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AI agents will need more than powerful models. They will need trusted identities, reliable infrastructure, and a way to operate close to the people and devices they serve. Personal AI founder Suman Kanuganti explains why telecom operators could play a central role in distributed inference, personal AI, and the emerging market for token-based services.

Q2 brought new Project Group momentum across open networks, AI-native telecom foundations, application experience, and FYUZ 2026 planning as the TIP community prepares to gather in Seattle this November.

HITEC 2026 brought approximately 6,000 hospitality technology leaders, MSPs, operators, and solution providers to the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio from June 15–18. With more than 370 exhibitors, the event offered a clear view into the priorities shaping hotel and resort technology.

The overall goal for this community is to define approaches to maintaining and improving QoE for video applications, which are expected to run on wireless broadband networks of today and into the future.

In this episode of The Signal Boost, TIP’s Chief Commercial Officer Vishal Mathur is joined by Abdel Bagegni, Head of OpenRAN Technology at TIP, and Michael Behan, Solutions Architect at Zinkworks, for a practical conversation on rApps, SMO/RIC readiness, and the future of AI-driven RAN automation.

Seattle is a city shaped by the same forces driving the next phase of telecom: cloud, AI, global connectivity, infrastructure, software, and scale. It is home to some of the world’s most influential technology companies, but it is also a working city built around ports, aviation, logistics, research, culture, and connection. That makes it a fitting place to bring the global telecom community together.