How to Use AI to Speed Telco Digital Transformation

Jason Hogg is a GM responsible for the Azure for Operators (AfO) AIOps program which includes Azure Operator Insights and Azure Operator Service Manager. Prior to AfO Jason lead the creation of the Azure Data Lake Storage platform and Azure Media Services’ AI based Video Analytics service. Jason has 30+ years of experience in software development – having spent the last 21 years at Microsoft where he has also worked in Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Research, and Developer Division. Jason holds a MSc (Comp Sci) from University of Washington.

Steve is a British-born communications analyst, investor, and digital media entrepreneur with a career spanning decades. Beginning as a technology journalist with McGraw-Hill in the 1980s, he later founded Light Reading in 2000, an online media network focusing on telecommunications news, research, and security. He sold Light Reading to UBM in 2005 for $33 million, bought it back in 2014, and resold it to Informa PLC. Awarded an MBE in 2018, he authored three books and serves as Vice Chairman of Laser Light Communications. Steve splits his time between the U.S. and the U.K. with his three sons.