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"From the Radio to the RIC" is a podcast series covering mobile wireless technologies and the AI-evolution of the mobile infrastructure and computing.

In this special episode of "From the Radio to the RIC", Leonard meets up with Patrick Lopez of {Core Analysis} have an impromptu conversation on the final day of TM Forum's Innovate Americas 2026 event, which took place in Plano, Texas.

Patrick and Leonard talk about the following topics and highlights:

➡️ Don't call me an influencer! (0:31)
➡️ TM Forum Innovate Americas 2026 intro. (2:12)
➡️ Patrick's key impressions and takes from Innovate Americas 2026 (3:08)
➡️ Trust is a big theme. (5:19)
➡️ The state of network automation with agentic AI. (5:57)
➡️ The great data and storage problem. (7:12)
➡️ The ubiquity of the trust priority. (8:43)
➡️ A sobering throwback to practical AI & automation. (9:51)
➡️ What is trust? What does it mean? (12:40)
➡️ The trust gradient. (13:52)
➡️ TM Forum's first trust hackathon. (16:41)

If you would like to set up a meeting, connect with Patrick Lopez at www.coreanalysis.ca.

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