catalyst team awards

Sustainability telco by green network evolution
Achieving Net Zero in different geographical conditions with an innovative Digital Twin and AI platform.
Champions: China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Mobile Communications Corporation, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), MTN South Africa, Saudi Telecom Company, Telkom SA
Participants: Hangzhou Eastcom Software Technology Co., Huawei Technologies Co., Tsinghua University, ZTE Corporation

Transforming Techco landscape through open digital experience to achieve sustainable business growth
Realizing the potential of generative AI foundation models.
Champions: China Mobile Communications Corporation, China Unicom, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), PT Telekomunikasi Selular, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: Beijing Tianyuan DIC Information Technology Co., Huawei Technologies Co., Inspur Communication Information Systems Co., Nanjing University

AI-driven EBITDA mastery: Revolutionizing customer journeys
Remodeling Revenue Journeys with Generative AI and Intent Analysis to deliver 30%+ EBITDA growth and operational cost saving.
Champions: Converge ICT Solutions, Telecom Argentina, Vodafone, Vodafone Deutschland
Participants: Amazon Web Services, Aria Systems, Calvi Business Software, Nespon, Salesforce.

Sustainability telco by green network evolution
Achieving Net Zero in different geographical conditions with an innovative Digital Twin and AI platform.
Champions: CAICT, China Mobile, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), MTN South Africa, Saudi Telecom Company, Open Serve Telkom
Participants: Hangzhou Eastcom Software, Huawei, Tsinghua University, ZTE

SmartHive xG
Designing a blueprint for smart city development.
Champions: Botswana Telecom, BrandMed, Enocta, Mobitel, Resolute Education, Sri Lanka Telecom
Participants: Covalense Digital Solutions, Etiya, N-able

GenAI for AN
Harnessing generative AI to automate network maintenance.
Champions: China Mobile, MTN South Africa, Telkomsel
Participants: AsiaInfo, Huawei, Sand Technologies, Whale Cloud, ZTE.

Harnessing GenAI’s business value for operations transformation
Using closed-loop automation to enhance network quality through streamlined operations and maintenance.
Champions: Hong Kong Telecommunication (HKT), PT XL Axiata, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: Huawei, Iquall Networks, Makman Technology Consulting

GenAI empowers computing force network
Allocating computing power intelligently to customer needs.
Champions: CAICT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Telecom Malaysia Technology Services
Participants: AsiaInfo, Beijing Ultrapower Software, UBiqube, Whale Cloud

Trustworthy computing transaction service
Defining a trusted and transparent computing transaction system, enabled by blockchain and AI technologies. Collaborating with computing service transaction providers, to examine how to dynamically match requests and supplies for computing service consumption.
Champions: China Telecom, China Unicom, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: AsiaInfo, Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Primforce, Sudo

Intelligence and value driven digital operation transformation for network
Leveraging AI technology to drive autonomous operations maturity that delivers value.
Champions: Botswana Telecom, China Mobile, Hong Kong Telecom, XL Axiata, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: BroadTech, Hangzhou Eastcom Software, Huawei

Metaverse enablement through standard APIs
This Moonshot Catalyst showcases how the 5G capabilities of CSPs can be exposed to realize innovative Metaverse journeys.
Champions: AT&T, Axiata, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Dialog Axiata, Jio, Orange, Saudi Telecom Company, TELEFONICA, Telecom Italia, Telenor, Telstra, XL Axiata, Vodafone
Participants: Accenture, AsiaInfo, Axiata Digital Labs, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Bridge Alliance, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, NTT DATA, Primforce

Digital carbon footprint optimization
This Energy Efficiency Challenge Moonshot Catalyst will empower 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: Snowflake, Amdocs, Amazon Web Services.

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: EITC (DU), Mobile Telecommunications Saudi Company (Zain KSA), NTT Group, Saudi Telecom Company, Sri Lanka Telecom
Participants: Amazon Web Services, Juniper Networks, NTT QONOQ, Netcracker Technology, Related

Transforming passenger experiences with continuous decision intelligence
This Metaverse challenge Moonshot Catalyst is accelerating 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: Deloitte, Digital Elite, Digital Twin Consortium, NTT Group, Orange County Public Works, Smart Cities Council, TELUS, Vodafone Group
Participants: Amazon Web Services Inc., Mvine Limited, Rockport Software, UBiqube, VANTIQ

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 Canada, LIGHTSTORM TELECOM, Vodafone Group
Participants: Amazon Web Services, Aria Systems, Concertia, Nokia, Salesforce, Summit Tech

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 Group, OneCupAI, TELUS, Verizon
Participants: Amazon Web Services, ETIYA, Epam Systems, Intraway, Red Hat, VANTIQ

Revolutionizing service assurance through AI powered, intent-based systems for continuity and customer satisfaction
AIOps-based service assurance automation for telco cloud Connectivity-as-a-Service.
Champions: Telecom Italia, Telia
Participants: BMC Software, BolgiaTen, EXFO, Prodapt North America

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, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), MTN South Africa, Maxis Broadband, Robi Axiata, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: Beijing Tianyuan DIC, Huawei, Inspur, Nanjing University, Shaanxi Normal University

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 North America, ServiceNow.

