Innovation Hub
What is the Innovation Hub?
The Innovation Hub is a collaborative R&D space that unites global telecom companies, tech giants, and solution providers. Here, these industry leaders provide longer-term dedicated resources to industrialize concepts and use entrepreneurial thinking to co-create cutting-edge solutions, frameworks, and AI-native architectures.
The Concept
Our vision
The Innovation Hub is a global space where ideas evolve into solutions with lasting impact. Our goal is a connected world that is open, inclusive, and driven by technology innovation.
Moving forward, moving faster
The Innovation Hub accelerates breakthrough ideas using real-world data, open standards, and interoperable systems—powering initiatives like GenAI, autonomous networks, and digital twins.
Teams from TM Forum Members collaborate physically and virtually, contributing expertise, technology, space, and services to drive innovation at speed.
A new way to collaborate
Building on TM Forum’s proven Catalyst program, the Innovation Hub provides a new way for the telecoms industry to collaborate at speed. Unlike short-term projects, the Hub dedicates longer-term resources to industrialize ideas and deliver real-world, working solutions with immediate business impact.
Each project is hands-on, tested with real workloads, and designed to scale across the global ecosystem. Members can move from concept to showcase in months, backed by TM Forum’s reach and an agile, collaborative approach focused on shared goals and outcomes.
Live updates and roadmap
The story so far
- Pilot launch: In 2023, we held the grand opening of the Innovation Hub at Jio’s Navi , Mumbai campus with the founding Members, Jio, Accenture, Deutsche Telekom, Google Cloud, Orange, Telenor, Microsoft, and Vodafone.
- Watch the opening of the first TM Forum Innovation Hub in Navi Mumbai, proudly hosted by Jio.
- Pilot outcomes: Delivered the ODA Canvas GA, and TM Forum AIVA.
- Innovation Hub is now open to all Members with expanded membership.
What’s next?
Here is the upcoming roadmap for the Innovation Hub:
- 25-27 November: Showcasing live at Innovate Asia 2025, Bangkok.
I feel the Innovation Hub is helping the telecom industry grow faster by making everyone work together. For our company, it gives us a platform to test new ideas, create new solutions, and stay updated with the latest trends.
The exponential change stemming from converging technology trends like generative AI, cloud and data transparency gives communications companies an opportunity for meaningful growth beyond connectivity. Our goal with this Innovation Hub collaboration is to help the communications industry explore the technology, data and talent needed to continuously drive innovation and solve problems with new solutions at pace.
My experience with the Innovation Hub has been overwhelmingly positive. The initiative has demonstrated the power of collaboration across multiple member companies, and we have successfully developed a working solution that is already benefiting our Members.
The Innovation Hub brings telco industry standards to life and delivers a tangible, production ready solution. The telco industry will benefit from increased efficiency by standard methods to run applications. Faster time-to-market will come from more consistency for design, development and operations across different teams. Enhancing developer experience and productivity will lead to reduced costs.
For our organization, the Innovation Hub aligns closely with our goals of staying ahead of industry trends and delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients. It enables us to prototype and test ideas rapidly, reducing the time to market for new products and services.
projects
The Innovation Hub projects are delivering breakthrough thinking and rapid business impact. Outputs include hands-on implementation guidance, working code, and important feedback to improve industry standards. All Hub projects aim to impact the entire industry positively.
innovators
Industry demand for impactful collaboration is greater than ever. Convened around the Innovation Hub, multi-company teams are able to move at the speed our industry’s transformation requires. Working together on the foremost challenges, these teams co-create innovative and potentially disruptive solutions for the greater good of our industry.
location
Located in the heart of Navi Mumbai, India, Jio is proud to host the TM Forum Innovation Hub. Nestled in the heart of a city famous for education and business, Jio is India’s fastest growing Telco, and are champions of innovation. Watch the Grand Opening ceremony.