Dr. Refik F. Üstok, Senior Architect at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, was interviewed by Telecom TV during the recent TM Forum’s DTW Ignite event in Copenhagen, June 2026, discussing on the role of standards in enabling AI at scale for 6G and network operators.
TelecomTV’s events and interviews are one of the most important venues for telecom related news worldwide, which provide insights on a wide range of topics, like cloud-native, AI native and future 6G drivers and developments. At this year’s TM Forum’s DTW Ignite, held in Copenhagen, in June, Dr. Refik F. Üstok, Senior Architect at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, was interviewed by TelecomTV to discuss about the role of standards in enabling AI at scale for future 6G. As an expert in AI, automation and autonomous networking topics, and actively involved in standardization activities within 3GPP and O-RAN ALLIANCE, Refik highlighted about the needs of what can be standardized around AI in telecom while keeping the ecosystem open to spur necessary innovation. One important aspect is how to make AI trustworthy so that network operators can efficiently use AI at scale.
The full interview to Refik is available at the following link: https://www.telecomtv.com/content/6g/shaping-ai-s-role-in-6g-55835/
Also, at the very same spot, Keisuke Suzuki, Director of OSS in the Operations Department at NTT DOCOMO, Inc. was also interviewed, providing very interesting insights about how NTT DOCOMO is already leveraging AI and automation technologies to monitor DOCOMO’s nation-wide network in Japan. Use of digital twins supported on Cloud provided platform and tools are helping NTT DOCOMO to perform root cause analysis at an unforeseen speed compared to legacy operations and technologies. Suzuki-san’s interview is also available at the following link: www.telecomtv.com/content/ai/ntt-docomo-on-automated-networks-and-digital-twins-55796/
Since the recordings of the interviews are available online, feel free to join NTT DOCOMO experts sharing their experiences in uplifting network autonomy to newer levels, both from standardization as well as development and commercialization point of view.
