Mastering the Agentic Era

Amol is the Chief Transformation Officer at Tech Mahindra, with a mandate covering enterprise-wide transformation strategy, with a particular focus on the communications industry vertical. His background spans three distinct vantage points on the telecom and AI infrastructure question: as a network architect and operator (BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, where he led global network services across the US, India, Singapore, and the UK), as a hyperscaler working with carriers at scale (Google Cloud, where he led the global communications service provider vertical), and as a carrier CTO responsible for deploying AI infrastructure in practice (Telenor). That combination of perspectives shapes how he approaches questions about where value is created and captured in an AI-native network architecture. At Telenor, where he served as Group CTO and EVP from 2023 to 2024, he led the operator's AI-first strategy and was directly involved in establishing one of the first sovereign AI factories launched by a European carrier, built in partnership with AWS and Nvidia. 

At Tech Mahindra he has continued to work on the practical side of agentic AI in telecom, including the Large Telco Model developed with Nvidia and deployed with O2 Telefónica in Germany, and a recent collaboration with Microsoft on an ontology-driven agentic platform for network operations. He has been a regular speaker at MWC Barcelona, Nvidia GTC, DSP Leaders Forum, and TM Forum events, and contributes to the Nvidia developer blog on agentic AI in telecom. Amol sits on the TM Forum Board of Directors and its Autonomous Networks Mission Board.