Innovation Hub
What is the Innovation Hub?
The Innovation Hub Program is designed to address the telecom industry’s most critical challenges, bringing together the very best talent from across the global technology sector. Dedicated, collaborative teams will work quickly on priority projects, providing breakthrough, entrepreneurial thinking to deliver business impact and help reignite growth in the telecom industry.
The Concept
Moving forward, moving faster
Our Hubs will host – both physically and virtually – teams comprised of talent from TM Forum members.
Participating companies contribute a range of expertise and resources to the hub, including experts, physical space, technology capabilities and professional services.
A new way to collaborate
The Innovation Hub initiative builds on the Forum’s successful Catalyst program that has delivered hundreds of innovative, practical solutions to telco challenges over the past decade. Hubs are a new, unique way for the global telecoms industry to collaborate at speed, providing longer-term, dedicated resources to industrialise concepts explored by the Catalysts. The emphasis is on delivering ‘real world’ solutions with immediate business impact: working code and concepts proven in operational or shadow-operational environments.
The pilot
This is a pilot to help us find the best ways of working and the most efficient use of resources. The outcomes are designed to benefit all our members.
- Testing and iterating TM Forum standards, providing valuable implementation experience to core standards development teams.
- Accelerating the development of code assets (for example, Open Digital Architecture components and Open APIs)
- Industrializing concepts explored in the Catalyst program, sharing the learnings with the broader industry
Watch the opening of the first TM Forum Innovation Hub in Navi Mumbai, proudly hosted by Jio, here
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 will deliver breakthrough thinking and rapid business impact. Outputs will include hands-on implementation guidance, working code, and important feedback to improve industry standards. All Hub projects aim to positively impact the entire industry.
innovators
Industry demand for impactful collaboration is greater than ever. Convened around the Innovation Hub, multi-company teams will be able to move at the speed our industry’s transformation requires. Working together on the foremost challenges, these teams will 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.