Intent-driven autonomous networks – Phase III
Building the intent panorama to unleash the business value of autonomous networks.
Champions: ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PLC. (AIS), China Academy of Information and Communications Technology(CAICT), China Mobile, China Unicom, Telecom Italia, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Telenor, Universita degli Studi di Milano
Participants: Ericsson, Huawei, Infosys, Intraway

GenAI hyper-personalized customer experience
Increase lifetime value and reduce churn with data architecture, machine learning and real-time decisioning.
Champions: BT Group, Bell Canada, Deutsche Telekom, Telecom Italia, Turknet
Participants: Accenture, Google Cloud, Pegasystems, Inc.

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, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: BroadTech Technology, China Unitechs, Huawei

Rise of the bots
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

WebAssembly Canvas
Building an Open Digital Architecture (ODA) Canvas with wasmCloud.
Champions: Etisalat UAE, NBNCo, Orange, Vodafone
Participants: Comviva, Global Wavenet, SigScale

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 a highly autonomous network beyond L4 using an efficient collaboration mechanism to integrate industry’s best digital twin capabilities and solutions.
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

Channels & markets – Phase II
To help foster a dynamic B2B2B market, this Catalyst introduced new configurable elements to the TM Forum Open APIs to remove the ‘catalog barrier’, create domain-specific service specifications so almost any CSP can be supported; and achieve equity between assisted and non-assisted channels.
Champions: Vodafone
Participants: CSG, Microsoft, Nokia

Translating customer needs into service and network intent – Phase II 
Simplifying the provision of 5G network slices by meeting precise customer needs is essential to realizing 5G’s revenue potential. This Catalyst uses TM Forum’s Open APIs and Open Digital Architecture to match network resources dynamically to customer needs, making it easier for both parties to set up and deploy new services.
Champions: KDDI Research, TELUS, Verizon
Participants:Nokia, Salesforce

Autonomous networks hyperloops – Phase IV
Autonomous networks can achieve much more than operational efficiency for CSPs – those benefits can be passed on to customers, enhancing everyday experiences of energy, work and tourism. This Catalyst shows how autonomous network hyperloops can enable new applications in digital twinning, drones, connected triggers and the metaverse – enabled by zero-touch partnering, connectivity-as-a-service, and intent-based AI – to revolutionize everyday life and fight climate change.
Champions: Chunghwa Telecom, NTT, Orange, Telecom Italia, Verizon
Participants: Beyond Now, FutureWei Technologies, Ubiqube

The Metaverse experience: Re-inventing telco business – Phase II
This Catalyst is working to advance the customer experience in the Metaverse by offering personalized customization in a metaverse storefront and and a metaverse conference hall. This will empower telcos to reimagine the customer experience they can offer and give them insights into their feasibility.
Champions: China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, SLT Mobitel
Participants: AsiaInfo Technologies, Beijing Tianyuan DIC Information Technology, Whale Cloud

Intent-driven autonomous networks – Phase II
Demonstrating intent-driven, multi-layer, autonomous operations with TM Forum Open APIs.
Champions: AIS, CAICT, Orange, TIM, Sparkle, Telenor, Vodafone
Participants: Cloudblue, Ericsson, Huawei, Intraway, TEOCO, Universita degli studi di Milano

Zero-touch digital marketplace – Phase III
Focusing initially on four key industries – sports, healthcare, mining and gaming – this Catalyst helps CSPs realize new revenue streams as countless sectors undergo digital transformation in the years ahead.
Champions: Colt Technology, Gamestream, The Football Association, stc, Verizon
Participants: Amazon Web Services, Cognizant, Hansen Technologies, NEC, Sterlite Technologies Limited

Intelligent edge for sustainable agriculture
This project provides a scalable blueprint for an integrated solution based on 5G network slicing for optimization of latency and throughput requirements, MEC orchestration and automation to address diversity among use cases and to support future proofing, and a new framework for seamless deployment of AI at the edge.
Champions: TELUS, Verizon
Participants: Epam, ETIYA, Red Hat

