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Partnering for the AI Era: Building Modern Enterprise Networks Together

ROUNDTABLE
18 March 2026 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm BST
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What’s really holding your AI ambitions back: your models or your network?

Enterprises are accelerating AI and data-driven innovation, but many still struggle with outdated, fragmented, or bandwidth-strained infrastructure that can’t support real-time workloads. As organizations push into multi-cloud, automation, and distributed architectures, performance bottlenecks, latency challenges, and security gaps limit their ability to scale. Leaders are also wrestling with legacy systems that restrict agility, make integration difficult, and undermine visibility across increasingly complex environments.

This conversation explores how modern, cloud-agnostic network architectures can unlock performance, resilience, and governance at scale. We’ll examine how to future-proof connectivity for AI-era demands, from bandwidth optimization and low-latency routing to unified observability, zero-trust principles, and edge-to-core integration. The discussion will highlight how the right infrastructure foundation simplifies multi-cloud operations, strengthens data security, enhances interoperability, and enables organizations to maximize AI’s value.

Join Lumen and a select group of your peers as we discuss how modern networking accelerates AI adoption, why infrastructure intelligence is quickly becoming a competitive differentiator, and how future-ready connectivity strategies can reduce risk while unlocking new opportunities for growth.

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Discussion Topics

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How AI is outpacing legacy infrastructure and exposing every bottleneck

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Modern, cloud-agnostic networks to scale AI

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Future-ready connectivity as a competitive edge, not an IT upgrade

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