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Please refer to below sections for:

  • Open Innovation Award Categories

  • Judging criteria

    • General criteria

    • Award specific criteria

  • Judging process

    • Judging process

    • Award submissions 

    • Catalyst spaces / URL / resources shared on their spaces

    • Onsite judging

  • Awards timelines

  • Awards help

Open Innovation Catalyst Awards 

The Open Innovation Catalyst Awards recognize achievements in igniting industry innovation, collaboration, and growth through their proof-of-concepts. Open Innovation Catalyst teams (i.e. C24.5.xxx) are eligible for these Awards. 


Award Categories

For Innovate Asia’24, we plan to have 3 Award categories to be awarded as Open Innovation Catalyst Awards at Bangkok (5-7, Nov 2024). 

To be awarded at Innovate Asia'24 Event 

    • Outstanding Catalyst – Business Impact

    • Outstanding Catalyst – Innovative & Futuristic 

    • Outstanding Catalyst – Tech for Good 

Winners will be announced live during an Award ceremony at Innovate Asia on 7th November 2024.


Judging Criteria 

For Open Innovation Catalyst Awards, each award category would be judged by:

 - a set of common ‘General Criteria’ and

 - a set of ‘Award Specific Criteria’ corresponding to the award category selected.

General Judging Criteria

Set of 7 parameters common to all award categories above. 

  • Storyline: How strong is the Catalyst’s storyline, solution & deliverables?

  • Team Collaborations: How well has the participants & champions contributed & collaborated towards catalyst success?

  • TMF Assets: How well has the team used or plans to contribute to TM Forum’s assets, best practices & standards?

  • Proof of concept: How well-developed is the proof-of-concept? (1 = ‘Just an idea’; 10 = ‘Credible working solution’)

  • Industry Value: How valuable is the Catalyst to the industry in the long term? (1 = ‘Not much/Redundant’; 10 = ‘Potential to revolutionize’)

  • Sustainable innovation: To what extent is the Catalyst solution sustainable? 

  • Showcase (online & onsite): How informational, interactive & well-presented is the onsite demonstration & the online Catalyst Spaces, to showcase the Catalyst solution/innovation? 

Award Specific Judging Criteria

Set of 2 parameters unique to each award category.

Outstanding Catalyst – Business Impact

Awarded to the Catalyst that demonstrates the most compelling business impact & potential to be commercially deployed.

    • Business Impact: How well does the project team quantify and explain the business impact of their solution? 

    • Commercial Viability: To what extent is the Catalyst solution relevant, commercially viable & credible to the business? (Describe with proof points e.g. target audience, market size, implementation cost, etc.) 

Outstanding Catalyst – Innovative & Futuristic

Awarded to the Catalyst team with the most innovative & futuristic solution aimed towards bringing digital transformation to industry.

    • Innovation: How original & innovative is the team’s business idea and/or technology solution?

    • Future Impact: How would the Catalyst solution potentially impact the future developments & technologies to revolutionize the industry?

Outstanding Catalyst – Tech for Good New

Awarded to the Catalyst that demonstrates exemplary utilization of technology to make a difference to positively impact both community welfare and organizational culture, while ensuring attainment of sustainable development goals. 

    • Sustainable solution: How well does the Catalyst solution align with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for community & industry welfare? (Scoring –1=Nil; 10=’Highest alignment with multiple SDG goals & well-defined proof points’)

    • Societal Impact: What degree of societal & industry impact is the Catalyst likely to have in the next 1 year (from community, ESG & Organizational culture perspective)? (Scoring –1=Nil; 10=’Highest)


Judging Process


All Open Innovation Catalyst teams will be eligible for ALL above 3 award categories. 

Judging Process:

    • To score the allocated teams, Judges will review: 

        • Awards submission forms (pre-read - Team will be filling this form between 16th Sept to 18th Oct, 2024)

        • Catalyst spaces / URL / resources shared on their spaces (pre-read - reviewed by Judges up to 1 week before event)

        • Onsite team presentation /demos at their booths for Judges. (This is separate to arena presentation on stage)

Award Submission:

    • Teams are required to submit the Awards submission forms (1 per team).

