2023 LSO Global Summit

A must-attend event for companies implementing or evaluating automation APIs, the LSO Global Summit brings together leading service and technology providers from across the global automation ecosystem to accelerate adoption of standards-based LSO business and operational APIs and smart contracts.

Learn about the role of LSO with Secure NaaS, hear updates on MEF’s vision and plans, network with partners and solution providers, understand procurement intentions from global and regional tier-one-and-two buyers, plus implementation solutions, and more….

See the 2023 Summit Agenda

GNE 2023 exceeded expectations, found it the right size to explore diverse solutions, and valued the balanced mix of presentations and vendor exhibitions, resulting in productive meetings and exceptional networking opportunities.

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President & CEO, RAD Data Communications

MEF’s inaugural 2023 LSO Global Summit Agenda focused on three key topical areas:

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LSO Vision, Releases, and Roadmap

Update on MEF’s vision for ecosystem automation with LSO APIs.
MEF and TM Forum collaboration.
MEF’s Secure NaaS initiative—the role of LSO APIs.
Highlights from the MEF State of the Industry Report on automating business functions between service providers, and new forecasts.
Roadmaps and release previews for LSO business and operational APIs.

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Showcasing LSO Solutions and Support

LSO Solution Provider ecosystem evolution.
Spotlighting commercial solutions for LSO implementations.
LSO implementation accelerators—getting to market faster.
Professional consultancy services for LSO-enabled automation.
MEF’s 2023–2024 LSO marketing and implementation support programs.

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LSO User Stories

Case studies and user stories of LSO Sonata business API Implementations.
Early implementations results and use cases for LSO operational APIs.
Business case ROI considerations for LSO funding.
Testimonials: how LSO is enabling transformation, automation, and NaaS strategies and projects.

2023 Agenda Day 1: LSO Global Summit

Also see the Day 2: 2023 Agenda | Day 3: 2023 Agenda

Day 1

Monday
2 October, 2023

LSO Global Summit
12:00–17:00

The LSO Global Summit focuses on 3 major topics:

1. LSO Vision, Adoption, and Roadmap

Critical information on which to base your product and automation rollouts.

Topics:

LSO adoption status and forecasts until 2025, including the latest on entry of LSO buyers.
LSO strategy and roadmap, including LSO APIs, LSO payloads, and LSO blockchain.
Significance of alignment with TM Forum APIs.
Plans for alignment with CAMARA APIs.
Importance of LSO for MEF's secure NaaS roadmap.
Significance of open standard smart contracts and DAOs.
The role of LSO operational APIs.
The amplification value of MEF-endorsed LSO payloads.
MEF's plans for use of generative AI.

2. LSO Solutions and Support

An overview of all the programs and assets available before, during, and after implementation.

Topics:

Overview of the complete LSO solution provider ecosystem, including the LSO brokers, LSO API implementers, and LSO consultants.
How to get to market faster with LSO solution providers.
Accelerating the onboarding partners using the MEF LSO API Onboarding & Interoperability Test (OIT) Service.
Market leadership with LSO API certification.
Finding LSO partners.

3. LSO User Stories

A view of LSO in practice.

Topics:

Automated SLA Reporting service.
Transforming from LSO seller only to LSO buyer/seller.
Using LSO business APIs between service provider group subsidiaries and departments.
LSO solution provider use cases.

Registration Opens / Badge Pick-up

09:00
Main Foyer, Floor 2

Coffee & Refreshments

10:30

Networking Lunch

12:00–13:00

Welcome

13:00–13:05

LSO API Adoption

13:05–13:10

Stan Hubbard, MEF, Principal Analyst

Status and forecasts until 2025, including the latest on entry of LSO Buyers.
State of the Industry report on inter-provider business automation.

LSO Vision and Roadmap

13:10–13:25

Pascal Menezes, MEF, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Importance of LSO APIs and LSO Blockchain as core components of MEF Secure NaaS.
Alignment of LSO, TM Forum, and CAMARA APIs.
LSO Payload strategy alignment with industry trends.

LSO Blockchain

13:25–13:50

Standardizing and using LSO Smart Contracts.
The zero-knowledge paradigm, public-private blockchain, and SaaS offerings—example of automated SLA Report service.
Market adoption and internal organizational acceptance.

LSO Product Payloads

13:50–14:05

The LSO value amplification of MEF-standardized and MEF-endorsed product schema blended with LSO APIs.

LSO and Generative AI

14:05–14:30

Susan White, Netcracker, Head of Strategy & Portfolio Marketing

Telecoms want to understand how generative AI can be used to capitalize on their investment in LSO APIs and LSO Blockchain, and to accelerate their ability to offer compelling NaaS. In this session we will hear about how Large Language Models (LLM) can be augmented with techniques such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to work in real time with a service provider’s rapidly changing data and distributed siloed and/or federated database environment, while taking advantage of the enormous power of publicly trained LLMs like GPT-4 and PaLM 2.

Applicability of generative AI in the telecom industry.
Harnessing the power of rapidly changing and highly sensitive service provider data in a generative AI environment.
Opportunities for use of generative AI both within the service provider and externally with partners over LSO interfaces.

LSO Service Provider Use Cases

14:30–15:00

LSO Service Providers will present a range of diverse enterprise B2B and wholesale use cases, covering a range of products and services for which LSO APIs can be used, including: