ETSI - ETSI AI Conference - How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI

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The ETSI Artificial Intelligence Conference - How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI will take place face-to-face on 10-12 February 2025, in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) and related technologies continue to be at the forefront of research, industrial and business developments and have become the key enablers for new and innovative products and services that are transforming business and society.

Europe, as with many other Nations and regions, is currently developing the required policies and legislation to ensure the deployment of artificial intelligence according to relevant values and fundamental rights.

The complex standards and regulatory landscape is shifting rapidly, the technologies are developing exponentially, and businesses are attempting to integrate AI into services and products.

Now more than ever clarity is needed! It is time to engage into standardization to lay the groundworks of an AI enabled future full of opportunities.

The ETSI AI Conference has been designed to provide attendees with the unique opportunity to exchange with AI subject-experts and learn about the state of the art work that is being done in AI-related standardization, regulation and service deployments.

Attending this face-to-face event will provide exclusive insights into the most relevant applications of AI, the related challenges and key enablers that need to be put in place to ensure the deployment of ‘trustworthy’ AI-enabled products and services. Attendees will also learn about current and future opportunities to contribute to standardization, and therefore play a role in actively shaping the future of the technology.

Register now! The event is open to all upon mandatory registration.

Demos and posters will complement the conference agenda.

Agenda

This is the stable agenda of the ETSI AI Conference. Please note that some timings may be subject to change.

The ETSI AI Conference will start at 14:00 on Monday 10 February and end on Wednesday 12 February afternoon.

Demos and Posters

The following demos and posters, located next to the networking area in ETSI Lobby, will complement the conference programme. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit these during the conference coffee and lunch breaks.

Demos:

AI-assisted Invention for 3GPP Standards
Harry Cronin, Iprova
Transforming the Network into AI-based services for customers
Rodrigo Sanz, Telefónica Innovacion Digital
RDI AI Safety & Security Lab: How the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure Builds Expert Knowledge on the New Risks of Today's AI
Thomas Adrian, Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur (Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure)
GENSHIELD-AI: Mitigating Adversarial Threats from AI and Proactive Fraud Prevention for Next-Generation Machine Learning Applications
Chamara Prabhash Sandeepa Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage, University College Dublin
The New Paradigm for Next Generation of Mobile Communication Networks enabled by AI
Xueli An, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH
AI Enhanced 3D Modeling and Pre-surgery Planning based on Multimodal Patient Record Data
Hans Christiaan de Raad, OpenNovations
Using an Intelligent Chatbot for Intent-Driven Management of Autonomous 6G Networks (SNS-JU 6GINTENSE
& SUNRISE-6G projects)
Christos Verikoukis ISI/ATH

Posters:

Securing the Digital Age: AI/ML for Robust Media Broadcast and VoIP
Rajesh Mahato, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Synthetic Traffic Data Generation Through Network Digital Twin for ML-Based Detection of Benign and Malicious Flows
Yenny Lisbeth Moreno Meneses, Telefónica
6G-DALI: 6G Data and ML Operations Automation via an End-to-end AI Framework
Takai Eddine Kennouche, VIAVI Solutions
DRAAMS - A Model-follow-data Paradigm Enabler
Hesham Moussa, Huawei Technologies Canada
Regulatory Sandboxes in the AI Act - An Accessible Way to Regulatory Dialogue
Sander de Graaf, Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure
Collaborative Intelligence Sharing in Energy Communities via Federated Learning
Luís Pisco, CNET-CENTRE NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES/ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
AI in ICT – the good, the bad and the good again
Piotr Zuraniewski, TNO

Programme Committee

Markus Mueck, Programme Commitee Chair, ETSI OCG-AI Chair, ETSI Board Chair, Intel Deutschland GmbH
David Boswarthick, Director Strategy and Innovation, ETSI
Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI Chair, Cadzow Communications
Ray Forbes, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, ETSI ISG ENI Chair, Huawei
Jochen Friedrich, ETSI Board Member, IBM Europe
François Ortolan, ETSI Board Member, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, NEC Europe Ltd
Helene Schmidt, ETSI OCG-AI Support Coordinator, ETSI

Biographies

Abdelrahman Abdelkader is part of Nokia Standards as a Senior Staff Research Specialist with a strong focus on network automation and the use of AI/ML in network management and resource optimization. He was also the rapporteur of the published ETSI ZSM012 specification on AI enablers. Before joining Nokia, he worked as a Research Associate at The Technical University of Dresden (TUD), where he acquired his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Thomas Adrian has a background in Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience and Tech consultancy, which he applies to his position as a researcher at the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure's AI Safety & Security lab. Thomas is involved in researching emergent risks of AI, with a focus on modeling the threat space for consumer-grade hardware and manipulative AI.

Dr. Xueli An is the Head of 6G Network Architecture Research Group at Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich Research Center, Germany. Within Huawei, she leads the next generation mobile communication enabled vertical industry related research and corresponding industry development related activities. She has long experience in mobile communication system design research and deep engagement with the 5G enabled Industry 4.0 ecosystem. She serves as 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) working group “Use cases and Requirements” vice chair since 2018. She is the vice chair of NetworldEurope Enabling Technologies for Future Vertical Ecosystem Transformation Working Group since 2020. Her current research focuses on 6G network architecture design and she also takes the role as working group “Communication and Dissemination” chair position in one6G Association since 2021. She has many peer-reviewed international journal/conference publications and filed/granted patent applications in the field of wireless communication, networking, etc. She received her Master and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands.

Holger Bentje graduated from University Hannover in Germany with a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994. He started his professional career as an EMC and telecom project engineer in an accredited laboratory in the South of Germany. He continued his career as Laboratory Manager for EMC, Telecom and Safety. He joined Phoenix Testlab in 1998 where he established one of the first privately owned Notified Bodies to certify radio and telecom equipment in Germany. Currently he is Master Specialist EMC & Radio Technologies, Director Notified Body Radio Equipment Directive (RED) and Telecom Certification Body (TCB) USA, Canada, Japan at Phoenix Testlab. He is a lecturer in EMC at Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences (TH OWL) in Lemgo, Germany since 2004. Holger Bentje is the Chairperson of the Radio Equipment Directive Compliance Association (REDCA), the association of RED Notified Bodies since 2020.

Having been awarded an ETSI Fellowship in 2023 Scott Cadzow has used that as a springboard for further involvement in developing and promoting standards. Across a number of fields, often underpinned by the keyword of security, Scott has attempted across his career to make standards clear, concise and simple to understand and apply. In many cases this has been to deconstruct difficult problems to remove the difficulty and to address the key issues that make the standard and its products work.

Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati obtained his Engineering Master degree in 2001 from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and his Ph.D in Engineering Science in 2005 from Paris Telecom. He then started working at Motorola Labs in Paris in 2002. Then in 2006 he joined CEA LETI as a research engineer. From 2007, he becomes a PhD supervisor. From 2010 to 2012, he has been the co-chair of the wireless working group in GreenTouch Initiative, which deals with design of future energy efficient communication networks. From 2011 to 2016 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications strategic programs Director, then, until January 2020 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications Scientific and Innovation Director. Since February 2020 he is the Nanotechnologies and Wireless for 6G (New-6G) Program Director focusing on future 6G technologies. He has published around 250 papers in journals, international conferences, and books chapters, and he has given more than 250 international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor of more than 100 patents. He has also a rather strong and successful experience in leading and coordinating research activities having been the main coordinator of successful projects such as 5G-CHAMPIONS, 5GAllstar or RISE-6G and he is the coordinator of 6G-GOALS, 6G-DISAC and 6G-ARROW. CEA has also coordinated other FP7/H2020 and national projects, and/or serving regularly as project’s Technical Manager, Work Package and Task leader in more than 40 European projects. His current research interests are on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Semantic communications, Goal-oriented communications AI-native technologies in the context of future 6G networks.

Marco Carugi is Senior consultant with Huawei Technologies on advanced ICTs and related standardization since 2018 and Rapporteur for ITU-T Q20 of SG13. Professional experience in R&D and technology strategy, with past positions in different roles within Solvay group, Orange Labs, Nortel Networks CTO division, ZTE R&D Technology Strategy, as well as consultant with various customers, including NEC (2015-2018). IMT-2020/5G and Future Networks, AI/ML for Networks and Autonomous Networks, IoT, Digital Twins and Smart Cities are the main technical areas he is currently involved in. Active in standardization for a long time, he has led specifications in different domains and held leadership positions in different SDOs (ITU-T, IETF, OIF). Among other positions (in ITU-T SG20 and more), he currently serves as Rapporteur for ITU-T Q20 of SG13 (“Networks beyond IMT-2020 and Machine Learning: Requirements and Architecture”) and Rapporteur for ITU-T Q2 of SG20 (“Requirements, capabilities and architectural frameworks across verticals enhanced by emerging digital technologies”). He also acts as Vice-Chair of the ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on Machine Learning and co-Convener of the ITU-T Correspondence Group for datasets applicable for AI/ML in networks. Marco holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (France), a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (France), and completed an Executive Program on Big Data Science at Ecole Centrale Supelec (France).

Marinos Charalambides is a Project Officer at the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking where he is responsible for the control and monitoring of several Horizon Europe projects. He holds a PhD degree in network and service management and since 2003 he has been working on key research challenges in this area. He has made significant scientific contributions through his involvement in several European research projects and has published many high-quality journal and conference papers. He was on the editorial board of IEEE TNSM, the general co-chair of IEEE CNSM 2022, the lead TPC co-chair of IM 2017, and he served as the vice-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management.

Dr Harry Cronin is currently Head of Standards at Iprova, where he leads the development of AI-based software to help users invent for and contribute to 3GPP and other technical standards faster and more diversely than previously possible. Harry also leads on Invention-as-a-Service projects for a range of clients in telecoms, semiconductors and other high tech industries. Harry is an accomplished inventor with over 90 patents and patent applications to date. Prior to Iprova, Harry worked in R&D in printed electronics and defense electronics. He obtained his doctoral degree in Advanced Materials from the University of Surrey and his masters degree in Physics from Imperial College London.

Jan Ellsberger, Director-General, ETSI. Jan Ellsberger is a globally recognised leader in the ICT industry with more than 30 years of experience with research and innovation, industry ecosystem development, standardisation, policy development & regulation, and strategy development in the telecommunications and automotive industries. From 2000-2012 he was leading Ericsson’s global standardisation operations. He has also served in leading positions in several industry associations such as 3GPP, 5GAA, ERTICO and the Horizon Europe CCAM Association.

Linghang Fan, Principal Standardisation Engineer, NEC Laboratories Europe and ORAN WG2 AI/ML Rapporteur. Linghang Fan brings over 20 years of extensive experience in mobile communications, encompassing software development, product management, and standardisation. He holds a B.Eng. in Automatic Control from Southeast University, China, and both an M.Sc. with distinction and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. Throughout his career, he has contributed to eight EU-funded projects in communications and computing, authored over 50 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, and served as an editor of a book. As an NEC delegate, he has been actively involved in standardisation efforts within IEEE 802.16, 3GPP SA2, and ORAN WG2/WG3. Currently, he serves as the AI/ML Rapporteur for ORAN WG2, driving innovation and advancements in the field of mobile network intelligence.

Ray Forbes, Huawei Technologies Co. LTD (UK). Educated at Loughborough University of Technology between 1977 and 1984, he joined Plessey Telecommunications where he worked on Software Engineering and Analysis. Since 1990 he has worked on network development in the area of Intelligent Networks and Standardisation. Working in many manufacturers. Currently, he is working for Huawei Technologies to lead and chair the ETSI ISG ENI (Experiential Networked intelligence) and ETSI ISG PDL (Permissioned Distributed Ledger) as Acting Chairman.

Jochen Friedrich leads IBM’s team for Standardisation and Technical Regulation in Europe and is part of the corporate IBM standards and open source strategy organisation. Jochen holds a number of positions in European standardisation. He is Vice-President of Ecma International, member of the ETSI Board, co-chair of DIN FOCUS.digital and chair of the Expert Panel of the Standardisation Council Industrie 4.0. Jochen also holds lead roles in European industry and trade associations: He chairs the standardisation task force in OpenForum Europe and the standardisation working group in BITKOM. As representative for OpenForum Europe in the EU Commission's advisory group “ICT Multi-Stakeholder Platform” Jochen chairs the Task Force on the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation. He is also a member of the German government’s Advisory Council for ICT Technologies BSIKT and a sherpa member of the German national Strategy Forum on Standardisation. Jochen is a Fellow of the OpenForum Academy.

Rafia Inam is a senior research manager at Ericsson Research and Adjunct Professor at KTH in research area Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Sweden. She has conducted research for Ericsson since 2015 on 5G for industries, 5G network slices and management, using AI for automation of telecom. She is specialized in trustworthy AI, explainable AI, explainable RL, AI Regulations specially EU AI Act, risk assessment and mitigations using AI methods. Rafia has co-authored 50+ refereed scientific publications and 55+ patent families. She has won best paper awards on her two papers: “Towards automated service-oriented lifecycle management for 5G networks”, at IEEE SOCNE 2015, and “Support for Hierarchical Scheduling in FreeRTOS” at IEEE Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation 2011. She won Ericsson Top Performance Competition 2021 on her work on AI for 5G network slice assurance, and awarded Ericsson Key Impact Award 2020, and Key contributor award 2020, and 2023.

Carlos Lopez is a policy officer at DG CNECT working on ICT standardisation coordination of several digital topics. He is representing the Commission as counsellor to the ETSI Board and in governance bodies of other SDOs. Before joining the Commission, he worked as a research engineer in different topics related to the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. He has a background in engineering holding a PhD degree in civil engineering.

Dr Diego R. Lopez joined Telefonica in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert, and he is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTIO Unit. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network services, and was appointed member of the High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission.

