ETSI Artificial Intelligence Conference - How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI will take place physically on 10-12 February 2025, in ETSI, 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. 

Check out the event programme!

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.

  • Day 1: Monday 10 February
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    14:00 - 14:20 Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

    • Jan Ellsberger, Director General, ETSI
    • Markus Mueck, ETSI OCG-AI and Board Chair, Programme Committee Chair

    14:20 - 15:50 SESSION 1: How AI/ML will drive Europe’s Business and Societal Evolution
    Moderated by Markus Mueck, ETSI OCG-AI and Board Chair, Programme Committee Chair

    Session Objectives: Frame the role of AI/ML in driving Europe's business and societal needs and provide an overview of the potential for highly innovative work in ETSI designed to serve the needs of all relevant stakeholders.

    • Keynote: Outlining the Tremendous Potential for AI/ML Work according to Industry Needs
      Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI 

    • Keynote: The Impact of AI Regulations on Telecommunications and Society
      Rafia Inam, Ericsson Research

    • Keynote: The Perspective of AI/ML from a SME 
      George Sharkov, SME Alliance

    • Panel Discussion

    15:50 - 16:20 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits

    16:20 - 18:10 SESSION 2: Policy and Research Initiatives Accelerating AI Developments: Balancing the Hype with Circumspection
    Moderated by Marinos Charalambides, European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU)

    Session Objectives: Building upon the directions given by European policy makers, the session will provide a broad outlook (including and beyond the AI Act) whilst illustrating the potential standards related activities serving the needs of all relevant stakeholders in the context outlined by the European Commission and the ESOs. The session will provide a forward looking and positive outlook on the amazing potential of AI/ML, outline the benefits that have been demonstrated by AI/ML to date and examine potential future developments.

    • Status of AI related European Policy Initiatives 
      Carlos Lopez Rodriguez / Emilio Davila-Gonzalez (speaker tbc), DG CNECT, European Commission

    • The Emerging European AI Standardisation Ecosystem
      Patrick Bezombes / Sebastian Hallensleben, CEN CENELEC

    • Exciting and Disruptive Trends in AI/ML as identified by Academia
      Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA LETI

    • Overview of EC Funded Projects and Initiatives working in the area of AI/ML
      Marinos Charalambides, SNSJU

    • Panel Discussion

    18:10 Networking Cocktail and End of Day 1

  • Day 2: Tuesday 11 February
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    09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 3: Overview of the Conference Demos and Posters 
    Moderated by David Boswarthick, ETSI Director of Strategy and Innovation

    This session will include an overview of the demos and posters that are available in the ETSI Lobby during the networking breaks.

    10:00 - 10:30 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits

    10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 4: ETSI Support of Innovation through the Use of AI/ML
    Moderated by Ray Forbes, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, ETSI ISG ENI Chair

    Session Objectives: Provide a positive and forward looking view on AI/ML technologies including an overview of ETSI's activities and future plans for work on AI/ML technologies.

    • AI and Autonomous Networks: Coordination across ETSI
      Markus Mueck, OCG-AI

    • Standards in Support of Innovation
      Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC Securing Artificial Intelligence (SAI) 

    •  AI Agents and Policy, an AI Architecture
      Ray Forbes, ETSI ISG Experiential Networked Intelligence (ENI)

    • Panel Discussion

     12:00 - 13:30 Networking Lunch with Demos and Posters Visits

    13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 5: Upcoming Work by ETSI on Data for AI/ML, and Related Activities in Partnership Projects
    Moderated by François Ortolan, ETSI Board Member, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, NEC Europe Ltd

    Session Objectives: Complementing the previous session that presents ongoing ETSI activities, this session will introduce new ETSI initiatives and showcase opportunities in ETSI's Partnership projects to drive innovation for AI/ML and Data.

    • Overview on 3GPP Activities relating to AI/ML
      Juan Montojo, 3GPP RAN (Radio Access Networks)

    • Future of Data in ETSI
      Diego Lopez, Telefonica

    • ETSI SmartM2M / OneM2M / SAREF and Future Data Plans
      Enrico Scarrone, ETSI SmartM2M / oneM2M, 

    • Panel Discussion

    15:00 - 15:30 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits

    15:30 - 18:15 SESSION 6: A Guide to What Needs to be done for Conformity Assessment of Products
    Moderated by Markus Mueck, ETSI OCG-AI and Board Chair

    Session Objectives: Provide a guide to what needs to be done for conformity assessment of products. Stakeholders in the conformity assessment chain (notified bodies, notifying authorities, market surveillance, etc.) will comment on the solutions developed by ETSI and outline a vision on how market access is achieved in this new field.

    • Building Trust in AI-enabled Systems Through Standardized Testing, Conformity Assessment and Documentation
      Dorian Knoblauch, ETSI MTS AI

    • Metrology for AI/ML: Related Metrics
      The National Physical Laboratory UK (speaker name TBC)

    • European Notifying Authority
      Speaker TBC

    • The role of Notified Bodies in the Context of AI/ML Products - How Notified Bodies Deal with Upcoming Requirements
      Holger Bentje, RED CA

    • Market Surveillance Authority
      Speaker TBC

    • Lifecycle Monitoring of AI Systems and Models: Governance Tools at the Heart of Conformity Assessment
      Martijn Wiertz / Jochen Friedrich, IBM 

    • Industrial view from an SME (Title TBC)
      George Sharkov, SME Alliance

    • Panel Discussion

    18:15 End of Day 2

  • Day 3: Wednesday 12 February
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    09:00 - 10:30 SESSION 7: Exploring the wider AI/ML Ecosystem
    Moderator name tbc

    Session Objectives: Provide a holistic overview of the wider AI/ML ecosystem and examine some recent technology trends and evolution in the domain of AI/ML.

    • Overview of ORAN AI/ML Specifications with special focus on RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC)
      Linghang Fan, NEC / Lead of AI/ML work item for the RIC

    • ITU-T SG13 AI Activities and Focus Groups
      Marco Carugi, ITU-T SG13

    • RAN-AI
      Pertti Lukander, Nokia

    • Panel Discussion

    10:30 - 11:00 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits

    11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 8: An Industry Perspective on applying AI/ML 
    Moderated by Jochen Friedrich, ETSI Board Member, IBM

    Session Objectives: Building on the summary of activities and future opportunity in standards, representatives of the industry and SMEs will give a positive and forward looking overview on i) how AI is used by industry to do things in a novel and innovative way ; ii) how will the future look like from an industrial perspective ; iii) what is needed from ESOs/SDOs.

    • Industry Perspective as seen by the SMEs
      Speaker name TBC

    • Roadmap towards an AI-native 6G Architecture 
      Abdelrahman Abdelkader, NOKIA

    • Potential AI/ML Implementations from the Perspective of a Network Operator
      Julien Boudani, Orange Innovation

    • Panel Discussion

     12:30 - 14:00 Networking Lunch with Demos and Posters Visits

    14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 9 - Panel Discussion: Making AI a Reality: Next Steps and Opportunities
    Moderated by David Boswarthick, ETSI Director of Strategy and Innovation

    Session Objectives: Standards support for AI/ML is already underway in ETSI and we now seek to identify further innovation prospects in this domain. Here we consider innovation in terms of fundamental technologies, business concepts and processes, but also including the all-important area of innovative approaches to the ethical and societal dimensions.

    15:30 - 16:00 SESSION 10: Concluding Remarks
    Presented by Markus Mueck

    16:00 End of the ETSI AI Conference 2025

     

The following demos and posters will complement the conference programme. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit these during the conference networking 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

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

 

  • 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

 

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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