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Breaking News: Vconic has launched — taking vCons from an idea into the real world 🚀 We talked about it with Thomas McCarthy-Howe, new CTO at #Vconic and long time vCon visionary. So what’s a #vCon? Think of it like a JPEG for conversations. 📁 A universal file that can hold everything from a customer call — the audio, transcript, participants, compliance details, even the context and sentiment. 🔒 Why does that matter? Because in 2025, #compliance and #AI are reshaping how enterprises, telcos, and service providers work. vCons give us the structured, portable data we need to prove compliance and unlock AI-driven insights. And just like #SIP defined the last 20 years of voice, vCons (as an IETF standard) could define the next 20 years of AI-powered communications! This isn’t happening in isolation. The vCon Foundation is building the ecosystem to make it a standard. And under the umbrella of the CPaaS Acceleration Alliance, we’re giving it the traction and community it needs to scale. That’s why at #CASA25 in Amsterdam (Sept 22–24), vCons take center stage: ✅ Vconic keynote from Thomas Howe ✅ Dedicated sessions on compliance and AI use cases ✅ Workshop for those who want to dive deeper ✅ The vCon Foundation as a proud Silver Sponsor Ecosystems turn standards into industries. That’s what’s starting right now. 👉 Full story and video here: https://lnkd.in/eatpW5Vr #CASA25 #CPaaS #AI #Compliance #NetworkAPIs #ProgrammableCommunications #Ecosystem #Innovation #vCons

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Today at #LumenIRDay26, we’re stepping into the growth phase of Lumen Technologies' transformation. Over the past few days, we’ve seen clear examples of our momentum – ratings upgrades across all three global agencies, more than 2,000 enterprises adopting our Network-as-a-Service platform, and continued expansion of our next generation AI infrastructure. This morning, our leadership team will share how we’re scaling our network, accelerating digital services, and building a connected ecosystem that creates value for customers, partners, and shareholders. Looking forward to the conversations ahead and sharing where we’re going next. ➡️ Learn more and watch the webcast: https://bit.ly/473Ywgn #PathOfDisruption #TrustedNetwork #ReImaginingTelco

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For me, this is definitely the pinnacle of the many exceptional podcasts that David Senra has done. Multiple master-classes in one (Ovitz, Clark, Musk & more) - and also a ton of fun to listen to Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz. This reminder will surely resonate with many: "mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.”

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My review of Pablos Holman's seriously probing (yet occasionally witty) book, Deep Future, about the core technologies that can transform key industries, in CTech by Calcalist. A must-read for any DeepTech investor or entrepreneur.

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Sometimes you come across a solution that’s so good, you can’t stop talking about it - or in our case, you buy it. I’m thrilled to share that NNNCo (National Narrowband Network Co), an nxzen company, now owns PowerPilot, an AI-enabled network monitoring and visibility solution we’ve been working with for a while. We’ve seen first-hand how it helps Distribution Network Providers improve safety, reliability and performance in a really cost-effective way. PowerPilot joins the NNNCo Smart Energy portfolio so that we can take this proven technology to utilities around the world and scale its impact. After years in IoT, it’s still inspiring to see how far we’ve come, and how solutions like PowerPilot continue to show the power of LoRaWAN and its ability to solve real-world challenges. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gF_2uHAB

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Guy Lupo , thanks for your sponsorship to see Cequence Security welcomed into the TM Forum community—great to have Ameya Talwalkar and the team officially part of it! Looking forward to introducing new ideas from the portfolio where we see fit . #Partnerships with TM Forum are especially valuable - representing a global alliance of 800+ organizations ((including the top CSPs, hyperscalers, vendors, and integrators) driving collaboration on key standards (such as Open APIs), digital transformation, autonomous networks, composable IT, and responsible AI—unlocking interoperability, innovation, and growth across telecom and connectivity. #responsibleAI #futuregrowth

