Podcast | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Culture transformation

TechCo, people and culture: reskilling and leadership for the AI era

Dean Ramsay, TM Forum

20 Jan 2026

Rene Felber is Chair of the TM Forum TPAC (TechCo, People and Culture) Collaboration Project, and he is joined by Ishari Siriwardane, General Manager for Transformation at SLT and key member of the group. In this podcast they speak to TM Forum’s Principal Analyst Dean Ramsay about group’s aims and progress.

The conversation focuses on the impact AI is having on telecoms people and culture and what strategies the group are seeing from a leadership perspective. Are telco leaders making the right decisions on reskilling?

Dean Ramsay

Principal Analyst, TM Forum

Dean has more than 20 years’ experience in the telecoms software industry, firstly with global operators such as Verizon and now as a trusted analyst. For the last 10 years he has worked with the world’s leading software vendors writing thought leadership content and advising on OSS and RAN topics.