Pertti Lukander heads Technology Leadership in Nokia Mobile Networks (MN) in MN Strategy and Technology unit. His focus is on 6G, both driving the industry 6G development as well as leading Nokia internally in 6G product R&D preparation, building the foundation for Nokia’s future 6G products. Pertti’s team works closely with Nokia corporate standards team as well as Nokia Bell Labs. Pertti is fascinated by the opportunities AI will bring into the radio interface and RAN technology and business models overall. Pertti has been active in the foundation of AI RAN Alliance during the past year and serves in the board of the Alliance. Pertti is passionate about new technology, the opportunities it brings, and the impact technology can make. His mobile communications technology career started already with GSM, and he has stayed in the fore front of mobile technologies ever since.

Rajesh Kumar Mahato is a seasoned research engineer specializing in next-generation wireless networks. With a Master's degree in Digital Communications, he has a deep understanding of 5G, 6G, and beyond. His expertise lies in network optimization, machine learning, and AI, which he leverages to enhance communication systems. Currently at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, Rajesh has pioneered innovative frameworks for 5G/6G resource allocation and multimedia streaming. His work includes integrating Asterisk PBX with various networks for seamless VoIP and designing private 5G networks for efficient media streaming. Rajesh's industry experience with Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung has further solidified his knowledge in network optimization. His research, encompassing 5G video stream analysis and dynamic VoIP mobility, has been published in leading journals and conferences. Passionate about advancing connectivity and security, Rajesh is committed to pushing the boundaries of wireless communication.

Juan Montojo is VP of Technical Standards at Qualcomm leading Cellular Standards and Industry Organizations. He has Telecommunications Engineering degrees from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, and Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, as well as, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and University of California San Diego, respectively.

Dr. Markus Mueck received the Dipl.-Ing. and ing. dipl. degrees from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France respectively in 1999. In 2006, he received the Doctorate degree of ENST in Communications. Dr. Mueck is a Principal Engineer with Intel Deutschland, Munich, Germany and an Engineering Director; he acts as Chair of the ETSI Board, he is Chair of ETSI OCG AI coordinating the overall effort of the organization on AI and Adj. Professor of University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Dr. Mueck was leading the effort on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning of the European funded research Flagship Project Hexa-X preparing the design of 6th Generation Mobile Networks (6G).

Francois Ortolan, ETSI AI Coordination Group (OCG AI) Vice-chair, ETSI Board Member, NEC Labs Europe. Francois Ortolan is a Senior Standardisation Engineer at NEC Labs Europe. He has over 15 years’ experience working with advanced mobile telecommunication and its industrial applications. He is a specialist in the interplay between AI and Telecommunication. He is currently Vice-chair of the ETSI AI coordination group (OCG AI) and an ETSI Board member.

Luis Pisco is R&D Engineer at EDP NEW. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa and a Bachelor's Degree in Geospatial Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.

Chamara Sandeepa is a PhD student in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. He is also a member of the Network Softwarization and Security Labs (NetsLab) at the UCD, a student research member at CONNECT Centre Ireland, a contributing research engineer in the projects EU ROBUST-6G and the EU H2020 SPATIAL. He is currently working in the field of privacy aspects of Distributed Machine Learning, with a focus on privacy vulnerabilities and attacks targeting Machine Learning clients and potential defenses against the threats. He contributed over 15 research publications in the domain of AI and security. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in 2020. He has professional experience in software engineering and working experience in the fields of Open RAN, IoT and explainable AI.

Rodrigo Sanz is a professional with a degree in Telecommunications and nearly 20 years of experience in the Telco industry. He has worked across various areas, including network deployment, optimization projects, and service experience improvement for Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and operators. Over the years, he has focused on using AI and big data analysis to enhance network quality and performance. He currently leads the NAAS6G project at Telefónica Innovación Digital, supported by UNICO I+D funds, within the Discovery division. The project is dedicated to integrating new network capabilities through AI-driven analytics and standardized APIs to address modern challenges and improve user experience.

Michael Julius Schwarz, born in 1973 is lawyer at the Bundesnetzagentur since 2002 and Head of Section "Recognition of Conformity Assessment Bodies".

Martijn Wiertz is the Technical Sales Leader for IBM watsonx.governance in the EMEA region. In this role, he combines his technical, analytical and industry knowledge to help clients understand and validate the unique value that the solution can bring to help them enact responsible AI. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of advanced analytics, experiencing all major developments in the evolution of the industry first hand. Prior to his current role, Martijn was the global technical sales lead for IBM’s solution to combat financial crimes and he was Director, Enterprise Solutions at SPSS Inc. when that company was acquired by IBM."

Venue & Travel

Venue:

ETSI Headquarters
650 Route des Lucioles
06560 Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE

Tel: +33 4 92 94 42 00

Information on venue, travel, visa, local accommodation is available at www.etsi.org/events/find-us

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