Presentation: The Automation Gap: Why Networks Outpace the Organisations Running Them#

Frank McDermott, CEO & Co-Founder - CARMA

• Why: The automation/digital-twin theme is adjacent to the PM's cloud-native networking world, and the framing here is honest about a real failure mode — visibility without control. Caution: CEO of a digital-twin vendor, so treat as a product-adjacent pitch.
• What: The claim that networks are increasingly intelligent but organisations struggle to convert visibility into control, and that digital twins and operational data can drive automation, faster scaling decisions, and cost reduction (from abstract only).
• How: Digital-twin and operational-data approaches to moving from monitoring to automated action.
• Where applicable: Carrier network operations broadly; no metrics or case evidence in the abstract, so apply the standard skepticism to "we adopted digital twins and it was great" claims until numbers appear.