlying technology needed to support governable AI at scale. As autonomous agents become more prevalent, organizations must also rethink governance around orchestration, tool access, human oversight, and the actions AI systems are permitted to take.

Join AWS and a select group of your peers to explore how telecommunications leaders are building production-ready AI governance that balances speed, control, and regulatory confidence. Executives will discuss how to accelerate AI from prototype to production, establish clear ownership and accountability across the enterprise, and create governance frameworks capable of evolving alongside AI, regulation, and increasingly autonomous systems.

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Speakers &
Featured Attendees

Vara Prasad Talari

Principal Technologist & 6G Program Manager for Telco Agentic AI
Vara Prasad Talari is a Principal Technologist and 6G Program Manager for Telco Agentic AI at AWS find out more

Discussion Topics

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From AI Pilot to Production:

Building governance frameworks that give engineering teams clear guardrails while accelerating AI from experimentation into regulated, production-ready environments.

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Governance, Compliance & Accountability:

Establishing clear ownership across technology, business, and compliance while managing model selection, data access, monitoring, and evolving telco regulations.

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Governing the Agentic Enterprise:

Preparing for autonomous AI with stronger controls around agent orchestration, tool access, human oversight, and AI-driven actions across customer and network environments.

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