On Monday evening in Nice, TM Forum announced the list of 12 Excellence Awards for 2019. They also anointed Distinguished Fellow and Distinguished Engineer status on two of the industry’s leading contributors.
Huge congratulations to each of the following award winners:
- Business Transformation – Royal KPN, Vlocity and Salesforce
- IT Transformation – China Mobile & Huawei
- Operational Transformation & Agility – Netcracker
- Network Transformation – Telstra
- Digital Service Innovator of the Year – Orange
- Open Digital Ecosystem Platform of the Year – TELUS
- Disruptive Innovation – Etiya & Fizz, Zeotap
- Outstanding Customer Centricity – Whale Cloud & China Telecom
- Open API – DGiT, Netcracker
- CIO of the Year – Cody Sanford, T-Mobile USA
- CTO of the Year – Giovanni Chiarelli, MTN South Africa
- Future Digital Leader – Ye Ouyang, AsiaInfo
- Distinguished Fellow – Dr. Lester Thomas, Vodafone
- Distinguished Engineer – Takayuki Nakamura, NTT Group
I’m most excited about number 4 on the list, partly because I was involved in the early concept / PoC stages of Telstra’s NaaS (Network as a Service) project and because of what NaaS represents to our industry [more on that in tomorrow’s post]. I’m also excited to see a little Australian company, DGiT, appearing amongst a list that’s mostly made up of industry heavyweights.
