DTW Ignite 2026: The Industry Is Moving Beyond AI Hype—And AXON Networks Is Ready
Three days in Copenhagen confirmed one thing: telecommunications has entered a new phase of AI adoption. Operators are no longer asking whether to deploy AI—they are asking how to operationalize it safely, at scale, and with measurable business outcomes. Across customer meetings, analyst discussions, and partner engagements, the same themes emerged repeatedly: AI-native network operations, real-time Digital Twins, Agentic AI, closed-loop automation, trusted operational data, and TM Forum AN-4 autonomous networks. One of the highlights of the event was AXON Networks’ presentation, “Grounding the Agent: Why Agentic Network Operations Start with Data, Not Models,” presented by CTO Siddhartha Dattagupta and CPO Kumar Vishwanathan. The session demonstrated that the real bottleneck to autonomous operations is not the AI model, but the fragmented operational data beneath it. AXON Networks showed how a real-time Digital Twin provides AI with trusted operational context, enabling observat...