Episode 19 – Big IT Meets Big Telecom, with Microsoft’s Rick Lievano

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Episode 19 - Big IT Meets Big Telecom, with Microsoft's Rick Lievano
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Historically seen as having unique challenges, telecom has now become an increasing focus of attention for giant IT players. We discuss how Microsoft has upped its activities in telecom.

Cloud continues to provoke fundamental change in telecom. Together with increasing software-ization, the landscape of the most prominent vendors in telecom continues to shift. Add in recent developments in AI, and a picture begins to emerge of an industry undergoing a complete revolution – with “Big IT” having a profound influence on the future of the industry.

In this episode Robert and John are joined by Rick Lievano, CTO for Worldwide Telecom Industry for Microsoft to get an inside view on how one of the most important technology companies in the world is driving the trend.

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