About this episode

The episode discusses the new phase of AI adoption and the challenges of implementing trustworthy AI at scale, as summarized by TM Forum's AI agent AIVA and narrated by Aaron Boasman-Patel.

TM Forum members at this year's DTW Ignite 2026 demonstrated many examples of how AI adoption and autonomy have entered a new phase of adoption. They also debated how to address the challenges of effecting organizational change and implementing trustworthy AI at scale, as you will hear in this summary. In keeping with the theme of AI deployment, TM Forum's AI agent, AIVA, drew on dozens of presentations and debates from the event to produce the summary. Meanwhile, Aaron Boasman-Patel, Vice President Innovation, TM Forum is the 'human in the loop' providing the curation and narration.

People in this episode

Host: Aaron Boasman-Patel

Topics covered

• AI deployment
• organizational change
• trustworthy AI
• autonomy
• technology adoption

Keywords

• AI
• deployment
• TM Forum
• AIVA
• DTW Ignite 2026
• organizational change
• trustworthy AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TM Forum

Products: AIVA

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