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Sparkle Chief Information Officer Lorella Scalcione explores why secure agent-to-agent communication will become essential to AI-ready digital infrastructure. From quantum-safe networking to trusted federation and on-demand connectivity, she explains how service providers must evolve to support autonomous AI ecosystems. How will networks establish trust in an agent-driven world?
In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Lorella Scalcione of Sparkle:
- Why do AI agents require a fundamentally different approach to security than traditional APIs?
- How can quantum-safe networking protect agent-to-agent communications?
- What role will trust, identity, and federation play as autonomous AI systems interact across organizations?
- How does Network-as-a-Service enable on-demand connectivity for AI-driven applications?
- How will collaboration across the digital ecosystem accelerate the AI economy?
- Watch Pascal Menezes’ Lisbon keynote, The Agentic AI Era: Mplify Vision and Strategy, on AI-ready digital infrastructure and the evolution toward agentic networking.
- Explore how Network-as-a-Service enables programmable, on-demand connectivity across digital ecosystems.
- Learn how Mplify’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration APIs enable automated, multi-provider service orchestration.
Sparkle Chief Information Officer Lorella Scalcione
Lorella Scalcione is Chief Information Officer at Sparkle and Member of the Board of Directors in several subsidiaries of the Sparkle Group.In Sparkle since 2017, she significantly contributed to the company’s Transformation from a traditional Carrier to a Digital Telco adopting the Data Driven Company paradigm and starting the adoption of AI-based tools to support business and operations.
In the last 20 years she has held executive roles in the Media and Communications sectors working either as IT Director or Chief IT Architectures managing and driving IT transformation programs spanning all application domains. Within the Telecom Italia Group she participated in several M&A projects as IT referral (Noverca purchase in 2016, LA7 sale in 2013, LA7 CartaPiù sale in 2008, Seat Pagine Gialle sale 2003) and she was part of the foundation of two startups (LA7 CartaPiù in 2006 e Tin.it in 1996).
Lorella is a Telecommunication Engineer graduated at Sapienza University of Rome.
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