Vijayakumar Venganti

Title of the Talk: AI-Native Telecom & Network Infrastructure: Reimagining Enterprise Networks in the Age of AI

Abstract of the Talk:
Today’s telecom and enterprise networks are largely AI-enabled machine learning bolted on as a dashboard, with humans still acting on every insight manually. This keynote argues for a fundamental shift toward AI-native infrastructure where intelligence, security,and self-healing are designed into the network from the ground up. Four converging pressures make this shift urgent: explosive 5G/6G and IoT traffic growth, an expanding attack surface, hybrid multi-cloud complexity and a shrinking operations talent pool. As access, transport and core layers converge, they demand a single, intelligent orchestration layer rather than siloed operations teams. The talk introduces three pillars of an AI-native network. Intelligent networks embed prediction and anomaly detection directly into telemetry pipelines. Secure networks explain themselves, illustrated through XSOC, an explainability framework that pairs every security alert with key features, a natural-language narrative and a counterfactual scenario. Self-Healing networks recover autonomously, drawing on multi-agent orchestration principles from OrchestraLLM to detect, diagnose and remediate faults without manual intervention. These pillars combine into a reference architecture, walked through via a real-world scenario: a degrading edge link detected, explained, and healed end-to-end without human escalation. The talk closes with open research questions on explainability at scale, securing AI itself, cross-vendor standardization, and human-AI trust calibration, inviting academia and industry to co-design the next generation of intelligent network infrastructure together..

Bio

With 20 years of experience in embedded software development, Vijayakumar specializes in designing and implementing advanced networking and telecom solutions. He plays a pivotal role in developing the platform for Cellular Gateways, enabling secure, high-speed 5G/LTE WAN connectivity for industrial and IoT networks. His work includes Linux kernel bring-up, eSIM provisioning, SELinux enforcement and telemetry infrastructure for cellular KPIs using YANG/NETCONF.  

A strong advocate for innovation and reliability, he has driven projects such as 5G URSP support for application-aware slicing and advanced bootloader security. His expertise in networking protocols, debugging and cross-functional collaboration empowers the team to deliver seamless, scalable solutions. Passionate about solving complex challenges, He is committed to enhancing secure, high-performance connectivity in modern networks.