Catalyst
proof-of-concept
Meet the agents of change.
Catalysts are rapid-fire proof-of-concept projects that co-create innovative solutions.
Our 41 Catalyst teams for 2021 will be showcasing during the event as they step into our Catalyst Arena to pitch to industry influencers. But you can start right now by following your favorites. Check out the teams below.
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.
URN: C21.0.245
5G cloud & AI convergence of BOSS
This project aims to improve 5G billing systems using AI and container technologies. This will enable rapid deployment with flexible scheduling and on-demand cross-regional scalability. It will handle masses of 5G bills and shorten delivery times on new products significantly.
URN: C21.0.03
5G digital marketplace - Phase 2
This project aims to improve 5G billing systems using AI and container technologies. This will enable rapid deployment with flexible scheduling and on-demand cross-regional scalability. It will handle masses of 5G bills and shorten delivery times on new products significantly.
URN: C21.0.214
5G enhanced manufacturing
This Catalyst will showcase demonstrations from the 5GEM (5G Enabled Manufacturing) project, to improve the automotive manufacturing processes and operations at Ford Motor Company.
URN: C21.0.188
5G next-gen performance with cloud gaming
This Catalyst focuses on end-to-end network slicing enabling business model innovation and new services across all verticals, leading to new revenue opportunities for communication service providers.
URN: C21.0.176
5G slicing as a service for B2B2X over convergent cloud central offices
This Catalyst will show how a communications service provider can launch a 5G network slice-as-a-service offer to different vertical industries' use cases and how its performance requirements can be mapped to instantiate the most suitable network slice and to define its SLA, charging and billing.
C21.0.200
5G: Accelerating smart aviation - Phase IV
This Catalyst explores how communications service providers can offer 5G connectivity to stakeholders across multiple industries.
URN: C21.0.267
AI empowers 5G intelligent operations Phase II
This Catalyst will explore the definition and methodology of an autonomous network (AN) level evaluation system, and a practical implementation on the China Mobile network.
URN: C21.0.158
AI-based 5G lifecycle resource management
Based on AI and big data technology, this Catalyst aims to help telcos that focus on cloud-network synergy to realize full lifecycle management of cloud-network resources from network planning and design through to termination.
URN: C21.0.210
Autonomous customer experience index for zero-touch 5G network
This Catalyst defines a Customer Experience Index to support zero-touch operations in 5G networks.
URN: C21.0.265
Autonomous networks hyperloops for disruptive digital services
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, this Catalyst project imagines new "disruptive" services that will be completely autonomous, designed for zero-fault operations, with auto-scaling based on customer expectations.
URN: C21.0.202
Blockchain-based equity exchange alliance
Based on the blockchain platform of the China Mobile headquarters, this Catalyst demonstrates a solution enabling the exchange of local equity points for cooperative enterprise equity points creating a sharing economy between them both.
URN: C21.0.186
Collaborative partner on-boarding - Phase II
Phase 2 of the Ecosystem Playbook Catalyst proceeds from defining the Ecosystem to on-boarding the partners. It aims to simplify the on-boarding journey by proposing a framework and step-wise guide to enabling prospective partners to not only understand the ecosystem roles and required capabilities, but also to assess their suitability to participate in it.
URN: C21.0.246
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.
URN: C21.0.201
Digital business marketplace - Phase 4
This Catalyst expands the Digital Business Marketplace (DBM) solutions-as-a-service to support new business models and timely, cost-efficient delivery of services in areas such as smart buildings, smart mining, smart data lakes, and digital twins.
URN: C21.0.154
Digital network twin for data-driven 5G services
In the 5G era, network management and maintenance are becoming more and more difficult due to higher complexity of the managed network. This Catalyst will introduce digital twin network technology to address challenges such as 5G service provisioning.
URN: C21.0.175
Digital twin network for IoT
To deliver Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) applications for a 5G network and beyond, this Catalyst proposes using SD WAN as an alternative to a network slice and offers a service catalog to manage SD WAN service provision, edge compute and partner-provided applications.
URN: C21.0.199
Dynamic edge enabled applications
This Catalyst will enable service delivery to medical facilities internationally via 5G slices. The project addresses medical simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and the use of virtual intelligent counselling agents (VICA) in use cases including teaching, surgeries and remote patient care. To carry these out, 5G networks offering low latency and high performance are crucial.