Telco data space – Phase II
This project introduces AI to commercial off-the-shelf software for autonomous networks – enabling CSPs to share data within a sovereign, federated cloud infrastructure, governed by data policy usage controls set by data owners, consortium partners and regulators.
Champions: Etisalat UAE, Orange, Vodafone
Participants: Datapply.ai, Ikanotis Partners, Infosys, IntegraTouch, IoT Lab

Green 5G
The project uses TM Forum Autonomous Networks technology to define a unified energy efficiency standard, and a methodology to deliver it across different business requirements, for instance in building energy saving capabilities for base stations.
Champions: China Mobile, PT XL Axiata
Participants: China Unitechs, Huawei Technologies, Nokia, ZTE

Supercharge edge-aware marketplaces – Phase II
The Catalyst created a common digital marketplace where customers can understand which edge services are available in any given location, so that CSPs can make it much easier to market and sell edge computing. In deploying these localized edge stores, CSPs will gain a much more sophisticated understanding of demand and be in a far greater position to adapt and adjust pricing.
Champions: Verizon, Vodafone
Participants: Ciena, Gotransverse, MATRIXX Software, Salesforce

Converged access for ODA
This Catalyst enables CSPs and vendors to better monetize their investments, as well as deliver improved business flexibility for customers.
Champions: Etisalat UAE, GCI Communication Corp, NBNCo, Telstra, Verizon, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT)
Participants: Future Connections, Incognito Software Systems, Sterlite Technologies Limited

Async Open APIs for event based architectures
By introducing a subset of the Open Digital Architecture (ODA), and RESTful Open APIs to streaming platforms, this Catalyst helps event streaming take huge steps toward the levels of interoperability befitting the IoT era.
Champions: BT, CityFibre, Orange, Reliance Jio, Telenor, Verizon, Vodafone
Participants: Aria Systems, Bit2win, Epam Systems, Tech Mahindra, Yupiik

Talent for tomorrow
This project developed a low-code training platform to intelligently spot talent and upskill staff by matching them to relevant interactive training modules.
Champion: China Unicom
Participants: BroadTech Technology, China Information Technology Designing Consulting Institute, Huawei Technologies

Digital twin network application in 5G network operations
This Catalyst shows how a new digital twin network platform can help service providers to simulate network performance and demand based on historic user-based AI – then apply business rules, knowledge graphs and machine learning inference models to verify SLA guarantees and configure network slices.
Champion: China Mobile
Participants: AsiaInfo, Beijing Ultrapower Software, SI-TECH

Green 5G
This project uses TM Forum Autonomous Networks technology to define a unified energy efficiency standard, and a methodology to deliver it across different business requirements, for instance in building energy saving capabilities for base stations.
Champions: China Mobile, PT XL Axiata
Participants: China Unitechs, Huawei Technologies, Nokia, ZTE

Digital business marketplace Phase 4
The team’s contribution has been accepted and published as part of 2 assets – IG1262 & IG1265. The project also provided the concept of type 2 marketplace.
Champions: BT, NTT Group, Telenor, Vodafone
Participants: Agile Fractal Grid, Amazon Web Services, Beyond by BearingPoint, Digital Twin Consortium, Etisalat, Intuitus Cyber, IoT Lab, IOTA Foundation c/o Nextland, Maxbyte, Mvine Limited, MYCOM OSI, RSA Tailings, Tantallon, University of Surrey

AI empowers 5G intelligent operations – Phase II
The team’s contribution has been recognized in 6 key areas – 1. MSDO: Critical contribution to establishing early MSDO progress. The project influenced the subsequent MSDO roadmap. 2. The contributions to IG1218, IG1218A and IG1218B are the most substantial and impactful contributions to ANP. 3. The Catalyst made a substantial contribution to the IG1252 Guide. 4. The Catalyst contribution is very evident in the AN whitepaper 3.0. Some Catalyst team members directly contributed to the writing of the whitepaper itself. 5. IG1251 The team made a very welcome contribution during AN RA development. 6. Open API work is underway in the TM Forum API project team (TMF724).
Champions: China Mobile
Participants: AsiaInfo, China Unitechs, Huawei, Nokia, ZTE

Standardized value-evaluation model for digital assets
The team made 3 important contributions to IG1031. These were accepted by the Digital Organizational Transformation project team. Thr project is also an important addition to GB1031 V2 as a key case study which supports the content and theory from a practical perspective from a leading CSP.
Champions: China Mobile
Participants: AsiaInfo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SI-TECH

