DTWS: 2020 Catalyst Awards

This article covers the Catalyst awards session on November 11 entitled ‘Closing Headliners and Catalyst Awards’ at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series (DTWS). During the awards, seven projects showcase power of collaboration and its impact on application of new technologies and validation of emerging standards

On the last day of Digital Transformation World Series, TM Forum, recognized the dedication and hard work of its members by naming seven Catalyst proof-of-concept projects as Outstanding Catalysts for their significant contributions to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry. Watch a replay of the awards ceremony here.

2020 Outstanding Catalysts

The Forum and a panel of 23 independent judges selected seven Catalysts from 32 projects showcased during Digital Transformation World Series.

With 152 global communications service providers, software vendors and systems integrators from six continents participating, this year’s 32 Catalysts represent the power of TM Forum’s collaboration community. Projects spanned 5G, AI, autonomous networks, customer experience, digital health, multi-access edge computing, green telco, smart cities and more.

By accelerating R&D through a structured agile collaborative process, Catalyst projects prove the application of new technologies and validate emerging standards. During TM Forum’s events, Catalyst teams demonstrate their proof-of-concept work. (Learn more about the Catalyst program and how to get involved here.)

TM Forum’s Collaboration Subcommittee, which oversees the development and adoption of standards and best practices, judged the Catalysts alongside independent industry analysts. The winners are:

Outstanding Catalyst – Business Impact: Digital Business Marketplace

This Catalyst project explores how companies in traditional industries can be digitally transformed by digitizing their products, services, and supply chain.

• Champions: Agile Fractal Grid, BT, Chunghwa Telecom, Digital Twin Consortium, Etisalat UAE, Maxbyte, Heritage International AG USA, NTT, SteepleCom, Telenor, Telus


• Participants: Accenture, Altifio, AWS, BearingPoint//Beyond, Beautiful Ones, Cityzenith, Digiglu, Intel, Intuitus Cyber, IoT Lab, IOTA Foundation, Mvine, R3, Stratus Technologies, Tantallon, Ulster University, University of Surrey, VETRO FiberMap

Outstanding Catalyst – Innovation: BOS: An Implementation of Open Digital Architecture (ODA) Core Commerce Management

This Catalyst project focuses on creating reference implementations for standard ODA components.

• Champions: China Unicom, Orange, Telenor, Vodafone


• Participants: Global Wavenet, Globetom, Oracle Communications, SigScale, Tech Mahindra, Whale Cloud

Best New Catalyst in Show: Trusted Data-Sharing for Smart Emergency Management (Covid-19)

This Catalyst demonstrates how the integration of telco data and other public data via a trust-based data platform can help cities foster better collaboration and a speedier, coordinated response in emergencies such as Covid-19.

• Champions: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom


• Participants: AsiaInfo Technologies, Beijing Tianyuan DIC, Huawei, SI-TECH

Outstanding Use of TM Forum Assets: The Dynamic Architecture

This Catalyst dynamically federates service definitions so services of any type may be productized, sold, ordered, activated, self-managed and assured using a visual catalog experience enabled by using TM Forum Open APIs.

• Champions: Telstra, Vodafone


• Participants: Deloitte, DGIT, Fujitsu, ServiceNow

Outstanding Catalyst Communications: Time Crunching 5G RAN Rollout with AI

This Catalyst demonstrates end-to-end digitalization of mobile network roll-out processes to optimize and accelerate deployment and return on investment.

• Champions: Claro Columbia


• Participants: Blue Prism, Brightcomms, Creativity Software, Everis, Microsoft, Nokia, Viavi Solutions

Outstanding Ecosystem Design with CurateFx: 5G Ride On!

This Catalyst uses autonomous network capabilities and edge computing technologies to support business continuity solutions for the electric vehicle charging infrastructure ecosystem.

• Champions: BT, Orange, TIM


• Participants: AsiaInfo International, Incognito, Huawei, MDS Global, TEOCO

Outstanding Catalyst – Impact for Society: 5G Greener Telco

This Catalyst demonstrates a smart energy-saving network which provides a stable customer experience for subscribers, lowers power consumption for telco operators and reduces the overall climate impact of the telecoms industry.

• Champions: China Telecom


• Participants: AsiaInfo Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing BOCO Inter-Telecom Technology, ZTE