Excellence Awards

Finalists
The 16th Annual Excellence Awards recognizes the organizations making a significant contribution to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry, across six key categories. Each of the finalists listed below has been selected from a wider pool of nominees. A final round of independent judging will take place in the coming weeks to determine a winner in each category, to be announced at DTW23 – Ignite. Please join us in congratulating our finalists.
2023
Excellence in autonomous operations
Vivo Config: Telefonica Brasil Autonomous Configuration System
China Telecom wireless autonomous network

Intelligent network operation based on AI knowledge graph

Autonomous Networks Empower the Development of Emerging Services


Talent For Tomorrow:Moving to Human-Robot Collaboration to Deliver Autonomous Networks

Data Driven Cognitive Operation to support MOCN Environment for Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB)

Excellence in customer experience
Seamless and Friction Free Digital Customer experience

NiceMobil & Moflix’s all digital telco delivers multiple industry firsts & customer-centric focus

AI-Driven Customer Complaint Handling Journey Delivers Distinctive Customer Experience


One Team, One Metric: CEI-Powered Digital Transformation

VNPT Customer Experience Transformation Model

STC reinvents customer experience for fixed broadband

Excellence in IT agility
IT Transformation through system and process innovation using TMF653/656

Accelerate and standardize digital transformation using TMF standards


Casa by Telus: a unified, AI-powered and cloud-based platform for omni-channel journeys

5G Full-service Cloud Billing-Center

Verizon Business OpenAPI Compliant Domain APIs

IT Agility for transformative mobile operations for China Mobile

Excellence in market innovation
“Value First Network as a Service” Creates Sustainable Business Growth


telebirr realizing the digital economy and moving beyond connectivity


China Mobile and Huawei Build China largest 5G Smart Mine in Ansteel


Verizon Partner Integrations Framework

Netcracker revolutionizes and automates end-to-end partner management for T-Mobile USA

re: Imagining the connected home, leveraging TMF’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and a B2B2X open ecosystem

Excellence in network agility
Turk Telekom NOVA


China Unicom’s Edge Computing Platform Based on Cloud Native and NFV


nbn® Smart Places delivers technology infrastructure for connected communities of the future

An Operation Mode Change by Building the World’s Largest Centralized Network Resource Center

SMART NOC – B2B Service Assurance Digitization for 5G Era

Netcracker and Vodafone Oman deliver a digital-first experience in a highly competitive market

Excellence in serving people & planet
Verizon improves energy efficiencies for a better planet and a better balance sheet

Supporting connectivity, the lifeblood of daily life, with expanded protection in dangerous times


Telefónica´s plan for energy efficiency promotion and emissions reduction
How Amdocs’ Tech for Good program develops digital solutions to solve social & environmental issues

Taming energy consumption and cutting carbon emission with Nokia AVA for Telefonica Germany

MTN Mobile Money Open APIs

Winners will be announced during DTW23 – Ignite in Copenhagen. Join the celebration on 19 September 2023.