URN: C21.0.262
Ecosoft eHealth
This Catalyst will enable service delivery to medical facilities internationally via 5G slices.
URN: C21.0.224
Ecosystem platform for smart city campus networks
This project deals with the development of Smart Cities, specifically identifying and defining capability component packages based on business and user requirements.
URN: C21.0.215
Enhanced e-channel marketing
This Catalyst project aims to enhance marketing offerings to customers via e-channels (e.g. mobile phones and apps) by offering personalized recommendation services based on event marketing business processes and related technical solutions.
URN: C21.0.08
Force 10 - The vertical industries enabler for telecommunications
This Catalyst will build a vertical industries platform to enable communications service providers to support separate network slices for vertical industries.
URN: C21.0.258
Intelligent operations of leased line services
The project will demonstrate how the adoption of TM Forum's Network Domain can be managed in an intelligent way to support smooth operations.
URN: C21.0.205
Intent-driven autonomous networks for smart mobility
This Catalyst project will demonstrate new innovative intent-based management methodologies and techniques for autonomous operations of enterprise network and application infrastructure.
URN: C21.0.211
Leveraging AI/ML to drive CX business outcomes proactively
This Catalyst will offer a solution that consolidates all customer-related data for 360 degree customer profiling and delivers insights to drive business decision-making.
URN: C21.0.197
Measurements of trust in AI environment
This Catalyst project aims to build a system of trust within the AI environment which adheres to the ethics and governance policies of the organization.
URN: C21.0.213
Multi-operator/multi-vendor resource pooling and RAN slicing
This multi-phase Catalyst project intends to demonstrate advanced, 5G services across communications service providers to enable highest priority communications during disasters/catastrophic events.
URN: C21.0.254
Network O&M transformation
This Catalyst will build an Operations & Maintenance (O&M) system developed by research & development (R&D) to support the agile development and efficient O&M of various applications. Their solution will achieve cost reductions, service quality improvements, and value monetization.
URN: C21.0.266
One-stop 5G business to business (B2B) services
This Catalyst will accelerate the ability for operators to rapidly innovate, replicate and promote their 5G business-to-business (B2B) services. This includes one-stop generation of network products, one-stop service provisioning, and real-time service SLA monitoring and assurance.
URN: C21.0.264
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.
URN: C21.0.174
Operations-as-a-Service
This Catalyst will propose a model for enterprise Operations-as-a-Service (OaaS) to help digital transformation of businesses in all industry verticals.
URN: C21.0.156
Scale blockchain-based data sharing
This Catalyst will demonstrate the value of a blockchain-based 5G sharing ecosystem to enhance operations, maintenance and customer experience.
URN: C21.0.07
Service mesh for cloud-native business applications
This Catalyst aims to optimize modular design and loose coupling architecture, and implement a cloud-native transformation of business applications.
URN: C21.0.256
Smart IDC - Intelligent energy saving for data centers
This Catalyst uses AI and simulation technology to help communications service providers operating data centers to improve efficiency of operations and maintenance, optimize energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions and costs.
URN: C21.0.185
Smart O&M for private data centers
By leveraging machine learning, image recognition and other technologies, this Catalyst demonstrates optimized operations and maintenance (O&M) and security of China Mobile's private cloud data centers.
URN: C21.0.206
Standardized value-evaluation model for digital assets
This Catalyst is building a unified data management portal that gathers multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi-channel capability full-volume data to form the basis of a digital asset value-evaluation model.
URN: C21.0.268
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.
URN: C21.0.271
Telco data sharing
This Catalyst will demonstrate the need for new data sharing best practices and standards and recommend automated mechanisms to ensure trusted dynamic end-to-end service assurance.
URN: C21.0.233
Trusted data sharing for financial industry
This Catalyst proposes a model for securely sharing big data among partners in the financial sector.
URN: C21.0.203
Unified APIs for inter-carrier services
This Catalyst aims to define a unified API specification that is compliant with both TM Forum and MEF payloads to support the provisioning of inter-carrier services and global carrier interoperability.
URN: C21.0.216
Zero touch operations (ZTO)
Leveraging the power of AI and advancements in technology, this Catalyst project will transform the way operations work by collecting, analyzing, processing, predicting, recommending, and solving issues in network and IT with zero human intervention.
URN: C21.0.209