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ETSI is pleased to have been selected for a special session of this edition of the conference, which is for the second time putting together two of the top European conferences in the area of communication networks: the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) and the 6G Summit.

The hybrid conference is hosted in the city of Grenoble, located in the French Alps and recognized internationally for its scientific excellence, especially in the area of electronics components and systems. This is a testimony of the increased importance of microelectronics for European technological sovereignty and cybersecurity in 5G and 6G, in line with the European Chips Act recently proposed by the Commission.

For the full programme please visit the event website.

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ETSI is pleased to endorse the event which is driven by LF Edge Akraino and ETSI ISG MEC. The Edge Hackathon will run remotely from 29 June to 23 September with a short-list of best teams invited to complete with demonstrations and a Hackathon “pitch-off” at the Edge Computing World Global event in Santa Clara in the Silicon Valley on October 10th-12th. 

“Build your Edge Application or Solution with ETSI MEC APIs and LF Edge Akraino Blueprints”

You will be asked to develop an innovative Edge Application or Solution, utilizing ETSI MEC Service APIs and LF Edge Akraino Blueprints. Your solution may include any combination of client apps, edge apps or services, and cloud components.

Submissions are OPEN!! Final deadline is 29 June 2022
Registration Notification to the teams: 8 July 2022
Enter your team for this competition today!

Please read the Team Submission Guidelines and send submissions through the application form here.

See the EDGE HACKATHON DESCRIPTION

For further information please visit the event website.

Event Technology: Energy efficiency (EE)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in collaboration with UN Environment Programme (UN Environment), and ETSI are organizing a workshop on “Global Digital ICT Product Passport to achieve a Circular Economy” on 1 June 2022 from 9h30 to 12h30 CEST. The workshop is a side event of the European Union (EU) Green Week 2022. The Workshop is fully virtual. REGISTER NOW!

Event type: Webinars

Event Technology: Internet of Things (IoT)

Policy makers and industry stakeholders from Europe and Japan will discuss IoT security standardization and certification work, from baseline to vertical-specific requirements.

The work shop will be held online between Brussels and Tokyo on Monday, May 30th, 2022. From 9:00 to 11:45 Brussels time; from 16:00 to 18:45 Tokyo time.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a driver and an enabler of the digitization of Society. With the deployment of 5G networks, devices and sensors will make our lives increasingly connected, while enabling services such as Smart Cities, Smart Homes, Connected Cars and Industry Automation.

Developed in heterogeneous ecosystem, IoT applications and use cases in different vertical industries will raise specific security issues. Defining common approaches for IoT Security standards will contribute to innovation, interoperability of solutions, reliability and speed of adoption of new IoT solutions.

Following the successful EU-Japan Cooperation webinar on IoT Security held on June 1, 2021, this workshop will be co-chaired by the European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (EC DG CONNECT) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication of the Government of Japan (MIC) in May 2022.

For more information please visit the event website.

Event type: Seminars

The ETSI Seminar is run once a year, to provide an intensive course on ETSI, its organization, structure, ways of working and related subjects. It is targeted at those who are new to ETSI or those who need to develop a deeper understanding of how to work effectively in ETSI. 

Although designed primarily for newcomers to the Institute, the fact that ETSI is constantly evolving means that even those individuals with an extensive experience of the Institute and its work find it beneficial to attend. The Seminar is free of charge to attend and is open to all, members and non-members alike.

The ETSI Seminar is an important step in the orientation programme for new members. It facilitates their active participation in ETSI, 3GPP or oneM2M - a must if your organization has just joined ETSI. It is essential also for new delegates who have recently started to participate in ETSI work. In addition it also is an opportunity to meet key personnel in the ETSI Secretariat.

As well as describing the structure and organization of the Institute and the partnership projects, the seminar provides a detailed look at ETSI's on-line services and other tools for electronic working, which have dramatically improved the efficiency of the standards-making process. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP^TM) and the oneM2M Partnership Project are also covered.

Half of the seminar is focused on the ETSI overview, organization, structure, governance, funding, decision making and other high-level issues, and half covers the knowledge and skills required to operate effectively as a delegate in an ETSI standards meeting.

In fact, anyone involved in ETSI and standards-making in any way will benefit from attending!

Event type: Interoperability Events

ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI) on behalf of TC ESI, ETSI’s Technical Committee for Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures organized a remote Plugtests interoperability event on Electronic Signature Validation. This event was run remotely from 16 May to 15 July 2022 using a dedicated web portal. 

Scope

The aim of the event was to check the interoperability of ETSI advanced digital signatures and the validation capacities of the participants in order to help them detect possible issues which may lead to different validation results.

The interoperability testing allowed participants to test their digital signature validation tools and to cross-validate ETSI Electronic Signatures/Seals relying on EU Member States' Trusted Lists (based on TS 119 612 and TS 119 615) and according to the following standards:

These specifications have been updated since the last Digital Signature Validation Plugtests in 2019 and include significant changes.

The signature formats addressed in this event are:

Event type: Interoperability Events

Event Technology: Public safety & emergency communications, Testing languages

ETSI, with the support of the European Commission (EC), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the Critical Communications Association (TCCA) and the Union Internationale des Chemins de fer (UIC), organizes the 2nd FRMCS (Future Railway Mobile Communication System) Plugtests^TM event, which will take place as a remote-only event from 16^th to 20^th May 2022.

