Project foundation: AI-native ODA canvas

Creating the foundation for AI-native telecoms

This Innovation Hub Pioneer Project is creating a secure, open, multi‑vendor AI‑native ODA Canvas sandbox where CSPs, vendors, and innovators can build, integrate, and demonstrate AI agents aligned to the TM Forum’s AI‑Native Blueprint. With a “code‑first” approach, the project shifts participants from conceptual discussions to hands‑on, production‑driven engineering across data, agent interactions, and model lifecycle management.

Participants

Scope and key activities

The AI-native ODA Canvas initiative aims to deliver a standards-aligned, developer-ready foundation for AI-native telecom architectures and to demonstrate its value through validated autonomous scenarios. The program culminated in a live, end-to-end industry showcase at DTW Ignite 2026, providing reusable assets and learnings to accelerate Member adoption.

Establish a developer ready AI Native ODA Canvas aligned with the TM Forum AI Native Blueprint, enabling consistent onboarding, governance, and execution of agentic applications

Validate telecom grade autonomous use cases - including Security Agent, Fault Resolution, and 5G Dynamic Slice Management - on a shared, multi vendor foundation platform

Present a fully integrated, end to end industry reference demonstration at DTW Ignite 2026, combining the Hello World scenario with mature autonomous use cases

Deliver and showcase a minimal end to end “Hello World” agent scenario demonstrating core platform integration and runtime capabilities

Produce reusable assets, patterns, and learnings to support scalable adoption of AI Native architectures across the TM Forum ecosystem

Objectives and outcomes

The AI Native ODA Canvas initiative focuses on establishing a shared, standards aligned foundation and demonstrating real-world autonomous operations through validated use cases. The work progresses from platform enablement to applied use cases, culminating in a fully integrated, industry ready demonstration for DTW Ignite 2026.

Establish foundations

Establish a multi vendor AI Native ODA Canvas foundation to support consistent onboarding, governance, and execution

Deploy management capabilities

Deploy core AI, data, security, and API management capabilities aligned with TM Forum standards

Validate the platform

Validate the platform through a minimal end to end “Hello World” agent scenario planned to be showcased at DTW Ignite 2026

Deliver MVP level use cases

Design and deliver MVP level autonomous use cases, including security agent, fault resolution, and 5G dynamic slice management

Integrate into a scenario for presentation

Integrate capabilities into a single end-to-end scenario and prepare a live demonstration for DTW Ignite 2026

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