RegisterExcellence Awards 2026 Finalists
The 19th Annual Excellence Awards recognizes the organizations making a significant contribution to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry, across six key categories.
A final round of independent judging will take place to determine a winner in each category, to be announced at DTW Ignite, in June 2026.
Get your ticket to the must-attend tech event from 23-25 June in Copenhagen to find out who will win!
Join us in congratulating our finalists and watch this space from 24th April for their videos to find out more about them.
Excellence in transformation with ODA
From Black Box to Business Velocity: How Industrial-Scale ODA Transformed 5G Slicing into an Engine of Agility and Efficiency
China Unicom: Redefining Digital Excellence through the "Five Middle Platforms" ODA Transformation for a World-Class Techco
Transforming BSS Intelligence with Agentic AI and ODA: China Mobile (Shandong) & Huawei
SRIMS - Redefining OSS with TM Forum Standards, Agility, and Innovation
Driving Growth and Innovation Through ODA-Led Transformation at e&
Genix Platform: Operationalizing ODA Canvas
Excellence in customer & developer experience
The Proactive Experience Guardian: Driving Business Growth through Real-Time Autonomous CX Assurance
Genix by Axonect: Advancing Customer & Developer Experience Through ODA-Aligned Agentic AI
On Boarding Sky as a Fibre Customer using ODA and TMF Wholesale Broadband Standards
Rakuten Mobile Network AI Analyzer Platform
Transforming Customer Experience with Open Source ITSM Platform – Cloud Autofix
Agent-Twin Synergy: Achieving L4 Autonomous Customer Experience Assurance with Deterministic AI
JioBrain Customer Intelligence & Protection Suite
Agentic AI Empowering AI+BOSS for Seamless CX: China Mobile (Jiangsu) and Huawei
Experience-Led Autonomy at Scale: How Google Fiber and Netcracker Transformed Customer and Developer Experience through AI-Native, ODA-Driven Operations
Transforming Operations and Driving Growth with AI-driven Unified Customer Insight
Config not code: STC’s business led T2R rebuild with Open APIs, AI and event driven automation
Excellence in people, profit and planet
Project Green-Pulse
Beyon's Green Program
Leveraging TM Forum Offerings for impactful & holistic innovation
Early Warning System Driving Sustainable Business Continuity
TeleNavi: Voice-Only Navigation & Ride-Hailing
Data Asset Protection: Construction of an Ultra-Large-Scale Cross-Region Dual-Active Disaster Recovery System
Excellence in AI & data for business impact
From infrastructure to revenue: China Mobile and Nokia reinvent network monetization with Agentic AI
AI‑Driven Predictive Assurance at stc: From Global Roaming to Multi‑Domain Scale
Smarter Search for Sustainable Growth: Evolving MyTelkomsel’s AI-Enabled Search Platform
Telco LLM for Network (Field) Operations
Fault Digital Employee: High-level Decisioning in Agentic Systems
JioBrain- An Industry Agnostic AI Platform
Tianjin 10010 Hotline Callback: Full-Scenario Digital & Intelligent Operation Practice and Application
Rakuten Mobile Network E2E Performance Capacity Solution
IOH Next Generation Operations Evolution: Cutting Edge AgenticOps Amplify Transformation Outcome
The Agentic Growth Engine: End-to-End Real-Time Hyper-Personalization Campaign
CRISP - Claim Resolution Intelligent Settlement Platform
Excellence in composable ecosystems for new revenues
Etiya & Bouygues
ODA-Driven Industrialization of NTN Services
Engineering Reuse at Scale with Axonect: A TM Forum ODA-Aligned Composable Platform Ecosystem
UNN and Ericsson: Pioneering the World's First Multi-Service Wholesale Network to Accelerate Brunei's Digital Vision
Code, Compose, Grow: The "Inversion of Control" Engine for Industrialized Innovation
Telin Network API Hub: Building The First Ecosystem & Platform Enabler for Telco-Grade APIs In APAC
Next-Generation Intelligent Capability Open Product System: Escorting Chinese Enterprises' Blue Ocean Journey with the Web of Technology
Excellence in autonomous networks
Autonomous Networks in Action: AIOps Closed-Loop Fault Remediation and Auto-Healing
To AN Level 4 and Beyond: How 900+ AI Agents Have Transformed China Telecom’s Operations
Digital Intelligence Life Unicom Ten-Thousand-Households Comprehensive Upgrade Plan
JPL’s TelOS AI Suite
Autonomy in Action
Differentiated Experience Monetization for New Growth
AI Agent Usage in IP Network Operation and Maintenance
End-to-End Evolution of Autonomous Networks Toward AI Agents
Leveling up: stc and Nokia advance from conditional to high autonomy
Excellence in regional impact
Beyon's Green Program
Autonomous Networks in Action: AIOps Closed-Loop Fault Remediation and Auto-Healing
AI‑Driven Predictive Assurance at stc: From Global Roaming to Multi‑Domain Scale
Etiya & Bouygues
Smarter Search for Sustainable Growth: Evolving MyTelkomsel’s AI-Enabled Search Platform
Transforming Operations and Driving Growth with AI-driven Unified Customer Insight
Autonomy in Action
AI Agent Usage in IP Network Operation and Maintenance