On 10th of Sept. 2007, we held a very successful TMF TOKYO half day Seminar. 310 registered beyond the capacity of the conference facility, and about 250 gathered a lecture hall in the Faculty of Engineering. Building No.2, the University of Tokyo UT). The UT co-sponsored the event, which is one of good examples of TMF academia collaboration under the TMF University Liaison Programme. Attendees from academia were from UT, Osaka University, Nihon University and Cyber University.

The TM Forum TOKYO Seminar 2007 was themed “Managing Next Generation Networks and Services” with an exhibition, focused on successful approaches and deployment of OSS/BSS by leading service provider companies, equipment vendors, software vendors and system integrators, and any other companies and individuals in the converged telecom market/technology .

The Tokyo Seminar assembled insightful speakers and experts to present and discuss critical industry issues on the creation and delivery of next generation services.

After the opening speech by Mr. Hisashi Tada, Chair of TM Forum JMT, Prof. Hitoshi Aida, the University of Tokyo, delivered his Keynote Speech, “Realising of safety and security communications in the NGN environment.” Professor Aida is an authority in both telecom and the Internet networking research arena in Japan and has long been serving to a number of governmental as well as industrial committees. He explained what governmental/industry groups have been studying about safety and security issues in the NGN environment and then what are needed in management considering these. His speech was well accepted by the audience. One attendee's opinion was "those issues are very critical, but the problem is nobody wants to pay for security and safety protection/prevention."

Two executives from carriers, Dr. Susumu Yoneda, SoftBank Telecom, and Dr. Makoto Takano, NTT West presented their practical applications of networking and management functions in their environments. Dr Yoneda explained XML networking and Dr. Takamo presented NeTOM, their virsion of eTOM. The presentations were very practical and much appreciated by attendees. Several attendees mentioned that they never heard such presentation of carriers' concrete and practical activities and were glad to attend the informative and stimulating seminar.

Latter half of the Tokyo Seminar was dedicated to Aileen's business/marketing and Martin's technical presentations on the recent activities of the TMF. Both presentations were simultaneously interpreted into Japanese, but a half of the audience didn't use receivers and directly listened to their voices.

The seminar provided attendees with knowledge about industry trends helping attendees and their companies' success. TMF-JMT and TMF will welcome anyone interested to the next year Tokyo event.