#109 Kearney's Shivani Parekh and Sarovar Agarwal on network resilience, MEF CEO Dario Betti on his regulatory predictions for 2024
CommsDay LiveShow Notes
In the first episode of CommsDay Live for 2024:We have an extended chat with Kearney partners Shivani Parekh from Chicago and Sarovar Agarwal from Melbourne from that consulting firm's telecom, media and technology practice on why network resilience is rising rapidly up the list of priorities for telco executives. And a hint: getting it right is as much about culture as technology.CommsDay chief editor Rohan Pearce joins us to look at the new Samsung AI-enabled handsets released this week which are making quite an impression.And finally, we are joined by London-based CEO of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, Dario Betti, who shares with us his top global regulatory predictions for 2024 including what is happening with privacy and identity.
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