    • Each Catalyst team will be allocated a common Username and Password to access the Awards portal and for submitting their Awards Submission Forms. Login credentials will be shared with team representatives on 16th Sept. 

    • Award Submission dates:

      • Opens - 16th Sept, 12noon BST onwards

      • Closes - 18th Oct, midnight EST


Catalyst spaces / URL / resources shared on their spaces (pre-read - reviewed up to 1 week before event)

    • Online project page is reviewed as part of the judging process.

    • It's important to keep these spaces updated 

    • Teams can upload resources such as: 

      • PDFs

      • Whitepaper

      • Links to CurateFx

      • Videos

      • Presentations

      • Infographics

Onsite Judging:

    • Each Catalyst will be allocated a panel of 3–4 Judges to review and score the team onsite.  

    • Judges will attend your Arena / stage presentation to review the project summary & ask questions.

    • Judges may also visit the booths of allocated teams to interact with team further and score the teams. 

Timelines

Date/Time

Milestones

9th Sept

Catalyst Award Categories live on confluence for teams to review. 

16th Sept

Award Submission Portal opens to catalyst teams. 

25th Sept, 9:30am BST

Catalyst Awards Webinar for catalyst teams. 

18th Oct (Midnight, EST) 

Deadline: Awards Submission form closes

All teams ensure they make award submission before deadline.

28th Oct

List of Judges' allocations to respective teams updated here. Kindly ensure your Catalyst spaces have been updated with resources. 

5th Nov, 10:30am - 3:00pm

Catalyst Judging onsite

7th Nov, 1:30pm - 2:15pm

Awards Ceremony to announce finalists & winners. Venue-Innovate Stage

Summary - Awards & Judging Criteria

Award Category

Description

Judging Criteria

Award Specific Criteria 

(Specific to the respective award category)

General Criteria 

(Common for ALL award categories)

Outstanding Catalyst – Business Impact

Awarded to the Catalyst that demonstrates the most compelling business impact & potential to be commercially deployed.

  • Business Impact: How well does the project team quantify and explain the business impact of their solution? 

  • Commercial Viability: To what extent is the Catalyst solution relevant, commercially viable & credible to the business? (Describe with proof points e.g. target audience, market size, implementation cost, etc.)

  • Storyline: How strong is the Catalyst’s storyline, solution & deliverables?

  • Team Collaborations: How well has the participants & champions contributed & collaborated towards catalyst success?

  • TMF Assets: How well has the team used or plans to contribute to TM Forum’s assets, best practices & standards?

  • Proof of concept: How well-developed is the proof-of-concept? (1 = ‘Just an idea’; 10 = ‘Credible working solution’)

  • Industry Value: How valuable is the Catalyst to the industry in the long term? (1 = ‘Not much/Redundant’; 10 = ‘Potential to revolutionize’)

  • Sustainable innovation: To what extent is the Catalyst solution sustainable? 

  • Showcase (online & onsite): How informational, interactive & well-presented is the onsite demonstration & the online Catalyst Spaces, to showcase the Catalyst solution/innovation? 

Outstanding Catalyst – Innovative & Futuristic

Awarded to the Catalyst team with the most innovative & futuristic solution aimed towards bringing digital transformation to industry.

  • Innovation: How original & innovative is the team’s business idea and/or technology solution?

  • Future Impact: How would the Catalyst solution potentially impact the future developments & technologies to revolutionize the industry?

Outstanding Catalyst – Tech for Good

New

Awarded to the Catalyst that demonstrates exemplary utilization of technology to make a difference to positively impact both community welfare and organizational culture, while ensuring attainment of sustainable development goals. 

  • Sustainable solution: How well does the Catalyst solution align with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for community & industry welfare? (Scoring –1=Nil; 10=’Highest alignment with multiple SDG goals & well-defined proof points’)

  • Societal Impact: What degree of societal & industry impact is the Catalyst likely to have in the next 1 year (from community, ESG & Organizational culture perspective)? (Scoring –1=Nil; 10=’Highest)

AWARDS WEBINAR

Recording (available here) 

Presentation

Download

Awards Help & Support 

Questions

If you have any further questions/concerns, kindly reach out to Mahima Khurana - mkhurana@tmforum.org



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