New venue, new city, new dates – but was it plus ca change at Digital Transformation World 2022? The TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World – the flagship convention for the telecom software industry for over twenty years – returned to an in-person event after a two-year Covid-enforced gap. Living up to the spirit of its transformation title, it has a new format, time of year and home venue for the next three years: Copenhagen’s Bella Centre. Impressively, DTW2022 attracted over 3,000 delegates to Copenhagen. The move could hardly be more apposite for the telecom software community: a shift away from familiar, yet brutally monolithic and aging infrastructure: the Acropolis Center in Nice, long overdue substantial overhaul; cosmetic adjustments made over recent years failing to address its real problems. In truth, the Acropolis was built for a different era (it opened in 1984). Compared to the Acropolis, the Bella Centre is at least delightfully simple to get to from the centre of Copenhagen. While the on-site Marriott is modern and ultra-convenient, seasoned conference-goers figured correctly that downtown would be the better bet for food & lodging. DTW is fundamentally about networking. The new venue affords much better space for that. And […]