Industry Events

Seattle is a city shaped by the same forces driving the next phase of telecom: cloud, AI, global connectivity, infrastructure, software, and scale. It is home to some of the world’s most influential technology companies, but it is also a working city built around ports, aviation, logistics, research, culture, and connection. That makes it a fitting place to bring the global telecom community together.

The following statement outlines MANTRA’s current interest in the upcoming IETF IVY Hackathon, the standardization gap it sees for IP domain inventory, and its continued alignment with TAPI as the target model for optical network inventory within the TIP MUST subgroup.

At Network X Americas, TIP hosted a Breakfast Briefing panel on AI for Telecom Networks in Practice, bringing together leaders from across the telecom ecosystem to discuss how operators can turn network data into practical, scalable intelligence.

In this episode of The Signal Boost, TIP’s Vishal Mathur speaks with Aible CEO Arijit Sengupta about why telcos may be uniquely positioned to coordinate the next wave of AI infrastructure, from agent-to-agent communications to intelligence across the core and edge.

TIP Executive Director Kristian Toivo moderated a panel on the path toward programmable and autonomous networks, bringing together a knowledgeable group of senior technologists from three of Europe's most advanced operators.