Leveraging AI/ML to drive CX business outcomes proactively
The team made 11 contributions across five themes. This included 1 contribution to AI, Data & Insights, 6 relating to Autonomous Networks, 1 for Beyond Connectivity, 2 for Customer Experience & Trust and 1 contribution to our Human Factor work.
Champions: China Mobile, China Unicom, HKT PCCW Global, Telecom Argentina, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: bonree, Huawei, Shanghai iResearch Co

Operations-as-a-service
The Operations-as-a-service (OaaS) team contributed a comprehensive Whitepaper outlining how CSPs could leverage their capabilities of operations management and extend this into vertical industries, demonstrating a clear avenue for growth beyond connectivity.
Champions: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Mobile, State Grid Corporation of China
Participants: China Academy of Information and Communications Technology(CAICT), Inspur

AI empowers 5G intelligent operations – Phase II
5G networks support a broader range of services and applications but also bring new challenges in network complexity and coexistence of various generations to be managed. This Catalyst explores the definition and methodology of an autonomous network (AN) level evaluation system, and a practical implementation on the China Mobile network. Learn more
Champions: China Mobile
Participants: AsiaInfo, China Unitechs, Huawei, Nokia, ZTE

Telco data space
This Catalyst demonstrates the need for new data sharing best practices and standards and recommend automated mechanisms to ensure trusted dynamic end-to-end service assurance. This will enable communications service providers (CSPs) to seize new business opportunities and provide new services to customers, enabling the stakeholders to safely collaborate and share data and assets. Learn more
Champions: Orange, Vodafone
Participants: Ikanotis Partners, Infosys, IntegraTouch, IoT Lab, Tata Consultancy Services

5G Chargers
The ambition of this Catalyst is to create a modular end-to-end architecture for dynamic catalog and 5G charging using a convergence of GSMA, 3GPP and TM Forum-aligned APIs and data models. Learn more
Champions: Orange, Telenor, Vodafone
Participants: Oracle Communications, SigScale, Whale Cloud

Supercharge 5G monetization with a B2B2X marketplace
This Catalyst is developing a commercial B2B2X marketplace, where developer and partner communities can deliver network and APIs as a service, an agile unified enterprise product catalog, a fully automated service lifecycle, dynamic pricing, real-time charging, and analytics on customer usage.
Champions: M1, Verizon
Participants: Gotransverse, Salesforce, MATRIXX Software, Mirakl

Open digital twin framework for smart city ecosystem
This project will create an industry reference framework for a digital twin-based solution leveraging 5G networks so that next-generation smart cities can simultaneously be built physically and digitally to unlock new revenue streams for CSPs.
Champions: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
Participants: AsiaInfo, CAICT, IS Communications, Terra Info tech

Smart IDC – Intelligent energy saving for data centers
This Catalyst uses AI and simulation technology to help communications service providers (CSPs) operating data centers to improve efficiency of operations and maintenance, optimize energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions and costs.
Champions: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
Participants: AsiaInfo, GuoChuang Cloud Technology, Huawei, Inspur

Measurements of trust in AI environment
This Catalyst project built a system of trust within the AI environment which adheres to the ethics and governance policies of the organization. This ensures safety, technical robustness, transparency, non-discriminative nature, mitigation of bias and accountability of any AI system.
Champions: Dialog Axiata, Ncell
Participants: Axiata Digital Labs, BolgiaTen, Brytlyt, Subex

Cross-industry marketplace for CSP collaboration Phase 3
This Catalyst explores a new collaborative approach for vendors, CSPs and other parties to work together to quickly roll out a 5G Open RAN network and develop an enterprise use case. The project builds on the marketplace framework for application sharing to enable new 5G deployment and development models.
Champions: Dialog Axiata, Robi Axiata, Smart Axiata
Participants: Axiata Group Berhad, Axiata Digital Labs, CSG, GETREVE, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services

Leveraging AI/ML to drive CX business outcomes proactively
This Catalyst is working on a solution that utilizes advanced data analytics, AI & ML models correlating and linking customer experience (CX) measures across all touchpoints to key financial business drivers such as NPS, ARPU, Churn, Customer Life-Time Value (CLTV), in order to identify the major CX contributors driving the business performance and their impact. The insights from this solution can be used to guide investments into CX and related use cases, and to measure and track their return on experience (RoX).
Champions: China Mobile, China Unicom, HKT PCCW Global, Telecom Argentina, Saudi Telecom Company
Participants: bonree, Huawei, Shanghai iResearch Co

