DTW23-Ignite: Catalyst awards showcase innovation in AI, automation and services
DTW23-Ignite: Catalyst awards showcase innovation in AI, automation and services
TM Forum Catalysts are where telcos from around the world join forces with their software, equipment, system integration and hyperscaler partners to find solutions to some the industry’s biggest and most pressing challenges.
At this year's DTW23-Ignite, 54 Catalyst project teams out of a total of 55 were on the show floor to share their innovative approaches to addressing key industry issues. The event culminated in the Catalyst awards, which gave judges the very difficult task of identifying winners across a very strong field of entrants.
This was also the first year year of TM Forum's Moonshot Challenge, which provides Open Innovation Catalyst project teams with extra backing to develop solutions that deliver a specific business or societal impact.
Below are this year's winners of both Open Innovation Catalyst and Moonshot Catalyst awards:
Moonshot Catalyst Awards:
Best Moonshot Catalyst – The Web3/Metaverse Challenge
Winners:
Transforming passenger experiences with continuous decision intelligence
This Moonshot Catalyst brought together global telcos and smart city experts to explore how the Metaverse could help them accelerate B2B2x commercial deployments and monetization, focusing on leveraging smart airports, their multiple industry partners, the associated Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), and travelers as VIPs.
Champions: Digital Elite, Digital Twin Consortium, NTT, Orange County Public Works, Smart Cities Council, Telus, Vodafone
Participants: AWS, Mvine, Rockport Software, UBiqube, Vantiq
Closing the metaverse chasm: Monetizing the ecosystem
This Metaverse challenge Moonshot Catalyst is simplifying and monetizing relationships within the metaverse community and across platforms.
Champions: du, NTT, stc, Sri Lanka Telecom, Zain
Participants: AWS, Juniper Networks, Netcracker, NTT Qonoq, Related
Finalist:
Best Moonshot Catalyst – The Energy Challenge
Winner:
Digital carbon footprint optimization
This Energy Efficiency Challenge Moonshot Catalyst empowers CSPs to create, launch and promote lower carbon offers, and enable consumers to positively impact their carbon footprint by choosing lower carbon product offers, reducing the CSPs scope 3 emissions in the supply chain.
Champions: Carbon Footprint, Vodafone
Participants: AWS, Amdocs, Snowflake
Finalists:
Open Innovation Catalyst awards
Outstanding Catalyst - Business Impact
Winner:
POP! CSPs curating markets at the edge
Offering a curated, pre-certified set of services, made available from CSPs and partners, to enterprise customers for purchase.
Champions: Bell, Lightstorm, Vodafone
Participants: AWS, Aria, Concertia, Nokia, Salesforce, Summit
Finalists:
- GenAI hyper-personalized customer experience
- Converged access with ODA - Phase II
- Revolutionizing service assurance through AI powered, intent-based systems for continuity and customer satisfaction
- Unlocking B2B2X value for 5G smart spaces - Phase III
Outstanding Catalyst - Sustainability & Impact on Society
Winner:
Intelligent edge for sustainable agriculture - Phase II
Evolving a scalable blueprint and reference implementation for efficiently delivering 5G network slicing, MEC orchestration, and sustainability services.
Champions: NTT, One Cup AI, Telus, Verizon
Participants: AWS, Epam, Etiya, Intraway, Red Hat, Vantiq
Finalists:
- Unlocking revenue and efficiency with intent-driven autonomous operations - Phase III
- Converged access with ODA - Phase II
- Ultimate connected car experience enhancing digital lifestyle
- Unlocking B2B2X value for 5G smart spaces - Phase III
Outstanding Catalyst - Showcase
Winner:
Developing AIOps-based service assurance automation for telco cloud Connectivity-as-a-Service.
Champions: Telecom Italia, Telia
Participants: BMC, BolgiaTen, EXFO, Prodapt
Finalists:
- Autonomous customer experience index (CEI) for zero-touch 5G network - Phase III
- Rise of the bots
- Private optimized connectivity
- WebAssembly Canvas
Outstanding Catalyst - Use of TM Forum Assets
Winner:
Techco practicing decision intelligence for sustainable growth
This Catalyst showcases the collaborative efforts of our Champions and Partners in transforming from Telco to Techco. This transformation is achieved through the deployment of Autonomous Operations and TM Forum Frameworks. Champions enhance their decision intelligence capabilities to better serve their target customers and attain sustainable long-term growth.
