Your guide to the Telecommunications Industry Experience at Data and AI Summit 2026

Summary

Data + AI Summit 2026 presents a Telecommunications Industry Experience for operators responding to surging network traffic, regulatory pressure, cybersecurity threats, competition, and customer churn. The event, scheduled for June 15–18 in San Francisco, positions unified data and AI, governed workflows, and production use cases as the basis for operationalized, AI-native telecom models. Its June 17 Telecommunications Industry Forum features keynotes, presentations, and executive panels on customer experience, autonomous network operations, fraud prevention, secure agent deployment, and the return from modernizing legacy data warehouses. Breakout sessions cover automated metadata generation for Genie, conversational AI/BI, Lakeflow pipelines with Agent Bricks, and data exfiltration protection with egress monitoring. The industry lounge will demonstrate Model as a Service and agentic real-time decisioning, while the agenda emphasizes peer examples and architectural blueprints for scaling AI under telecom governance and compliance.

Context

Telecommunications operators are dealing with increasing network traffic, regulatory pressures, cybersecurity threats, market competition, and customer churn. The event addresses the industry’s shift from isolated AI experiments toward operationalized, AI-native operating models built on unified data and AI.

Approach / What changed

The program brings together a Telecommunications Industry Forum, telecom-focused breakout sessions, executive and peer discussions, and live demonstrations. Topics include governed conversational intelligence, automated metadata generation, Lakeflow pipelines, Agent Bricks, autonomous agents, data exfiltration protection, egress monitoring, Model as a Service, and real-time decisioning.

Takeaways

• The Telecommunications Industry Forum is scheduled for June 17 from 1:00–2:30 PM PT at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco and includes keynotes, presentations, and executive panels.
• Breakout sessions address metadata generation for Genie, natural-language AI/BI, Lakeflow and Agent Bricks, and security controls for agent data exfiltration and network egress.
• The industry lounge will show live demonstrations of Model as a Service and agentic real-time decisioning for enterprise use cases.

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