Open digital twin framework for smart city ecosystem
This project created an industry reference framework for a digital twin-based solution leveraging 5G networks so that next-generation smart cities can simultaneously be built physically and digitally to unlock new revenue streams for CSPs.
Champions: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
Participants: AsiaInfo, CAICT, IS Communications, Terra Info tech

AIOps autonomous service assurance
AI is the driving force enabling autonomous networks, which are needed to meet speed, quality and capacity requirements at the same time as managing increasing infrastructure complexity and optimizing operational costs. This Catalyst demonstrates how AI can drive closed-loop service assurance in network services, building the foundations for autonomous networks and service management processes. The project also proves best practices for how to deploy and operate AI in complex contributing back to the TM Forum AIOps Collaboration initiative.
Champions: China Telcom, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), Telecom Italia, LG Uplus, PCCW Solutions, Smart Communications, Cosmote
Participants: BOCO, Huawei, Comarch, Intracom Telecom

The Dynamic Architecture
This project demonstrates the use of autonomous networks to ensure service assurance and customer experience for virtualized services. It will show how service definitions can be dynamically federated so that a service of any type may be productized, sold, ordered, activated self-managed and assured using a visual catalog experience enabled through the use of TM Forum Open APIs..
Champions: Telstra, Vodafone
Participants: Deloitte, DGIT, Fujitsu, ServiceNow

Digital Business Marketplace III – Delivering end-to-end multi-partner Industry 4.0, now! – Phase III
This Catalyst project demonstrates how a Smart X product manager can easily assemble, sell and deliver a range of own & third-party complex solutions in a fully automated, secure and Zero-Touch approach, creating new revenue streams for all the partners. Phase 3 hardens the platform and services for production, by adding capability such as service assurance, federated identity management, distributed ledgers and network mapping, and to create specific solutions for the landscape of Industry 4.0 customers.
Champions: Agile Fractal Grid, BT, Chunghwa Telecom Company, Digital Twin Consortium, Etisalat, Heritage AG International (USA), Maxbyte, NTT, Telus, Telenor, SteepleCom
Participants: Accenture, BearingPoint, Digiglu, IOTA, Mvine, r3, University of Surrey, Intel, VETRO FiberMap, University of Ulster, IoT Lab, Stratus Technologies, Intuitus, Cityzenith, Beautiful Ones, Amazon Web Services, Tantallon, Alertiee

BOS: An Implementation of ODA Core Commerce Management – Phase II
This Catalyst uses the Open Digital Architecture-Reference Implementation, Canvas, Component and other Open Digital Architecture (ODA) concepts to showcase a practical implementation of online charging, usage management, usage buckets while implementing a meta-data driven federated product catalog to drive order capture and order-orchestration. It includes the implementation of the Process Flow API to manage business processes.
Champions: China Unicom, Orange, Telenor, Vodafone
Participants: Globetom, Oracle, Sigscale, Tech Mahindra, Whale Cloud

Trusted Data-Sharing for Smart Emergency Management (Covid-19)
This Catalyst shows 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. The outcome is relevant not only to the pandemic situation and its ripple impacts, but also to future challenges related to the sustainable development of humanity.
Champions: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
Participants: AsiaInfo Tech, Huawei, Tianyuan DIC, SI-TECH

Time Crunching 5G RAN Rollout with AI
Getting ahead of future 5G challenges, this Catalyst lays the foundations for the end-to-end digitalization of mobile network roll-out processes in order to optimize and accelerate deployment and return on investment (ROI).
Champions: Claro Columbia
Participants: Everis, Blue Prism, Creativity Software, Microsoft, Viavi, Brightcomms, Nokia

5G Ride On! – Phase III
The third phase of this Catalyst focuses on supporting business continuity solutions for a number of actors within the electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure ecosystem, helping CSPs to go beyond connectivity. This is done by employing autonomous network capabilities and edge computing technologies.
Champions: BT, Orange, Telecom Italia
Participants: Incognito, TEOCO, MDS Global, Huawei, AsiaInfo International

5G greener telco – Phase II
This Catalyst demonstrates a smart energy-saving network which provides a stable customer experience for subscribers, lowers power consumption for telco operators and, ultimately, reduces the overall climate impact of the telecoms industry.
Champions: China Telecom
Participants: AsiaInfo Technologies, BOCO, BUPT, ZTE

AI empowered 5G intelligent operations
Autonomous networks are required to manage increasing complexity. This Catalyst explores the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology for network planning, construction and maintenance in order to improve: the utilization of network resources; network operation and maintenance efficiency; customer experience; and energy usage, and to optimize OpEx for telecom operators.
Champions: China Mobile
Participants: AsiaInfo Technologies; BOCO, Huawei; Nokia