Dr. Roy Kucukates, Director of Product Management at LotusFlare, will speak at the TM Forum webinar “AI for Billing, Billing for AI” on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 9 am EST. He joins TM Forum Chief Analyst Mark Newman, Contributing Analyst Ed Finegold, and four other speakers from across the industry.
Going into this session, LotusFlare’s focus is this: how do you bill a service you don’t own, priced in units telecom has never billed before? As CSPs resell AI models and agents, they inherit token, seat, and outcome-based pricing that resets faster than any release cycle. Speakers will debate what it takes to rate, reconcile, and price these services in real time and whether CSPs are ready to build a business around AI.
“Billing must produce the same correct result every time, so any AI applied to it needs clear rules, human oversight, and full traceability,” said Dr. Roy Kucukates, Director of Product Management at LotusFlare. “At the same time, AI is changing what CSPs sell. Services priced by tokens, compute time, or agent activity will require platforms that can rate these new units of value in real time.”
Dr. Roy Kucukates brings more than 30 years of software development experience across telecom OSS and BSS. At LotusFlare, he previously led the product management team behind LotusFlare DNO™ Cloud, a TM Forum ODA-compliant BSS stack. Today, he focuses on building AI platforms and models specialized in Root Cause Analysis and Blast Radius calculations: solutions that learn an organization’s system structure from its own data, guide AI agents to detect issues accurately and cost-effectively, and prioritize incidents by their true impact.