Champions: China Mobile, China Unicom, HKT, Maxis, MTN South Africa, Robi, stc
Participants: Shaanxi Normal University, Nanjing University, Inspur, Huawei, Beijing Tianyuan DIC
Finalists:
- AsyncAPI - Phase II
- Open SATCOM Management
- Intent-driven autonomous networks - Phase III
- Intelligence and Value Driven Digital Operation Transformation for Network
Outstanding Catalyst - Business Growth
Winner:
SHINE: Simple hyperscaler integrated network experience
Establishing an industry standard mechanism for making digitized network services available as native services in hyperscaler portals.
Champions: AT&T, Orange, Telefonica
Participants: Amdocs, Infosys, Microsoft, Prodapt, ServiceNow
Finalists:
- Converged access with ODA - Phase II
- POP! CSPs curating markets at the edge
- Zero-touch digital services marketplace – Phase V
- Harnessing data insights to enhance marketing efficiencies in the car industry - Phase III
Outstanding Catalyst - Best Innovation & Future Techco
Winner:
Intent-driven autonomous networks - Phase III
Building the intent panorama to unleash the business value of autonomous networks.
Champions: Telecom Italia, Telenor, CAICT, Advanced Info Service, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Universita degli Studi di Milano, China Mobile , China Unicom
Participants: Infosys, Intraway, Ericsson, Huawei
Finalists:
- Unlocking revenue and efficiency with intent-driven autonomous operations - Phase III
- Autonomous customer experience index (CEI) for zero-touch 5G network - Phase III
- Intelligent edge for sustainable agriculture - Phase II
- SHINE Simple hyperscaler integrated network experience
Outstanding Catalyst - Excellence in the application of AI & Automation
Winner:
GenAI hyper-personalized customer experience
Increase lifetime value and reduce churn with data architecture, machine learning and real-time decisioning.
Champions: Bell Canada, BT Group, Telecom Italia, Deutsche Telekom, Turknet
Participants: Accenture, Google Cloud, Pegasystems
Finalists:
- Autonomous customer experience index (CEI) for zero-touch 5G network - Phase III
- Intelligent edge for sustainable agriculture - Phase II
- Intelligence and Value Driven Digital Operation Transformation for Network
- Intent-driven autonomous networks - Phase III
Outstanding Catalyst - Best New Catalyst
Winner:
Ultimate connected car experience enhancing digital lifestyle
Demonstrating the implementation of a Smart City with Connected Car platforms, adding value to the car experience and enriching the digital driving lifestyle through data analytics for understanding distinct car segments. This endeavor, in turn, fosters sustainable urban growth and benefits CSPs as well.
Champions: China Mobile, China Unicom, HKT, stc
Participants: BroadTech, China Unitechs, Huawei
Finalists:
- GenAI hyper-personalized customer experience
- SHINE Simple hyperscaler integrated network experience
- GenAI and knowledge-driven 5G operations
- Intelligence and Value Driven Digital Operation Transformation for Network
- Outstanding Catalyst - Best New Catalyst - Culture & Talent
Winner:
Helping CSPs optimize their organization, talent, skills, and culture to introduce and exploit AI-enabled applications in their businesses successfully.
Champions: Advanced Info Service (AIS), China Mobile, MTN South Africa, stc
Participants: Hangzhou Eastcom, Huawei, iMocha
Special mention:
Building an Open Digital Architecture (ODA) Canvas with wasmCloud.
Champions: Etisalat UAE, NBNCo, Orange, Vodafone
Participants: Comviva, Global Wavenet, SigScale
Outstanding Catalyst - Contribution to TM Forum Assets
Note: These are Catalysts teams from DTW Asia 2023 who are awarded post-event
Winners:
Digital Twin for network operations
Enabling a highly autonomous network beyond L4 using an efficient collaboration mechanism to integrate industry’s best digital twin capabilities and solutions.
Champions: China Mobile, Vodafone
Participants: China Unitechs, Huawei, Inspur, ZTE
5G Enablement through industry standardized APIs (Phase I)
Enabling exposure of 5G scenarios for an enhanced customer experience by defining a unified API specification across TMF and CAMARA
Champions: AT&T, Axiata, China Telecom, Dialog Axiata, Ncell, Orange, PT XL Axiata, Telecom Italia, TELEFONICA, Telenor, Telstra, Verizon, Vodafone
Participants: Accenture, Axiata Digital Labs, Ericsson, Nokia, NTT DATA, Mavenir Systems, Primforce Technologies
