Catalyst program
Unite with the brightest and best to drive groundbreaking innovation and impactful business outcomes.
Enabling innovation at scale
Catalyst projects bring together global industry leaders and innovators to tackle real-world challenges, validate new ideas, and accelerate innovation from concept to deployment.
Whether starting with an emerging idea, a defined use case, or an existing capability, teams collaborate using TM Forum assets to develop working solutions, generate implementation evidence, and create reusable insights that help move the industry forward.
Catalyst members
Why get involved?
A Catalyst project is a powerful way to spotlight your organization’s status as an innovator with the potential to transform the industry.
- Create innovation at scale and sustainable growth with a fail-fast philosophy and the guidance of top industry figures.
- Reap the rewards of focused ideation, agile working practices, and a vast talent pool.
- Showcase your solution to senior executive Members and influential industry peers at DTW Ignite and Innovate Asia.
- Forge powerful industry connections and unlock new opportunities for success through networking.
- Have fun along the way in this vibrant, high-impact program!
Featured projects
Browse the projects in the latest Catalyst cycle.
Agentic AI for inter-operator composability
Coordinating operator networks dynamically when speed and resilience matter.
Autonomy accelerated: Connected intelligence for reliable agentic operations - Phase IV
Turning AI-era connectivity into responsive, monetizable customer experiences.
TrustNet AI: Autonomous scam prevention for telecom networks
Transforming telecom fraud management from a reactive process into autonomous, network-level protection.
Agentic intelligence exchange: Trusted insights commerce - Phase III
Turning sovereign telco intelligence into governed, orderable, measurable, and billable digital products across CSPs and ecosystem partners.
The Catalyst program is the definitive launchpad for turning visionary ideas into global industry standards. Participating in the TM Forum Catalyst program has been a transformative experience. From a business perspective, it provided the ultimate collaborative ecosystem...and, on a personal level, collaborating with global innovators to pioneer next-generation AI governance and security frameworks on a world stage has been incredibly rewarding.
The Catalyst program helps highlight new areas of innovation, accelerate time-to-value, and foster collaboration among CSPs, ecosystem and transformation partners.
A Catalyst is a great opportunity to work with new suppliers and other operators on "neutral" ground without being competitive. The simple focus is to make innovation work, which is a really inspiring objective.
Akuig benefited from the Catalyst project through collaboration with major carriers and vendors and the exposure of our skills to a wide audience.
Taking part in the TM Forum Catalyst project delivered remarkable business and personal gains. Developing solutions alongside global operators and vendors significantly shortened our technical verification cycle for smart network upgrades.
What I valued most was the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of partners ... Working together to build something innovative was both inspiring and professionally enriching.