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Trustworthy AI and Data

Join the Mission to accelerate trustworthy AI and Data at scale

Telcos are hungry to accelerate their journey towards becoming AI-native; streamlining operations, generating value, meeting customer needs and driving innovation. But the path is unclear.

A fast-evolving tech landscape, contrasting opinions, and risk and cost concerns make the “how” uncertain. AI use cases are evolving down different functional lines, potentially creating harmful data silos. Meanwhile 72% of CSPs have readiness issues, while only 13% have access to a trusted AI-ecosystem or industry blueprint.
Our Mission overcomes these challenges by defining the universal standards we need for AI-ready software, so we can integrate AI with existing technology investments and processes.

Got it in 5

1

Streamline innovation

Dramatically accelerate the industry’s path to becoming AI-native by defining stages of innovation and removing barriers.

2

Unlock value

Provide both the harmonized foundations and the real-world, production-ready solutions to unlock value.

3

Empower leaders

Describe and benchmark the stages of AI-native transformation to enable critical discussions and decisions.

4

Accelerate maturity

Establish the definitive industry “AI for X” path to production playbook to overcome barriers, save time and slash costs.

5

Create the blueprint

Curate and validate an industry-wide baseline AI-native blueprint, enabling CTOs and architects to create RFPs, reference architecture and have discussions.

Follow the rapid path to becoming AI-native

Our Trustworthy AI and Data Mission provides actionable insights, frameworks and implementation assets to help CSPs scale AI with confidence. Explore our mission overview or dive deeper into the three core ambitions driving trusted autonomy.

Trusted Decisions and actions: Providing leaders to govern confidence through the frameworks, benchmarks and evidence needed to make AI investment and autonomy decisions.

Trusted Models and Data: Provides operations and deployers of AI through with the operational foundations for trusted models and data, enabling AI to be deployed, monitored and governed at scale.

Trusted Agents: Provides architects, designers and innovators a delivery blueprint-first approach to building, governing and scaling AI agents  through a single industry focused trusted AI-native Agent Factory architecture


Trusted decisions and actions

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Dig into industry trends to uncover how AI and Data is providing the biggest opportunities, and the biggest challenges, to the connectivity industry's future. 

Check out our on-demand webinar Maximizing revenue growth and operational efficiency in telecom with agentic AI, or our recent report How does your GenAI strategy measure up? Key findings from our Generative AI Maturity Interactive Tool as well as case studies, C-level interviews, insights from industry figures and more.

Access the latest AI and Data thought leadership

Join the brightest and best minds from across the connectivity ecosystem to ideate and experiment on solutions that build our AI-enabled future together. You can join a range of Innovation projects within our Hackathon, Catalyst and Innovation Hub environments. You'll develop your skill sets, connect with experts, and gain hands-on experience, all while driving real-world innovation.

Check out our recent AI-focused Catalysts redefining what's possible in connectivity.

Find out more about our recent Hackathon: The Google Cloud AI Autonomous Networking Challenge

Explore live projects in the Innovation Hub like GenAI/LLM - TM Forum AIVA

Find out more about AI and Data Innovation projects

Our Member projects bring together experts from across the connectivity ecosystem to collaborate and patternize solutions, creating an AI-enabled ODA body of knowledge, and bringing to life practical toolkits for real-world implementation. 

Teams from multiple organizations work together on projects covering topics such as AI and data governance or AI close loop automation.

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The key element in any successful transformation is people. With TM Forum, you'll get the education and certification needed to elevate standards across your organization. 

Our AI and Data Skills Paths and skills development programs will help you build the workforce needed to drive our AI-enabled future.  

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Our Global Events are a platform to innovate, collaborate, and showcase real-world solutions to industry challenges. We have a range of inspiring events such as DTW Ignite where you'll connect with other highly-engaged experts from the connectivity ecosystem.

Don't miss our upcoming event TM Forum Tour, Tokyo

Collaborate face-to-face with your peers at Accelerate to shape the future of AI in telecom.

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