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Smart Communications, Inc. and Amdocs are basically saying something far simpler and far sharper than what their press release admits; there’s no room left for blind launches. “Launching without understanding your user is just spending; launching without measuring is improvisation.” And that’s exactly where their three pieces lock together, full-plan personalization through KiQ, the connectX “telco-in-a-box” setup that speeds up MVNO creation, and eSIM quietly running underneath to keep everything seamless. That mix real personalization, fast rollout, and a digital backbone with no loose stitching turns Smart into an operator that doesn’t guess; it watches. KiQ isn’t some pretty app; it’s a sensor. Every tweak a user makes, every blend of data, calls, duration becomes live information that dismantles the old model where operators imagined what people wanted and just crossed their fingers. Meanwhile, Filipino Gen Z with that instinctive demand for control and consistency ends up being the clearest reminder of which operators will actually make it, not the loudest ones, but the ones that listen. Sure, a platform can run on AWS and have generative AI baked in… but if it doesn’t measure, it doesn’t learn. And if it doesn’t learn, it falls right back into the original sin launching on impulse and waiting for miracles. And as Smart shapes the future from the Philippines, a question slips in almost on its own, what about Mexican Gen Z, Brazilian Gen Z, the broader Latin American crowd? When do they get something that treats them like protagonists instead of points on a spreadsheet? Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Technology and Head of Strategy at Amdocs. FYI. Shuky Sheffer, President & Chief Executive Officer at Amdocs. PLDT.

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Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest — and greatest — magazine. While many publications are struggling, The Spectator now has more subscribers than at any point in its nearly 200-year history. That starts, of course, with journalism. Under Michael Gove, the magazine has rediscovered a sense of surprise, intellectual confidence and mischief — reminding everyone that he was a journalist before he was a politician. Alongside a formidable existing bench of writers, new voices, expanding US coverage, a rapidly growing daily briefing, award-winning podcasts, live events, and the Spectator Club, the brand feels culturally alive in a way few legacy publications do. But there’s another, less visible reason for this growth: technology. When OQS acquired the magazine, it was clear that the biggest structural problem wasn’t demand for quality journalism — it was the plumbing underneath it. Like many publishers, The Spectator was stuck on ageing, expensive subscription “bureau” systems and a plethora of disconnected tech packages that frustrate readers, create friction at sign-up, and quietly drive churn. So we built our own. From scratch. Single-click checkout. Seamless billing. First-party data. Integrated marketing. In-house customer service. Retention tools designed around how real publishers operate. We call the platform CoEditor. From the moment it went live, subscriber trajectories across our titles turned upward. Not marginally — materially. It has been genuinely transformative. We’re now offering CoEditor to other subscription publishers who are serious about reducing churn, improving retention, and building sustainable reader revenue. But this isn’t just software. CoEditor was built inside a publishing group and is run by people who actively grow subscriptions every day. We bring the operators as well as the platform — marketing expertise, pricing strategy, retention playbooks, lifecycle campaigns, customer service frameworks and data analysis — all informed by what is actually working in-market right now. In other words, we don’t simply install technology and walk away. We partner. We execute. We help deliver measurable growth. If you’re a publisher looking not just for better tools, but for a team that knows how to use them to drive real results, Iet's talk! https://lnkd.in/eWaKFJ4v

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AI touches on everything. Actually, most of Iron Nation Fund portfolio companies are leveraging AI tools to be able to move faster, and provide superior value to their customers.  Gil Friedlander Jason Wolf Chen Linchevski Ariella Raviv Chemi Peres Izhar Shay Charlie Federman

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Most tech companies enter the US market the same way — hire a CRO or country manager, then spend 12–18 months figuring out what actually works. That's not a strategy. That's guessing with capital and time. We built US GTM Engine to flip that sequence. AI-powered market validation and full GTM execution, compressed into a 120-day sprint — so fixed costs follow signal, not assumption. By the time you scale, you know exactly what works, what doesn't, and why. Built for tech companies serious about the US market. Not interested in burning runway to find out.#SalesStrategy #B2BMarketing #SalesLeadership #USMarketEntry #InternationalStartups #GlobalExpansion

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some good commentary by Robert LaFaso on this latitude article about PJM capacity market costs. Whether you need 1GW or 20GW, once you get into shortage conditions, capacity market costs explode.

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