Colt's Jaya Deshmukhto discusses collaborative design at key event

Colt employs impressive women who are often key experts in their fields.

One such example is Colt's Executive Vice President for Strategy & Transformation Jaya Deshmukhto who is speaking at TM Forum's DTW Ignite in Copenhagen about why collaborative design is the ultimate network design for the future.

Jaya is Executive Vice President (EVP), Strategy and Transformation at Colt Technology Services, reporting directly to Colt's CEO Keri Gilder. Jaya is responsible for managing and driving Colt’s strategic roadmap and relationships, while striving to elevate the organisation’s overall purpose and vision.

Jaya joined Colt from Google Cloud where most recently she held the position of Head of Strategy – EMEA, heading up the creation and curation of Google’s Cloud EMEA strategy. She has also held roles at Microsoft, PwC and Cognizant, where she was responsible for implementing digital solutions and accelerating cloud consumption to drive customer success.

Jaya is based in London, UK, with her two daughters.

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The event, DTW23 - Ignite is a must-attend tech event for the communications industry, where innovation comes to life, inspiration is sparked, connections are made, and knowledge is gained. The telco and cloud worlds are colliding, driving rapid service innovation, upending traditional business models, and ushering in exciting new opportunities for growth. This groundbreaking transformation is being enabled by AI, autonomous networks and open digital architectures. DTW23 - Ignite harnesses the collective ingenuity, innovation, and collaboration of the global community to seize this opportunity and lead the communications industry to growth.

The event is hosted by TM Forum that leads industry in defining the building blocks for new operating models, impactful new partnerships, and advanced software platforms, unlocking the value of data to create nearly endless opportunities for players across the communications ecosystem. TM Forum is an association of over 700+ member companies, which include all the world’s top 10 network and communications providers and stretch across 180 countries. Its members tap into each other’s collective experiences and abilities to collaboratively solve complex industry-wide challenges, deploy new services, and create technology breakthroughs to accelerate change.