DTA is all wrapped up for another year

We’ve just finished the third and final day at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation Asia (https://dta.tmforum.org and #tmfdigitalasia ). Wow, talk about a lot happening!!

After spending the previous two days focusing on the lecture series, it would’ve been remiss of me to not catch up with the vendors and Catalyst presentations that had been on display for all three days. So that was my main focus for day 3. Unfortunately, I probably missed seeing some really interesting presentations, although I did catch the tail-end of the panel discussion, “Zero-touch – Identifying the First Steps Toward Fully Automated NFV/SDN,” which was ably hosted by George Glass (along with NFV/SDN experts Tomohiro Otani and Ir. Rizaludin Kaspin ). From the small amount I did see, it left me wishing that I could’ve experienced the entire discussion.

But on with the Catalysts, which are one of the most exciting assets in TM Forum’s arsenal IMHO. They connect carriers (as project champions) with implementers to deliver rapid prototypes on some of the carriers’ most pressing needs. They deliver some seriously impressive results in a short time, often with implementers only being able to devote part of their working hours (or after-hours) to the Catalyst.

As reported here, the winning Catalysts are:

1. Outstanding Catalyst for Business Impact
Telco Cloud Orchestration Plus, Using Open APIs on IoT
Champion: China Mobile
Participants: BOCO Inter-Telecom, Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Nokia

2. Outstanding Catalyst for Innovation
5G Pâtisserie
Champions: Globe Telecom, KDDI Research, Singtel
Patricipants: Neural Technologies, Infosys, Ericsson

3. Outstanding New Catalyst
Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps)
Champions: China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile
Participants: BOCO Inter-Telecom, Huawei, Si-Tech

These were all undoubtedly worthy winners, reward for the significant effort that has already gone into them. Three other Catalysts that I particularly liked are:

  • Transcend Boundaries – which demonstrates the use of Augmented Reality for the field workforce in particular, as championed by Globe. Collectively we haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s possible in this space, so it was exciting to see the concept presented by this Catalyst
  • NaaS in Action – which is building upon Telstra’s exciting Network as a Service (NaaS) initiative; and
  • Telco Big Data Security and Privacy Management Framework – the China Mobile led Catalyst that is impressive for the number of customers that are already signed up and generating revenues for CT.

BTW. The full list of live Catalysts can be found here.

For those who missed this year’s event, I can only suggest that you mark it in your diaries for next year. The TM Forum team is already starting to plan out next year’s event, one that will surely be even bigger and better than the one I’ve been privileged to have attended this week.

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