GSM-R is the current standard for the railway telecommunication services developed and maintained by ETSI TC RT. With the increased need for more throughout, higher capacity and flexible deployment options, FRMCS is being developed based on 3GPP Mission Critical Services.

What are the objectives and scope of this 2nd FRMCS Plugtests event?

Interoperability and Mission Critical services harmonisation are critical challenges for the successful deployment and operation of Mobile Broadband based communication Systems for various sectors, including Railways.

The concept of Mission Critical Services such as “Mission Critical Push To Talk" (MCPTT), “Mission Critical Data" (MCData) and “Mission Critical Video" (MCVideo) started with 3GPP Release-13 and is ongoing in current Releases. The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) is based on these Mission Critical Features.

The goal of the FRMCS Plugtests event is to validate the interoperability of a variety of implementations using different test scenarios based on the 3GPP Mission Critical Services framework with focus on the rail specific features. The FRMCS Plugtests event will test railways-oriented capabilities defined in 3GPP. This FRMCS Plugtests event is part of the MCX Plugtests programme.

The tests will be based on 3GPP, ETSI and IETF standards, and will be designed for the following equipment:

The purpose and scope of the FRMCS Plugtests event are to test independently and jointly all components of the Mobile communication System for Railways. Railway-related test cases are available in ETSI TS 103 564. Additional railway-oriented test cases will also be developed for this Plugtests.

This FRMCS Plugtests event will focus on Over-The-Top (OTT) tests via VPN connections from the vendor labs, following the approach used during the pre-test stages in previous MCX Plugtests events and in the first FRMCS remote Plugtests event.

Who can participate?

What are the advantages of attending the FRMCS Plugtests event?

The Plugtests Observer Program

The focus of the observer program is to examine and discuss the progress of deployment and the challenges in testing of the Mission Critical Services for Public Transport. The observer program will provide a platform to the various stake holders in railways in order to discuss the progress of FRMCS. The observer program will be held remotely.

The observer program will include remote demos from interested vendors, which can show how their solutions meet the FRMCS Plugtests test cases and observer scenario use cases.

Event type: Webinars

10:00 am CEST (8:00 am UTC) to 10:45 am CEST - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

View all past and upcoming ETSI webinars on our webinar page.

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ETSI is pleased to endorse the 23^rd Edition of the MPLS, SD & AI Net World Congress in Paris. Benefit from a 35% discount on your delegate pass.

As it has been the case for decades now, hottest topics will be addressed by the most renowned engineers and visionary people who have made MPLS SD & AI Net World such a valuable event to get a comprehensive overview of where the networking industry is heading to.

This year a particular attention is paid to SRv6 deployments and next steps.

Experts describe the challenges and solutions of the migration:

For more information please visit the event website.

Event type: Interoperability Events

ETSI, in partnership with 5GAA, organized the 3rd C‑V2X PLUGTESTS™, which was hosted by DEKRA in Klettwitz, DE from 28 March to 1 April 2022. 

Important: We assure our participants, members and partners that ETSI is monitoring the situation of the Coronavirus pandemic very closely and will ensure all necessary initiatives will be taken in accordance with the instructions of the local government authorities. We recommend flexible booking of hotel / flights accordingly.

What are the objectives and scope of the PLUGTESTS event?

C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything) is an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) service using mobile communication technology for direct communication as well as network communication between vehicles, from vehicle to pedestrian and from vehicle to infrastructure.

The 3rd C-V2X PLUGTESTS event enabled On-Board-Units (OBUs), Roadside-Units (RSUs) and Public key infrastructure (PKIs) vendors to run interoperability test sessions to assess the level of interoperability of their implementation and validate the understanding of the standards. The goal of interoperability testing is to check that implementations of devices with different form factors can work together and provide the functionalities specified in the standards. This edition of the Plugtests event also focused on testing direct communication between devices also including ITS Security features (EU ITS Security Policy and EU ITS Certificate Policy) in order to support industry in the C-ITS deployment in the common single European trust domain as defined by the European Commission in the Release 1 of the document "Security Policy & Governance Framework for Deployment and Operation of European Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)".

The week-long face to face event provided an opportunity to test C-V2X devices, in both lab and field environments at the DEKRA site in Klettwitz, DE.

The test cases were mainly based on ETSI ITS standards and 3GPP test specifications. In addition to test scenarios from the first and second C-V2X PLUGTESTS events, new use cases were added for the lab and field-based interoperability testing.

This event allowed testing in the ITS ecosystem under real life conditions from infrastructure to applications in vehicles, thus demonstrating interoperability of C-V2X equipment. A unique chance for solution providers to maximize the effectiveness of their ITS solutions in test environments. Test Equipment vendors had the possibility to run the test sessions during the event.

What were the advantages of attending the C-V2X PLUGTESTS event?

Highway operators, automobile manufacturers and government bodies/authorities were welcome as observers. Observers were able to evaluate the test statistics in the TRT (Test Reporting Tool) provided the Rules of Engagement and Non-Disclosure Agreement of the ITS PLUGTESTS Programme have been signed.

The C-V2X PLUGTESTS were combined with an associated C-V2X Workshop, which allowed to present and discuss updates on the latest developments.

ETSI PLUGTESTS activities are co-funded by the European Commission and European Free Trade Association.